“Wild beasts” refers to those land animals that live in the wild, and “they are gathered” means that they are resurrected, so that retribution may be exacted among them: the hornless animal will be recompensed from the horned one.”
The editor of the “Fatwas” column in al-Waʿy al-Islāmī magazine, second year, issue 89, p. 107, was misled by al-Ālūsī’s aforementioned statement denying the gathering of wild beasts. He quoted it from him, approving of it and relying upon it. This is among the ill effects of blind imitation and inadequate verification. Allah is the One whose help is sought, and He is the Bestower of success.
1968 — “We have already accepted your pledge, so return.”
This is from the hadith of al-Shurayd ibn Suwayd, who said: There was a man afflicted with leprosy in the delegation of Thaqīf, so the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, sent word to him: then he cited it.
Muslim (7/37), al-Nasāʾī (2/184), Ibn Mājah (2/364), al-Ṭayālisī (no. 1270), and Aḥmad (4/389–390) narrated it through Yaʿlā ibn ʿAṭā, from ʿAmr ibn al-Shurayd, from his father, with this wording. Al-Ṭabarānī also narrated it in al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr (7247), through Sharīk, from Yaʿlā ibn ʿAṭā, with the wording: A man afflicted with leprosy came to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, to pledge allegiance to him. So I came to him and mentioned the man to him, and he said: “Go to him and inform him that I have accepted his pledge, so let him return.”
I say: The hadith affirms contagion and the need to take precautions against it. There is therefore no contradiction between it and the hadith, “There is no contagion,” for the latter negates what the people of the pre-Islamic period believed: that an affliction transmits by its own inherent nature, rather than by Allah Most High’s action and power. This is what is negated. It does not deny that harm may result from it by Allah’s decree and will. This is what the hadith under the present heading affirms, and it directs one to keep away from what may cause harm by Allah’s decree and action.