Sunan at-Tirmithiy كتاب الدعوات باب ما جاء فى القوم يجلسون فيذكرون الله ما لهم من الفضل
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ حَدَّثَنَا مَرْحُومُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ الْعَطَّارُ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو نَعَامَةَ عَنْ أَبِى عُثْمَانَ النَّهْدِىِّ عَنْ أَبِى سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِىِّ قَالَ خَرَجَ مُعَاوِيَةُ إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ فَقَالَ مَا يُجْلِسُكُمْ قَالُوا جَلَسْنَا نَذْكُرُ اللَّهَ قَالَ آللَّهِ مَا أَجْلَسَكُمْ إِلاَّ ذَاكَ قَالُوا وَاللَّهِ مَا أَجْلَسَنَا إِلاَّ ذَاكَ. قَالَ أَمَا إِنِّى مَا أَسْتَحْلِفُكُمْ تُهْمَةً لَكُمْ وَمَا كَانَ أَحَدٌ بِمَنْزِلَتِى مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم أَقَلَّ حَدِيثًا عَنْهُ مِنِّى إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم خَرَجَ عَلَى حَلْقَةٍ مِنْ أَصْحَابِهِ فَقَالَ مَا يُجْلِسُكُمْ. قَالُوا جَلَسْنَا نَذْكُرُ اللَّهَ وَنَحْمَدُهُ لِمَا هَدَانَا لِلإِسْلاَمِ وَمَنَّ عَلَيْنَا بِهِ. فَقَالَ آللَّهِ مَا أَجْلَسَكُمْ إِلاَّ ذَاكَ. قَالُوا آللَّهِ مَا أَجْلَسَنَا إِلاَّ ذَاكَ. قَالَ أَمَا إِنِّى لَمْ أَسْتَحْلِفْكُمْ لِتُهْمَةٍ لَكُمْ إِنَّهُ أَتَانِى جِبْرِيلُ فَأَخْبَرَنِى أَنَّ اللَّهَ يُبَاهِى بِكُمُ الْمَلاَئِكَةَ. قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ غَرِيبٌ لاَ نَعْرِفُهُ إِلاَّ مِنْ هَذَا الْوَجْهِ وَأَبُو نَعَامَةَ السَّعْدِىُّ اسْمُهُ عَمْرُو بْنُ عِيسَى وَأَبُو عُثْمَانَ النَّهْدِىُّ اسْمُهُ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مَلٍّ.
Muʻāwiyah [Ibn-Abī-Sufyān] went to the mosque and asked [the people he found there], "Why are you sitting here?" They replied, "We are sitting to remember God (1)." He said,"By God, is it only this that made you sit here together?" They replied, "By God, it is only this." He said, "Know that I do not adjure you out of suspicion. No one as close to the Messenger of God, peace and blessings of God be upon him, as I has narrated fewer ḥadīth (2) than I did.The Messenger of God, peace and blessings of God be upon him, came across a group of his companions sitting in a circle, so he asked them, "Why are you sitting [like that]?" They replied, "We are sitting to remember God (1) and praise Him for guiding us to Islām and for conferring it upon us". He asked, "By God, is it only this that made you sit together?" They replied, "By God, it is only this." He said, "Know that I do not adjure you out of suspicion, rather because Gabriel (archangel) came to me and told me that God is boasting about you before His angels."
(1) A devotional practice that focuses on feeling God's presence in the different facets of life. It includes several kinds like practical evoking (obeying God's commandments), verbal evoking (supplications, praising, glorifying and exalting God), and evoking by the heart (meditation).
