Musnad Ahmad 21304
✧ Abu Dharr al-Ghifari
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حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ حَدَّثَنَا أَيُّوبُ عَنْ أَبِي قِلَابَةَ عَنْ رَجُلٍ مِنْ بَنِي عَامِرٍ قَالَ
كُنْتُ كَافِرًا، فَهَدَانِي اللهُ لِلْإِسْلَامِ، وَكُنْتُ أَعْزُبُ عَنِ الْمَاءِ وَمَعِي أَهْلِي، فَتُصِيبُنِي الْجَنَابَةُ، فَوَقَعَ ذَلِكَ فِي نَفْسِي، وَقَدْ نُعِتَ لِي أَبُو ذَرٍّ، فَحَجَجْتُ فَدَخَلْتُ مَسْجِدَ مِنًى فَعَرَفْتُهُ بِالنَّعْتِ، فَإِذَا شَيْخٌ مَعْرُوقٌ آدَمُ، عَلَيْهِ حُلَّةٌ قِطْرِيٌّ، فَذَهَبْتُ حَتَّى قُمْتُ إِلَى جَنْبِهِ وَهُوَ يُصَلِّي، فَسَلَّمْتُ عَلَيْهِ فَلَمْ يَرُدَّ عَلَيَّ، ثُمَّ صَلَّى صَلَاةً أَتَمَّهَا وَأَحْسَنَهَا وَأَطْوَلَهَا، فَلَمَّا فَرَغَ رَدَّ عَلَيَّ قُلْتُ: أَنْتَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ؟ قَالَ: إِنَّ أَهْلِي لَيَزْعُمُونَ ذَلِكَ. قَالَ: كُنْتُ كَافِرًا فَهَدَانِي اللهُ لِلْإِسْلَامِ، وَأَهَمَّنِي دِينِي، وَكُنْتُ أَعْزُبُ مِنَ الْمَاءِ وَمَعِي أَهْلِي، فَتُصِيبُنِي الْجَنَابَةُ، فَوَقَعَ ذَلِكَ فِي نَفْسِي. قَالَ: هَلْ تَعْرِفُ أَبَا ذَرٍّ؟ قُلْتُ: نَعَمْ. قَالَ: فَإِنِّي اجْتَوَيْتُ الْمَدِينَةَ - قَالَ أَيُّوبُ: أَوْ كَلِمَةً نَحْوَهَا - فَأَمَرَ لِي رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ بِذَوْدٍ مِنْ إِبِلٍ وَغَنَمٍ، فَكُنْتُ أَكُونُ فِيهَا، فَكُنْتُ أَعْزُبُ مِنَ الْمَاءِ وَمَعِي أَهْلِي فَتُصِيبُنِي الْجَنَابَةُ، فَوَقَعَ فِي نَفْسِي أَنِّي قَدْ هَلَكْتُ، فَقَعَدْتُ عَلَى بَعِيرٍ مِنْهَا، فَانْتَهَيْتُ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ نِصْفَ النَّهَارِ، وَهُوَ جَالِسٌ فِي ظِلِّ الْمَسْجِدِ، فِي نَفَرٍ مِنْ أَصْحَابِهِ، فَنَزَلْتُ عَنِ الْبَعِيرِ، وَقُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، هَلَكْتُ. قَالَ: " وَمَا أَهْلَكَكَ؟ " فَحَدَّثْتُهُ فَضَحِكَ، فَدَعَا إِنْسَانًا مِنْ أَهْلِهِ، فَجَاءَتْ جَارِيَةٌ سَوْدَاءُ بِعُسٍّ فِيهِ مَاءٌ، مَا هُوَ بِمَلْآنَ، إِنَّهُ لَيَتَخَضْخَضُ، فَاسْتَتَرْتُ بِالْبَعِيرِ، فَأَمَرَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ رَجُلًا مِنَ الْقَوْمِ فَسَتَرَنِي فَاغْتَسَلْتُ، ثُمَّ أَتَيْتُهُ فَقَالَ: إِنَّ الصَّعِيدَ الطَّيِّبَ طَهُورٌ مَا لَمْ تَجِدِ الْمَاءَ، وَلَوْ إِلَى عَشْرِ حِجَجٍ، فَإِذَا وَجَدْتَ الْمَاءَ فَأَمْسِسْ بَشَرَتَكَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Ismāʿīl
- Ayyūb
- Abū Qilābah
- a man Min Banī ʿĀmir
✧ I was a disbeliever, and Allah guided me to Islam. I used to be far from water while my family was with me, and I would become junub. That weighed on my mind. Abu Dharr had been described to me, so I performed Hajj and entered the mosque of Mina, and I recognized him by the description. There was a lean, dark-skinned old man wearing a Qatari garment. I went and stood beside him while he was praying. I greeted him, but he did not respond to me. Then he prayed a prayer that he completed, perfected, and lengthened. When he finished, he responded to me. I said: 'Are you Abu Dharr?' He said: 'My family claims that.' He said: 'I was a disbeliever, and Allah guided me to Islam. My religion concerned me. I used to be far from water while my family was with me, and I would become junub. That weighed on my mind.' He said: 'Do you know Abu Dharr?' I said: 'Yes.' He said: 'I found the climate of Madinah disagreeable' – Ayyub said: 'or a word like it' – 'so the Messenger of Allah ﷺ ordered for me a small herd of camels and sheep, and I would be with them. I used to be far from water while my family was with me, and I would become junub. It occurred to me that I had perished. So I mounted one of the camels and reached the Messenger of Allah ﷺ at midday while he was sitting in the shade of the mosque among a group of his companions. I dismounted from the camel and said: "O Messenger of Allah, I have perished." He said: "What has destroyed you?" I told him, and he laughed. He called someone from his household, and a black slave girl came with a wooden bowl containing water, not full, it was splashing. I hid behind the camel, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ ordered a man from the group to screen me, so I washed. Then I came to him, and he said: "Clean earth is a means of purification as long as you do not find water, even for ten years. When you find water, then touch your skin with it."'
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What scholars said about it
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- Dāraquṭnī
كذا قال رجاء بن عامر والصواب رجل من بني عامر كما قال ابن علية عن أيوب
in مسند أحمد, p. 21637 - Ibn al-Qaṭṭān
هذا حديث ضعيف لا شك فيه
machine translationThis is a weak (ḍaʿīf) hadith, without doubt.
in مسند أحمد, p. 21637
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 31 AH, or: 32 AHأَبُو ذَرٍّ الْغِفَارِيُّالصحابيقال
- رجل من بني عامرعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), excellent, who often narrated mursal reports (kathīr al-irsāl)d. 104 AH, or 105 AH, or 106 AH, or 107 AHأَبِي قِلَابَةَثقة فاضل ، كثير الإرسالعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), an authority (ḥujjah), one of the leading jurists and devout worshippersd. 130 AH, or 131 AH, or 132 AH, also said: 124 AH, also said: 125 AH, also said: 129 AHأَيُّوبُثقة ثبت حجة ، من كبار الفقهاء العبادحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 193 AH, or 194 AHإِسْمَاعِيلُثقة حافظحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his viewأحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة
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