رياض الصالحين
Riyad as-Salihin Hadith 675
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Chapter 79
Chapter context: Undesirability of Aspiring for Office
- باب النهى عن سؤال الإمارة واختيار ترك الولايات إذا لم يتعين عليه أو تدع حاجة اليه
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Original Arabic
وعنه قال: قلت يا رسول الله ألا تستعملني؟ فضرب بيده على منكبي ثم قال: “يا أبا ذر إنك ضعيف، وإنها أمانة، وإنها يوم القيامة خزي وندامة، إلا من أخذها بحقها، وأدى الذى عليه فيها” ((رواه مسلم)).
Translation
English translation
Abu Dharr (May Allah be pleased with him) reported:
I said to Messenger of Allah (ﷺ): "Why do you not appoint me to an (official) position?" He (ﷺ) patted me on the shoulder with his hand and said, "O Abu Dharr, you are a weak man and it is a trust and it will be a cause of disgrace and remorse on the Day of Resurrection except for the one who takes it up with a full sense of responsibility and fulfills what is entrusted to him (discharges its obligations efficiently)." [Muslim].
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This is Hadith 675 in Riyad as-Salihin. It appears in Book 1, The Book of Miscellany, as in-book entry 675 under the chapter “Undesirability of Aspiring for Office.”
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Arabic/English book : Book 1, Hadith 676
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