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Jami at-Tirmidhi 2335

Abdullah ibn Amr said: “The Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) passed by us while we were repairing a hut of ours, so he said: ‘What is this?’ We said: ‘It has become weak, so we are…

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حَدَّثَنَا هَنَّادٌ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ، عَنِ الأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ أَبِي السَّفَرِ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو

قَالَ مَرَّ عَلَيْنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَنَحْنُ نُعَالِجُ خُصًّا لَنَا فَقَالَ: «مَا هَذَا». فَقُلْنَا قَدْ وَهَى فَنَحْنُ نُصْلِحُهُ. قَالَ: «مَا أُرَى الأَمْرَ إِلاَّ أَعْجَلَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ»

Abdullah ibn Amr said: “The Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) passed by us while we were repairing a hut of ours, so he said: ‘What is this?’ We said: ‘It has become weak, so we are repairing it.’ He said: ‘I do not think but that the matter (of life) is more in fleeting than that.’”

আবদুল্লাহ ইবনু আমর (রাঃ) হতে বর্ণিত আছে, তিনি বলেন, কোন একদিন রাসূলুল্লাহ সাল্লাল্লাহু আলাইহি ওয়াসাল্লাম আমাদের সম্মুখ দিয়ে যাচ্ছিলেন। আমরা তখন আমাদের একটি কুঁড়েঘর মেরামত করছিলাম। তিনি প্রশ্ন করলেন, এটা কি করছ?

আমরা বললাম, এটা নড়বড়ে হয়ে গেছে, তা ঠিকঠাক করছি। তিনি বললেনঃ আমি তো দেখতে পাচ্ছি সেই ব্যাপারটি (মৃত্যু) এর চেয়েও দ্রুত এসে যাচ্ছে। সহীহ, মিশকাত, তাহকীক ছানী (৫২৭৫)।

আবূ ঈসা বলেন, এ হাদীসটি হাসান সহীহ। আবূস সাফারের নাম সাঈদ ইবনু ইউহমিদ, তিনি ইবনু আহমাদ আস-সাওরী বলেও কথিত।

عبداللہ بن عمرو رضی الله عنہ کہتے ہیں کہ رسول اللہ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ہمارے پاس سے گزرے، ہم اپنا چھپر کا مکان درست کر رہے تھے، آپ نے پوچھا: یہ کیا ہے؟ ہم نے عرض کیا کہ یہ گھر بوسیدہ ہو چکا ہے، لہٰذا ہم اس کو ٹھیک کر رہے ہیں، آپ نے فرمایا: ”میں تو معاملے ( موت ) کو اس سے بھی زیادہ قریب دیکھ رہا ہوں“ ۱؎۔ امام ترمذی کہتے ہیں: یہ حدیث حسن صحیح ہے۔

Telah menceritakan kepada kami [Hannad] telah menceritakan kepada kami [Abu Mu'awiyah] dari [Al A'masy] dari [Abu As Safar] dari ['Abdullah bin 'Amru] berkata: Rasulullah Shallallahu 'alahi wa Salam melintasi kami saat kami memperbaiki gubug milik kami, beliau bertanya: "Apa ini?"

kami menjawab: Gubug ini sudah lemah, kami memperbaikinya. Beliau bersabda: "Aku tidak melihat kematian melainkan lebih cepat dari gubuk itu roboh" Berkata Abu Isa: Hadits ini hasan shahih. Abu As Safar namanya Sa'id bin Yuhmad dan disebut Ibnu Ahmad Ats Tsauri

Abdullah b. Amr (r.a.)’den rivâyete göre, şöyle demiştir: Kendimize ait kamıştan bir evi tamir ederken Rasûlullah (s.a.v.) bize uğradı ve; “Bu nedir? Ne yapıyorsunuz” buyurdu. Biz de: Çökmeye yüz tuttu da tamir ediyoruz dedik, “Ölümün bundan daha çabuk geleceğini sanıyorum” buyurdular. Diğer tahric: Ebû Dâvûd, Edeb; İbn Mâce, Zühd Tirmizî: Bu hadis hasen sahihtir. Ebû’s Sefer’in ismi Saîd b. Muhammed’tir. Ayrıca kendisine İbn Ahmed es Sevrî de denilir

Jami at-Tirmidhi 2335, Book 36, Chapters On Zuhd, Hadith 32. 1 min read
The note in this edition

قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى: هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ. وَأَبُو السَّفَرِ اسْمُهُ سَعِيدُ بْنُ يُحْمِدَ وَيُقَالُ ابْنُ أَحْمَدَ الثَّوْرِيُّ

What it means

Meaning: The Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) passed by ‘Amr ibn al-‘Ās while he was repairing the damaged parts of his home, or working on it to reinforce it. In a narration by Abu Dawūd: “while I was plastering a wall of mine”.

He said: "I foresee that the matter (meaning death) is swifter/sooner than that." He means that death is nearer to you than repairing your house for fear that it would collapse before you die, and perhaps you would die before it collapses. Hence, mending your deeds takes priority over mending your house. Someone’s appointed term in this world is too short for him to indulge in maintaining it and exerting effort in that respect.

The Hadīth calls for abstinence from focusing on the worldly life and forgetting the life Hereafter, while people have gone against in all parts of the world. Al-Taybi (may Allah have mercy upon him) said: “It means that our state in this world that resembles the wayfarer or the rider resting in the shade of a tree is too short to allow you to engage in building.”

Apparently repairing the building in this case was not necessary (meaning it wasn’t in such a dangerous state that it may harm someone) but he was only motivated by the hope to reinforce it or by his preference to decorate it. He clarified to him that it is more important to preoccupy himself with matters of the Hereafter than with what would not be of any benefit to him in the Hereafter.

From the Encyclopedia of Translated Prophetic Hadiths, hadeethenc.com.

The chain

Who passed it on, from Imam at-Tirmidhi back to the one who was there.

  1. 1Imam at-TirmidhiCompiler, died 279 AH
  2. 2Hannad ibn as-SariTold us, Fourth generation, died 243 AH
  3. 3Abu Muawiyah Muhammad ibn KhazimTold us, Third generation, died 194 AH
  4. 4Sulayman al-AmashFrom, Successor, died 147 AH
  5. 5Said ibn Yahmad, Abu as-SafrFrom, Successor, died 112 AH
  6. 6Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-AsFrom, Companion, died 63 AH

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