Silsilat al-Ahadith al-Sahihah - Nasir al-Din al-Albani - (7/832)

Silsilat al-Ahadith al-SahihahNasir al-Din al-Albani

in which Allah had created him.

Since it is explicitly reported from our Prophet, in the hadith of Ibn Abbas, that he said, “Gabriel led me in prayer at the House twice ...” and he mentioned the hadith, saying at its end, “This is your time, and the time of the prophets before you,” (1) this report provides clear evidence that some of our laws may coincide with some of the laws of the nations before us.

And since it is part of our law that whoever puts out the eye of one who enters his house without his permission, or of one who looks into his house without his leave, incurs no blame thereby and bears no sin for doing so—as established by the reports concerning this which we have recorded in more than one place in our books (2)—then it was possible for this law to coincide with the law of Moses, in absolving of blame one who puts out the eye of a person entering his house without permission. Thus, Moses’s doing this was lawful for him, and there was no blame upon him for it.

When the Angel of Death returned to his Lord and informed Him of what Moses had done to him, He commanded him a second time with another command, one of testing and trial, as we mentioned earlier. Allah said to him: “Say to him: ‘If you wish, place your hand upon the back of a bull; for every hair covered by your hand, you shall have one year.’” When Moses, the one with whom Allah spoke—may Allah bless our Prophet and him—realized that he was the Angel of Death and that he had come with the message from Allah, he willingly accepted death and did not ask for a delay. He said, “Then now.”

Had Moses recognized on the first occasion that he was the Angel of Death, he would have done what he did on the second occasion, once he was certain and knew who he was—contrary to the claim of those who allege: “The hadith scholars are bearers of firewood and shepherds by night: they compile what brings them no benefit and narrate that for which they are not rewarded

(1) A hasan sahih (sound and authentic) hadith, as al-Tirmidhi stated. It was also authenticated by a number of scholars and is documented in al-Irwa (1:268) and Sahih Abu Dawud (417). Some have attributed it to Sahih Ibn Hibban, but this is an error. (2) I say: Among these is the narration in his book al-Sahih (7:597-598, al-Ihsan edition), on the authority of Abu Hurayrah, with closely similar wording; some of its versions are found in the two Sahihs. It is documented in al-Irwa (1428 and 2227).

التي خلَقَهُ اللهُ عليها، ولما كان المصرح عن نبينا في خبر ابن عباس حيث قال: "أمَّني جبريلُ عند البيت مرتين ... " فذكر الخبر، وقال في آخره: "هذا وقتك ووقت الأنبياء قبلك " (١) ، كان في هذا الخبر البيانُ الواضح: أن بعض شرائعنا قد تتفق ببعض شرائع من قبلنا مِن الأمم. ولما كان من شريعتنا أن من فقأ عين الداخل دارهُ بغير إذنه، أو الناظر إلى بيته بغير أمره، من غير جناح على فاعله، ولا حرج على مرتكبه، للأخبار الواردة فيه، التي أمليناها في غير موضع من كتبنا (٢) ؛كان جائزاً اتفاق هذه الشريعة بشريعة موسى بإسقاط الحرج عمّن فقأ عين الداخل داره بغير إذنه، فكان استعمال موسى هذا الفعل مباحاً له، ولا حرج عليه في فعله. فلما رجع ملك الموت إلى ربه، وأخبره بما كان من موسى فيه؛ أمره ثانياً بأمر آخر أمر اختبار وابتلاء كما ذكرنا قبل، إذ قال الله له: "قل له: إن شئت، فضع يدك على متن ثور، فلك بكل ما غطت يدك بكل شعرة سنة"، فلما علم موسى كليم الله صلى الله على نبينا وعليه أنه ملك الموت، وأنه جاء بالرسالة من عند الله، طابت نفسه بالموت ولم يستمهل، وقال: "فالآن ". فلو كانت المرة الأولى عرفه موسى أنه ملك الموت، لاستعمل ما استعمل في المرة الأخرى عند تيقنه وعلمه به، ضدَّ قول من زعم: "أن أصحاب الحديث حمَّالة الحطب ورعاة الليل، يجمعون ما لا ينتفعون به، ويروون ما لا يؤجرون

(١) حديث حسن صحيح؛ كما قال الترمذي، وصححه جمع، وهو مخرج في "الإرواء" (١/٢٦٨) ، و"صحيح أبي داود" (٤١٧) ، وعزاه بعضهم ل"صحيح ابن حبان"، فوهم! (٢) قلت: من ذلك كتابه "الصحيح" (٧/٥٩٧- ٥٩٨- الإحسان) من حديث أبي هريرة بألفاظ متقاربة، بعضها في"الصحيحين"، وهو مخرج في "الإرواء" (١٤٢٨و ٢٢٢٧) .