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From: Sahih Muslim
Chapter No. 1, Faith (Kitab Al Iman)
Hadith No: 425
Narrated/Authority of Husain bin Abd alRahman
Chapter No. 1, Faith (Kitab Al Iman)
Hadith No: 425
Narrated/Authority of Husain bin Abd alRahman
I was with Sa'id b. Jubair
when he said: Who amongst you saw a star shooting last night?
I said: It was I; then I said: I was in fact not (busy) in
prayer, but was stung by a scorpion (and that is the reason
why I was awake and had a glimpse of the shooting star). He
said: Then what did you do? I said: I practised charm. He
said: What urged you to do this? I said: (I did this according
to the implied suggestion) of the hadith which al-’Shu'ba
narrated. He said: What did al-’Shu'ba narrate to you? I said:
Buraida b. Husaib al-’Aslami narrated to us. The charm is of no
avail except in case of the (evil influence) of an eye or the
sting of a scorpion. He said: He who acted according to what
he had heard (from the Holy Prophet) acted rightly, but Ibn
'Abbas narrated to us from the Apostle of Allah (may peace be
upon him) that he said: There were brought before me the
peoples and I saw an apostle and a small group (of his
followers) along with him, another (apostle) and one or two
persons (along with him) and (still another) apostle having no
one with him. When a very large group was brought to me I
conceived as if it were my Ummah. Then it was said to me: It
is Moses and his people. You should look at the horizon, and I
saw a very huge group. It was again said to me: See the other
side of the horizon, and there was (also) a very huge group.
It was said to me: This is your Ummah, and amongst them there
were seventy thousand persons who would be made to enter
Paradise without rendering any account and without (suffering)
any torment. He then stood up and went to his house. Then the
people began to talk about the people who would be admitted to
Paradise without rendering any account and without (suffering)
any torment. Some of them said: They may be those who (have
had the good fortune of living) in the company of the
Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) and some of them
said: They be those who were born in Islam and did not
associate anything with Allah. Some people mentioned other
things. Thereupon came forth the Messenger of Allah (may peace
be upon him) before them and he said: What was that which you
were talking about? They informed him. He said: They are those
persons who neither practise charm, nor ask others to practise
it, nor do they take omens, and repose their trust in their
Lord. Upon this 'Ukkasha b. Mihsan stood up and said:
Supplicate for me that He should make me one among them. Upon
this he (Messenger of Allah) said: Thou are one among them.
Then another man stood up and said: Supplicate before Allah
that He should make me one among them. Upon this he said:
'Ukkisha has preceded you.
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