Chapter 3 Asking too many questions and troubling with what does not concern one
باب مَا يُكْرَهُ مِنْ كَثْرَةِ السُّؤَالِ وَتَكَلُّفِ مَا لاَ يَعْنِيهِ
Sahih al-Bukhari 7297
Narrated Ibn Masud:
I was with the Prophet at one of the farms of Medina while he was leaning on a date palm leaf-stalk.
He passed by a group of Jews and some of them said to the other, Ask him (the Prophet) about the
spirit. Some others said, “Do not ask him, lest he should tell you what you dislike” But they went up
to him and said, “O Abal Qasim! Inform us bout the spirit.” The Prophet stood up for a while, waiting.
I realized that he was being Divinely Inspired, so I kept away from him till the inspiration was over.
Then the Prophet said, “(O Muhammad) they ask you regarding the spirit, Say: The spirit its
knowledge is with my Lord (i.e., nobody has its knowledge except Allah)” (17.85) (This is a miracle
of the Qur’an that all the scientists up till now do not know about the spirit, i.e, how life comes to a
body and how it goes away at its death) (See Hadith No. 245, Vol. 6)
[prematn]حَدَّثَنَا [narrator id=”7155″ role=”first” tooltip=”محمد بن أبي عباد القرشي”]مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدِ بْنِ مَيْمُونٍ[/narrator]، حَدَّثَنَا [narrator id=”6343″ role=”chain” tooltip=”عيسى بن يونس السبيعي”]عِيسَى بْنُ يُونُسَ[/narrator]، عَنِ [narrator id=”3629″ role=”chain” tooltip=”سليمان بن مهران الأعمش”]الأَعْمَشِ[/narrator]، عَنْ [narrator id=”902″ role=”chain” tooltip=”إبراهيم النخعي”]إِبْرَاهِيمَ[/narrator]، عَنْ [narrator id=”5715″ role=”chain” tooltip=”علقمة بن قيس النخعي”]عَلْقَمَةَ[/narrator]، عَنِ [narrator id=”5079″ role=”sahabi” tooltip=”عبد الله بن مسعود”]ابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ[/narrator] ـ رضى الله عنه ـ قَالَ كُنْتُ مَعَ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم فِي حَرْثٍ [place]بِالْمَدِينَةِ، [/place][/prematn][matn]وَهْوَ يَتَوَكَّأُ عَلَى عَسِيبٍ، فَمَرَّ بِنَفَرٍ مِنَ الْيَهُودِ فَقَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ سَلُوهُ عَنِ الرُّوحِ. وَقَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ لاَ تَسْأَلُوهُ لاَ يُسْمِعْكُمْ مَا تَكْرَهُونَ. فَقَامُوا إِلَيْهِ فَقَالُوا يَا أَبَا الْقَاسِمِ حَدِّثْنَا عَنِ الرُّوحِ. فَقَامَ سَاعَةً يَنْظُرُ فَعَرَفْتُ أَنَّهُ يُوحَى إِلَيْهِ، فَتَأَخَّرْتُ عَنْهُ حَتَّى صَعِدَ الْوَحْىُ، ثُمَّ قَالَ [quran sura=”17″ aya_start=”85″ aya_end=”85″]{وَيَسْأَلُونَكَ عَنِ الرُّوحِ قُلِ الرُّوحُ مِنْ أَمْرِ رَبِّي}[/quran].[/matn]
