and I never associate with my Lord anyone.’ (al-Kahf 18:34-38) up to His words: ‘And his produce was encompassed, and he began wringing his hands over what he had spent on it, while it had collapsed upon its trellises, and he kept saying, “Would that I had not associated anyone with my Lord.”’ (al-Kahf 18:42)

Thus the Almighty described this man—who denied the resurrection and the gathering—as one who committed shirk. This is the evident sense of the passage, for Allah mentions no other form of unbelief on his part, and then recounts his remorse when he saw what had befallen his crops and his two gardens, saying: ‘Would that I had not associated anyone with my Lord.’ Allah therefore used the term shirk for the disbelief just cited. The likely reason is that denying the resurrection implies that Allah is powerless to bring it about; to deem the Lord—exalted is He—incapable is to liken Him to His creation, and such likening constitutes association (shirk). Al-Qurṭubī expressed something to this effect. Allah knows best.

(8) Bringing an animal into the mosque when there is a need to do so: the Prophet ﷺ entered the Sacred Mosque and performed ṭawāf on his camel, as Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh said: ‘During the Farewell Pilgrimage the Prophet ﷺ circled the House and went between Ṣafā and Marwah on his mount so that the people could see him, that he might be more visible, and so they could ask him questions—for the people were crowding around him.’

This ḥadīth is reported by Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, al-Nasāʾī, and Aḥmad through the chain of Ibn Jurayj, who said: Abūʾl-Zubayr informed me that he heard Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh. The wording cited above is Aḥmad’s, with the additional phrases supplied by Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, and another narration of Aḥmad.

It is corroborated by the report of ʿĀʾishah recorded by Muslim and al-Nasāʾī with the wording: