Shahih Muslim - 4114

Telah menceritakan kepada kami [Yahya bin Yahya At Tamimi] dia berkata; Aku membaca Hadits [Malik] dari [Ibnu Syihab] dari ['Abdul Hamid bin 'Abdur Rahman bin Zaid bin Al Khaththab] dari ['Abdullah bin 'Abdullah bin Al Harits bin Naufal] dari ['Abdullah bin 'Abbas] bahwa Pada suatu ketika 'Umar bin Khaththab pergi ke Syam. Setelah sampai di Saragh, pimpinan tentara datang menyambutnya. Antara lain terdapat Abu "Ubaidah bin Jarrah dan para sahabat yang lain. Mereka mengabarkan kepada 'Umar bahwa wabah penyakit sedang berjangkit di Syam. Ibnu Abbas berkata; 'Umar berkata; 'Panggil ke sini para pendahulu dari orang-orang Muhajirin! ' Maka kupanggil mereka, lalu 'Umar bermusyawarah dengan mereka. Kata 'Umar; 'Wabah penyakit sedang berjangkit di Syam. Bagaimana pendapat kalian? ' Mereka berbeda pendapat. Sebagian mengatakan kepada 'Umar; 'Anda telah keluar untuk suatu urusan penting. Karena itu kami berpendapat, tidak selayaknya Anda akan pulang begitu saja.' Sebagian yang lain mengatakan; 'Anda datang membawa suatu rombongan besar, yang disana terdapat para sahabat Rasulullah shallallahu 'alaihi wasallam. Kami tidak sependapat jika Anda menghadapkan mereka kepada wabah ini.' Kata 'Umar; 'Pergilah kalian dari sini! ' Kemudian 'Umar berkata lagi; 'Panggil ke sini orang-orang Anshar! ' Maka aku memanggil mereka lalu 'Umar bermusyawarah dengan mereka. Ternyata kebijaksanaan mereka sama dengan orang-orang Muhajirin. Mereka berbeda pendapat seperti orang-orang Muhajirin. Maka kata 'Umar; 'Pergilah kalian dari sini! ' Kata 'Umar selanjutnya; 'Panggil ke sini pemimpin-pemimpin Quraisy yang hijrah sebelum penaklukan Makkah! ' Maka aku memanggil mereka. Ternyata mereka semuanya sependapat, tidak ada perbedaan. Kata mereka; 'Kami berpendapat, sebaiknya Anda pulang saja kembali bersama rombongan Anda dan jangan menghadapkan mereka kepada wabah ini. Lalu 'Umar menyerukan kepada rombongannya; 'Besok pagi-pagi aku akan kembali pulang. Karena itu bersiap-siaplah kalian! ' Abu 'Ubaidah bin Jarrah bertanya; 'Apakah kita hendak lari dari takdir Allah? ' Jawab 'Umar; 'Mengapa kamu bertanya demikian hai Abu 'Ubaidah? Agaknya 'Umar tidak mau berdebat dengannya. Dia menjawab; Ya, kita lari dari takdir Allah kepada takdir Allah. Bagaimana pendapatmu, seandainya engkau mempunyai seekor unta, lalu engkau turun ke lembah yang mempunyai dua sisi. Yang satu subur dan yang lain tandus. Bukanlah jika engkau menggembalakannya di tempat yang subur, engkau menggembala dengan takdir Allah juga, dan jika engkau menggembala di tempat tandus engkau menggembala dengan takdir Allah? ' Tiba-tiba datang ['Abdurrahman bin 'Auf] yang sejak tadi belum hadir karena suatu urusan. Lalu dia berkata; 'Aku mengerti masalah ini. Aku mendengar Rasulullah shallallahu 'alaihi wasallam bersabda: 'Apabila kamu mendengar wabah berjangkit di suatu negeri, janganlah kamu datangi negeri itu. Dan apabila wabah itu berjangkit di negeri tempat kamu berada, maka janganlah keluar dari negeri itu karena hendak melarikan diri.' Ibnu 'Abbas berkata; 'Umar bin Khaththab lalu mengucapkan puji syukur kepada Allah, setelah itu dia pergi.' Dan telah menceritakan kepada kami [Ishaq bin Ibrahim] dan [Muhammad bin Rafi'] dan [Abad bin Humaid], [Ibnu Rafi'] berkata; Telah menceritakan kepada kami, sedangkan yang lainnya berkata; Telah mengabarkan kepada kami [Abdurrazaq] Telah mengabarkan kepada kami [Ma'mar] melalui jalur ini sebagaimana Hadits Malik. Di dalam Hadits Ma'mar ada tambahan Umar berkata; bukankah jika kamu mengembalakan unta di tempat yang tandus dengan meninggalkan tempat yang subur berarti kamu telah membuatnya lemah? Abu Ubaidah menjawab; 'Ya.' Umar berkata; maka berangkatlah! Maka Abu Ubaidah berangkat hingga sampai di Madinah, lalu dia berkata; 'Insya Allah ini adalah tempat tinggal.' Dan telah menceritakan kepadaku [Abu Thahir] dan [Harmalah bin Yahya] keduanya berkata; Telah mengabarkan kepada kami [Ibnu Wahab] Telah mengabarkan kepadaku [Yunus] dari [Ibnu Syihab] melalui jalur ini. Hanya saja dia berkata; Sesungguhnya Abdullah bin Al Harits yang menceritakan kepadanya bukan Abdullah bin Abdullah.' (HR. Muslim: 4114)

Abdullah b. 'Abbas reported: Umar b. Khattab set out for Syria. As he came at Sargh (a town by the side of Hijaz on the way to Syria), there met him the commander of the forces, Abu Ubaida b. Jandb, and his companions. They informed him that a scourge had broken out in Syria. Ibn 'Abbas further reported that 'Umar said: Call to me tile earliest emigrants. So I called them. He (Hadrat 'Umar) sought their advice, and they told him that the scourge had broker, out in Syria. There was a difference of opinion (whether they should proceed further or go back to their homes in such a situation). Some of them said: You ('Umar) have set forth for a task, and, therefore, we would not advise you to go back, whereas some of them said: You have along with you the remnants (of the sacred galaxy) of men and (the blessed) Companions of Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him), so we would not advise you to go forth towards this calamity (with such eminent persons and thus expose them deliberately to a danger). He (Hadrat 'Umar) said: You can now go away. He said: Call to me the Ansar. So I called them to him, and he consulted them, and they trod the same path as was trodden by the Muhajirin, and they differed in their opinions as they had differed. He said: Now, you can go. He again said: Call to me the old persons of the Quraish who had migrated before the Victory (that is the Victory of Mecca), so I called them (and Hadrat 'Umar consulted them) and not even two persons differed (from the opinion held by the earlier delegates). They said: Our opinion is that you better go back along with the people and do not make them go to this scourge, So 'Umar made announcement to the people: In the morning I would be on the back of my side. So they (set forth in the morning), whereupon Abu 'Ubaida b. Jarrah said: Are you going to run away from the Divine Decree? Thereupon 'Umar said: Had it been someone else to say this besides you! 'Umar (in fact) did not approve of his opposing (this decision) and he said: Yes, we are running from the Divine Decree (to the) Divine Decree. You should think if there had been camels for you and you happened to get down in a valley having two sides, one of them covered with verdure and the other being barren, would you not (be doing) according to the Divine Decree if you graze them in verdure? And in case you graze them in the barren land (even then you would be grazing them) according to the Divine Decree. There happened to come 'Abd al-Rahman b. 'Auf and he had been absent in connection with some of his needs. He said: I have with me a knowledge of it, that I heard Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: If you hear of its presence (the presence of plague) in a land, don't enter it, but if it spreads in the land where you are, don't fly from it. Thereupon 'Umar b. Khattab praised Allah and then went back? This hadith has been reported on the authority of Ma'mar with the same chain of transmitters but with this addition:" Do you think that he would graze in the barren land but would abandon the green land? Would you not attribute it to be a failing on his part? He said: Yes. He said: Then proceed. And he moved on until he came to Medina. And he said to me: This is the right place, or he said: That is the destination if Allah so wills." This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of 'Abdullah b. Harith with a slight variation of wording. (Muslim: 4114)