9 - The oneness of God’s Lordship

عَنْ عِمْرَانَ بْنِ حُصَيْنٍ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمَا، قَالَ: دَخَلْتُ عَلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ، وَعَقَلْتُ نَاقَتِي بِالْبَابِ، فَأَتَاهُ نَاسٌ مِنْ بَنِي تَمِيمٍ فَقَالَ: «اقْبَلُوا البُشْرَى يَا بَنِي تَمِيمٍ»، قَالُوا: قَدْ بَشَّرْتَنَا فَأَعْطِنَا، مَرَّتَيْنِ، ثُمَّ دَخَلَ عَلَيْهِ نَاسٌ مِنْ أَهْلِ اليَمَنِ، فَقَالَ: «اقْبَلُوا البُشْرَى يَا أَهْلَ اليَمَنِ، إِذْ لَمْ يَقْبَلْهَا بَنُو تَمِيمٍ»، قَالُوا: قَدْ قَبِلْنَا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، قَالُوا: جِئْنَاكَ نَسْأَلُكَ عَنْ هَذَا الأَمْرِ. قَالَ: «كَانَ اللَّهُ وَلَمْ يَكُنْ شَيْءٌ غَيْرُهُ، وَكَانَ عَرْشُهُ عَلَى المَاءِ، وَكَتَبَ فِي الذِّكْرِ كُلَّ شَيْءٍ، وَخَلَقَ السَّمَوَاتِ وَالأَرْضَ» فَنَادَى مُنَادٍ: ذَهَبَتْ نَاقَتُكَ يَا بْنَ الحُصَيْنِ، فَانْطَلَقْتُ، فَإِذَا هِيَ يَقْطَعُ دُونَهَا السَّرَابُ، فَوَاللَّهِ لَوَدِدْتُ أَنِّي كُنْتُ تَرَكْتُهَا.

‘Imrān ibn Ḥuṣayn narrated: 
1. I visited the Prophet (peace be upon him) and tied my she-camel at the door.  2. Some people from the Tamīm tribe came in and he said to them: ‘Accept the happy news, Banī Tamīm’.  3. They said: ‘You have given us happy news, so give us’. They repeated it twice.  4. Then people from Yemen came in, and he said: ‘Accept the happy news, people of Yemen, as the Tamīm people have not’.  5. They said: ‘We accept it, Messenger of God’.  6. They then said: ‘We have come to ask you about this matter’.  7. He said: ‘There was God, and there was nothing other than Him.  8. His throne was on water.  9. He wrote everything in the Record,  10. and He created the heavens and the earth’.  11. Someone called out: Ibn al-Ḥuṣayn, your she-camel has gone. I went out, and it was not to be seen.  12. By God, I wish I had abandoned it.

Related by al-Bukhari, 3191.

Imrān ibn Ḥuṣayn ibn ‘Ubayd’s

‘Imrān ibn Ḥuṣayn ibn ‘Ubayd’s appellation was Abu Nujayd. He belonged to the Khuzā‘ah tribe. He embraced Islam in Year 7 AH, 629 CE, which witnessed the Battle of Khaybar. He carried the banner of the Khuzā‘ah in the Muslim army which took over Makkah. ‘Umar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb sent him to Basrah to teach Islam to its population. He was known to have his supplication answered. He did not participate in the events and troubles that led to the assassination of the third caliph, ‘Uthmān ibn ‘Affān. He died in Year 53 AH 671 CE.

 

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