Salam all
Today’s Bukhari Sunnah lesson is very interesting, I will add to it a Quran lesson, possibly some may give heed. We will look at an alleged hadith that suppose to have happened straight after the prophet died and before the prophet corpse was buried.
I actually like this hadith, however there is still no Sunnah in it, rather some information to what happened at such moment after the prophet death.
The hadith is alleged by someone named Abu Salmah (and I am sure that most of us do not know who the hell he is) who reported that Aysha told him something, and the whole thing is alleged by Bukhari. Because the hadith is about Aysha’s father, as Mohammed was dead at such point of time, the hadith implies truthfulness in its story, however we are still unable to confirm that, what we are about to read, had really happened, it should still be classified as Zunn (conjectures), therefore, only Allah is The One Who knows the truthfulness in such allegation, simply all of us cannot know that. Let’s look at such allegation of hadith and see if we may learn something from it:
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Bukhari listed the Above allegation under a chapter that he named
الجنائز , i.e.
The funerals, under such chapter, Bukhari listed a sub-chapter that he named:
الدخول على الميت بعد الموت إذا أدرج في أكفانه , i.e.
Seeing the one who died after he was wrapped in his coffin.
Well, you will be able to see that, the above story which I am about to walk you through, CANNOT be a sunnah from the prophet, a Muslim child should understand that with ease.
Now, if I ask that Muslim child: Why you think that story which we are about to read cannot be a Sunnah by the prophet? I am sure he will reply saying: Because the prophet was DEAD at that moment of time. I say to such child: Good boy, your parents failed to understand that.
See, it was (clearly and irrefutably) Bukhari who invented such sunnah, an invented and un-required sunnah, trying to create a law that controls the following aspect:
Should we see anyone who died after he/she was wrapped in his/her coffin?
Far out, why the hell we need such Bukhari sunnah?. Well, even if the above allegation of a sunnah ended up by prohibiting it, I will still have a look at a dear relative after being wrapped in his/her coffin, if I want to, THERE WILL BE NOTHING TO STOP ME, I tell ya.
Let’s now see what Bukhari has established for us as a sunnah regarding such useless aspect, anything between brackets are my own comments and is not part of the allegation as documented and explained by me.
The allegation goes like this, Abu Salmah said that Aysha told him that:
Her father Abi Bakr came to her from his house riding his horse, so he entered a mosque and did not talk to anyone until he entered before Aysha (seems that he was very upset hearing the news that Mohammed has died), so he went to the prophet coffin and removed the cloth covering the prophet face, then leaned over and kissed him, then he cried (obviously Bukhari is telling us that it is ok to uncover dead humans to have a final look before they are buried, and even kiss them final goodbye)
After Abi Bakr cried for a moment, (he said something that I could not understand, however it is not related to the invented law of uncovering the dead or not to see them), sort of Abi Bakr said: My very dear messenger of Allah, Allah will not gather upon you two deaths, as for the death that was decreed upon you, you have fulfilled it. (I really could not understand what he was trying to say)
Abi Bakr then went outside while Omar was speaking to the gathered people, so Omar asked him to sit down, but Abi Bakr refused, then Abi Bakr stated the Shahada, so all the people directed their attention to him instead of Omar, so Abi Bakr said to the people:
To whoever among you who worships Mohammed (peace be upon him), then Mohammed (peace be upon him) has died, and whoever among who worships Allah, then Allah is Ever-Alive Who does not die. Then he recited the following Quran verse to the people:
And Muhammad is no more than a messenger; the messengers have already passed before him; so if he died or is killed, you turn back upon your heels? And whoever turns back upon his heels, he will not harm Allah a thing, and Allah will reward the grateful.
[Al Quran ; 3:144]
وَمَا مُحَمَّدٌ إِلاَّ رَسُولٌ قَدْ خَلَتْ مِن قَبْلِهِ الرُّسُلُ أَفَإِن مَّاتَ أَوْ قُتِلَ انقَلَبْتُمْ عَلَى أَعْقَابِكُمْ وَمَن يَنقَلِبْ عَلَىَ عَقِبَيْهِ فَلَن يَضُرَّ اللّهَ شَيْئًا وَسَيَجْزِي اللّهُ الشَّاكِرِينَ (144)
I will walk you through this very important verse that Abi Bakr recited to the people during Mohammed funeral later on, but after I finish this allegation of hadith walk through.
Abu Salmah then said:
By Allah, the people never knew that Allah has sent this verse until Abi Bakr recited it to them (looks like the verse was revealed to Mohammed a while back and the people just forgot about it, how confused they were, even during the time of the prophet). Abu Salmah then said that the people took the verse from Abi Bakr and kept reciting it forever, and that was the end of the allegation of hadith.
Now a few questions must be raised:
1) Why Abi Bakr told the people:
To whoever among you who worships Mohammed, then Mohammed has died?
The answer should be clear; it seems that Abi Bakr has witnessed so many people who were doing just that, i.e. WORSHIPPING MOHAMMED.
Can you sense that what Abi Bakr said in a funeral, is not really something that is common, nor that it is offering condolences to the people, RATHER something that you expect to never hear in a funeral, and even may be offensive to be said in such sad times. YET, Abi Bakr who was a very wise man and also loved Mohammed dearly (more than anyone for that matter) comes out and says such tough words that clearly differentiated between Mohammed and Allah as two separate and incomparable entities. Both (Allah and Mohammed) have the same cause of course, because Mohammed was only working for Allah and doing what Allah commanded him to do, however the two can never be equal, such equality does not have to be by saying it, rather it happens more commonly through the actions of the so called believers while they are unaware of their horrible crime (worshipping others other than Allah, which should also mean shirking others with Allah).
2) Why Abi Bakr tells the people the fact about Allah that He is Ever-Alive and does not die?
Again, the answer is simple, see, the above fact about our God, that He is Ever-Alive and does not die, should be firmly known by any so called believer, it is something of the basics of belief, but it seems that Abi Bakr sensed that so many people were so ignorant to such simple fact about Allah while they have been indulged in their worshipping of Mohammed. It seems that they did not even care about such fact about Our God.
3) Why Abi Bakr selected such verse 3:144 to recite it to the people?
Again and again, the answer is very clear, because the people were ignorant of it, such ignorance was confirmed in the same allegation of hadith, see what Abu Salmah said at the end:
والله لكأن الناس لم يكونوا يعلمون أن الله أنزلها حتى تلاها أبو بكر , i.e.
By Allah, the people never knew that Allah has sent this verse until Abi Bakr recited it to them , i.e. the people did not know the verse, DESPITE that it was revealed to them soon after the battle of Uhud, when during the battle and while the Muslims were getting defeated, a rumor spread around the battle field that the prophet was killed, so the Muslims started to drop their weapons and surrender to the enemy thinking that there should be nothing left for them to fight for after the death of the prophet, as alleged in their books of hadith.
So, for so many years from the time of the battle of Uhud until the prophet natural death, the people never pondered upon such verse 3:144, and even forgot it totally to a degree that they would have never know that it was revealed, they may be excused actually because up to such moment, having your own copy of the Quran was almost impossible.
It seems that they were given a very tough lesson by Abi Bakr, so after they heard it from him, they just kept reciting it. I actually believe that they were not reciting it so many times to ponder upon it, RATHER to pay condolences to themselves after the idol they were worshipping has died. So it is possible that they learnt nothing from Abi Bakr.
From all the above we can conclude the following:
1) There are people who indeed worship Mohammed. And it was since the time of Mohammed, till this very moment.
2) There is no sunnah by the prophet that is related to Quran one way or another, rather an incident by some other people after the prophet died
3) Bukhari tried hard to invent his own sunnah using such allegation, by creating a useless Sharia that is based on the useless query of (Is it allowed to see dead humans after they died and have been wrapped in their coffin and before their burial?). The answer was not even given to us, rather we should work it out from the allegation based on the fact mentioned in there that Abi Bakr did so by uncovering the prophet then kissing him, i.e. it is ok for us to do so, but as I said earlier, even if someone stopped Abi Bakr from doing so, NOTHING IS GOING TO STOP ME FROM DOING SO.
A final note before stating the conclusion of such hadith, see how many times Allah was mentioned in the above hadith:
1- When Aysha was mentioned in the chain of narrators, she was praised by saying:
عائشة رضي الله عنها , i.e.
Allah is pleased with her, I have translated it as the exact Arabic words, which used the verb of pleasing in past tense, it is not a Dua to Aysha like
Asa An Yardda Allah Anha, i.e.
May Allah be pleased with her, i.e. it is a boast (praise) of Aysha that Allah is already pleased with her, which is fine with me, but can you see that in the process they mentioned Allah without praising Him? And that is not fine with me:
Score of praise:
Allah: 0
Aysha: 1
2: When the prophet was mentioned in the chain of narrators as being the husband of Aysha:
زوج النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم , i.e.
the wife of the prophet salla Allah Alaihi Wa Sallam, i.e. praising Mohammed, which is fine with me, in fact it is a command from Allah, however I am not at all fine with the fact that in the process of praising Mohammed, they mentioned Allah without praising Him:
Score of praise:
Allah: 0
Aysha: 1
Mohammed: 1
3: When Abi Bakr was mentioned:
أبو بكر رضي الله عنه , i.e.
Abi Bakr, Allah is pleased with him, i.e. praising Abi Bakr, which is fine with me, but during the process of praising Abi Bakr, they mentioned Allah without praising Him:
Score of praise:
Allah: 0
Aysha: 1
Mohammed: 1
Abi Bakr: 1
4- When Aysha was mentioned again in the hadith itself, she was praised again by saying:
عائشة رضي الله عنها , i.e.
Allah is pleased with her, i.e. praising Aysha again, which is fine with me again, but during the process of praising Aysha again, they mentioned Allah without praising Him again:
Score of praise:
Allah: 0
Aysha: 2
Mohammed: 1
Abi Bakr: 1
5: When the prophet was mentioned again in the story itself:
النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم , i.e.
the prophet salla Allah Alaihi Wa Sallam, i.e. praising Mohammed again, however I am not at all fine with the fact that in the process of praising Mohammed again, they mentioned Allah without praising Him again:
Score of praise:
Allah: 0
Aysha: 2
Mohammed: 2
Abi Bakr: 1
6: When Ibn Abbas was mentioned:
ابن عباس رضي الله عنهما , i.e.
Ibn Abbas, Allah is pleased with them both (I really do not who is the second), let’s just assume they meant Allah is pleased with Ibn Abbas only, i.e. praising Ibn Abbas, and in the process, they mentioned Allah without praising Him:
Score of praise:
Allah: 0
Aysha: 2
Mohammed: 2
Abi Bakr: 1
Ibn Abbas: 1
7: When Abi Bakr was mentioned again:
أبو بكر رضي الله عنه , i.e.
Abi Bakr, Allah is pleased with him, i.e. praising Abi Bakr again, which is fine with me again, but during the process of praising Abi Bakr again, they mentioned Allah without praising Him again
Score of praise:
Allah: 0
Aysha: 2
Mohammed: 2
Abi Bakr: 2
Ibn Abbas: 1
8: When Omar was mentioned:
وعمر رضي الله عنه , i.e.
And Omar, Allah is pleased with him, i.e. praising Omar, and in the process, they mentioned Allah without praising Him:
Score of praise:
Allah: 0
Aysha: 2
Mohammed: 2
Abi Bakr: 2
Ibn Abbas: 1
Omar: 1
9: When Abi Bakr was mentioned for the third time:
أبو بكر رضي الله عنه , i.e.
Abi Bakr, Allah is pleased with him, i.e. praising Abi Bakr for the third time, which is fine with me for the third time, but during the process of praising Abi Bakr for the third time, they mentioned Allah without praising Him for the third time:
Score of praise:
Allah: 0
Aysha: 2
Mohammed: 2
Abi Bakr: 3
Ibn Abbas: 1
Omar: 1
10: When the prophet was mentioned for the third time:
محمدا صلى الله عليه وسلم , i.e.
Mohammed salla Allah Alaihi Wa Sallam, i.e. praising Mohammed for the third time, and in the process of praising Mohammed for the third time, they mentioned Allah without praising Him for the third time:
Score of praise:
Allah: 0
Aysha: 2
Mohammed: 3
Abi Bakr: 3
Ibn Abbas: 1
Omar: 1
11: When the prophet was mentioned for the fourth time:
محمدا صلى الله عليه وسلم , i.e.
Mohammed salla Allah Alaihi Wa Sallam, i.e. praising Mohammed for the fourth time, and in the process of praising Mohammed for the fourth time, they mentioned Allah without praising Him for the fourth time:
Score of praise:
Allah: 0
Aysha: 2
Mohammed: 4
Abi Bakr: 3
Ibn Abbas: 1
Omar: 1
12: When Abi Bakr was mentioned for the fourth time:
أبو بكر رضي الله عنه , i.e.
Abi Bakr, Allah is pleased with him, i.e. praising Abi Bakr for the fourth time, and in the process of praising Abi Bakr for the fourth time, they mentioned Allah without praising Him for the fourth time:
Score of praise:
Allah: 0
Aysha: 2
Mohammed: 4
Abi Bakr: 4
Ibn Abbas: 1
Omar: 1
13: When Allah was mentioned as the One saying the Quran verse 3:144:
قال الله تعالى , i.e.
Exalted Allah said, finally they praised Allah for the first time:
Score of praise:
Allah: 1
Aysha: 2
Mohammed: 4
Abi Bakr: 4
Ibn Abbas: 1
Omar: 1
However, Allah was mentioned another 5 times on His own (not during using Him for praising others), and they never praised Him:
a-
لا يجمع الله عليك موتتين ,
Allah will not gather over you two deaths
b-
ومن كان يعبد الله ,
and whoever worships Allah
c-
فإن الله حي لا يموت ,
indeed, Allah is Ever-Alive Who does not die
d-
والله لكأن الناس ,
By Allah, the people were
e-
أن الله أنزلها ,
that Allah has sent it down
Omar too was mentioned a second time without praising him:
Final score of praise:
Allah: 1 - 5 = -4
Aysha: 2
Mohammed: 4
Abi Bakr: 4
Ibn Abbas: 1
Omar: 1 – 1 = 0
Do I really believe that most Muslims cared or currently care about Allah and His message? Well, I doubt it indeed
Let me walk you through verse 3:144 which Abi Bakr reminded the people with, after Mohammed death, and see if we can learn something from it:
And Muhammad is not except a messenger, indeed, the messengers before him have passed away; so if he died or is killed, you turn back upon your heels? And whoever turns back upon his heels, he will not harm Allah a thing, and Allah will reward the grateful.
[Al Quran ; 3:144]
وما محمد الا رسول قد خلت من قبله الرسل افان مات او قتل انقلبتم على اعقابكم ومن ينقلب على عقبيه فلن يضر الله شيئا وسيجزي الله الشاكرين
-> How clear as stated by Allah:
And Muhammad is not except a messenger, it seems that Allah knows that the people will worship Mohammed one way or another and make him more than a messenger even, so Allah revealed such message for all of us to tell us who is Mohammed, next we read something that is more compelling:
indeed, the messengers before him have passed away, i.e. Mohammed is like all other messengers, again it seems that Allah knows that the people will differentiate between Mohammed and all the rest of the messengers. HOW COMPELLING. We can see this clearly now days, and I will show it to all of you (many times) from their own hadith and hopefully the blind should be able to see it inshaallah.
-> We are told that the above verse was revealed when a rumor spread during the battle of Uhud, that the prophet was KILLED, so you expect that the above verse should be talking about the KILLING of the messenger only, yet we see the wisdom of Allah in His book, He also included with KILLING, NATURAL DEATH, see:
so if he died or is killed , HOW ACCURATE AND FULFILLING, not just if Mohammed has been killed, rather if he has been killed or died natural death. Now, let’s read what Allah is warning the people of doing after Mohammed death:
you turn back upon your heels? .Well, well, well, it seems that Allah knows that this is exactly what will happen with the Muslims, that they will turn back on their heals by committing (at least) what Allah explained to us in the same very verse, that Mohammed is no more than a messenger like all the rest of messengers (we should absolutely make no distinction between all of them as stated in the Quran in at least 3 locations), now the Above verse can not apply to what happened during the Battle of Uhud only, because the verse is also talking about the possibility of his natural death in addition to the possibility of being killed, therefore it must apply to the Muslims now days as well, and for those Muslims who sport of worship Mohammed, Allah has an important message for them:
And whoever turns back upon his heels, he will not harm Allah a thing , indeed, they are only harming themselves while they conceive not. And for those who will not turn back on their heels, Allah has other important message for them:
and Allah will reward the grateful. , certainly the grateful cannot be those who turned back on their heels to what Allah clearly explained to them regarding the status of Mohammed as being a messenger of His, who should be for us as any other messenger before him.
While I am walking you through the above great verse from Allah, something struck my head through another verse, I actually talked about such verse before but never clicked in my head that there might be a hidden and very important message between the lines, based on the fact that the following words in verse 3:144 about Mohammed:
ما محمد الا رسول قد خلت من قبله الرسل , i.e.
Muhammad is not except a messenger, indeed, the messengers before him have passed away , are almost the same word for word in another verse about another messenger, in addition to Mohammed, and those words were only said about these two messengers explicitly, let me bring the verse in here:
The Messiah son of Marium is not except a messenger, indeed, the messengers before him have passed away; and his mother was a truthful woman; they both used to eat the food. See how We explain to them the signs then see how they are deluded.
[Al Quran ; 5:75]
ما المسيح ابن مريم الا رسول قد خلت من قبله الرسل وامه صديقة كانا ياكلان الطعام انظر كيف نبين لهم الايات ثم انظر اني يؤفكون
-> See, the same words about Jesus, let me put the two sentences under each other so you see that the words are almost identical:
3:144 ما محمد الا رسول قد خلت من قبله الرسل
5:75 ما المسيح ابن مريم الا رسول قد خلت من قبله الرسل
3:144 Muhammad is not except a messenger, indeed, the messengers before him have passed away
5:75 The Messiah son of Marium is not except a messenger, indeed, the messengers before him have passed away
Well, if you have studied the Quran, then I am sure that you should know that Mohammed and Isa (Jesus) are the only two messengers that have been described with the same exact words above, that
both of them are not except messengers, indeed, the messengers before them have passed away
How striking? Will, I may think of it, that possibly there is a hidden sign in there, that may be indicating that these two messengers (only) out of all messengers, are the most who are worshipped by the most humans on earth. Allah knows best
Salam all