Huquq Al al-Bayt - Ibn Taimiya - (33)

Huquq Al al-BaytIbn Taimiya

and is mistaken, he has one reward.1 This is a sound and famous hadith.

It is also authentically reported that when he was at the Battle of the Confederates and Allah repelled the confederate forces in their rage so that they gained nothing, the Prophet commanded a march against Banu Qurayzah, saying to his Companions, “Let none of you perform the afternoon prayer except at Banu Qurayzah.”

While they were on the road the time for the prayer arrived. Some said, “We will not pray until we reach Banu Qurayzah,” whereas others said, “He did not intend us to miss the prayer; he only wished us to hasten,” so they prayed on the way. The Prophet—peace and blessings be upon him—did not censure either group.

The Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, in this incident accords with what Allah the Exalted says in His Book: “And David and Solomon, when they judged concerning the field when the sheep of the people strayed therein by night; We were witnesses to their judgment. So We gave Solomon understanding of it, and to each of them We gave judgment and knowledge.”2

Thus Allah informs us that He singled out one of the two prophets with insight into the ruling in that case while praising both for the knowledge and wisdom He had granted them.

In the same way, the foremost early ones among the Emigrants and the Helpers, and those who followed them with excellence—may Allah be pleased with them and they with Him—were3, in the matters over which they differed, people of ijtihād sincerely seeking the truth.

(1) The hadith is recorded by al-Bukhari in his Sahih, Book of Iʿtisam, chs. 20–21; by Muslim in Kitab al-Aqdiyya, hadith no. 15; by Abu Dawud in his Sunan, Book of Judgements, ch. 2; by al-Nasai in his Sunan, Book of Ahkam, ch. 2, and in al-Qudat, ch. 3; and by Imam Ahmad in the Musnad, 4:198, 204–205. (2) Quran, Surah al-Anbiya, 21:78. (3) The passage enclosed in brackets is missing from the original manuscript.

فأخطأ فله أجر" ١ وهذا حديث حسن مشهور. وثبت عنه أيضا أنه لما كان في غزوة الأحزاب فرد الله الأحزاب بغيظهم لم ينالوا خيرا, وأمر بقصد بني قريظة قال لأصحابه: "لا يصلين أحد منكم العصر إلا في بني قريظة". فأدركتهم الصلاة في الطريق, فمنهم قوم قالوا: لا نصليها إلا في نبي قريظة, ومنهم قوم قالوا: لم يرد منا تفويت الصلاة, إنما أراد المسارعة, فصلوا في الطريق, فلم يعنف النبي ﷺ واحدة من الطائفتين. وكانت سنة رسول الله صلى الله عليه ولم هذه موافقة لما ذكره الله تعالى في كتابه حيث قال: ﴿وَدَاوُدَ وَسُلَيْمَانَ إِذْ يَحْكُمَانِ فِي الْحَرْثِ إِذْ نَفَشَتْ فِيهِ غَنَمُ الْقَوْمِ وَكُنَّا لِحُكْمِهِمْ شَاهِدِينَ, فَفَهَّمْنَاهَا سُلَيْمَانَ وَكُلّاً آتَيْنَا حُكْماً وَعِلْماً﴾ ٢. فأخبر ﷾ أنه خص أحد النبيين بفهم الحكم في تلك القضية وأثنى على كل منهما بما آتاه من العلم والحكم. فهكذا السابقون والأولون من المهاجرين والأنصار والذين اتبعوهم بإحسان رضي الله عنهم ورضوا عنه "كانوا"٣ فيما تنازعوا فيه مجتهدين طالبين للحق.

١-الحديث أخرجه البخاري في صحيحه في الاعتصام باب ٢٠-٢١ ومسلم في الأقضية حديث رقم ١٥,وأبو داود في سننه في الأقضية باب ٢, والنسائي في سننه في كتاب الأحكام باب٢, وفي القضاة باب٣, والإمام أحمد في المسند ٤/١٩٨-٢٠٤-٢٠٥. ٢-سورة الأنبياء, آية:٧٨. ٣-ما بين المعقوفتين سقطت من الأصل.