Mishkat al-Masabih

Mishkat al-Masabih 5732

Arabic hadith text

وَعَنْ جَابِرٌ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: " لَمَّا خَلَقَ اللَّهُ آدَمَ وَذُرِّيَّتَهُ قَالَتِ: الْمَلَائِكَةُ: يَا رَبِّ خَلَقْتَهُمْ يَأْكُلُونَ وَيَشْرَبُونَ وَيَنْكِحُونَ وَيَرْكَبُونَ فَاجْعَلْ لَهُمُ الدُّنْيَا وَلَنَا الْآخِرَةَ. قَالَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى: لَا أَجْعَلُ مَنْ خَلَقْتُهُ بيديَّ ونفخت فِيهِ مِنْ رُوحِي كَمَنْ قُلْتُ لَهُ: كُنْ فَكَانَ «. رَوَاهُ الْبَيْهَقِيُّ فِي» شُعَبِ الْإِيمَانِ "

Translation

Jabir reported that the Prophet said: ‘When God created Adam and his descendants, the angels said, “Our Lord, You created them to eat, drink, marry, and ride. So grant them this world, and grant us the Hereafter.” God Most High replied, “I will not make one whom I created with My hands and into whom I breathed of My spirit like one to whom I say, ‘Be,’ and he comes to be.”’ Al-Bayhaqi transmitted it in Shu‘ab al-Iman.