Sahih Muslim 537a

Translation

While I was praying with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, a man in the company sneezed. I said: Allah have mercy on you! The people stared at me with disapproving looks, so I said: Woe be upon me, why is it that you stare at me? They began to strike their hands on their thighs, and when I saw them urging me to observe silence (I became angry) but I said nothing. When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ had said the prayer (and I declare that neither before him nor after him have I seen a leader who gave better instruction than he for whom I would give my father and mother as ransom). I swear that he did not scold, beat or revile me but said: Talking to persons is not fitting during the prayer, for it consists of glorifying Allah, declaring his Greatness. and recitation of the Qur'an or words to that effect. I said: Messenger of Allah. I was till recently a pagan, but Allah has brought Islam to us; among us there are men who have recourse to Kahins. He said, Do not have recourse to them. I said. There are men who take omens. That is something which they find in their breasts, but let it not turn their way (from freedom of action). I said: Among us there are men who draw lines. He said: There was a prophet who drew lines, so if they do it as they did, that is allowable. I had a maid-servant who tended goats by the side of Uhud and Jawwaniya. One day I happened to pass that way and found that a wolf had carried a goat from her flock. I am after all a man from the posterity of Adam. I felt sorry as they (human beings) feel sorry. So I slapped her. I came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and felt (this act of mine) as something grievous I said: Messenger of Allah, should I not grant her freedom? He (the Holy Prophet) said: Bring her to me. So I brought her to him. He said to her: Where is Allah? She said: He is in the heaven. He said: Who am I? She said: Thou art the Messenger of Allah. He said: Grant her freedom, she is a believing woman.

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Same hadith, other wordings

• Bulughul Maram 218{ إِنَّ هَذِهِ اَلصَّلَاةَ لَا يَصْلُحُ فِيهَا شَيْءٌ مِنْ كَلَامِ اَلنَّاسِ, إِنَّمَا هُوَ اَلتَّسْبِيحُ, وَالتَّكْبِيرُ, وَقِرَاءَةُ اَلْقُرْآنِ }
• Misykatul Mashabih 978عَن مُعَاوِيَة ابْن الْحَكَمِ قَالَ: بَيْنَا أَنَا أُصَلِّي مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ إِذْ عَطَسَ رَجُلٌ مِنَ الْقَوْمِ فَقُلْتُ: يَرْحَمُكَ اللَّهُ. فَرَمَانِي الْقَوْم بِأَبْصَارِهِمْ. فَقلت: وَا ثكل أُمِّيَاه
• Sunan Abu Dawud 3909قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ وَمِنَّا رِجَالٌ يَخُطُّونَ قَالَ كَانَ نَبِيٌّ مِنَ الأَنْبِيَاءِ يَخُطُّ فَمَنْ وَافَقَ خَطَّهُ فَذَاكَ
• Misykatul Mashabih 4592عَن مُعَاوِيَة بن الحكم قَالَ: قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أُمُورًا كُنَّا نَصْنَعُهَا فِي الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ كُنَّا نَأْتِي الْكُهَّانَ قَالَ: «فَلَا تَأْتُوا الْكُهَّانَ» قَالَ: قُلْتُ: كُنَّا نَتَطَيَّرُ قَالَ: «ذَلِكَ شَيْءٌ يَجِدُهُ أَحَد
• Shahih Muslim 537cقُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أُمُورًا كُنَّا نَصْنَعُهَا فِي الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ كُنَّا نَأْتِي الْكُهَّانَ قَالَ فَلاَ تَأْتُوا الْكُهَّانَ قَالَ قُلْتُ كُنَّا نَتَطَيَّرُ قَالَ ذَاكَ شَىْءٌ يَجِدُهُ أَحَدُكُمْ فِي نَفْسِهِ فَلاَ يَصُدَّنَّكُمْ
• Shahih Muslim 537eقَالَ قُلْتُ وَمِنَّا رِجَالٌ يَخُطُّونَ قَالَ كَانَ نَبِيٌّ مِنَ الأَنْبِيَاءِ يَخُطُّ فَمَنْ وَافَقَ خَطُّهُ فَذَاكَ

Other narrations of this report

al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 18031al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 18032al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 16605al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 3403

Narrators

1. 1
   Muʿāwiyah b. al-Ḥakam al-Sulamī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. between 51 AH and 60 AH
   مُعَاوِيَة بْن الْحَكَم السُّلَمِيّصحابي
   عن
2. 2
   ʿAṭāʾ b. Yasār al-Hilālī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil), a man of admonitions and worship.d. 94 AH, or 97 AH, or 103 AH, or 104 AH
   عَطَاءِ بْنِ يَسَارٍثقة فاضل ، صاحب مواعظ وعبادة
   عن
3. 3
   Hilāl b. ʿAlī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 110-odd AH, or: at the end of the caliphate of Hishām b. ʿAbd al-Malik
   هِلَالِ بْنِ أَبِي مَيْمُونَةَثقة
   عن
4. 4
   Yaḥyá b. Abī Kathīr

   trustworthy and reliable (thiqah thabt), but he practiced tadlīs and irsāld. 129 AH or 130 AH or 132 AH
   يَحْيَى بْنِ أَبِي كَثِيرٍثقة ثبت ، لكنه يدلس ويرسل
   عن
5. 5
   al-Ḥajjāj b. Abī ʿUthmān

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 135 AH, or 143 AH, or 144 AH
   حَجَّاجٍ الصَّوَّافِثقة حافظ
   عن
6. 6
   Ismāʿīl

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 193 AH, or 194 AH
   إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَثقة حافظ
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Abū Bakr b. Abī Shaybah

   trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of works (ṣāḥib taṣānīf)d. 235 AH, or 234 AH
   ، وَأَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَثقة حافظ ، صاحب تصانيف
   حدثنا
8. 8
   Muslim

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam, an author of compilations, knowledgeable in jurisprudence (fiqh)d. Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb said: 261 AH, Makkī b. ʿAbdān said: 259 AH
   مُسْلِمٌثقة حافظ ، إمام ، مصنف ، عالم بالفقه

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.

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riyad 700riyad 1672Mishkat al-Masabih 978Mishkat al-Masabih 4592