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and wavers within the breast, even if people keep issuing you legal verdicts and issuing them.” A fair hadith (1), recorded by Aḥmad and al-Dārimī in their two Musnads.

597 – Abū Suruʿah—the sīn may be read with kasra or with fatḥa—ʿUqbah ibn al-Ḥārith (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that he married a daughter of Abū Ihāb ibn ʿAzīz. A woman then came to him and said, “I nursed ʿUqbah and the wife he has just married.” ʿUqbah replied, “I have no knowledge that you ever nursed me, nor did you inform me of it.” He thereupon mounted (2) and rode to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ in Madinah and asked him about it. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “How can you remain together after what has been said?” So ʿUqbah separated from her, and she later married another man. Reported by al-Bukhārī.
“Ihāb” is pronounced with a hamzah followed by kasra, and “ʿAzīz” with an initial ʿayn bearing fatḥa and a doubled zāy.

598 – Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī (may Allah be pleased with them both) said, “I memorised from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ: ‘Leave what makes you doubt for what does not make you doubt.’” Recorded by al-Tirmidhī, who said: a sound-fair (ḥasan-ṣaḥīḥ) hadith.
Its meaning is: abandon whatever you are unsure about and take what you are sure of.

599 – ʿĀʾishah (may Allah be pleased with her) related: Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq (may Allah be pleased with him) had a slave who used to bring him his kharāj (3), and Abū Bakr would eat from it. One day the slave brought something and Abū Bakr ate of it. The slave then asked, “Do you know what this is?” Abū Bakr replied, “What is it?” He said, “In the pre-Islamic days I practised divination for a man, though I was no expert at it; I merely deceived him. Later he met me and gave me this (4). It is from that which you have just eaten.” Abū Bakr thereupon inserted his hand and vomited everything in—

(1) Shaykh Nasir passed over its grading in silence. The report is found in Ahmad (4:228) and al-Darimi (2:245); in both chains appears Ayyub b. Abd Allah b. Makraz, whom Ibn Hajar in Taqrib classed as mastur (obscure) from the third tier of narrators. It is nevertheless corroborated by the hadith related by Muslim and al-Tirmidhi; see my arrangement of Sahih al-Jami al-Saghir, no. 2882. (2) That is, from Mecca. (3) Meaning: he would bring him whatever revenue he collected from the kharaj (land tax). (4) In other words, on his account. One recension of al-Bukhari reads “with that” (bi-dhalik, with the initial ba), i.e., as payment for my fortune-telling for him. Ibn Hajar remarks in Fath al-Bari 7:154: “…What seems evident is that Abu Bakr stood up only because the prohibition of the kahin’s gratuity (hulwan al-kahin) had become established for him.”

في الصَّدْرِ ، وَإِنْ أَفْتَاكَ النَّاسُ وَأَفْتَوْكَ » حديث حسن (١) ، رواه أحمد ، وَالدَّارِمِيُّ فِي مُسْنَدَيْهِمَا . ٥٩٧ - وعن أبي سُرْوَعَةَ - بكسر السين المهملة وفتحها - عُقْبَةَ بن الحارث رضي الله عنه أَنَّهُ تَزَوَّجَ ابْنَةً لأبي إهَاب بن عزيز ، فَأَتَتْهُ امْرَأَةٌ فَقَالَتْ : إِنِّي قَدْ أَرْضَعْتُ عُقْبَةَ وَالَّتِي قَدْ تَزَوَّجَ بِهَا . فَقَالَ لَهَا عُقْبَةُ : مَا أَعْلَمُ أَنَّكِ أَرْضَعْتِنِي وَلَا أَخْبَرْتِنِي ، فَرَكِبَ (٢) إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ بِالْمَدِينَةِ ، فَسَأَلَهُ : فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ : « كَيْفَ وَقَدْ قِيلَ ؟ » فَقَارَفَهَا عُقْبَةُ وَنَكَحَتْ زَوْجًا غَيْرَهُ . رواه البخاري . « إهَاب » بكسر الهمزة و « عَزِيزٌ » بفتح العين وبزاي مكررة . ٥٩٨ - وعن الحسن بن علي رضي الله عنهما قال : حَفِظْتُ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ : « دَعْ مَا يَرِيبُكَ إِلَى مَا لَا يَرِيبُكَ » رواه الترمذي وقال : حديث حسن صحيح . معناه : أُتْرُكْ مَا تَشُكُّ فِيهِ ، وَخُذْ مَا لَا تَشُكُّ فِيهِ . ٥٩٩ - وعن عائشة رضي الله عنها قالت : كَانَ لأبي بكر الصديق ، رضي الله عنه غُلَامٌ يُخْرِجُ لَهُ الْخَرَاجَ (٣) وَكَانَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ يَأْكُلُ مِنْ خَرَاجِهِ ، فَجَاءَ يَوْمًا بِشَيْءٍ ، فَأَكَلَ مِنْهُ أَبُو بَكْرٍ ، فَقَالَ لَهُ الْغُلَامُ : تَدْرِي مَا هَذَا ؟ فَقَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ : وَمَا هُوَ ؟ قَالَ : كُنْتُ تَكَهَنْتُ لِإِنْسَانٍ فِي الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ وَمَا أُحْسِنُ الْكَهَانَةَ ، إِلَّا أَنِّي خَدَعْتُهُ ، فَلَقِيَنِي ، فَأَعْطَانِي لِذَلِكَ (٤) ، هَذَا الَّذِي أَكَلْتَ مِنْهُ ، فَأَدْخَلَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ يَدَهُ فَقَاءَ كُلَّ شَيْءٍ فِي

(١) سكت عنه الشيخ ناصر . وهو عند أحمد ٢٢٨/٤ والدارمي ٢٤٥/٢ وفي سنده عندهما : أيوب بن عبد الله بن مكرز . قال عنه الحافظ في « التقريب » مستور من الثالثة . ولكن يشهد له حديث مسلم والترمذي ، انظر صحيح الجامع الصغير بترتيبي رقم ٢٨٨٢ . (٢) أي : من مكة . (٣) أي : يأتيه بما يكسبه من الخراج . (٤) أي : لأجله ، وفي نسخة من البخاري : بذلك ، بالموحدة ، أي : عوض تكهني له . وقال الحافظ في « فتح الباري » ١٥٤/٧ « ... والذي يظهر أن أبا بكر إنما قام لما ثبت عنده من النهي عن حلوان الكاهن » .