Musnad Ahmad 2471
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حَدَّثَنَا حُسَيْنٌ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْحَمِيدِ بْنُ بَهْرَامَ عَنْ شَهْرِ بْنِ حَوْشَبٍ قَالَ قَالَ عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍ
حَضَرَتْ عِصَابَةٌ مِنَ الْيَهُودِ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ، فَقَالُوا: «يَا أَبَا الْقَاسِمِ، حَدِّثْنَا عَنْ خِلَالٍ نَسْأَلُكَ عَنْهَا لَا يَعْلَمُهُنَّ إِلَّا نَبِيٌّ». فَكَانَ فِيمَا سَأَلُوهُ: «أَيُّ الطَّعَامِ حَرَّمَ إِسْرَائِيلُ عَلَى نَفْسِهِ قَبْلَ أَنْ تُنَزَّلَ التَّوْرَاةُ؟» قَالَ: «فَأَنْشُدُكُمْ بِاللهِ الَّذِي أَنْزَلَ التَّوْرَاةَ عَلَى مُوسَى، هَلْ تَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّ إِسْرَائِيلَ يَعْقُوبَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ مَرِضَ مَرَضًا شَدِيدًا، فَطَالَ سَقَمُهُ، فَنَذَرَ لِلهِ نَذْرًا لَئِنْ شَفَاهُ اللهُ مِنْ سَقَمِهِ لَيُحَرِّمَنَّ أَحَبَّ الشَّرَابِ إِلَيْهِ وَأَحَبَّ الطَّعَامِ إِلَيْهِ؟ فَكَانَ أَحَبَّ الطَّعَامِ إِلَيْهِ لُحْمَانُ الْإِبِلِ، وَأَحَبَّ الشَّرَابِ إِلَيْهِ أَلْبَانُهَا؟» فَقَالُوا: «اللَّهُمَّ نَعَمْ».
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Ḥusayn
- ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. Bahrām
- Shahr b. Ḥawshab
- ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbbās
A group of Jews came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and said, “O Abu al-Qasim, tell us about certain matters we will ask you about, which none but a prophet knows.” Among the things they asked him was, “What food did Israel forbid himself before the Torah was revealed?” He said, “I adjure you by Allah, who sent down the Torah to Moses: Do you know that Israel—Jacob, ﷺ —became gravely ill and his illness lasted a long time, so he made a vow to Allah that if Allah cured him of his illness, he would forbid himself his favorite drink and his favorite food? His favorite food was camel meat, and his favorite drink was camel milk.” They said, “O Allah, yes.”
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What scholars said about it
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- Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
هذه طرق يقوي بعضها بعضا يعني طريق شهر عن ابن عباس وغيره يدل على أن سبب نزول الآية قول اليهودي المذكور لا قصة عبد الله بن سلام
machine translationThese are routes that strengthen one another, meaning the route of Shahr from Ibn ʿAbbās and others. They indicate that the reason for the revelation of the verse was the statement of the aforementioned Jew, not the story of ʿAbdullāh b. Salām.
in مسند أحمد, p. 2492
Narrators
- One of the Companions who narrated most prolifically (mukthirūn).d. 65 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, also said: 69 AH, also said: 70 AH; also said: 73 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابةقال
- Truthful (ṣadūq), frequently narrated mursal reports (kathīr al-irsāl) and made many errors (awhām)d. 98 AH, or 99 AH, or 100 AH, or 101 AH, or 111 AH, or 112 AHشَهْرِ بْنِ حَوْشَبٍصدوق , كثير الإرسال والأوهامعن
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 160-odd AHعَبْدُ الْحَمِيدِ بْنُ بَهْرَامَصدوقحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 213, or a year or two after itحُسَيْنٌثقةحدثنا
- 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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