Sunan Ibn Majah

Sunan Ibn Majah 179

Arabic hadith text

حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْعَلاَءِ الْهَمْدَانِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ إِدْرِيسَ، عَنِ الأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ السَّمَّانِ، عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ، قَالَ قُلْنَا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَنَرَى رَبَّنَا قَالَ ‏ "‏ تَضَامُّونَ فِي رُؤْيَةِ الشَّمْسِ فِي الظَّهِيرَةِ فِي غَيْرِ سَحَابٍ ‏"‏ ‏.‏ قُلْنَا لاَ ‏.‏ قَالَ ‏"‏ فَتَضَارُّونَ فِي رُؤْيَةِ الْقَمَرِ لَيْلَةَ الْبَدْرِ فِي غَيْرِ سَحَابٍ ‏"‏ ‏.‏ قَالُوا لاَ ‏.‏ قَالَ ‏"‏ إِنَّكُمْ لاَ تَضَارُّونَ فِي رُؤْيَتِهِ إِلاَّ كَمَا تَضَارُّونَ فِي رُؤْيَتِهِمَا ‏"‏ ‏.‏

Translation

Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.

Muhammad ibn al-Ala al-Hamdani reported to us: Abdullah ibn Idris reported to us, from al-Amash, from Abu Salih al-Samman, from Abu Said, who said: We asked, ‘Messenger of Allah, will we see our Lord?’ He said, ‘Do you jostle one another to see the sun at midday when there are no clouds?’ We replied, ‘No.’ He said, ‘Do you jostle one another to see the full moon on a cloudless night?’ They said, ‘No.’ He said, ‘You will not jostle one another in seeing Him, just as you do not jostle one another in seeing those two.’

Notes and open questions — unreviewed
  • The Arabic uses two related verbs for crowding in the questions and answer; both are translated consistently as ‘jostle one another.’