Chapter 275

Disowning the followers of innovation and sin

Remembrance 1
WE RELATE IN the Ṣaḥīḥs of al-Bukhārī and Muslim that Abū Burdah ibn Abī Mūsā narrated that Abū Mūsā Honorific symbol was sick and fell unconscious with his head in the lap of one of the women of his family. A woman from his family screamed, and he was not able to respond. When he regained consciousness he said: “I am quit of anybody whom the Messenger of Allah Honorific symbol has disowned. The Messenger of Allah Honorific symbol declared himself quit of those who scream, who shave their heads in adversity, or who tear their clothes in times of distress.” [1].
I say that aṣ-ṣāliqah means a woman who cries out with an extremely loud voice; al-ḥāliqah is a woman who shaves her head on the occasion of some misfortune; and ash-shāqqah is a woman who rends her garments on the occasion of some misfortune.
We relate in the Ṣaḥīḥ of Muslim that Yaḥyā ibn Ya‘mar reported: “I said to Ibn ‘Umar Honorific symbol: ‘Abū ‘Abd ar-Raḥmān, there have appeared among us people who recite Qur’ān and who claim that there is no predestination, that things just happen.’ He replied: ‘If you meet them, inform them that I have nothing to do with them and they have nothing to do with me.’” [2].
I say that unuf, ‘just happening’, with a ḍammah on the hamzah and on the nūn, means that [something] is musta’naf, ‘starting’, and is not preceded by knowledge or decree. But the people of error lie; Allah’s knowledge Honorific symbol precedes all created things.

References

[1] Al-Bukhārī (1296) and Muslim (924).
[2] Muslim (8).