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diminishing, depending on the surrounding impactors. Hence whenever there
would be a Shīʿī uprising, the pressure would intensify in this regard.
Al-Zuhrī reported that Sulaymān ibn ʿAbd al-Malik once saw a person who was
striking in his appearance and intelligence, circummambulating the Kaʿbah. He
inquired, “Who is this O Zuhrī?” Al-Zuhrī replied, “This is Ṭāʾūs, 1 a person who has
met multiple Ṣaḥābah M.” Sulaymān summoned him and asked him, “Would
you narrate something to us?”
He said:
حدثني أبو موسى قال قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم:‏ إن أهون الخلق على الله من ولي من أمور
المسلمين شيئا فلم يعدل فيهم
Abū Mūsā narrated to me that Rasūl Allah H said, “The most
insignificant of people to Allah is a person who presided over the affairs of
the Muslims and thereafter did not act justly amongst them.”
The face of Sulaymān changed. He lowered his head for a long time, thereafter he
raised it and said, “Would you narrate something to us?”
Ṭāʾūs said:
حدثني رجل من أصحاب النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم-‏ قال ابن شهاب ظننت أنه أراد عليا-‏ قال:‏ دعاني
رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم إلى طعام في مجلس من مجالس قريش ثم قال:‏ إن لكم على قريش حقا،‏
ولهم على الناس حق،‏ ما إذا استرحموا رحموا،‏ وإذا حكموا عدلوا،‏ وإذا ائتمنوا أدوا،‏ فمن لم يفعل فعليه
لعنة الله والمالئكة والناس أجمعين،‏ ل يقبل الله منه صرفا ول عدل.‏
1 Ṭāʾūs ibn Kaysān al-Hamadānī, their client, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Yamānī. The leading scholar of
Yemen and its ascetic. He was one of the senior successors and one of the great students of Ibn ʿAbbās
L. He performed fourty Ḥajjs and was a person who prayers were always accepted. ʿAmr ibn Dīnār
said regarding him, “I have not seen anyone like Ṭāʾūs.” He passed away in the days of Ḥajj in 105
A.H. His narrations appear in all six books. See: al-Thiqāt 4/391; Tahdhīb al-Kamāl 13/357; Siyar Aʿlām
al-Nubalāʾ 5/38; Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb 5/8.
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