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Sahih al-Bukhari 7363

“Do not ask the people of the Scripture about anything.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ أَخْبَرَنَا ابْنُ شِهَابٍ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ أَنَّ ابْنَ عَبَّاسٍ ؓ قَالَ

كَيْفَ تَسْأَلُونَ أَهْلَ الْكِتَابِ عَنْ شَىْءٍ، وَكِتَابُكُمُ الَّذِي أُنْزِلَ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَحْدَثُ، تَقْرَءُونَهُ مَحْضًا لَمْ يُشَبْ، وَقَدْ حَدَّثَكُمْ أَنَّ أَهْلَ الْكِتَابِ بَدَّلُوا كِتَابَ اللَّهِ وَغَيَّرُوهُ، وَكَتَبُوا بِأَيْدِيهِمُ الْكِتَابَ، وَقَالُوا: هُوَ مِنْ عِنْدِ اللَّهِ لِيَشْتَرُوا بِهِ ثَمَنًا قَلِيلاً، أَلاَ يَنْهَاكُمْ مَا جَاءَكُمْ مِنَ الْعِلْمِ عَنْ مَسْأَلَتِهِمْ؟ لاَ وَاللَّهِ، مَا رَأَيْنَا مِنْهُمْ رَجُلاً يَسْأَلُكُمْ عَنِ الَّذِي أُنْزِلَ عَلَيْكُمْ.

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Mūsá b. Ismāʿīl
  2. Ibrāhīm
  3. Ibn Shihāb
  4. ʿUbaydullāh
  5. Ibn ʿAbbās

How can you ask the People of the Book about anything, while your Book, which was revealed to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, is the most recent? You recite it pure, unmixed, and it has informed you that the People of the Book altered the Book of Allah and changed it, wrote the book with their own hands, and said, "It is from Allah," so as to sell it for a small price. Does the knowledge that has come to you not forbid you from asking them? No, by Allah; we have not seen a single man among them ask you about that which was revealed to you.

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  1. 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 AH
    عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابة
    أن
  2. trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), firmly reliable (thabt)d. al-Bukhārī said: died before ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn, 94 AH or 95 AH, and Ibn Numayr said, and others: died 98 AH, Ibn al-Madīnī said: 99 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said: that ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn died 92 AH
    عُبَيْدِ اللهِثقة فقيه ثبت
    عن
  3. The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AH
    ابْنُ شِهَابٍالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبته
    أخبرنا
  4. Trustworthy (thiqah) and an authority (ḥujjah); he was spoken about without any valid ground for criticism.d. 182 AH, or 183 AH, or 184 AH, or 185 AH
    إِبْرَاهِيمُثقة حجة ، تُكُلِّم فيه بلا قادح
    حدثنا
  5. trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 223 AH, or 226 AH
    مُوسَى بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَثقة ثبت
    حدثنا
  6. 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 AH
    الْبُخَارِيُّجبل 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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