صحيح البخاري
Sahih al-Bukhari — Hadith 6614
Compiled by Imam al-Bukhari
Arabic Text
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مَعْمَرٍ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَارِثِ حَدَّثَنَا يُونُسُ عَنْ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ سَمُرَةَ قَالَقَالَ لِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَا عَبْدَ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنَ سَمُرَةَ لَا تَسْأَلْ الْإِمَارَةَ فَإِنْ أُعْطِيتَهَا عَنْ مَسْأَلَةٍ وُكِلْتَ إِلَيْهَا وَإِنْ أُعْطِيتَهَا عَنْ غَيْرِ مَسْأَلَةٍ أُعِنْتَ عَلَيْهَا وَإِذَا حَلَفْتَ عَلَى يَمِينٍ فَرَأَيْتَ غَيْرَهَا خَيْرًا مِنْهَا فَأْتِ الَّذِي هُوَ خَيْرٌ وَكَفِّرْ عَنْ يَمِينِكَ
English Translation
Telah menceritakan kepada kami [Abu Ma'mar] telah menceritakan kepada kami ['Abdl Warits] telah menceritakan kepada kami [Yunus] dari [Al Hasan] mengatkan telah menceritakan kepadaku [Abdurrahman bin Samurah] mengatakan, Rasulullah shallallahu 'alaihi wasallam bersabda kepadaku: "Wahai Abdurrahman bin Samurah, janganlah kamu meminta jabatan, sebab jika kamu diberi jabatan dengan meminta, maka kamu akan ditelantarkan, dan jika kamu diberi dengan tanpa meminta, maka kamu akan diotolong, dan jika kamu melakukan suatu sumpah, lantas kau lihat selainnya lebih baik, maka lakukanlah yang lebih baik dan bayarlah kafarat sumpahmu."
About Sahih al-Bukhari
Born
194 AH / 810 CE — Bukhara, Uzbekistan
Died
256 AH / 870 CE
Imam al-Bukhari dedicated 16 years to compiling Sahih al-Bukhari, selecting approximately 7,275 hadiths from over 600,000 narrations he examined. His strict conditions for accepting a hadith — requiring narrator continuity, reliable memory, and confirmed meeting between narrators — make it the most rigorously authenticated hadith collection in Islamic scholarship.
Imam al-Bukhari would perform ghusl and pray two rak'ahs before recording each hadith. Sahih al-Bukhari is universally regarded as the most authentic book after the Quran.
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