The Book of Friday Prayer, the Two Festivals, the Prayer for Rain, the Eclipse Prayer, and Funerals-04b
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The reciter: And 'Abd al-A'la ibn Hammad, and Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr al-Muqaddami, said: Mu'tamir narrated to us, 'Ubayd Allah narrated to us from Thabit al-Bunani from Anas ibn Malik, who said:
The Shaykh : Allah is the Greatest. This contains what was mentioned previously about the people crying out to the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). When such wording appears, along with the detailed and explicit version, the second is considered valid over the first. Many scholars, when such a discrepancy arises, resort to the opinion that there are multiple incidents. This is a weak approach. Rather, it should be said: look at the majority of narrators and consider them valid, while the rest are considered anomalous. There is no objection to one person making a mistake and another, for example, being correct, or two being correct, or one making a mistake and the one with the stronger narration being correct. As for saying that there are multiple incidents for the sake of reconciliation, that is far-fetched. Similarly, what was mentioned from some regarding the Mi'raj, where the wordings differed, and he said: "Perhaps that is a multiplicity of incidents." This is undoubtedly the method of the incapable. Rather, it should be said: there is no objection, a human is a human, and narrators may make mistakes, may forget, may be negligent, or may have something in their mind that they build upon, as you yourselves witness.
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was delivering the Friday sermon when the people stood up to him and cried out, saying: "O Prophet of Allah, the rain has ceased, the trees have turned red, and the livestock have perished." He continued the hadith, and in it, from the narration of 'Abd al-A'la: "The clouds dispersed over al-Madinah, and it began to rain around it, but not a single drop fell in al-Madinah. I looked at al-Madinah, and it was as if it were wearing a crown."
كَانَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَخْطُبُ يَوْمَ الْجُمُعَةِ، فَقَامَ إِلَيْهِ النَّاسُ فَصَاحُوا، وَقَالُوا: يَا نَبِيَّ اللهِ قَحَطَ الْمَطَرُ، وَاحْمَرَّ الشَّجَرُ، وَهَلَكَتِ الْبَهَائِمُ، وَسَاقَ الْحَدِيثَ، وَفِيهِ مِنْ رِوَايَةِ عَبْدِ الْأَعْلَى: فَتَقَشَّعَتْ عَنِ الْمَدِينَةِ فَجَعَلَتْ تُمْطِرُ حَوَالَيْهَا، وَمَا تُمْطِرُ بِالْمَدِينَةِ قَطْرَةً، فَنَظَرْتُ إِلَى الْمَدِينَةِ وَإِنَّهَا لَفِي مِثْلِ الْإِكْلِيلِThe Shaykh : Allah is the Greatest. This contains what was mentioned previously about the people crying out to the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). When such wording appears, along with the detailed and explicit version, the second is considered valid over the first. Many scholars, when such a discrepancy arises, resort to the opinion that there are multiple incidents. This is a weak approach. Rather, it should be said: look at the majority of narrators and consider them valid, while the rest are considered anomalous. There is no objection to one person making a mistake and another, for example, being correct, or two being correct, or one making a mistake and the one with the stronger narration being correct. As for saying that there are multiple incidents for the sake of reconciliation, that is far-fetched. Similarly, what was mentioned from some regarding the Mi'raj, where the wordings differed, and he said: "Perhaps that is a multiplicity of incidents." This is undoubtedly the method of the incapable. Rather, it should be said: there is no objection, a human is a human, and narrators may make mistakes, may forget, may be negligent, or may have something in their mind that they build upon, as you yourselves witness.