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And Ibn ʿUmar L would say in his prostration:
قد تعلم أنه ما يمنعني من مزاحمة قريش على هذه الدنيا إل خوفك
O Allah you know that the only thing which prevents me from rivalry with
the Quraysh over this world is your fear. 1
He would also say:
رحم الله ابن الزبير أراد دنانير الشام!‏ رحم الله مروان أراد دراهم العراق
May Allah have mercy on Ibn al-Zubayr, he wanted the gold coins of Shām.
May Allah have mercy on Marwān he wanted the silver coins of Iraq. 2
Likewise he would say:
إنما هؤلء فتيان قريش يتقاتلون على هذا السلطان وعلى هذه الدنيا،‏ والله ما أبالي أل يكون لي ما يقتل
فيه بعضهم بعضا بنعلي
These youngsters of the Quraysh are fighting over rulership and this world.
By Allah it would not bother me if I were given what they are killing one
and another for in lieu of my sandal. 3
How profound indeed was the statement of Ayman Ibn Khuraym 4 which he made
when ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān called him to fight for him:
1 Ḥilyah al-Awliyāʾ 1/292; al-Muntaẓam 6/134; Tārīkh Madīnah Dimashq 3/191; Usd al-Ghābah 3/350; al-
Nawawī: Tahdhīb al-Asmāʾ 1/263.
2 Muṣannaf ibn Abī Shaybah: chapter of Fitan: sub-chapter regarding the one who dislikes being part
of the Fitnah and seeks refuge from it: ḥadīth no. 37323.
3 Al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kubrā 4/171; Ḥilyah al-Awliyāʾ 1/310; Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ 3/237.
4 Ayman ibn Khuraym ibn al-Akhram ibn Shaddād al-Asadī, Abū ʿAṭiyyah al-Shāmī. A prolific poet.
There is difference of opinion regarding his Ṣuḥbah (being a Ṣaḥābī). Al-ʿIjlī says, “He was a reliable
successor.” I did not come across his date of demise. His ḥadīth appears in Sunan al-Tirmidhī. See:
Maʿrifah al-Thiqāt 1/240; al-Istīʿāb 1/129; Tārīkh Madīnah Dimashq 10/41; Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb 1/343.
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