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.

تحميل الملف الصوتي

‘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.

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The Prophet (peace be upon him) speaks about some matters known to God only, including some of His attributes and actions. He mentions that God was always in existence, before the creation of anything, and that His throne was on water before He created the heavens, earth and the universe. He also mentions that God wrote in the Imperishable Tablet all that will happen to His creation. He then created the universe.