al-'Uzlah wa-l-Infirad
Volume 1 · Page 78

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63 - ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us, he said: Al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ṣabbāḥ narrated to me, he said: Maysara ibn Ismāʿīl narrated to us, from Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Anṭākī, he said: ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz said: "The mosques used to consist of three types of people: a type that is silent and safe, a type engaged in the remembrance of Allah, Mighty and Majestic, and that remembrance ascends, and a type engaged in prayer, and prayer has light from Allah. Then worthless successors followed from the quarters of dwellings and the gatherings of markets; the substance of their discourse and the targets of their conjectures became indulging in backbiting for amusement and benefiting one another with slander."

Notes

  • (1) Al-khulūf: those present and those absent, among words with opposite meanings.
    And marājim: meaning a place of throwing; it is said: "They threw at one another with marājim", meaning: they pelted each other.
    And yatafakkahūn: meaning they backbite and speak ill of him.

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Arabic (Source)

٦٣ - حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي الْحَسَنُ بْنُ الصَّبَّاحِ، قَالَ: ثنا مَيْسَرَةُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ، عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الأَنْطَاكِيِّ، قَالَ عُمَرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ: كَانَتِ الْمَسَاجِدُ عَلَى ثَلاثَةِ أَصْنَافٍ: فَصِنْفٌ سَاكِتٌ سَالِمٌ، وَصِنْفٌ فِي ذِكْرِ اللَّهِ، ﷿، وَالذِّكْرُ مَعْرُوجٌ بِهِ، وَصِنْفٌ فِي صَلاةٍ، وَالصَّلاةُ لَهَا مِنَ اللَّهِ نُورٌ، فَخَلَفَتْ خُلُوفٌ مِنْ أَفْنَاءِ الدُّورِ وَأَنْدِيَةِ الأَسْوَاقِ، فَكَانَ مَعْدِنُ خَوْضِهِمْ، وَمَرَاجِمُ ظُنُونِهِمْ يَتَفَكَّهُونَ بِالْغَيْبَةِ، وَيُفِيدُ بَعْضُهُمْ بَعْضًا بِالنَّمِيمَةِ. (١)

Notes

(١) الخُلوف: الحُضَّر والغُيَّب، من الأضداد.ومراجم: أي: مرمى، يقال: تراجموا بينهم بمراجم؛ أي: ترامو.ويتفكهون: أي: يغتابون ويتناولون منه.