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بخش ۲ - ۱ ابوالعباس احمدبن محمّد القصّاب، رضی اللّه عنه / Section 2 - 1 Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Qassab, May Allah Be Pleased with Him

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منهم: طراز طریق ولایت و جمال جمع اهل هدایت، ابوالعباس احمدابن محمد القصاب، رضی الله عنه
مقدمان ماورا یافته بوده اند و با وی صحبت کرده.وی معروف و مشهور است به علو حال و صدق فراست و کثرت برهان و کرامت.

و ابوعبدالله حناطی که امام طبرستان بود، گوید که: «از افضال خدای عز وجل یکی آن است که کسی را بی تعلم چنان گرداند که چون ما را در علوم دین و اصول آن و دقایق توحید، چیزی مشکل شود از وی پرسیم و آن ابوالعباس قصاب است، رضی الله عنه.»
امی بود، اما کلام و نکتش سخت عالی بود، اندر علم تصوف و اصول. اندر ابتدا و انتها عالی حال و نیکو سیرت بود. و مرا از وی حکایات بسیار سماع است، اما مذهب من اندر این کتاب اختصار است.

گویند کودکی اشتری را زمام گرفته بود با باری گران و اندر بازار آمل می کشید و پیوسته آن جا و حل باشد. پای اشتر از جای بشد و بیفتاد و خرد بشکست. مردمان قصد آن کردند که بار از پشت شتر فروگیرند و کودک دست به مستغاث برآورد. وی بدان برگذشت. گفتا: «چه بوده است؟» حال بازگفتند. وی رضی الله عنه زمام شتر بگرفت و روی به آسمان که قبلهٔ دعاست کرد و گفت: «این اشتر را درست کن و اگر درست نخواستی کرد چرا دل قصاب به گریستن این کودک بسوختی؟»
اندر حال اشتر برخاست و راست و درست برفت.

از وی می آید که گفت: همه عالم را، اگر خواهند و اگر نه با خداوند تعالی خو می باید کرد والا رنجه دل گردند از آن که چون خو با وی کنی اندر بلا مبلی را بینی، بلا بلا نیاید، و اگر خو نکنی چون بلایی بیاید رنجه دل گردی؛ که خداوند تعالی به رضا و سخط کس تقدیر خود متغیر نگرداند. پس رضای ما به حکم نصیب، راحت ماست. هرکه با وی خو کند دلش براحت شود و هر که از وی اعراض کند به ورود قضا رنجه گردد. و هو اعلم.

English translation

Among them: the adornment of the path of sainthood and the beauty of the assembly of the people of guidance, Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Qassab, may Allah be pleased with him.

The foremost masters of Transoxiana found him and kept his company. He is famed and renowned for the loftiness of his spiritual state, the truthfulness of his insight, and the abundance of his proofs and miracles (karamat).

And Abu Abdullah al-Hannati, who was the imam of Tabaristan, says: 'One of the graces of Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, is that He makes someone such, without learning, that when something in the sciences of religion and their principles and the subtleties of the doctrine of Divine Unity becomes difficult for us, we ask him — and that is Abu al-Abbas al-Qassab, may Allah be pleased with him.'

He was unlettered, yet his speech and subtle points were exceedingly lofty in the science of Sufism and its principles. In his beginning and his end he was of exalted state and fair conduct. I have heard many anecdotes from him, but my way in this book is brevity.

They say a child had taken hold of a camel's halter, with a heavy load, and was leading it in the bazaar of Amul — and that place is always mud and mire. The camel's foot slipped and it fell, and the load broke. The people set about to take the burden off the camel's back, and the child raised his hand crying for help. He (al-Qassab) was passing by. He said: 'What has happened?' They recounted the situation. He, may Allah be pleased with him, took hold of the camel's halter, turned his face toward heaven — which is the qibla of prayer — and said: 'Set this camel right; and if You would not set it right, why did You make the heart of al-Qassab burn at the weeping of this child?'

At once the camel rose and went off straight and sound.

It is related from him that he said: The whole world, whether they wish it or not, must grow accustomed to the Lord Most High — otherwise their hearts will be pained. For when you grow accustomed to Him, in affliction you see the One who afflicts, and affliction no longer seems affliction; but if you do not grow accustomed, then when an affliction comes your heart is pained. For the Lord Most High does not alter His decree for anyone's pleasure or displeasure. So our being pleased with the portion He decrees is our comfort. Whoever grows accustomed to Him, his heart is set at ease; and whoever turns away from Him is pained at the arrival of destiny. And He knows best.

Updated 2026-07-20

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