Arabic (Original)
حَدَّثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ وَسَمِعْتُهُ أَنَا مِنْ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ إِدْرِيسَ عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مُرَّةَ عَنْ مَسْرُوقٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ بَيْنَمَا النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فِي حَرْثٍ مُتَوَكِّئًا عَلَى عَسِيبٍ فَقَامَ إِلَيْهِ نَفَرٌ مِنْ الْيَهُودِ فَسَأَلُوهُ عَنْ الرُّوحِ فَسَكَتَ ثُمَّ تَلَا هَذِهِ الْآيَةَ عَلَيْهِمْ { يَسْأَلُونَكَ عَنْ الرُّوحِ قُلْ الرُّوحُ مِنْ أَمْرِ رَبِّي وَمَا أُوتِيتُمْ مِنْ الْعِلْمِ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا }.
English Translation
Uthman ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Shaybah told us, and I heard it myself from Uthman ibn Abi Shaybah, Abdullah ibn Idris told us, from al-A'mash, from Abdullah ibn Murrah, from Masruq, from Abdullah, who said: "While the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, was in a field, leaning on a palm stalk, some of the Jews came up to him and asked him about the soul. He was silent, then he recited to them this verse: 'They ask you about the soul; say: the soul is of the affair of my Lord, and you have not been given of knowledge except a little.'"