Musnad Ahmad 21119

Translation

✧ We were with ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAbbās in his house when he said: “Ask me.” I said: “Abā ʿAbbās, may Allah make me your ransom, in Kufa there is a storyteller called Nawf who claims that it was not Mūsā of the Children of Israel.” As for ʿAmr b. Dīnār, he said: “The enemy of Allah lied.” As for Yaʿlā b. Muslim, he said: Ibn ʿAbbās said: “Ubayy b. Kaʿb narrated to me, saying: ‘The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “Mūsā, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, reminded the people one day, until when eyes overflowed and hearts softened, he turned away. A man caught up with him and said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, is there anyone on earth more knowledgeable than you?’ He said: ‘No.’ He was reproached for that, because he did not refer knowledge back to Allah (Blessed and Exalted). Allah revealed to him: ‘I have a servant more knowledgeable than you.’ He said: ‘O Lord, where?’ He said: ‘The meeting of the two seas.’ He said: ‘O Lord, make for me a sign by which I may know that.’ ʿAmr said to me: He said: ‘Where the fish leaves you.’ Yaʿlā said: ‘Take a dead fish where the spirit is breathed into it.’ So he took a fish and placed it in a basket and said to his servant: ‘I only require you to inform me where the fish leaves you.’ He said: ‘You have not required much of me.’ That is His saying, Blessed and Exalted: ‘And when Mūsā said to his servant Yūshaʿ b. Nūn.’” This is not from Saʿīd b. Jubayr. He said: “While he was in the shade of a rock in a moist place, the fish stirred while Mūsā was sleeping. His servant said: ‘I will not wake him,’ until when he woke, he forgot to inform him. The fish stirred until it entered the sea, and Allah (Blessed and Exalted) held back the flow of the sea for it, so that its trace was as if in stone.” ʿAmr said to me: “And its trace was as if in stone,” and he interlocked his thumbs and the two fingers next to them. “We have certainly met with fatigue in this journey of ours.” He said: “Allah (Blessed and Exalted) has removed fatigue from you.” This is not from Saʿīd b. Jubayr. He informed him, and they returned and found Khiḍr ﷺ. ʿUthmān b. Abī Sulaymān said to me: “On a green carpet on the surface of the sea.” Saʿīd b. Jubayr said: “Wrapped in his garment, having placed one end under his feet and the other under his head.” Mūsā greeted him, and he uncovered his face and said: “Is there peace in your land? Who are you?” He said: “I am Mūsā.” He said: “Mūsā of the Children of Israel?” He said: “Yes.” He said: “What is your business?” He said: “I have come so that you may teach me of what you have been taught, right guidance.” He said: “Is it not enough for you that the reports of the Torah are in your hand and that revelation comes to you, O Mūsā? I have knowledge that you should not know, and you have knowledge that I should not know.” A bird came and took with its beak and said: “By Allah, my knowledge and your knowledge in the knowledge of Allah are only like what this bird has taken with its beak from the sea.” Until when they boarded the ship, they found small ferries carrying the people of this shore to this shore. They recognized him and said: “The righteous servant of Allah.” We said to Saʿīd: “For a fare?” He said: “Yes, they would not carry him for a fare.” He scuttled it and drove a peg into it. Mūsā said: “Have you scuttled it to drown its people? You have certainly done a grave thing.” He said: Mujāhid said: “A terrible thing.” He said: “Did I not say that you would never be able to bear with me patiently?” The first was forgetfulness, the second a condition, and the third deliberate. He said: “Do not take me to task for what I forgot, and do not burden me in my affair with hardship.” They met a boy and he killed him. Yaʿlā b. Muslim said: Saʿīd b. Jubayr said: “They found boys playing, and he took hold of a disbelieving boy who was handsome, laid him down, and slaughtered him with a knife.” He said: “Have you killed a pure soul that had not committed sin?” They went on and found a wall about to collapse, so he set it upright. Saʿīd said with his hand like this, and he raised his hand and it straightened. Yaʿlā said: I think Saʿīd said: “He wiped it with his hand and it straightened.” He said: “If you had wished, you could have taken a payment for it.” Saʿīd said: “A payment we could eat.” He said: He used to read it: “And behind them,” and Ibn ʿAbbās used to read it: “before them was a king.” They claim on the authority of other than Saʿīd that he said: “This slain boy, they claim his name was Jaysūr.” He said: “Seizing every ship by force,” and he intended, when it passed by him, to leave it because of its defect, and when they had passed beyond, they repaired it and benefited from it. Some of them say: “They plugged it with a bottle,” and others say: “with pitch.” His parents were believers and he was a disbeliever, and we feared that he would overwhelm them with transgression and disbelief, and their love for him would carry them to follow him in his religion, so we wanted their Lord to replace him for them with one better in purity and nearer in mercy, one more merciful to them than the first whom Khiḍr killed.”’"

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