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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Continuation of the explanation of the hadith of Abu Hurayrah: (And the third said

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The Shaykh:
And the third said: O Allah, if You know that I hired a worker for a day, and he worked until midday وَقَالَ الثَّالِثُ : اللهُمَّ إِن كُنْتَ تَعلَمُ أَنِّي استَأجَرْتُ أَجِيرًا يَومًا فَعَمِلَ إلى نِصفَ النّهَارِ
Sahih Ibn Hibban 7:371
In this hadith, there is this benefit: in the hadith of Ibn 'Umar, there is no specification of the amount of work, whereas here it is specified that he worked until midday.
So I gave him a wage, but he was displeased with it and did not take it, so I saved it for him until that money became فَأَعطَيْتُهُ أَجرًا فَسَخِطَهُ وَلَم يَأخُذْهُ ، فَوَفَّرْتُهَا عَلَيْهِ حَتَّى صَارَت ذَلِكَ المَالُ
Here, too, there is brevity and conciseness.
until that money became حَتَّى صَارَت ذَلِكَ المَالُ
What is this money? Its explanation came in the hadith of Ibn 'Umar, where he said:
So I kept planting it فلم أزَلْ أزرَعُه
; meaning, the wage of that man was a farq of rice. A farq is a small container. His wage was this farq of rice. When this worker did not accept this wage and left angry, this master, the owner of the land, said:
So I kept planting it فلم أزَلْ أزرَعُه
meaning: that farq of rice, until I gathered from it cattle and their herders. This is what the man saved from that farq; it accumulated with him as cattle and their herders. So he says in the hadith of Ibn 'Umar:
After a time that man came and demanded his money. ثمَّ جاءني فقال : يا عبدَ الله ، أعطِني حقِّي
Sahih al-Bukhari 2215
. And his right was the farq of rice.
So I said to him: Look at those cattle, go and take them. He said: O servant of Allah, do not mock me; I only have a farq of rice with you فقلت له : انظر إلى تلك البقر اذهَبْ فخُذْها . قال : يا عبد الله ، لا تستهزِئْ بي ، إنما لي عندك فَرَقٌ من أرز
. You are telling me: take this herd of cattle.
He said: Go and take them; for those cattle are from that farq قال : اذهب فخُذْها ؛ فإنما تلك البقر من ذاك الفَرَق
. He says here in his supplication:
If You know that I did that hoping for Your mercy and fearing Your punishment; so remove it from us فَإِن كُنْتَ تَعلَمُ أَنِّي فَعَلْتُ ذَلِكَ رَجَاءَ رَحمَتِكَ وَخَشيَةَ عَذَابِكَ ؛ فافرُجْ عَنَّا
Sahih Ibn Hibban 7:371
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Before that, he says:
So I said: Take all of this, and if I had wished, I would not have given him anything but his original wage فَقُلْتُ : خُذْ هذَا كُلَّهُ ، وَلَو شِئْتُ لَم أُعطِهِ إِلَّا أَجرَهُ الأَوَّلَ
Sahih Ibn Hibban 7:371
This is a very important point. The man left his wage with him, which was a farq of rice, and it did not agree with him... with the blessing of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) in this money, so he returned to ask for his right. What is the right? A farq of rice. He says: So I gave him everything I had saved for him because of this farq, and if I had wished, I would not have given him anything but his right; meaning: this farq; meaning: he was able to not give him what he had saved for him during this long period, but he saw in his own generosity that he should present to him all that resulted from the original money. So he says:
If You, O Allah, know that I did that فإن كنت اللهمَّ تعلم أنني فعلت ذلك
, there he says:
seeking Your pleasure ابتغاءَ مرضاتك
. Here he says:
hoping for Your mercy and fearing Your punishment; so remove the stone from us, and the stone was removed and they came out walking. رَجَاءَ رَحمَتِكَ وَخَشيَةَ عَذَابِكَ ؛ فافرُجْ عَنَّا ، فَزَالَ الحَجَرُ وَخَرَجُوا يَتَمَاشَوْنَ
Sahih Ibn Hibban 7:292
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Ibn Hibban narrated it in his "Sahih" with this wording, and in it, as you have seen, are some benefits that are not mentioned in the hadith of Ibn 'Umar. In the next lesson, if Allah wills, there will be other hadiths in this chapter, so we will suffice with this amount, and praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds.
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