Sharh Riyad as-Saliheen by Ibn Uthaymeen — Volume 1 (شرح رياض الصالحين) — Page 223

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تَكْتُبُ لَهُ الشَّهَادَةُ فَلَا؛ لِأَنَّهُ لَمْ يَسْلُكْ طَرِيقَةَ الشَّهَادَةِ، لَكِنَّهُ يَسْلَمُ مِنَ الْإِثْمِ لِأَنَّهُ مُتَأَوِّلٌ، وَمَنِ اجْتَهَدَ وَأَخْطَأَ فَلَهُ أَجْرٌ.

Martyrdom is not recorded for him because he did not follow the path of the martyrs, yet he remains free of sin because he acted on a sincere interpretation. Whoever strives and errs is still rewarded.

فِي خَاتِمَةِ هَذَا الْحَدِيثِ الْعَظِيمِ الَّذِي فِيهِ الْعِبْرَةُ لِمَنِ اعْتَبَرَ، فِيهَا أَنَّ الْمَلِكَ الْكَافِرَ الَّذِي يَدْعُو النَّاسَ إِلَى عِبَادَتِهِ، لَمَّا آمَنَ النَّاسُ وَقَالُوا: آمَنَّا بِاللهِ رَبِّ الْغُلَامِ، جَاءَهُ أَهْلُ الشَّرِّ وَأَهْلُ الْحِقْدِ عَلَى الْإِيمَانِ وَأَهْلِهِ، وَقَالُوا لَهُ: أَيُّهَا الْمَلِكُ إِنَّهُ وَقَعَ مَا كُنْتَ تَحْذَرُ مِنْهُ، وَهُوَ الْإِيمَانُ بِاللهِ، وَكَانَ يَحْذَرُ ذَلِكَ؛ لِأَنَّهُ - وَالْعِيَاذُ بِاللهِ - قَدْ جَعَلَ نَفْسَهُ إِلَهًا كَمَا فَعَلَ فِرْعَوْنُ، وَكَانَ مَلِكًا طَاغِيًا ظَالِمًا، فَأَمَرَ بِالْأُخْدُودِ عَلَى أَفْوَاهِ السِّكَكِ فَخُدَّتْ،

This great narrative holds a lesson for those who reflect. When the people embraced faith and declared their belief in Allah, the Lord of the boy, the disbelieving king who demanded worship for himself was approached by those who harbored malice toward the faithful. They warned him that the very thing he feared—belief in Allah—had come to pass. He had indeed feared this, for he had set himself up as a god, much like Pharaoh, acting as a tyrannical and oppressive ruler. He ordered trenches to be dug at the entrances of the streets.

الْأُخْدُودُ يَعْنِي: حَفْرٌ عَمِيقٌ مِثْلُ السَّوَاقِي عَلَى أَفْوَاهِ السِّكَكِ، يَعْنِي: عَلَى أَطْرَافِ الْأَزِقَّةِ وَالشَّوَارِعِ، وَقَالَ لِجُنُودِهِ مَنْ جَاءَ وَلَمْ يَرْجِعْ عَنْ دِينِهِ فَأَقْحِمُوهُ فِيهَا؛ لِأَنَّهُ أَضْرَمَ فِيهَا النِّيرَانَ - وَالْعِيَاذُ بِاللهِ - فَكَانَ النَّاسُ يَأْتُونَ وَلَكِنَّهُمْ لَا يَرْتَدُّونَ عَنْ دِينِهِمْ وَإِيمَانِهِمْ، فَيُقْحِمُونَهُمْ فِي النَّارِ، فَكُلُّ مَنْ لَمْ يَرْجِعْ عَنْ دِينِهِ الْحَقِيقِيِّ وَهُوَ الْإِيمَانُ بِاللهِ قَذَفُوهُ فِي النَّارِ،

The trench was a deep canal-like excavation at the corners of alleys and streets. The king commanded his soldiers to throw anyone who refused to renounce their faith into the fire he had ignited. People came, yet they would not abandon their belief, so they were cast into the flames. Anyone who held fast to the truth of faith in Allah was thrown into the fire.

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Vocabulary · المفردات (36 verbs · 59 nouns)

• كَتَبَ — to write
• سَلَكَ — to follow
• سَلِمَ — to be safe
• شَهَادَة — testimony
• طَرِيقَة — method
• إِثْم — sin