#1619

Yahya related to me from Malik from Muhammad ibn al-Munkadir and from Salim ibn Abi'n-Nadr, the mawla of Umar ibn Ubaydullah that Amir ibn Sad ibn Abi Waqqas heard his father ask Usama ibn Zayd, "Have you heard anything from the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, about the plague?" Usama said, "The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, 'The plague is a punishment that was sent down on a party of the Banu Israil or whoever was before them. When you hear of it in a land, do not enter it. If it comes upon a land and you are in it, do not depart in flight from it.' " Malik said that Abu'n-Nadr said, "That is, do not depart with no other intention but flight

وحدثني عن مالك، عن محمد بن المنكدر، وعن سالم ابي النضر، مولى عمر بن عبيد الله عن عامر بن سعد بن ابي وقاص، عن ابيه، انه سمعه يسال، اسامة بن زيد ما سمعت من، رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم في الطاعون فقال اسامة قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم " الطاعون رجز ارسل على طايفة من بني اسراييل او على من كان قبلكم فاذا سمعتم به بارض فلا تدخلوا عليه واذا وقع بارض وانتم بها فلا تخرجوا فرارا منه " . قال مالك قال ابو النضر لا يخرجكم الا فرار منه