الترجمة الإنجليزية

Abu Sa'id Isma'il ibn Ahmad al-Jurjani informed us, Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-'Asqalani informed us, Harmala ibn Yahya narrated to us, Ibn Wahb informed us, Amr ibn al-Harith informed me from Sa'id ibn Abi Hilal, from 'Utba — he is Ibn Abi Hakim — from Nafi' ibn Jubayr, from Hadrat Abdullah ibn Abbas (may Allah be well pleased with them both): It was said to Hadrat Umar ibn al-Khattab (may Allah be well pleased with him): 'Tell us about the affair of the Hour of Difficulty.' Hadrat Umar (may Allah be well pleased with him) said: 'We went out to Tabuk in severe heat and stopped at a place where thirst afflicted us until we thought our necks would break — to the point that a man would slaughter his camel, squeeze out its stomach contents and drink it, and place what remained on his liver. Then Hadrat Abu Bakr al-Siddiq (may Allah be well pleased with him) submitted: O Messenger of Allah, Allah has always responded to your supplications with good, so supplicate for them. He stated: Would you like that? He said: Yes. So he raised his hands and did not lower them until the sky gathered clouds, then they shaded, then they poured. They filled whatever they had. Then we went to look and found the rain had not gone beyond the camp.' This hadith is authentic according to the conditions of the two Shaykhs, yet they did not record it. It contains a rare sunnah — that when the dung of an animal whose meat is lawful mixes with water, it does not make it impure, for had it made water impure, the Beloved Messenger of Allah (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) would not have allowed a Muslim to place it on his liver thereby making his hands impure.