Mālik ibn al-Ḥārith al-Nakhaʿī

Mālik ibn al-Ḥārith al-Nakhaʿī our salaf

Mālik ibn al-Ḥārith al-Nakhaʿī our salaf

Tarikh Baghdad, Vol. 7, pg. 260:

أخبرناه أبو نعيم الحافظ، قال: حدثنا عبد الله بن جعفر بن أحمد بن فارس، قال: حدثنا إسماعيل بن عبد الله بن مسعود العبدي، قال: حدثني العباس بن أبي طالب، قال: حدثنا يزيد بن زريع، قال: حدثنا شعبة، قال: حدثنا عمرو بن مرة، قال: حدثنا عبد الله بن سلمة أن عمر بن الخطاب نظر إلى الأشتر فصعد فيه النظر، ثم صوبه، ثم قال: إن للمسلمين ‌من ‌هذا ‌يوما ‌عصيبا.

We were informed by Abu Nuaim al Hafiz, who said: Abdullah b. Jafar b. Ahmad b. Faris narrated to us, who said: Ismail b. Abdullah b. Masud al Abdi narrated to us, who said: al Abbas b. Abi Talib narrated to me, who said: Yazid b. Zuray narrated to us, who said: Shuba narrated to us, who said: Amr b. Murra narrated to us, who said: Abdullah b. Salama narrated to us that Umar b. al Khattab looked at al Ashtar, raising his gaze toward him and then lowering it, then he said: Indeed the Muslims will face a difficult day because of this man.

Uyun al-Akhbar Vol 1, pg. 283:

ذم رجل الأشتر فقال له قائد: أسكت فإن حياته هزمت أهل الشام وإن موته ‌هزم ‌أهل ‌العراق.

A man criticized al-Ashtar, so a commander said to him, "Be silent, for his life defeated the people of al-Sham, and his death defeated the people of Iraq."

al-Wulat wa al-Qudhat by al-Kindi, Pg. 22:

حدثنا موسى بن حسن بن موسى، قال: حدثنا ابن أبي بردة، قال: حدثنا نصر بن مزاحم، قال: وفي حديث عمر بن سعيد، عن فضيل بن حديج، عن إبراهيم بن يزيد، عن علقمة بن قيس، قال: دخلت على علي في نفر من النخع حين هلك الأشتر، فلما رآني، قال: «لله مالك، لو كان جبلا لكان من جبل فندا، ولو كان من حجر لكان صلدا مثل مالك، فلتبك البواكي، فهل ‌موجود ‌كمالك.
فوالله ما زال متلهفا عليه ومتأسفا حتى رأينا أنه المصب دوننا».

Musa b. Hasan b. Musa narrated to us. He said: Ibn Abi Burda narrated to us. He said: Nasr b. Muzahim narrated to us. And in the narration of Umar b. Said, from Fudayl b. Hudayj, from Ibrahim b. Yazid, from Alqama b. Qays, who said: I entered upon Ali with a group from al-Nakha when al-Ashtar had perished. When he saw me, he said: By God, Malik if he were a mountain, he would have been a towering mountain, and if he were a stone, he would have been solid like Malik. Let the weeping women weep, for is there anyone like Malik? By God, he did not cease longing for him and grieving over him until we thought that he was the one afflicted rather than us.