49 - The Book of the Etiquette of Judging (1)

1 - The Virtue of the Just Ruler in His Judgment (2)

5379 - Qutaybah ibn Sa'id informed us, saying: Sufyan narrated to us, from 'Amr ibn Dinar. Also: Muhammad ibn Adam ibn Sulayman informed us, from Ibn al-Mubarak, from Sufyan ibn 'Uyaynah, from 'Amr ibn Dinar, from 'Amr ibn Aws, from 'Abdullah ibn 'Amr ibn al-'As, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, who said: "Indeed, the equitable will be with Allah Almighty upon pulpits of light, on (3) the right hand of the Most Merciful—those who act justly in their judgments, their families, and what they are put in charge of." Muhammad said in his narration: "And both of His hands are right (hands)." (4)

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(1) The text as established from (R); in (H) and in a copy above it in (M): "The Etiquette of Judges"; in a copy in the margin of (H): "The Etiquettes of Judges"; and in (M): "The Etiquette of the Judge." I say: This book appears in (M) after hadith (4262), and in (R) after hadith (5540), and al-Sindi referred to this in his gloss.
(2) In a copy in the margin of (H): "Judgment."
(3) In (K) and (H): "upon."
(4) Both of its chains of transmission are sound. Ibn al-Mubarak: he is 'Abdullah. It is in "Al-Sunan al-Kubra" under number (5885) via the path of Qutaybah alone.
Also recorded by Ahmad (6492), Muslim (1827), and Ibn Hibban (4484) and (4485) via the path of Sufyan ibn 'Uyaynah, with this chain.
Also recorded by Ahmad (6485) and (6897), and by the author in "Al-Kubra" (5886) via the path of Ma'mar, from al-Zuhri, from Sa'id ibn al-Musayyab, from 'Abdullah ibn 'Amr, with it. And the author said after it: Shu'ayb ibn Abi Hamzah transmitted it as a statement of a Companion (mawquf).
His saying: "upon pulpits of light"—al-Sindi said: i.e., lofty luminous stations. It is also possible that what is meant is the exalted and praiseworthy ranks; for this reason he said: "on the right hand of the Most Merciful." It is said: "He came to him from his right side," meaning he came to him from the praiseworthy direction. Otherwise, rational and transmitted evidences have established that He, exalted is He, is far above resembling bodies and limbs. "And what they are put in charge of" (wa ma walu): i.e., those over whom they have been given authority.