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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Discussion of the hadith: “When you hear the crowing of the roosters, ask Allah for His bounty.”

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The Shaykh : ... And in my heart, I also wanted to remind you of a matter that I personally was long unaware of, as you can see, and I have reached the extreme of old age, so what about the rest of you, the young people who are growing up? It is even more so, and even more so. All of you know the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)
when you hear the crowing of the roosters, then ask Allah of His bounty, for verily they have seen an angel. When you hear the braying of a donkey, then seek refuge in Allah from Shaitan, [the rejected] for, verily, it has seen a Shaitan. إذا سمعتم صياح الديكة فاسألوا الله من فضله فإنها رأت ملكا وإذا سمعتم نهاق الحمار فاستعيذوا بالله من الشيطان فإنها -أو فإنه
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 3459Sahih (Darussalam)
There are two narrations
seen a devil رأت شيطانا
The hadith is authentic and it is one of those agreed upon by al-Bukhari and Muslim.The Shaykh : It is from the hadith of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), but the thing we discovered, which we were not acting upon, is the condition
from the night من الليل
or
at night بالليل
When you hear the crowing of roosters إذا سمعتم صياح الديكة بالليل
Sahih al-Bukhari 3303
and also
When you hear the donkey at night إذا سمعتم الحمار بالليل
. This condition is very subtle, because the reality, as I told some of my brothers today, is that when I applied the hadith in its generality, I would ask myself in my heart: when will this matter end, especially for someone like me who has chickens and a rooster day and night? Then I would answer myself with my own self. First, the self that commands evil speaks: what does this mean? Every time it crows, “O Allah, I ask You for Your bounty. O Allah, I ask You for Your bounty.” So I would respond to my self with my intellect and my faith, saying: Our Lord, Mighty and Majestic, says
But no, by your Lord, they will not [truly] believe until they make you, [O Muhammad], judge concerning that over which they dispute among themselves and then find within themselves no discomfort from what you have judged and submit in [full, willing] submission. فَلا وَرَبِّكَ لا يُؤْمِنُونَ حَتَّى يُحَكِّمُوكَ فِيما شَجَرَ بَيْنَهُمْ ثُمَّ لا يَجِدُوا فِي أَنْفُسِهِمْ حَرَجاً مِمَّا قَضَيْتَ وَيُسَلِّمُوا تَسْلِيماً
[An-Nisa 4:65]
If that is the case with the hadith, then welcome to it; let us increase in asking Allah, Mighty and Majestic, for His bounty.
Source www.al-albany.com

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