Sahih al-Bukhari 6140
Anger and impatience before a guest
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حَدَّثَنَا عَيَّاشُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الأَعْلَى حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيدٌ الْجُرَيْرِيُّ عَنْ أَبِي عُثْمَانَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي بَكْرٍ ؓ
أَنَّ أَبَا بَكْرٍ تَضَيَّفَ رَهْطًا فَقَالَ لِعَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ دُونَكَ أَضْيَافَكَ فَإِنِّي مُنْطَلِقٌ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ فَافْرُغْ مِنْ قِرَاهُمْ قَبْلَ أَنْ أَجِيءَ فَانْطَلَقَ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ فَأَتَاهُمْ بِمَا عِنْدَهُ فَقَالَ اطْعَمُوا فَقَالُوا أَيْنَ رَبُّ مَنْزِلِنَا قَالَ اطْعَمُوا قَالُوا مَا نَحْنُ بِآكِلِينَ حَتَّى يَجِيءَ رَبُّ مَنْزِلِنَا قَالَ اقْبَلُوا عَنَّا قِرَاكُمْ فَإِنَّهُ إِنْ جَاءَ وَلَمْ تَطْعَمُوا لَنَلْقَيَنَّ مِنْهُ فَأَبَوْا فَعَرَفْتُ أَنَّهُ يَجِدُ عَلَىَّ فَلَمَّا جَاءَ تَنَحَّيْتُ عَنْهُ فَقَالَ مَا صَنَعْتُمْ فَأَخْبَرُوهُ فَقَالَ يَا عَبْدَ الرَّحْمَنِ فَسَكَتُّ ثُمَّ قَالَ يَا عَبْدَ الرَّحْمَنِ فَسَكَتُّ فَقَالَ يَا غُنْثَرُ أَقْسَمْتُ عَلَيْكَ إِنْ كُنْتَ تَسْمَعُ صَوْتِي لَمَّا جِئْتَ فَخَرَجْتُ فَقُلْتُ سَلْ أَضْيَافَكَ فَقَالُوا صَدَقَ أَتَانَا بِهِ قَالَ فَإِنَّمَا انْتَظَرْتُمُونِي وَاللَّهِ لاَ أَطْعَمُهُ اللَّيْلَةَ فَقَالَ الآخَرُونَ وَاللَّهِ لاَ نَطْعَمُهُ حَتَّى تَطْعَمَهُ قَالَ لَمْ أَرَ فِي الشَّرِّ كَاللَّيْلَةِ وَيْلَكُمْ مَا أَنْتُمْ لِمَ لاَ تَقْبَلُونَ عَنَّا قِرَاكُمْ هَاتِ طَعَامَكَ فَجَاءَهُ فَوَضَعَ يَدَهُ فَقَالَ بِاسْمِ اللَّهِ الأُولَى لِلشَّيْطَانِ فَأَكَلَ وَأَكَلُوا
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Chain of narrators
- ʿAyyāsh b. al-Walīd
- ʿAbd al-Aʿlá
- Saʿīd al-Jurayrī
- Abū ʿUthmān
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Abū Bakr
Abu Bakr invited a group of people and told me, "Look after your guests." Abu Bakr added, I am going to visit the Prophet ﷺ and you should finish serving them before I return." ʿAbdur-Rahman said, So I went at once and served them with what was available at that time in the house and requested them to eat." They said, "Where is the owner of the house (i.e., Abu Bakr)?" ʿAbdur-Rahman said, "Take your meal." They said, "We will not eat till the owner of the house comes." ʿAbdur-Rahman said, "Accept your meal from us, for if my father comes and finds you not having taken your meal yet, we will be blamed severely by him, but they refused to take their meals. So I was sure that my father would be angry with me. When he came, I went away (to hide myself) from him. He asked, "What have you done (about the guests)?" They informed him the whole story. Abu Bakr called, "O ʿAbdur Rahman!" I kept quiet. He then called again. "O ʿAbdur-Rahman!" I kept quiet and he called again, "O ignorant (boy)! I beseech you by Allah, if you hear my voice, then come out!" I came out and said, "Please ask your guests (and do not be angry with me)." They said, "He has told the truth; he brought the meal to us." He said, "As you have been waiting for me, by Allah, I will not eat of it tonight." They said, "By Allah, we will not eat of it till you eat of it." He said, I have never seen a night like this night in evil. What is wrong with you? Why don't you accept your meals of hospitality from us?" (He said to me), "Bring your meal." I brought it to him, and he put his hand in it, saying, "In the name of Allah. The first (state of fury) was because of Satan." So Abu Bakr ate and so did his guests.
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Narrators
- Successor (Caliph) of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ (khalīfat rasūl Allāh ﷺ)d. 13 AHأَبُو بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقُخليفة رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلمأن
- embraced Islam late, shortly before the Conquest; took part in al-Yamāmah and the conquestsd. 53 AH, or: 54 AH, or: 55 AH, or: 56 AH, or: 58 AHعَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي بَكْرٍتأخر إسلامه إلى قبيل الفتح ، وشهد اليمامة والفتوحعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), devout (ʿābid)d. 75 AH, or 81 AH, or 95 AH, or 100 AH, or shortly after it, also said: after the year 95 AHأَبِي عُثْمَانَثقة ثبت عابدعن
- trustworthy (thiqah); his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) three years before his deathd. 144 AHسَعِيدٌ الْجُرَيْرِيُّثقة ، اختلط قبل موته بثلاث سنينحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 184 AH, or: 187 AH, or: 189 AHعَبْدُ الْأَعْلَىثقةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 226 AHعَيَّاشُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِثقةحدثنا
- 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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