مصنف ابن ابي شيبه
Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah
كتاب الأمراءBook of Governors
ما ذكر من حديث الأمراء والدخول عليهمNarrations Regarding the Words of Rulers and Entering Their Courts
Hadith 32589
٣٢٥٨٩ - حدثنا أبو أسامة عن هشام بن عروة عن وهب بن كيسان قال: كتب رجل من أهل العراق إلى ابن الزبير حين بويع: سلام عليك، فإني أحمد إليك اللَّه الذي لا إله إلا هو، أما بعد فإن لأهل طاعة اللَّه ولأهل (الخير) (١) علامة يعرفون بها (ويعرف) (٢) فيهم من: الأمر بالمعروف والنهي عن المنكر والعمل بطاعة اللَّه، واعلم ⦗١١١⦘ أنما مثل الإمام مثل السوق يأتيه (من) (٣) زكا فيه، فإن كان برًا (جاءه) (٤) أهل البر ببرهم، وإن كان فاجرا جاءه أهل الفجور بفجورهم (٥).
It is narrated from Wahb bin Kaysan that when allegiance was pledged to Abdullah bin Zubair (may Allah be pleased with him), a man from Iraq wrote a letter to him: "Peace be upon you! I praise Allah before you, besides whom there is no deity. To proceed! There are some signs of Allah's obedient servants and people of goodness by which they are recognized, and these things are seen in them: enjoining what is right, forbidding what is wrong, and obeying Allah. And know that the example of the Imam is like that of a marketplace, in which people come according to the kind of things that are in it. If he is a person of goodness, then good people come to him, and if he is wicked, then wicked and immoral people come to him with their wickedness and immorality."
