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السنن الكبرى للبيهقي
Sunan al-Kubra al-Bayhaqi
كتاب السير
Book of Military Expeditions
باب: السواد
Chapter: The Sawad of Iraq
Bayhaqi 18357 — The Sawad of Iraq
اُردوEn
أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو سَعِيدِ بْنُ أَبِي عَمْرٍو، ثنا أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ الْأَصَمُّ، أنبأ الرَّبِيعُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ، قَالَ: قَالَ الشَّافِعِيُّ رَحِمَهُ اللهُ: وَلَا أَعْرِفُ مَا أَقُولُ فِي أَرْضِ السَّوَادِ إِلَّا ظَنًّا مَقْرُونًا إِلَى عِلْمٍ، وَذَلِكَ أَنِّي وَجَدْتُ أَصَحَّ حَدِيثٍ يَرْوِيهِ الْكُوفِيُّونَ عِنْدَهُمْ فِي السَّوَادِ لَيْسَ فِيهِ بَيَانٌ، وَوَجَدْتُ أَحَادِيثَ مِنْ أَحَادِيثِهِمْ تُخَالِفُهُ مِنْهَا أَنَّهُمْ يَقُولُونَ: السَّوَادُ صُلْحٌ، وَيَقُولُونَ: السَّوَادُ عَنْوَةٌ، وَيَقُولُونَ: بَعْضُ السَّوَادِ صُلْحٌ وَبَعْضُهُ عَنْوَةٌ.
Imam al-Shafi'i (may Allah have mercy on him) said: I do not know what to say about the land of al-Sawad (the cultivated land of Iraq) except a supposition joined to knowledge. That is because I found that the soundest hadith which the people of Kufah narrate about al-Sawad contains no clear statement, and I found among their hadiths others that contradict it: among them, they say al-Sawad was taken by treaty; they say al-Sawad was taken by force; and they say part of al-Sawad was taken by treaty and part of it by force.
