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—as though he would rebuke him were he actually to do so—just as he said to ʿĀʾishah, “Are you covering the walls?⦗1⦘”
His order that the man fast two days in Shawwāl was meant to mark the end of the sarar. In a month that is complete, the sarar lasts for two days, whereas in a month that is short it is only one.
We say: had the Prophet ﷺ been censuring him for that practice, he would not have instructed him to make it up.
He also said, with regard to the ḥadith, “I passed by Moses and he was praying in his grave⦗2⦘,” that Allah revived Moses in his grave until the Chosen One ﷺ passed by him, and that his grave lies in Madyan, between Madinah and Jerusalem.
Likewise, the ḥadith states, “He would visit all his wives in a single night while he had nine wives,” though in the narration of al-Dastuwāʾī from Qatādah the wording is, “eleven.”
= The verb yastasir, when applied to the crescent, means that the new moon is hidden from sight. See Fath al-Bari 4/201.
(1) Reported by Ahmad 6/247; Muslim 2107 (Book of Dress and Adornment); and Ibn Saʿd 8/469, from Aisha: “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ returned from a journey, and I bought for him a curtain (namat) with a figure on it. I hung it over a niche in my house. When the Messenger came in, I noticed his dislike for the curtain; he pulled it down and said, ‘Are you covering the wall?’ I then cut the curtain into two cushions and later saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ reclining on one of them.”
Muslim’s wording: “He went out on a campaign, so I hung a curtain over the door. When he returned and saw it I recognized displeasure on his face; he pulled it until he tore or cut it and said, ‘Allah did not command us to clothe stones and clay.’ We therefore made two cushions out of it and stuffed them with palm-fiber, and he did not censure that.” See Sharh al-Sunna 12/135 (our edition).
(2) Reported by Ibn Hibban 48; by Ahmad 3/148 through Hasan b. Musa and ʿAffan, both from Hammad b. Salama, from Thabit and Sulayman al-Taymi, from Anas; by Muslim 2375 through Hudhab b. Khalid and Shayban Farukh, both from Hammad with this chain; and by al-Nasaʾi 3/216 likewise from Hammad. Al-Suyuti includes it in al-Jamiʿ al-Kabir, no. 741, and adds the references of ʿAbd b. Humayd and Ibn Khuzayma.
(3) Reported by Ibn Hibban 1196; also by al-Bukhari 1/324 in the Book of Ghusl, “Chapter: If one has intercourse and then repeats it,” through Muhammad b. Bashshar — Muʿadh b. Hisham — his father — Qatada — Anas b.… (the chain continues).
عَلَيْهِ لَوْ فعلَهُ، كقولِهِ لعَائِشَةٍ: (تَسْتُرينَ الجُدُرَ (١) ؟!) .
وَأَمْرُهُ بصومِ يَوْمَينِ مِنْ شَوَّالٍ، أَرَادَ بِهِ انتهَاءَ السّرَارِ.
وَذَلِكَ فِي الشّهرِ الكَاملِ وَالسّرَارُ فِي الشهرِ النَّاقصِ يَوْمٌ وَاحدٌ.
قُلْنَا: لَوْ كَانَ مُنْكراً عَلَيْهِ لمَا أَمرَهُ بِالقَضَاءِ.
وَقَالَ: فِي حَدِيْثِ: (مَرَرْتُ بِمُوْسَى وَهُوَ يُصَلِّي فِي قَبْرِهِ (٢)) ، أَحيَا اللهُ مُوْسَى فِي قَبْرِهِ حَتَّى مرَّ عَلَيْهِ المُصْطَفَى ﵇، وَقبْرُهُ بِمَدْيَنَ، بَيْنَ المدينةِ وَبَيْنَ بَيْتِ المَقْدِسِ.
وَحديثُ: (كَانَ يَطُوْفُ علَى نِسَائِهِ فِي اللَّيْلَةِ الوَاحِدَةِ، وَلَهُ تِسْعُ نِسْوَةٍ) ، وَفِي رِوَايَةِ الدَّسْتُوَائِيِّ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ وَهِيَ: (إِحْدَى عَشْرَةَ) .
= يستسر الهلال. وانظر " الفتح " ٤ / ٢٠١.
(١) أخرجه أحمد ٦ / ٢٤٧، ومسلم (٢١٠٧) في اللباس والزينة، وابن سعد ٨ / ٤٦٩ عن عائشة قالت: قدم رسول الله ﷺ من سفر، فاشتريت له نمطا فيه صورة، فسترت به على سهوة بيتي، فدخل رسول الله، فرأيت كراهية الستر في وجهه، ثم جبذه، فقال: " أتسترون الجدار! " قالت: فأخذت النمط فقطعته وسادتين، فرأيت رسول الله صلى الله عليه
وسلم متكئا على إحداهما.
ولفظ مسلم: رأيته خرج في غزاته، فأخذت نمطا، فسترته على الباب، فلما قدم، فرأى النمط، عرفت الكراهية في وجهه، فجذبه حتى هتكه أو قطعه، وقال: إن الله لم يأمرنا ان نكسو الحجارة والطين " قالت: فقطعنا منه وسادتين، وحشوتهما ليفا، فلم يعب ذلك علي. وانظر " شرح السنة " ١٢ / ١٣٥ بتحقيقنا.
(٢) أخرجه ابن حبان (٤٨) واخرجه أحمد ٣ / ١٤٨ من طريق حسن بن موسى وعفان كلاهما عن حماد بن سلمة، عن ثابت وسليمان التيمي، عن أنس، وأخرجه مسلم (٢٣٧٥) من طريق هداب بن خالد وشيبان فروخ، كلاهما عن حماد بهذا الإسناد، وأخرجه النسائي ٣ / ٢١٦ من طريق حماد به.
وأورده السيوطي في " الجامع الكبير ": ٧٤١، وزاد نسبته لعبد بن حميد، وابن خزيمة.
(٣) أخرجه ابن حبان (١١٩٦) ، وأخرجه البخاري ١ / ٣٢٤ في الغسل: باب إذا جامع ثم عاد من طريق محمد بن بشار، حدثنا معاذ بن هشام، حدثني أبي، عن قتادة، قال: حدثنا أنس بن =