Al-Sabr wa al-Thawab 'Alayh li-Ibn Abi d-Dunya
Volume 1 · Page 98

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93 - ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Jarīr al-Azdī narrated to me, saying: Mūsā ibn Ismāʿīl narrated to us, saying: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Muḥāribī narrated to us, saying: ʿUqba ibn ʿAmmār narrated to us, on the authority of al-Mughīra ibn Ḥadhf, from Ribʿī ibn Ḥirāsh, that ʿUmar sent to a distant land and brought some elders of Banū ʿAbs, and said: "You fought the people in the Pre-Islamic Era, so which horses did you find to be the most patient?" They said: "The dark bay ones." He said: "And which camels did you find to be the most patient?" They said: "The sturdy reddish ones." He said: "And which women did you find to be the most patient?" They said: "No foreign woman ever endured among us." He said: "By what did you conquer people?" They said: "By patience; we never met a people but that we endured against them as long as they endured against us."

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Arabic (Source)

٩٣ - حَدَّثَنِي عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ جَرِيرٍ الْأَزْدِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْمُحَارِبِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا عُقْبَةُ بْنُ عَمَّارٍ، عَنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ بْنِ حَذْفٍ، عَنْ رِبْعِيِّ بْنِ حِرَاشٍ، أَنَّ عُمَرَ، بَعَثَ إِلَى عُزْبَةٍ مِنَ الْأَرْضِ، فَأَتَى بِأَشْيَاخٍ مِنْ بَنِي عَبْسٍ، فَقَالَ: إِنَّكُمْ قَاتَلْتُمُ النَّاسَ فِي الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ، «فَأَيُّ الْخَيْلِ وَجَدْتُمْ أَصْبَرَ؟» قَالُوا: الْكُمْتُ الْخَمْرُ قَالَ: «فَأَيُّ الْإِبِلِ وَجَدْتُمْ أَصْبَرَ؟» قَالُوا: الْحُمُرُ الْجِعَادُ قَالَ: «فَأَيُّ النِّسَاءِ وَجَدْتُمْ أَصْبَرَ؟» قَالُوا: مَا صَبَرَتْ فِينَا غَرِيبَةٌ قَطُّ قَالَ: «بِمَ كُنْتُمْ تَغْلِبُونَ النَّاسَ؟» قَالُوا: بِالصَّبْرِ، لَمْ نَلْقَ قَوْمًا إِلَّا صَبَرْنَا لَهُمْ مَا صَبَرُوا لَنَا