37. Words
سَمِعْتُ ابْنَ عُمَرَ يَقُولُ قَدِمَ رَجُلاَنِ مِنَ الْمَشْرِقِ خَطِيبَانِ عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فَقَامَا فَتَكَلَّمَا ثُمَّ قَعَدَا وَقَامَ ثَابِتُ بْنُ قَيْسٍ خَطِيبُ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فَتَكَلَّمَ فَعَجِبَ النَّاسُ مِنْ كَلاَمِهِمَا فَقَامَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ يَخْطُبُ فَقَالَ يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ قُولُوا قَوْلَكُمْ فَإِنَّمَا تَشْقِيقُ الْكَلاَمِ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ ثُمَّ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ إِنَّ مِنَ الْبَيَانِ سِحْرًا
✧ I heard Ibn ʿUmar say: Two men from the east came as orators during the time of the Messenger of God ﷺ. They stood and spoke, then sat down. Then Thābit b. Qays, the orator of the Messenger of God ﷺ, stood and spoke. The people marveled at the speech of the two men. Then the Messenger of God ﷺ stood to deliver a sermon and said: “O people, say what you have to say, for excessive elaboration of speech is from Satan.” Then the Messenger of God ﷺ said: “Indeed, some eloquence is sorcery.”
أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ أَنَسًا يَقُولُ خَطَبَ رَجُلٌ عِنْدَ عُمَرَ فَأَكْثَرَ الْكَلاَمَ فَقَالَ عُمَرُ إِنَّ كَثْرَةَ الْكَلاَمِ فِي الْخُطَبِ مِنْ شَقَاشِقِ الشَّيْطَانِ
✧ He heard Anas say: A man delivered a speech in the presence of ʿUmar and spoke at great length. ʿUmar said: “Indeed, excessive speech in sermons is from the drivel of Satan.”
أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ اجْتَمِعُوا فِي مَسَاجِدِكُمْ وَكُلَّمَا اجْتَمَعَ قَوْمٌ فَلْيُؤْذِنُونِي فَأَتَانَا أَوَّلَ مَنْ أَتَى فَجَلَسَ فَتَكَلَّمَ مُتَكَلِّمٌ مِنَّا ثُمَّ قَالَ إِنَّ الْحَمْدَ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي لَيْسَ لِلْحَمْدِ دُونَهُ مَقْصَدٌ وَلاَ وَرَاءَهُ مَنْفَذٌ فَغَضِبَ فَقَامَ فَتَلاَوَمْنَا بَيْنَنَا فَقُلْنَا أَتَانَا أَوَّلَ مَنْ أَتَى فَذَهَبَ إِلَى مَسْجِدٍ آخَرَ فَجَلَسَ فِيهِ فَأَتَيْنَاهُ فَكَلَّمْنَاهُ فَجَاءَ مَعَنَا فَقَعَدَ فِي مَجْلِسِهِ أَوْ قَرِيبًا مِنْ مَجْلِسِهِ ثُمَّ قَالَ الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي مَا شَاءَ جَعَلَ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ وَمَا شَاءَ جَعَلَ خَلْفَهُ وَإِنَّ مِنَ الْبَيَانِ سِحْرًا ثُمَّ أَمَرَنَا وَعَلَّمَنَا
✧ The Prophet ﷺ said: “Gather in your mosques, and whenever a group gathers, let them inform me.” The first of those who came came to us and sat down. A speaker among us spoke, then said: “Praise be to God, besides whom praise has no goal and beyond whom there is no passage.” He became angry and left. We blamed one another among ourselves and said: “The first of those who came came to us, but he went to another mosque and sat in it.” So we went to him and spoke to him, and he came back with us and sat in his place—or near his place. Then he said: “Praise be to God, who places whatever He wills before Him and whatever He wills behind Him. Indeed, some eloquence is sorcery.” Then he commanded us and taught us.
قَالَتْ عَائِشَةُ أَرِقَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ ذَاتَ لَيْلَةٍ فَقَالَ لَيْتَ رَجُلاً صَالِحًا مِنْ أَصْحَابِي يَجِيئُنِي فَيَحْرُسَنِي اللَّيْلَةَ إِذْ سَمِعْنَا صَوْتَ السِّلاَحِ فَقَالَ مَنْ هَذَا؟ قَالَ سَعْدٌ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ جِئْتُ أَحْرُسُكَ فَنَامَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ حَتَّى سَمِعْنَا غَطِيطَهُ
✧ ʿĀʾisha said: One night the Prophet ﷺ had insomnia and said: “Would that a righteous man from my Companions would come to me and guard me tonight.” Just then we heard the sound of a weapon. He said: “Who is this?” He replied: “Saʿd, O Messenger of God. I have come to guard you.” So the Prophet ﷺ slept until we heard his snoring.
سَمِعْتُ أَنَسَ بْنَ مَالِكٍ يَقُولُ كَانَ فَزَعٌ بِالْمَدِينَةِ فَاسْتَعَارَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ فَرَسًا لأَبِي طَلْحَةَ يُقَالُ لَهُ الْمَنْدُوبُ فَرَكِبَهُ فَلَمَّا رَجَعَ قَالَ مَا رَأَيْنَا مِنْ شَيْءٍ وَإِنْ وَجَدْنَاهُ لَبَحْرًا
✧ I heard Anas b. Mālik say: There was a fright in Madinah. The Prophet ﷺ borrowed a horse belonging to Abū Ṭalḥa, called al-Mandūb, and rode it. When he returned, he said: “We saw nothing, but we found it to be a sea.”
عَنْ نَافِعٍ قَالَ كَانَ ابْنُ عُمَرَ يَضْرِبُ وَلَدَهُ عَلَى اللَّحْنِ
✧ From Nāfiʿ: Ibn ʿUmar used to beat his son for grammatical errors.
فَقَالَ عُمَرُ سُوءُ اللَّحْنِ أَشَدُّ مِنْ سُوءِ الرَّمْيِ
'Abdu'r-Rahman ibn 'Ajlan said, "'Umar ibn al-Khattab, may Allah be pleased with him, passed by two men who were shooting. One man said to another, 'Do hit it (using the letter seen instead of saad).' 'Umar observed, 'A bad grammatical mistake is worse than a bad shot.'"
قَالَتْ عَائِشَةُ زَوْجُ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ سَأَلَ نَاسٌ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ عَنِ الْكُهَّانِ فَقَالَ لَهُمْ لَيْسُوا بِشَيْءٍ فَقَالُوا يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ فَإِنَّهُمْ يُحَدِّثُونَ بِالشَّيْءِ يَكُونُ حَقًّا؟ فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ تِلْكَ الْكَلِمَةُ مِنَ الْحَقِّ يَخْطَفُهَا الشَّيْطَانُ فَيُقَرْقِرُهُ بِأُذُنَيْ وَلِيِّهِ كَقَرْقَرَةِ الدَّجَاجَةِ فَيَخْلِطُونَ فِيهَا بِأَكْثَرَ مِنْ مِئَةِ كِذْبَةٍ
✧ ʿĀʾisha, the wife of the Prophet ﷺ, said: Some people asked the Prophet ﷺ about soothsayers. He said to them: “They are nothing.” They said: “O Messenger of God, they sometimes speak of something that comes true.” The Prophet ﷺ said: “That word of truth is snatched by a jinn, who cackles it into the ear of his ally like the cackling of a hen, and they mix it with more than a hundred lies.”
عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ كَانَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ فِي مَسِيرٍ لَهُ فَحَدَا الْحَادِي فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ ارْفُقْ يَا أَنْجَشَةُ وَيْحَكَ بِالْقَوَارِيرِ
✧ From Anas b. Mālik who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was on one of his journeys. The camel-driver began to chant, so the Prophet ﷺ said: "Be gentle, O Anjasha, woe to you, with the glass vessels."
أَنْ يُحَدِّثَ بِكُلِّ مَا سَمِعَ
✧ That one narrates everything he hears.
عَنِ الْكَذِبِ
✧ About lying.
عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِ قَالَ عَجِبْتُ مِنَ الرَّجُلِ يَفِرُّ مِنَ الْقَدَرِ وَهُوَ مُوَاقِعُهُ وَيَرَى الْقَذَاةَ فِي عَيْنِ أَخِيهِ وَيَدَعُ الْجِذْعَ فِي عَيْنِهِ وَيُخْرِجُ الضَّغْنَ مِنْ نَفْسِ أَخِيهِ وَيَدَعُ الضَّغْنَ فِي نَفْسِهِ وَمَا وَضَعْتُ سِرِّي عِنْدَ أَحَدٍ فَلُمْتُهُ عَلَى إِفْشَائِهِ وَكَيْفَ أَلُومُهُ وَقَدْ ضِقْتُ بِهِ ذَرْعًا؟
✧ From ʿAmr b. al-ʿĀṣ who said: I am amazed at a man who flees from fate when it is about to befall him, yet he sees the speck in his brother's eye and leaves the log in his own. He removes rancor from his brother's soul while leaving rancor in his own. I have never confided a secret to anyone and then blamed him for divulging it. How could I blame him when I myself found it too burdensome to bear?
عَنْ عَائِشَةَ ؓ قَالَتْ مَرَّ رَجُلٌ مُصَابٌ عَلَى نِسْوَةٍ فَتَضَاحَكْنَ بِهِ يَسْخَرْنَ فَأُصِيبَ بَعْضُهُنَّ
'A'isha said, "A man suffering from an affliction passed by some women and they laughed together, mocking him, and so one of them got that same affliction."