Musnad Ahmad 22546
✧ My father, Qatadah al-Ansari
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حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ هَارُونَ أَخْبَرَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ ثَابِتٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ رَبَاحٍ عَنْ أَبِي قَتَادَةَ قَالَ
كُنَّا مَعَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فِي سَفَرٍ، فَقَالَ: إِنَّكُمْ إِنْ لَا تُدْرِكُوا الْمَاءَ غَدًا تَعْطَشُوا، وَانْطَلَقَ سَرَعَانُ النَّاسِ يُرِيدُونَ الْمَاءَ، وَلَزِمْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ، فَمَالَتْ بِرَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ رَاحِلَتُهُ، فَنَعَسَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ فَدَعَمْتُهُ فَادَّعَمَ، ثُمَّ مَالَ، [فَدَعَمْتُهُ فَادَّعَمَ ثُمَّ مَالَ] حَتَّى كَادَ أَنْ يَنْجَفِلَ عَنْ رَاحِلَتِهِ، فَدَعَمْتُهُ فَانْتَبَهَ، فَقَالَ: مَنِ الرَّجُلُ؟ قُلْتُ: أَبُو قَتَادَةَ. قَالَ: مُذْ كَمْ كَانَ مَسِيرُكَ؟ قُلْتُ: مُنْذُ اللَّيْلَةِ. قَالَ: حَفِظَكَ اللهُ كَمَا حَفِظْتَ رَسُولَهُ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: لَوْ عَرَّسْنَا، فَمَالَ إِلَى شَجَرَةٍ، فَنَزَلَ فَقَالَ: انْظُرْ هَلْ تَرَى أَحَدًا؟ قُلْتُ: هَذَا رَاكِبٌ، هَذَانِ رَاكِبَانِ - حَتَّى بَلَغَ سَبْعَةً - فَقَالَ: احْفَظُوا عَلَيْنَا صَلَاتَنَا فَنِمْنَا، فَمَا أَيْقَظَنَا إِلَّا حَرُّ الشَّمْسِ، فَانْتَبَهْنَا فَرَكِبَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ فَسَارَ وَسِرْنَا هُنَيَّةً، ثُمَّ نَزَلَ فَقَالَ: أَمَعَكُمْ مَاءٌ؟ قَالَ: قُلْتُ: نَعَمْ، مَعِي مِيضَأَةٌ فِيهَا شَيْءٌ مِنْ مَاءٍ. قَالَ: ائْتِ بِهَا، فَأَتَيْتُهُ بِهَا، فَقَالَ: مَسُّوا مِنْهَا، مَسُّوا مِنْهَا، فَتَوَضَّأَ الْقَوْمُ، وَبَقِيَتْ جَرْعَةٌ، فَقَالَ: ازْدَهِرْ بِهَا يَا أَبَا قَتَادَةَ؛ فَإِنَّهُ سَيَكُونُ لَهَا نَبَأٌ. ثُمَّ أَذَّنَ بِلَالٌ، وَصَلَّوُا الرَّكْعَتَيْنِ قَبْلَ الْفَجْرِ، ثُمَّ صَلَّوُا الْفَجْرَ، ثُمَّ رَكِبَ وَرَكِبْنَا، فَقَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ لِبَعْضٍ: فَرَّطْنَا فِي صَلَاتِنَا، فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: مَا تَقُولُونَ؟ إِنْ كَانَ أَمْرُ دُنْيَاكُمْ فَشَأْنُكُمْ، وَإِنْ كَانَ أَمْرُ دِينِكُمْ فَإِلَيَّ. قُلْنَا: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ فَرَّطْنَا فِي صَلَاتِنَا، فَقَالَ: لَا تَفْرِيطَ فِي النَّوْمِ، إِنَّمَا التَّفْرِيطُ فِي الْيَقَظَةِ، فَإِذَا كَانَ ذَلِكَ فَصَلُّوهَا، وَمِنَ الْغَدِ وَقْتَهَا. ثُمَّ قَالَ: ظُنُّوا بِالْقَوْمِ. قَالُوا: إِنَّكَ قُلْتَ بِالْأَمْسِ: إِنْ لَا تُدْرِكُوا الْمَاءَ غَدًا تَعْطَشُوا، فَالنَّاسُ بِالْمَاءِ، فَقَالَ: أَصْبَحَ النَّاسُ وَقَدْ فَقَدُوا نَبِيَّهُمْ، فَقَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ: إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ [ ﷺ ] بِالْمَاءِ، وَفِي الْقَوْمِ أَبُو بَكْرٍ، وَعُمَرُ، فَقَالَا: أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ، إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ [ ﷺ ] لَمْ يَكُنْ لِيَسْبِقَكُمْ إِلَى الْمَاءِ وَيُخَلِّفَكُمْ، وَإِنْ يُطِعِ النَّاسُ أَبَا بَكْرٍ، وَعُمَرَ يَرْشُدُوا قَالَهَا ثَلَاثًا. فَلَمَّا اشْتَدَّتِ الظَّهِيرَةُ رَفَعَ لَهُمْ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ، فَقَالُوا: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، هَلَكْنَا عَطَشًا، تَقَطَّعَتِ الْأَعْنَاقُ، فَقَالَ: لَا هُلْكَ عَلَيْكُمْ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: يَا أَبَا قَتَادَةَ، ائْتِ بِالْمِيضَأَةِ، فَأَتَيْتُهُ بِهَا، فَقَالَ: احْلُلْ لِي غُمَرِي - يَعْنِي: قَدَحَهُ - فَحَلَلْتُهُ فَأَتَيْتُهُ بِهِ، فَجَعَلَ يَصُبُّ فِيهِ وَيَسْقِي النَّاسَ، فَازْدَحَمَ النَّاسُ عَلَيْهِ، فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ، أَحْسِنُوا الْمَلَأَ، فَكُلُّكُمْ سَيَصْدُرُ عَنْ رِيٍّ، فَشَرِبَ الْقَوْمُ حَتَّى لَمْ يَبْقَ غَيْرِي، وَغَيْرُ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فَصَبَّ لِي، فَقَالَ: اشْرَبْ يَا أَبَا قَتَادَةَ. قَالَ: قُلْتُ: اشْرَبْ أَنْتَ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، قَالَ: إِنَّ سَاقِيَ الْقَوْمِ آخِرُهُمْ، فَشَرِبْتُ وَشَرِبَ بَعْدِي، وَبَقِيَ فِي الْمِيضَأَةِ نَحْوٌ مِمَّا كَانَ فِيهَا، وَهُمْ يَوْمَئِذٍ ثَلَاثُ مِائَةٍ.
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Chain of narrators
- Yazīd b. Hārūn
- Ḥammād b. Salamah
- Thābit
- ʿAbdullāh b. Rabāḥ
- Abū Qatādah
✧ We were with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ on a journey. He said: 'If you do not reach water tomorrow, you will be thirsty.' The swift ones among the people set off, heading for the water, while I stayed close to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. His mount swayed, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ dozed off, so I supported him and he leaned on me. Then he swayed again, and I supported him and he leaned on me. Then he swayed again, and I supported him and he leaned on me, until he almost fell off his mount. I supported him and he woke up. He said: 'Who is the man?' I said: 'Abu Qatadah.' He said: 'Since when have you been traveling?' I said: 'Since last night.' He said: 'May Allah protect you as you have protected His Messenger.' Then he said: 'Let us halt for the night.' He turned toward a tree and dismounted. He said: 'Look, do you see anyone?' I said: 'Here is one rider; here are two riders' – until I counted seven. He said: 'Guard our prayer for us.' We slept, and nothing woke us but the heat of the sun. We woke up and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ mounted and traveled, and we traveled a short while. Then he dismounted and said: 'Do you have any water with you?' I said: 'Yes, I have a small water-skin with some water in it.' He said: 'Bring it.' I brought it to him. He said: 'Take from it; take from it.' The people performed ablution, and a sip remained. He said: 'Keep it carefully, O Abu Qatadah, for it will have a story.' Then Bilal gave the call to prayer, and they prayed the two rak'ahs before dawn, then they prayed the dawn prayer. Then he mounted and we mounted. Some of them said to one another: 'We have been negligent in our prayer.' The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: 'What are you saying? If it is a matter of your worldly affairs, that is your concern; but if it is a matter of your religion, then it is up to me.' We said: 'O Messenger of Allah, we have been negligent in our prayer.' He said: 'There is no negligence in sleep; negligence is only when one is awake. So when that happens, pray it, and the next day at its time.' Then he said: 'What do you think about the people?' They said: 'You said yesterday that if they did not reach water tomorrow, they would be thirsty. So the people are at the water.' He said: 'The people woke up and found their Prophet missing. Some of them said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ is at the water. Among the people were Abu Bakr and Umar. They said: O people, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ would not go ahead of you to the water and leave you behind. If the people obey Abu Bakr and Umar, they will be rightly guided.' He said this three times. When the midday heat became intense, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ appeared to them. They said: 'O Messenger of Allah, we are perishing of thirst; our necks are cut off.' He said: 'No destruction upon you.' Then he said: 'O Abu Qatadah, bring the water-skin.' I brought it to him. He said: 'Open my drinking cup for me' – meaning his bowl. I opened it and brought it to him. He began pouring into it and giving the people to drink. The people crowded around him. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: 'O people, be orderly in filling, for all of you will leave fully satisfied.' The people drank until none remained but me and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. He poured for me and said: 'Drink, O Abu Qatadah.' I said: 'You drink, O Messenger of Allah.' He said: 'The one who serves water to the people is the last of them to drink.' So I drank, and he drank after me, and there remained in the water-skin about as much as had been in it, and they were that day three hundred.
Notes
قَالَ عَبْدُ اللهِ فَسَمِعَنِي عِمْرَانُ بْنُ حُصَيْنٍ وَأَنَا أُحَدِّثُ هَذَا الْحَدِيثَ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ الْجَامِعِ فَقَالَ مَنِ الرَّجُلُ؟ قُلْتُ أَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ رَبَاحٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ قَالَ الْقَوْمُ أَعْلَمُ بِحَدِيثِهِمْ انْظُرْ كَيْفَ تُحَدِّثُ فَإِنِّي أَحَدُ السَّبْعَةِ تِلْكَ اللَّيْلَةَ فَلَمَّا فَرَغْتُ قَالَ مَا كُنْتُ أَحْسِبُ أَنَّ أَحَدًا يَحْفَظُ هَذَا الْحَدِيثَ غَيْرِي
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What scholars said about it
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- Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
صح
machine translationAuthentic (ṣaḥīḥ)
in مسند أحمد, p. 22923 - Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr
صحيح الإسناد
machine translationThe chain is sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-isnād).
in مسند أحمد, p. 22923 - Dāraquṭnī
ووهم فيه والصواب عن ثابت عن عبد الله بن رباح عن أبي قتادة
machine translationHe made an error (wahima) in it; the correct version is from Thābit, from ʿAbdullāh b. Rabāḥ, from Abū Qatādah.
in مسند أحمد, p. 22923
Other narrations of this report
Jami' at-Tirmidhi 414Sunan an-Nasa'i 1795Sunan Ibn Majah 1140
Narrators
- He took part in Uḥud and the battles after itd. al-Ḥasan b. ʿUthmān said: 40 AH, al-Wāqidī said: 54 AH, the people of Kufa reported that he died: 38 AH, al-Bukhārī mentioned him in al-Awsaṭ, among those who died between 50 AH and 60 AHأَبُو قَتَادَةَ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ فَارِسُ رَسُولِ اللهِشهد أحدا وما بعدهاعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. during the governorship of Ibn Ziyād, or around the year 90 AH, or around the year 95 AHعَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ رَبَاحٍثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 122 AH, or 123 AH, or 126 AH, or 127 AH, or 129 AHثَابِتٍثقة عابدعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid), the most reliable of people in narrating from Thābit; his memory changed towards the end of his lifed. 167 AH, or 165 AH.حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَثقه عابد ، أثبت الناس في ثابت ، وتغير حفظه بآخرهأخبرنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), devout (ʿābid).d. 206 AH.يَزِيدُ بْنُ هَارُونَثقة متقن عابد .حدثنا
- 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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