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Riyad as-Salihin 1506

Arwa bint Aus brought a suit against Said ibn Zayd ibn Amr ibn Nufail (radiyallahu anhu). She complained to Marwan ibn al-Hakam that he had wrongfully taken possession of a portion of her land.

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وعن عروة بن الزبير أن سعيد بن زيد بن عمرو بن نفيل

رضي الله عنه الله عنه خاصمته أروى بنت أوس إلى مروْان بن الحكم، وادعت أنه أخذ شيئًا من أرضها، فقال سعيد: أنا كنت آخذ من أرضها شيئًا بعد الذي سمعت: من رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم!؟

قال: ماذا سمعت: من رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم؟ قال: سمعت رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يقول: «من أخذ شبرًا من الأرض ظلمًا، طوقه إلى سبعين أرضين«فقال له مروْان: لا أسألك بينة بعد هذا، فقال سعيد: اللهم إن كانت كاذبة، فأعمِ بصرها، واقتلها في أرضها، فقال: فما ماتت حتى ذهب بصرها وبينما هي تمشي في أرضها إذ وقعت في حفرة فماتت» وفي رواية لمسلم عن محمد بن زيد بن عبد الله بن عمر بمعناه وأنه رآها عمياء تلتمس الجدر تقول: أصابتني دعوة سعيد، وأنها مرت على بئر في الدار التي خاصمته فيها، فوقعت فيها فكانت قبرها»

Arwa bint Aus brought a suit against Said ibn Zayd ibn Amr ibn Nufail (radiyallahu anhu). She complained to Marwan ibn al-Hakam that he had wrongfully taken possession of a portion of her land.

Said said: “How can I take a portion out of her land while I have heard a denunciation from the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam).” Marwan asked him: “What did you hear from the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam)?”

He said, “I heard the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) saying, ‘He who takes a span of land unjustly will be made to wear seven earths round his neck on the Day of Ressurection’.”

Marwan said to him: “I don’t seek proof from you after this.” Said supplicated: “O Allah! If she is a liar, deprive her of her eye sight and cause her to die in her land.”

Urwah said: “She did not die till she became blind. While she was walking in her land (concerning which the dispute arose) she fell down into a pit and died.”. In another narration of Muslim, Muhammad ibn Zaid ibn Abdullah ibn Umar said that he had seen Arwa blind, feeling for on the walls with her hand and saying: “I am ruined by the curse of Said.” Later she fell in a well in the same disputed land and died.

Riyad as-Salihin 1506, Book 17, The Book of Du'a (Supplications), Hadith 42. 1 min read

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Who passed it on, from Imam an-Nawawi back to the one who was there.

  1. 1Imam an-NawawiCompiler, died 676 AH
  2. 2Urwah ibn az-ZubayrFrom, Successor, died 91 AH
  3. 3Said ibn ZaydThat, Companion, died 50 AH

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