16
He was then borne aloft once more when the number had reached the fifth1 and said, “My Lord, my community are weak in body, heart, hearing, and sight; so lighten it for us.”
The Majestic One replied, “O Muhammad!” He answered, “Here I am, at Your service and at Your disposal!” He said, “The word that issues from Me is never changed; the obligation I have laid upon you in the Book remains. Nevertheless, every good deed counts as ten. Thus, in the Mother of the Book they are fifty, while for you they are five.”
He returned to Moses, who asked, “What have you achieved?” He said, “It has been lightened for us;
(1) The narration’s explicit claim that the fifth reduction was the last contradicts the report of Thabit from Anas, which says that five prayers were lifted on each occasion, that the bargaining occurred nine times, and that the Prophet—after the quota had already been set at five—went back once more to request further leniency. These extra details come only from Sharik’s solitary version of the story. The sounder account mentioned earlier states that, on the final occasion, the Prophet said to Moses: istahyaytu min rabbi (I am ashamed before my Lord). The present version, however, insists that he did go back once more and that al-Jabbar (the Compeller) said to him: “Ya Muhammad,” to which he replied, “Labbayka wa-sa‘dayk (I am here, at Your service).” God then said: “Innahu la yubaddalu al-qawlu ladayya (My word is not subject to change).”
Al-Dawudi, as cited by Ibn al-Tin, rejects this: “The final return is not established; the accepted narrations only report that he said, istahyaytu min rabbi, and was then called out: amdaitu faridati wa-khafhaftu ‘an ‘ibadi (I have confirmed My obligation and lightened it for My servants).”
Regarding the phrase here, “So Moses said: irji‘ ila rabbik (Return to your Lord),” al-Dawudi remarks: “That is how it appears in this version—Moses supposedly told him to return even after God had declared, ‘My word is not subject to change.’ This cannot stand, for the parallel narrations unanimously contradict it, and Moses would not have urged another return once God had spoken in that manner.” End of citation.
فرفعه عند الخامسة١ فقال: "يا رب! إن أمتي ضعفاء أجسادهم وقلوبهم وأسماعهم وأبدانهم؛ فخفف عنا". فقال الجبار: يا محمد! قال: لبيك وسعديك! قال: إنه لا يبدل القول لدي؛ كما فرضت عليك في الكتاب. قال: فكل حسنة بعشر أمثالها فهي خمسون في أم الكتاب وهي خمس عليك.
فرجع إلى موسى فقال: كيف فعلت؟ فقال: "خفف عنا؛
١ هذا التنصيص على الخامسة على أنها الأخيرة يخالف رواية ثابت عن أنس أنه وضع عنه كل مرة خمسا وأن المراجعة كانت تسع مرات ورجوع النبي ﷺ بعد تقرير الخمس لطلب التخفيف مما وقع من تفردات شريك في هذه القصة والمحفوظ ما تقدم أنه ﷺ قال لموسى في الأخيرة: "استحييت من ربي" وهذا صرح بأنه راجع في الأخيرة "وأن الجبار سبحانه قال له: يا محمد قال: لبيك وسعديك. قال: إنه لا يبدل القول لدي "
وقد أنكر ذلك الداودي فيما نقله ابن التين فقال: "الرجوع الأخير ليس بثابت والذي في الروايات أنه قال: استحييت من ربي فنودي: أمضيت فريضتي وخففت من عبادي "
وقوله هنا: "فقال موسى: ارجع إلى ربك"قال الداودي: "كذا وقع في هذه الرواية: أن موسى قال له: ارجع إلى ربك. بعد أن قال: لا يبدل القول لدي. ولا يثبت لتواطؤ الروايات على خلافه وما كان موسى ليأمره بالرجوع بعد أن يقول الله تعالى له ذلك". انتهى