Sahih al-Bukhari 4517
Surat al-Baqarah (The Cow)
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حَدَّثَنَا آدَمُ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ الأَصْبَهَانِيِّ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ مَعْقِلٍ قَالَ
قَعَدْتُ إِلَى كَعْبِ بْنِ عُجْرَةَ فِي هَذَا الْمَسْجِدِ يَعْنِي مَسْجِدَ الْكُوفَةِ فَسَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ فِدْيَةٌ مِنْ صِيَامٍ فَقَالَ حُمِلْتُ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ وَالْقَمْلُ يَتَنَاثَرُ عَلَى وَجْهِي فَقَالَ مَا كُنْتُ أُرَى أَنَّ الْجَهْدَ قَدْ بَلَغَ بِكَ هَذَا أَمَا تَجِدُ شَاةً قُلْتُ لاَ قَالَ صُمْ ثَلاَثَةَ أَيَّامٍ أَوْ أَطْعِمْ سِتَّةَ مَسَاكِينَ لِكُلِّ مِسْكِينٍ نِصْفُ صَاعٍ مِنْ طَعَامٍ وَاحْلِقْ رَأْسَكَ فَنَزَلَتْ فِيَّ خَاصَّةً وَهْىَ لَكُمْ عَامَّةً
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Ādam
- Shuʿbah
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. al-Aṣbahānī
- ʿAbdullāh b. Maʿqil
I sat with Kaʿb bin Ujra in this mosque, i.e. Kufa Mosque, and asked him about the meaning of: "Pay a ransom (i.e. Fidya) of either fasting or.... (2.196)" He said, "I was taken to the Prophet ﷺ while lice were falling on my face. The Prophet ﷺ said, 'I did not think that your trouble reached to such an extent. Can you afford to slaughter a sheep (as a ransom for shaving your head)?' I said, 'No.' He said, 'Then fast for three days, or feed six poor persons by giving half a Sa of food for each and shave your head.' So the above Verse was revealed especially for me and generally for all of you."
Notes
فَنَزَلَتْ فِيَّ خَاصَّةً وَهْىَ لَكُمْ عَامَّةً
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Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 18113Musnad Ahmad 18125Sahih Ibn Hibban 3979Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 2942al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 17310al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 9185
Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. 51 AH, or 52 AH, also said: 53 AHكَعْب بْن عُجْرَةصحابي مشهورقال
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 88 AH, also said: 83 AHعَبْدَ اللهِ بْنَ مَعْقِلٍثقةسمعت
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. during the governorship of Khālid al-Qasrī over Iraqعَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ الْأَصْبَهَانِيِّثقةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AHشُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقنحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 220 AH, also said: 221 AHآدَمُثقة عابدحدثنا
- a mountain of memorization and the leader of the world in the comprehension of hadith (jabal al-ḥifẓ wa-imām al-dunyā fī fiqh al-ḥadīth)d. 256 AHالْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث
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Commentaries
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)
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