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مصنف ابن ابي شيبه
Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah
كتاب الجمعة
Book of Friday
من كان يحث على إتيان الجمعة ولا يرخص في تركها
Those who urged attending Friday and did not permit leaving it
Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 5514 — Those who urged attending Friday
٥٥١٤ - حدثنا حسين بن علي عن الحسن بن (الحر) (١) عن ميمون بن (أبي) (٢) (شبيب) (٣) قال: أردت الجمعة في زمن الحجاج فتهيأت للذهاب ثم قلت: (أين) (٤) أذهب؟ أصلي خلف هذا قال: فقلت مرة أذهب ومرة لا أذهب قال: (فاجتمع) (٥) رأيي على الذهاب قال: فناداني مناد من جانب البيت ﴿يَاأَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا إِذَا نُودِيَ لِلصَّلَاةِ مِنْ يَوْمِ الْجُمُعَةِ فَاسْعَوْا إِلَى ذِكْرِ اللَّهِ وَذَرُوا الْبَيْعَ﴾ [الجمعة: ٩]، قال: وجلست مرة أكتب كتابا فعرض في شيء إن أنا كتبته في كتابي زين كتابي، وكنت قد كذبت وإن أنا تركه كان في كتابي بعض القبح، وكنت قد صدقت، فقلت مرة أكتبه وقلت مرة لا أكتبه قال: (فاجتمع) (٦) رأيي على تركه فتركته قال: فناداني مناد من جانب البيت: ﴿يُثَبِّتُ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا بِالْقَوْلِ الثَّابِتِ فِي الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا وَفِي الْآخِرَةِ﴾ [إبراهيم: ٢٧].
Maymun bin Abi Shabib said: In the time of al-Hajjaj bin Yusuf I intended to go to the Friday prayer and even got ready. Then the thought came to me: Should I pray behind this man? Sometimes I thought I would go, and sometimes I thought I would not go. In the end my decision settled on going to the prayer. Just then I heard a caller from a side of the house calling out: "O you who believe, when the call is made for the prayer on Friday, then hasten to the remembrance of Allah and leave off trade" [al-Jumu'ah: 9].
Likewise, once I sat down to write a letter, and something came to my mind that was contrary to the truth, but writing it would have embellished my letter. So sometimes I felt like embellishing the letter by writing the falsehood, and sometimes I felt like leaving it out and keeping the letter truthful. In the end my decision settled on leaving it out. At that I heard a caller from a side of the house calling out: "Allah keeps firm those who believe with the firm word, in the life of this world and in the Hereafter" [Ibrahim: 27].
Likewise, once I sat down to write a letter, and something came to my mind that was contrary to the truth, but writing it would have embellished my letter. So sometimes I felt like embellishing the letter by writing the falsehood, and sometimes I felt like leaving it out and keeping the letter truthful. In the end my decision settled on leaving it out. At that I heard a caller from a side of the house calling out: "Allah keeps firm those who believe with the firm word, in the life of this world and in the Hereafter" [Ibrahim: 27].
