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Hadith 1416
Hadith #
1416
Book
Nahj al-Balāgha
Volume
1
Section
45
Part
Letters
Chapter
To the governor of Basra upon learning that he had accepted an invitation to a lavish banquet
Source
al-Sharīf al-Raḍī
۞
To ‘Uthmān ibn Ḥunayf al-Anṣārī who was Amīr al-mu’minīn’s Governor of Baṣrah, when he came to know that the people of that place had invited ‘Uthmān to a banquet and he had attended.
ومن كتاب له (عليه السلام) إلى عثمان بن حنيف الأنصاري وهو [وكان] عامله على البصرة وقد بلغه أنه دعي إلى وليمة قوم من أهلها، فمضى إليها [قوله]
Tags Governance

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