Subhanallah – someone in a lecture at our Masjid just mentioned some quotes from him this morning …could someone please tell me (briefly) who this As-Saabooni is. I tried googling him and seeing if I could find a bio. but to no avail

Is he from the early Scholars or is he contemporary ..?

May Allah reward you immensely!
Suhaib Khan
VA

Let us remember that the statement of Malik ibn Dinar is not a blank check for oppressors and tyrants who are installed over us.
Let it not be an excuse for us Muslims to support or ignore the oppression of these tyrants, for our Beloved Prophet (صلى الله عليه و سلم) said,

“The best jihad in the path of Allah is (speaking) a word of justice to an oppressive ruler.”
(Sunan abi-Dawood. #4330. Narrated by Abu Sa’eed al-Khudh’ri.)

Jezak Allahu khayran for your comments and especially MUA and Abu Majeed for wanting to clarify the reference.

This is under the tafseer of Surah alAnaam, verse 129 “wa kathalika nuwally…”

It also says under the tafseer of the ayah that Ibn Abbas radi Allahu anhu stated: If Allah is pleased with a people, He will appoint to their affairs the best of them, and if Allah becomes angry over a people, He will appoint to their affairs the worst of them.

(I hope that made sense, please feel free to re-translate it if I’m off. My apologies I don’t have an Arabic program installed to write this out but I’ll try to transliterate it inshaAllah: “Itha radi Allah ‘an gowm walla amrahum kheyaruhum, wa itha sakhat Allah ‘ala gowm walla amrahom sheeraahom.”)

He cites for that statement Al Qurtubi’s tafsir rahimahullah.

I know As Sabooni rahimahullah sometimes holds different opinions, but it was something I had read with my Arabic teacher and it was a statement which impacted me, so I just translated it straight from the book and doubled checked with my Arabic teacher when doing so…

PLEASE by all means bring forth anything else relevant/to clarify/etc, may Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala reward you all for wanting to ensure what is stated is correct, and may He forgive me if anything is incorrect.

wa Allahu ‘alam

ps- the “Arabic” of the statement attributed to what Malik ibn Dinar rahimahullah read:
‘an Maalik ibn Dinaar, qala: qarato fi ba3d kutub alhikmah inAllah ta’ala yaqool: “Inny anAllah, Maalik al Mulook, qoloob almalook biyady, faman ataa’any jalatohum ‘alayhe rahmah, wa man ‘asaani jaltohum ‘alayhe naqmah, falaa tashgheloo anfosakum bsabb almolook walakin toboo elayy oo’atfhom ‘alaykum.

[we literally translated this, and she went through specific phrases mentioned and told me what they mean beyond a literal translation , wa Allahu ‘alam]

Thank you for the reminder to always keep proper perspective of what truly matters most – looking after our deeds.

You begin with what seems to be a hadith qudsi, it is always important to provide realiable material. The reference is to a tafsir book, but can you please clarify whether this is a hadith of the Prophet in which he reports the statement of Allah.