أَقُولُ مِنْ بَعْدِ حَمْدٍ والصَّلاةِ عَلى

خَيْرِ الْخَلِيفَةِ طَهَ سَيِّدِ الْقَوْمِ

After praising and saluting the best of caliphs

Taha, the master of all people

إنَّ التَّفَرّدُ في نَقْلٍ لِفائِدَةٍ

مِمَّنْ يكونُ إماماً غَيْرُ مأمُومِ

Verily, reporting singly for the sake of benefit

From one who is an Imam, not merely a follower

وكانُ ثَبْتاً أمِيناً في رِوايَتِهِ

صَحِيحَ فَهْمٍ لِمَنْثورٍ ومَنْظومِ

And was steadfast and trusted in transmitting

With true understanding both prose and verse

قَبُولُهُ واجِبٌ أَخْذاً بما وَرَدَتْ

بِهِ الأَدِلَّةُ مِنْ نَصٍّ ومَفْهومِ

Accepting it is obligatory, following the proofs

That came in textual and implied meanings

كَما أَتَى في حَديثِ الاِنْحرافِ إلى ال

بَيْتِ الْمُطَهَّرِ مِنْ آمٍّ ومَأْمُومِ

As in the hadith of turning towards

The purified house, protected from defects and followers

وكانَ يَقْتُلُ في غَزْوِ الدّيارِ وَفي

سَفْكِ الدّماءَ في ذاكَ مِنْ لَوْمِ

He would kill in raiding the lands and shedding

Blood therein, for which he is blamed

والثَّبْتُ إنْ جاءَنا يَوْماً بفائِدَةٍ

في أيِّ فَنٍّ بِقَوْلٍ مِنْهُ مَجْزومِ

And if he comes to us one day with a benefit

In any discipline, through an utterance of his, categorized

قُلْنا قَبِلْنا وإنْ لَمْ يَأتِنا خَبَرٌ

عَنْ غَيْرِه غَيْرُ مَظْنونٍ ومَعْلومِ

We say, we accept, even if no report comes to us

About it from another - uncertain or known

في سُنَّةٍ واصْطِلاحاتٍ لِطائِفَةٍ

وفي لُغاتٍ رَواها غَيْرُ مَتْهومِ

Regarding a Sunnah and the conventions of a group

Or in languages he transmitted without confusion

ما لَمْ يَلُحْ لذَوي الأَفْهامِ أَنَّ بِذا

كَ النَّقْلِ وَهْماً لأَمْرٍ مِنْهُ مَفْهومِ

Unless it appears to the insightful that in this

Transmission there is delusion about a matter understood from it

أَوْ كانَ ذا غَلَطٍ فيما رَوَاهُ لَنا

فَما الَّذي قَدْ رَوَى يَوْماً بِمَعْصومِ

Or that there was an error in what he transmitted to us

So what is it that he transmitted one day while infallible?

فاشْدُدْ يَدَيْكَ عَلَى هَذا فإنَّ بِهِ ال

حَقَّ القَويمَ عَلَى رَغْمٍ لِمَرْغومِ

So strengthen your hand upon this, for in it is

The upright truth, despite those who refuse and are stubborn