has committed a grave fabrication against Allah.” Masrūq said: I had been reclining, but then I sat up and said, “O Mother of the Believers, give me a moment and do not rush me. Has Allah not said, ‘Indeed, he saw him on the clear horizon,’ and, ‘Indeed, he saw him on another descent’?” She said:

“I was the first member of this Ummah to ask the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, about that.” He replied: “...” and then mentioned it.

She said: “Have you not heard Allah say, ‘Vision cannot encompass Him, though He encompasses all vision; and He is the Most Subtle, All-Aware’? Have you not heard Allah say, ‘It is not for any human being that Allah should speak to him except by revelation, or from behind a veil, or by sending a messenger, who reveals by His permission whatever He wills? Indeed, He is Most High, All-Wise’?”

She said: “Whoever claims that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, concealed anything from the Book of Allah has committed a grave fabrication against Allah. Allah says, ‘O Messenger, convey what has been sent down to you from your Lord. If you do not, then you have not conveyed His message.’”

She said: “Whoever claims that he informs of what will occur tomorrow has committed a grave fabrication against Allah. Allah says, ‘Say: None in the heavens and the earth knows the unseen except Allah.’” *

3576—(“The one who goes early to the prayer is like one who offers a sacrificial camel; then the one after him is like one who offers a cow; then the one after him is like one who offers a ram; then the one after him is like one who offers a chicken; then the one after him is like one who offers an egg.”)

It is a hadith of Abū Hurayrah, and it has several chains of transmission from him:

The first: through al-Agharr, from him.

It was narrated by al-Bukhārī (929), Muslim (3/7–8), and al-Nasāʾī (1/138)—the wording being his—