Is the hadith: “Indeed, in Paradise there is a tree in whose shade a traveler walks…”
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The questioner : Tuba is a tree in Paradise
The Shaykh : How?
The questioner : Tuba is a tree in Paradise. I know the continuation of the hadith: As for that, it is another hadith: You mentioned that Tuba is a tree in Paradise in whose shade a traveler walks…… to the end of it. So I do not know if there is overlap between the two narrations or if there is an independent narration?
The Shaykh : How do you mean? I did not understand your question. What is the overlap?
The questioner : The hadith: I heard you saying: meaning in this sense. So I remember this as another independent hadith, meaning separate from that one?
The Shaykh : It is so; but what is the problem?
The questioner : The problem is that Tuba is a tree in Paradise, and the continuation of the hadith is that the garments of the people of Paradise emerge from its sleeves?
The Shaykh : But you, may Allah reward you, are admitting on the other hand that this is another hadith. If it is another hadith, then there is no problem in the sense that it cannot be said that Tuba is so huge and vast that a traveler walking under it for a hundred years would not cross it, and that this tree is the one from which the garments of the people of Paradise emerge. Is there any contradiction?
The questioner : There is no contradiction.
The Shaykh : So I understand that your question is not the one you raised. It seems your question is that you want to say: Is there another hadith besides the hadith of the sleeves that explains the tree of Tuba? The answer is obviously yes. Is that clear?
The questioner : It is clear.
Al-Halabi : Our Shaykh, what I understood at the beginning of my statement was not like that.
The Shaykh : And I understood it that way; but what do you think? He is agreeing with my statement. (Laughter)The Shaykh : (may Allah have mercy on him).
Al-Halabi : Our Shaykh, he says that in a hadith:Sahih al-Bukhari 4881
The Shaykh : He says.
Al-Halabi : He said and brought this hadith.
The Shaykh : I say it this way, and he is agreeing with my statement.
Al-Halabi : ... our Shaykh.
The Shaykh : Please go ahead.
Al-Halabi : So there is no hadith naming this tree as Tuba; rather, the hadith is another one in which Tuba is mentioned as the one from whose sleeves [the garments] emerge?
The Shaykh : It is like that.
The questioner : Tuba is a tree in Paradise……
Al-Halabi : No, our Shaykh, his problem is that there is no hadith containing the word Tuba for that tree?
The questioner: HeThe Shaykh : He says in a hadith this, and in a hadith for that.
The Shaykh : Yes, exactly.
Al-Halabi : Meaning he is asking you if there is a hadith like this?
The Shaykh : He took the answer, may Allah reward you. He is agreeing with my answer. (Laughter)The Shaykh : May Allah have mercy on him.
The questioner : In my understanding, I did not understand that there is a hadith with this exact wording. I only understood that the meaning is general. The meaning is that this Tuba does not contradict being of a place of great size……
The Shaykh : And there is another hadith, as you have heard more than once:
The questioner : And it is in al-Silsilah al-Sahihah……
The Shaykh : So my hadith greets your hadith, and your hadith greets my hadith, meaning they meet and shake hands, and praise be to Allah.
The Shaykh : How?
The questioner : Tuba is a tree in Paradise. I know the continuation of the hadith:
The garments of the people of Paradise emerge from its sleeves
تخرج ثياب أهل الجنة من أكمامهاIndeed, in Paradise there is a tree in whose shade a traveler walks around it — and in a narration, in its shade — for a hundred years without crossing it
إن في الجنة شجرة يسير الراكب حولها ـ وفي رواية في ظلها ـ مائة عام ما يقطعهاThe Shaykh : How do you mean? I did not understand your question. What is the overlap?
The questioner : The hadith:
Tuba is a tree in Paradise from whose sleeves the garments of the people of Paradise emerge
طوبى شجرة في الجنة تخرج ثياب أهل الجنة من أكمامهاTuba is a tree in Paradise in whose shade a traveler walks, meaning around it, for a hundred years without crossing it
طوبى شجرة في الجنة يسير الراكب يعني حولها مائة عام ما يقطعهاThe Shaykh : It is so; but what is the problem?
The questioner : The problem is that Tuba is a tree in Paradise, and the continuation of the hadith is that the garments of the people of Paradise emerge from its sleeves?
The Shaykh : But you, may Allah reward you, are admitting on the other hand that this is another hadith. If it is another hadith, then there is no problem in the sense that it cannot be said that Tuba is so huge and vast that a traveler walking under it for a hundred years would not cross it, and that this tree is the one from which the garments of the people of Paradise emerge. Is there any contradiction?
The questioner : There is no contradiction.
The Shaykh : So I understand that your question is not the one you raised. It seems your question is that you want to say: Is there another hadith besides the hadith of the sleeves that explains the tree of Tuba? The answer is obviously yes. Is that clear?
The questioner : It is clear.
Al-Halabi : Our Shaykh, what I understood at the beginning of my statement was not like that.
The Shaykh : And I understood it that way; but what do you think? He is agreeing with my statement. (Laughter)The Shaykh : (may Allah have mercy on him).
Al-Halabi : Our Shaykh, he says that in a hadith:
In Paradise there is a tree which is so big that a rider can travel in its shade
إن في الجنة شجرة يسير الراكب في ظلها وحولها مائة عام ...The Shaykh : He says.
Al-Halabi : He said and brought this hadith.
The Shaykh : I say it this way, and he is agreeing with my statement.
Al-Halabi : ... our Shaykh.
The Shaykh : Please go ahead.
Al-Halabi : So there is no hadith naming this tree as Tuba; rather, the hadith is another one in which Tuba is mentioned as the one from whose sleeves [the garments] emerge?
The Shaykh : It is like that.
The questioner : Tuba is a tree in Paradise……
Al-Halabi : No, our Shaykh, his problem is that there is no hadith containing the word Tuba for that tree?
The questioner: HeThe Shaykh : He says in a hadith this, and in a hadith for that.
The Shaykh : Yes, exactly.
Al-Halabi : Meaning he is asking you if there is a hadith like this?
The Shaykh : He took the answer, may Allah reward you. He is agreeing with my answer. (Laughter)The Shaykh : May Allah have mercy on him.
The questioner : In my understanding, I did not understand that there is a hadith with this exact wording. I only understood that the meaning is general. The meaning is that this Tuba does not contradict being of a place of great size……
The Shaykh : And there is another hadith, as you have heard more than once:
Tuba is a tree in Paradise under which a traveler walks for a hundred years without crossing it……
طوبى شجرة في الجنة يسير الراكب المجد تحتها مائة عام لا يقطعها ...The questioner : And it is in al-Silsilah al-Sahihah……
The Shaykh : So my hadith greets your hadith, and your hadith greets my hadith, meaning they meet and shake hands, and praise be to Allah.
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