Sahih Muslim (Volume 2)

With the Full Commentary by Imam Nawawi

Abul-Husain Muslim, Adil Salahi

• Publisher: The Islamic Foundation
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9780860376095
• eBook ISBN: 9780860377672
• Topic: Teologia e religione
• Subtopic: Teologia islamica

Imam Nawawi's commentary on Sahih Muslim is one of the most highly regarded works in Islamic thought and literature.

Accepted by every sunni school of thought, and foundational in the Shaafi school, this text, available for the first time in English, is famed throughout the Muslim world.

After the Qur'an, the prophetic traditions are the most recognised source of wisdom in Islam. Amongst the collected Hadith, Sahih Muslim is second only to the the collection of Imam Bukhari.

With a commentary by Imam Nawawi, whose other works are amongst the most widely-read books on Islam, and translated by Adil Salahi, a modern scholar of great acclaim, this immense work, finally available to English readers, is an essential addition to every Muslim library, and for anybody with an interest in Islamic thought.

CHAPTER ⁱ

THE HADITH ON INTERCESSION

[345–322]. (Dar al-Salam 0373) Abu Kamil Fudayl ibn Husayn al-Jahdari and Muhammad ibn [Ubayd al-Gubari narratedⁱⁱ (and this is Abu Kamil’s text). They said: Abu [Awanah narrated; from Qatadah; from Anas ibn Malik: ‘God’s Messenger (peace be upon him) said: “God gathers people on the Day of Judgement and they are eager for it, (Ibn uUbayd said: ‘and they are inspired by it’). They will say: ‘Perhaps we should seek intercession with our Lord so that He will relieve us of this position of ours’. They will go to Adam (peace be upon him) and say: ‘Adam, you are the father of all mankind. God created you with His own hand and blew of His spirit in you. He ordered the angels and they prostrated themselves before you. Intercede with your Lord on our behalf so that He will relieve us of this position of ours’. He will say: ‘I am not fit for that’. He remembers the mistake he committed and he is too ashamed of it before his Lord. He says: ‘Go to Noah, the first messenger God sent’. They go to Noah (peace be upon him) and he says: ‘I am not fit for that’. He remembers the mistake he committed and he is too ashamed of it before his Lord. He says: ‘Go to Abraham (peace be upon him) whom God made His friend’. They go to Abraham (peace be upon him) but he says: ‘I am not fit for that’. He remembers the mistake he committed and he is too ashamed of it before his Lord. He says: ‘Go to Moses. He was the one to whom God spoke directly and He gave him the Torah’. They go to Moses (peace be upon him) but he says: ‘I am not fit for that’. He remembers the mistake he committed and he is too ashamed of it before his Lord. He says: ‘Go to Jesus: He is God’s spirit and His word’. They go to Jesus: God’s spirit and His word, but he says: ‘I am not fit for that, but go to Muhammad: God’s servant who has had his earlier and later sins forgiven’.”

‘God’s Messenger (peace be upon him) added: “They come to me. I seek permission to see my Lord and I am granted permission. When I see Him, I prostrate myself. He leaves me [in this position] as He wills. Then I am told: ‘Muhammad, lift your head. Say and you will be heard; request and your request will be granted; intercede and your intercession will be accepted’. I lift my head and I praise my Lord with praises He teaches me. I then make my intercession. He will give me a certain limit and I bring those [before it] from the Fire and take them to Heaven. I go back and prostrate myself. He leaves me [in this position] as He wills. Then I am told: ‘Muhammad, lift your head. Speak and you will be heard; request and your request will be granted; intercede and your intercession will be accepted’. I lift my head and I praise my Lord with praises He teaches me. I then make my intercession. He will give me a certain limit and I bring those [within the limit] out of the Fire and take them to Heaven. (The narrator said: I am not sure whether at the third or fourth time the Prophet says): I will say: ‘My Lord, none remains in the Fire except those detained there by the Qur’an, which means those condemned to perpetual stay’”.’ (Ibn uUbayd said in his narration: Qatudah said: which means those condemned to abide.)

حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو كَامِلٍ، فُضَيْلُ بْنُ حُسَيْنٍ الْجَحْدَرِيُّ وَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ الْغُبَرِيُّ، وَاللَّفْظُ لأَبِي كَامِلٍ، قَالاَ: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَوَانَةَ، عَنْ قَتَادَةَ، عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «يَجْمَعُ اللهُ النَّاسَ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ فَيَهْتَمُّونَ لِذَلِكَ. وَقَالَ ابْنُ عُبَيْدٍ فَيُلْهَمُونَ لِذَلِكَ. فَيَقُولُونَ: لَوِ اسْتَشْفَعْنَا عَلَى رَبِّنَا حَتَّى يُرِيحَنَا مِنْ مَكَانِنَا هَذَا. قَالَ: فَيَأْتُونَ آدَمَ، عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَمُ ، فَيَقُولُونَ: أَنْتَ آدَمُ أَبُو الْخَلْقِ: خَلَقَكَ اللهُ بِيَدِهِ، وَنَفَخَ فِيكَ مِنْ رُوحِهِ، وَأَمَرَ الْـمَلاَئِكَةَ فَسَجَدُوا لَكَ. اشْفَعْ لَنَا عِنْدَ رَبِّكَ حَتَّى يُرِيحَنَا مِنْ مَكَانِنَا هَذَا. فَيَقُولُ: لَسْتُ هُنَاكُمْ. فَيَذْكُرُ خَطِيئَتَهُ الَّتِي أَصَابَ فَيَسْتَحْيِي رَبَّهُ مِنْهَا. وَلَكِنِ ائْتُوا نُوحًا، أَوَّلَ رَسُولٍ بَعَثَهُ اللهُ. قَالَ فَيَأْتُونَ نُوحًا، عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَمُ ، فَيَقُولُ: لَسْتُ هُنَاكُمْ. فَيَذْكُرُ خَطِيئَتَهُ الَّتِي أَصَابَ فَيَسْتَحْيِي رَبَّهُ مِنْهَا. وَلَكِنِ ائْتُوا إِبْرَاهِيمَ، عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَمُ ، الَّذِي اتَّخَذَهُ اللهُ خَلِيلاً. فَيَأْتُونَ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَمُ ، فَيَقُولُ لَسْتُ هُنَاكُمْ. وَيَذْكُرُ خَطِيئَتَهُ الَّتِي أَصَابَ فَيَسْتَحْيِي رَبَّهُ مِنْهَا. وَلَكِنِ ائْتُوا مُوسَى، عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَمُ ، الَّذِي كَلَّمَهُ اللهُ وَأَعْطَاهُ التَّوْرَاةَ. قَالَ: فَيَأْتُونَ مُوسَى، عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَمُ، فَيَقُولُ: لَسْتُ هُنَاكُمْ وَيَذْكُرُ خَطِيئَتَهُ الَّتِي أَصَابَ فَيَسْتَحْيِي رَبَّهُ مِنْهَا. وَلَكِنِ ائْتُوا عِيسَى رُوحَ اللهِ وَكَلِمَتَهُ. فَيَأْتُونَ عِيسَى، رُوحَ اللهِ وَكَلِمَتَهُ، فَيَقُولُ: لَسْتُ هُنَاكُمْ. وَلَكِنِ ائْتُوا مُحَمَّدًا، صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، عَبْدًا قَدْ غُفِرَ لَهُ مَا تَقَدَّمَ مِنْ ذَنْبِهِ وَمَا تَأَخَّر». قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «فَيَأْتُونِي، فَأَسْتَأْذِنُ عَلَى رَبِّي، فَيُؤْذَنُ لِي. فَإِذَا أَنَا رَأَيْتُهُ وَقَعْتُ سَاجِدًا. فَيَدَعُنِي مَا شَاءَ اللهُ. فَيُقَالُ: يَا مُحَمَّدُ، ارْفَعْ رَأْسَكَ. قُلْ تُسْمَعْ، سَلْ تُعْطَهْ، اشْفَعْ تُشَفَّعْ. فَأَرْفَعُ رَأْسِي، فَأَحْمَدُ رَبِّي بِتَحْمِيدٍ يُعَلِّمُنِيهِ رَبِّي. ثُمَّ أَشْفَعُ فَيَحُدُّ لِي حَدًّا، فَأُخْرِجُهُمْ مِنَ النَّارِ وَأُدْخِلُهُمُ الْجَنَّةَ. ثُمَّ أَعُودُ فَأَقَعُ سَاجِدًا، فَيَدَعُنِي مَا شَاءَ اللهُ أَنْ يَدَعَنِي. ثُمَّ يُقَالُ: ارْفَعْ رَأْسَكَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ. قُلْ تُسْمَعْ، سَلْ تُعْطَهْ، اشْفَعْ تُشَفَّعْ. فَأَرْفَعُ رَأْسِي، فَأَحْمَدُ رَبِّي بِتَحْمِيدٍ يُعَلِّمُنِيهِ. ثُمَّ أَشْفَعُ فَيَحُدُّ لِي حَدًّا، فَأُخْرِجُهُمْ مِنَ النَّارِ وَأُدْخِلُهُمُ الْجَنَّةَ. قَالَ: فَلاَ أَدْرِي فِي الثَّالِثَةِ أَوْ فِي الرَّابِعَةِ قَالَ، فَأَقُولُ: يَا رَبِّ مَا بَقِيَ فِي النَّارِ إِلاَّ مَنْ حَبَسَهُ الْقُرْآنُ، أَىْ وَجَبَ عَلَيْهِ الْخُلُودُ». - قَالَ ابْنُ عُبَيْدٍ فِي رِوَايَتِهِ قَالَ قَتَادَةُ أَىْ وَجَبَ عَلَيْهِ الْخُلُودُ.

[346–323]. (Dar al-Salam 0374) Muhammad ibn al-Muthanna and Muhammad ibn Bashshar narrated:ⁱ Ibn Abi [Adi narrated; from Sa[id; from Qatadah; from Anas: ‘God’s Messenger (peace be upon him) said: “God gathers people on the Day of Judgement and they are eager for it, (or they are inspired by it) …” the same as Abu uAwunah’s narration. However, he said in the hadith: “I come the fourth time (or I return for the fourth time) and I say: ‘My Lord, none remains except those detained by the Qur’an’”.’

وَحَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْـمُثَنَّى، وَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ، قَالا: حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي عَدِيٍّ، عَنْ سَعِيدٍ، عَنْ قَتَادَةَ، عَنْ أَنَسٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «يَجْتَمِعُ الْـمُؤْمِنُونَ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ فَيَهْتَمُّونَ بِذَلِكَ أَوْ يُلْهَمُونَ ذَلِكَ». بِمِثْلِ حَدِيثِ أَبِي عَوَانَةَ. وَقَالَ فِي الْحَدِيثِ « ثُمَّ آتِيهِ الرَّابِعَةَ، أَوْ أَعُودُ الرَّابِعَةَ، فَأَقُولُ: يَا رَبِّ مَا بَقِيَ إِلاَّ مَنْ حَبَسَهُ الْقُرْآنُ».

[347–324]. (Dar al-Salam 0375) Muhammad ibn al-Muthanna narrated:ⁱⁱ Mu[adh ibn Hisham narrated; my father narrated to me; from Qatadah; from Anas ibn Malik: ‘God’s Messenger (peace be upon him) said: “God gathers people on the Day of Judgement and they are eager for it …” the same as their narration. However, he mentions that in the fourth time, “I say: ‘My Lord, none remains except those detained by the Qur’an, which means the ones condemned to abide’”.’

حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْـمُثَنَّى، حَدَّثَنَا مُعَاذُ بْنُ هِشَامٍ، قَالَ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Transliteration Table
• Preface
• Before You Read
• The Book of Faith
• Chapter 21: Forbidding what Is Wrong Is Part of Faith; Faith May Increase or Decrease; to Enjoin What Is Right and Forbid What Is Wrong are Duties
• Chapter 22: People of Faith Vary, but the People of Yemen have a Higher Grade
• Chapter 23: None Other Than Believers Enter Heaven; To Love Believers Is Part of Faith; Spreading the Greeting of Peace Is a Cause of Such Love
• Chapter 24: Religion is Sincerity
• Chapter 25: Faith Is Diminished by Indulging in Sin; Its Negation at the Time of Committing Sin, so as to Say It Becomes Imperfect
• Chapter 26: A Hypocrite’s Characteristics
• Chapter 27: The Status of One Who Says to His Muslim Brother: You Are an Unbeliever
• Chapter 28: The Status of One Who Knowingly Dissociates Himself from His Father
• Chapter 29: On the Prophet’s Words: To Revile a Muslim Is Transgression and to Fight Him Is Disbelief
• Chapter 30: The Prophet’s Warning: ‘Do not Relapse into Disbelief After I Am Gone, Striking Each Other’s Necks’
• Chapter 31: To Describe Someone’s Ancestry as False and Lamentation are Acts of Disbelief
• Chapter 32: Calling a Fleeing Slave an Unbeliever
• Chapter 33: An Unbeliever Is He Who Says: ‘We Have Had Rain by a Climatic Cycle’
• Chapter 34: Evidence That to Love the Ansār and 'Alī Is a Mark of Faith; And to Hate Them Is a Mark of Hypocrisy
• Chapter 35: Faith Decreases with a Deficiency of Good Deeds; The Label of Disbelief Is Given to Other Than Disbelief in God, Such as Denial of God’s Bounty and Denial of People’s Rights
• Chapter 36: Calling a Person Who Does Not Pray an Unbeliever
• Chapter 37: Belief in God Is the Best of All Actions
• Chapter 38: Associating Partners with God Is the Worst of All Sins; The Gravest Sins After That
• Chapter 39: The Gravest of Sins
• Chapter 40: The Prohibition of Arrogance
• Chapter 41: Evidence That Whoever Dies Associating No Partners with God Enters Heaven and Whoever Dies a Polytheist Enters Hell
• Chapter 42: The Prohibition of Killing an Unbeliever After He Says: There Is No Deity Other Than God
• Chapter 43: Whoever Carries Arms Against Us Does Not Belong to Us
• Chapter 44: Whoever Cheats Us Does Not Belong to Us
• Chapter 45: The Prohibition of Slapping One’s Face, Tearing One’s Clothes and Lamentation
• Chapter 46: The Strict Prohibition of Calumny
• Chapter 47: The Strict Prohibition of Dropping One’s Robe Low, Vaunting Generosity and Using Oaths to Sell One’s Goods; The Three To Whom God Neither Speaks nor Looks at
• Chapter 48: The Strict Prohibition of Suicide; Whoever Kills Himself with Something Will Be Tortured by it in Hell
• Chapter: None but a Muslim Soul Enters Heaven
• Chapter 49: The Strict Prohibition of Dishonesty; None Enters Heaven Except Believers
• Chapter 50: Killing Oneself Does Not Mean Unbelief
• Chapter 51: The Wind Blowing Shortly Before the Day of Judgement to Gather Believers
• Chapter 52: Good Action Needed Before Temptations Become Too Powerful
• Chapter 53: A Believer’s Fear of Ruining His Good Actions
• Chapter 54: Are People Accountable for Their Deeds Before Islam?
• Chapter 55: That Islam Demolishes What Went Before It, as Does Migration and Pilgrimage
• Chapter 56: The Status of an Unbeliever’s Good Deeds If He Subsequently Embraces Islam
• Chapter 57: Sincerity in Faith
• Chapter 58: God Charges People Only with What They Can Fulfil
• Chapter 59: God Overlooks People’s Thoughts Unless Acted Upon
• Chapter 60: Recording Intended Good Actions but Not Evil Ones
• Chapter 61: Doubt About Faith and What to Say When It Happens
• Chapter 62: Warning to Anyone Who Wrests the Right of a Muslim by False Oath
• Chapter 63: Evidence That Whoever Tries to Wrongfully Wrest Someone Else’s Property Has No Immunity: If He Is Killed, He Goes to Hell; Whoever Is Killed Defending His Property is a Martyr
• Chapter 64: A Governor Who Cheats His Community Deserves the Fire
• Chapter 65: Removal of Trust and Faith from Some Hearts
• Chapter: Holding Temptation Before Hearts
• Chapter: Islam Started as Strange and Will Be Strange Again; It Returns to Its Base Between the Two Mosques
• Chapter 66: Faith Fades Away at the End of Time
• Chapter 67: Concealing One’s Faith in Situations of Fear
• Chapter 68: Gentle Treatment of People to Strengthen Their Faith; Prohibition of Describing Anyone as a Believer (Mu’min) Without Firm Evidence
• Chapter 69: Increased Reassurance with Supporting Evidence
• Chapter 70: The Requirement to Believe in Prophet Muhammad’s Message to All Mankind and the Abrogation of Earlier Religions
• Chapter 71: The Second Coming of Jesus When He Will Rule According to the Law of Prophet Muhammad (Peace be Upon Him)
• Chapter 72: The Time When Belief is Rejected
• Chapter 73: The Beginning of Revelation to God’s Messenger
• Chapter 74: The Prophet’s Night Journey to Heaven and the Prayer Obligation
• Chapter: The Prophet’s Description of Earlier Prophets
• Chapter 75: The Prophet Describes the Messiah, Son of Mary and the False Messiah
• Chapter 76: The Lote Tree of the Farthest Limit
• Chapter 77: The Meaning of ‘Indeed, He Saw Him a Second Time’; Did the Prophet See His Lord on His Night Journey?
• Chapter 78: ‘How Can I See Light?’
• Chapter 79: ‘God Does Not Sleep’ and ‘Shielded by Light’
• Chapter 80: Confirmation That Believers Will See Their Lord in the Life to Come
• Chapter 81: Knowing the Way of Seeing [Our Lord]
• Chapter 82: Affirming Intercession; Bringing Believers in God’s Oneness out of the Fire
• Chapter 83: The Last Person to Leave Hell
• Chapter 84: The Lowest Position in Heaven
• Chapter: The Hadith on Intercession
• Chapter 85: The Prophet’s Statement: ‘I Am the First to Intercede in Heaven and I Have the Largest Following Among Prophets’
• Chapter 86: The Prophet Saves a Prayer of Intercession for His Community
• Chapter 87: The Prophet’s Prayer for His Community; His Weeping and Compassion for Them
• Chapter 88: Whoever Dies an Unbeliever Will Be In Hell; Neither Intercession nor Relation Will Benefit Them
• Chapter 89: On God’s Order: Warn Your Nearest Kindred
• Chapter 90: The Prophet’s Intercession for Abū Tālib, Whose Punishment is Reduced
• Chapter 91: The Lightest Suffering in Hell
• Chapter 92: No Good Deed Benefits One Who Dies an Unbeliever
• Chapter 93: Alliance with Believers and Dissociating from Others
• Chapter 94: Certain Groups of Muslims Are Admitted into Heaven Without Being Subjected to Accountability or Punishment
• Chapter 95: This Community Represents Half the People of Heaven
• Chapter 96: God Says to Adam: Bring out Those to Be Sent to the Fire Nine Hundred and Ninety-Nine out of Every Thousand