Explanation of the Book of Prayer and Its Times-05b
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The reader: The chapter on holding the tips of arrows when passing through the mosque. Qutaybah ibn Sa'id narrated to us, saying: Sufyan narrated to us, saying:
The Shaykh : This is out of fear of harming someone, because if the arrows are exposed, someone might come rushing in and be struck by them, or something similar. The scholars said: The same applies to a stick; do not hold it horizontally so that it harms the person behind you, but hold it vertically so that its top is toward the sky and its bottom is toward the ground.
In this is evidence that it is obligatory for a person to avoid everything that involves harm to people, because harming the believers is among the major sins. Allah the Exalted said:[Al-Ahzab 33:58] And His saying "when passing through the mosque" restricts the title to passing through the mosque based on the hadith that was reported. The hadith came as a specific case, otherwise the markets are like the mosques, because the operative cause is the same. Yes.
The reader: The chapter on passing through the mosque. Musa ibn Isma'il narrated to us...
I said to 'Amr, "Did you hear Jabir ibn 'Abd Allah say that a man passed through the mosque with arrows with him, and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said to him, 'Hold them by their tips'?"
قلت لعمرو أسمعت جابر بن عبد الله يقول مر رجل في المسجد ومعه سهام فقال له رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: أمسك بنصالهاThe Shaykh : This is out of fear of harming someone, because if the arrows are exposed, someone might come rushing in and be struck by them, or something similar. The scholars said: The same applies to a stick; do not hold it horizontally so that it harms the person behind you, but hold it vertically so that its top is toward the sky and its bottom is toward the ground.
In this is evidence that it is obligatory for a person to avoid everything that involves harm to people, because harming the believers is among the major sins. Allah the Exalted said:
And those who harm believing men and believing women for [something] other than what they have earned have certainly born upon themselves a slander and manifest sin.
والذين يؤذون المؤمنين والمؤمنات بغير ما اكتسبوا فقد احتملوا بهتاناً وإثماً مبيناًThe reader: The chapter on passing through the mosque. Musa ibn Isma'il narrated to us...