Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3254

Translation

"A man came to 'Abdullah and said: 'A story teller has said that a smoke will appear from the earth, taking the hearing of disbelievers and manifesting as a cold for the believers.'" He became angry, and since he was reclining, he sat up then said: 'When one of you is asked about something he knows, then let him speak accordingly' - Mansur (one of the narrators) narrated it as: "Then let him inform of it" - "And when asked about what he does not know, then let him say: "Allah knows best." For indeed, it is part of a man's knowledge, that when he is asked about something he does not know, he says: "Allah knows best." For verily Allah, Most High said to His Prophet: Say: "No wage do I ask of you for this, nor am I one of the pretenders (38:86)." When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ saw that the Quraish were behaving stubbornly with him, he said: "O Allah! Assist me against them with seven (years of famine) like the seven of Yusuf." So He punished them with drought making everything barren, until they ate skins and carcasses" - one of them said: "bones." He said: 'And it appeared that smoke was coming out of the earth. So Abu Sufyan came to him and said: "Verily your people are being destroyed, so supplicate to Allah for them." He said: "So this is about His saying: 'The Day when the sky will bring forth a visible smoke, covering the people, this is a painful torment (44:10 & 11).'" Mansur narrated it as: "So this is about His saying: Our Lord! Remove the torment from us, really we shall become believers (44:12)." - "So shall the punishment be removed from them in the Hereafter? Al-Batshah (humiliated defeat in Badr), Al-Lizam (disbeliever captives from Badr), the smoke," - one of them said: "The moon" the other said: "The Romans have all passed."

Notes

• فَأَخَذَتْهُمْ سَنَةٌ فَأَحْصَتْ كُلَّ شَيْءٍ حَتَّى أَكَلُوا الْجُلُودَ وَالْمَيْتَةَ وَقَالَ أَحَدُهُمَا الْعِظَامَ قَالَ وَجَعَلَ يَخْرُجُ مِنَ الأَرْضِ كَهَيْئَةِ الدُّخَانِ قَالَ فَأَتَاهُ أَبُو سُفْيَانَ قَالَ إِنَّ قَوْمَكَ قَدْ هَلَكُوا فَادْعُ اللَّهَ لَهُمْ. قَالَ فَهَذَا لِقَوْلِهِ: [quran sura="44" aya_start="10" aya_end="10"]( يوْمَ تَأْتِي السَّمَاءُ بِدُخَانٍ مُبِينٍ * يَغْشَى النَّاسَ هَذَا عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ )[/quran]. قَالَ مَنْصُورٌ هَذَا لِقَوْلِهِ [quran sura="44" aya_start="12" aya_end="12"]( رَبَّنَا اكْشِفْ عَنَّا الْعَذَابَ إِنَّا مُؤْمِنُونَ )[/quran] فَهَلْ يُكْشَفُ عَذَابُ الآخِرَةِ قَالَ مَضَى الْبَطْشَةُ وَاللِّزَامُ الدُّخَانُ وَقَالَ أَحَدُهُمَا الْقَمَرُ وَقَالَ الآخَرُ الرُّومُ. قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى وَاللِّزَامُ يَعْنِي يَوْمَ بَدْرٍ. قَالَ وَهَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ

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• al-Tirmidhi

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  in جامع الترمذي, p. 3575

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 4824Sahih Muslim 2798cSahih Ibn Hibban 6585Musnad al-Bazzar 1977Musnad al-Bazzar 1978al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 11166

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd

   One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمة
   يحدث عن
2. 2
   Masrūq b. al-Ajdaʿ

   trustworthy (thiqah), jurist, devout worshipper, mukhaḍramd. Abū Nuʿaym said: 62 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd and others said: 63 AH
   مَسْرُوقٍثقة فقيه عابد ، مخضرم
   يحدث عن
3. 3
   Muslim b. Ṣubayḥ al-Hamdānī

   trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil)d. Khalīfah said: died in the caliphate of ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, and al-Madāʾinī said: 82 AH
   أَبَا الضُّحَىثقة فاضل
   سمعا
4. 4
   Manṣūr b. al-Muʿtamir

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), and he did not commit tadlīs (lā yudallis)d. 132 AH, or 133 AH
   وَمَنْصُورٍثقة ثبت ، وكان لا يدلس
   عن
5. 5
   Shuʿbah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AH
   شُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقن
   حدثنا
6. 6
   ʿAbd al-Malik b. Ibrāhīm al-Juddī

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. 204 AH, or: 205 AH
   عَبْدُ الْمَلِكِ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الْجُدِّيُّصدوق
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Maḥmūd b. Ghaylān

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. al-Bukhārī and others said: 239 AH. Abū Rajāʾ Muḥammad b. Ḥamdawayh al-Marwazī said: 249 AH
   مَحْمُودُ بْنُ غَيْلَانَثقة
   حدثنا
8. 8
   al-Tirmidhī

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 279 AH, in Ikmāl al-Tahdhīb: 275 AH
   التِّرْمِذِيُّثقة حافظ

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