حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو کَامِلٍ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَاحِدِ بْنُ زِيَادٍ حَدَّثَنَا صَدَقَةُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّی النَّخَعِيُّ حَدَّثَنِي جَدِّي رِيَاحُ بْنُ الْحَارِثِ قَالَ کُنْتُ قَاعِدًا عِنْدَ فُلَانٍ فِي مَسْجِدِ الْکُوفَةِ وَعِنْدَهُ أَهْلُ الْکُوفَةِ فَجَائَ سَعِيدُ بْنُ زَيْدِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ نُفَيْلٍ فَرَحَّبَ بِهِ وَحَيَّاهُ وَأَقْعَدَهُ عِنْدَ رِجْلِهِ عَلَی السَّرِيرِ فَجَائَ رَجُلٌ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْکُوفَةِ يُقَالُ لَهُ قَيْسُ بْنُ عَلْقَمَةَ فَاسْتَقْبَلَهُ فَسَبَّ وَسَبَّ فَقَالَ سَعِيدٌ مَنْ يَسُبُّ هَذَا الرَّجُلُ قَالَ يَسُبُّ عَلِيًّا قَالَ أَلَا أَرَی أَصْحَابَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّی اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يُسَبُّونَ عِنْدَکَ ثُمَّ لَا تُنْکِرُ وَلَا تُغَيِّرُ أَنَا سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّی اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ وَإِنِّي لَغَنِيٌّ أَنْ أَقُولَ عَلَيْهِ مَا لَمْ يَقُلْ فَيَسْأَلَنِي عَنْهُ غَدًا إِذَا لَقِيتُهُ أَبُو بَکْرٍ فِي الْجَنَّةِ وَعُمَرُ فِي الْجَنَّةِ وَسَاقَ مَعْنَاهُ ثُمَّ قَالَ لَمَشْهَدُ رَجُلٍ مِنْهُمْ مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّی اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَغْبَرُّ فِيهِ وَجْهُهُ خَيْرٌ مِنْ عَمَلِ أَحَدِکُمْ عُمُرَهُ وَلَوْ عُمِّرَ عُمُرَ نُوحٍ
سنن ابودوٗد · Hadith 4650
Rabah ibn al-Harith said: I was sitting with someone in the mosque of Kufah while the people of Kufah were with him. Then Saeed ibn Zayd ibn Amr ibn Nufayl came and he welcomed him, greeted him, and seated him near his foot on the throne. Then a man of the inhabitants of Kufah, called Qays ibn Alqamah, came. He received him and began to abuse him. Saeed asked: Whom is this man abusing? He replied: He is abusing Ali. He said: Don't I see that the companions of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ are being abused, but you neither stop it nor do anything about it? I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say--and I need not say for him anything which he did not say, and then he would ask me tomorrow when I see him --Abu Bakr will go to Paradise and Umar will go to Paradise. He then mentioned the rest of the tradition to the same effect (as in No. 4632). He then said: The company of one of their man whose face has been covered with dust by the Messenger of Allah ﷺ is better than the actions of one of you for a whole life time even if he is granted the life-span of Noah.
Translated by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan · Reviewed by Islamic University of Madinah · Published March 2020