Hadith 33

‘Al-Ihtijaj’ – It is reported that Abu Haneefa entered Al-Medina and with him was Abdullah Bin Muslim, and he said to him, ‘O Abu Haneefa! Over here is Ja’far-asws Bin Muhammad-asws from the knowledgeable ones of the Progeny-asws of Muhammad, so let us go to him-asws to acquire knowledge from him-asws’. When they both came, there was a group of his-asws Shias awaiting his-asws coming out, or going in to (see) him-asws. While they were like that, a youth came out, and the people stood up in welcome to him. Abu Haneefa turned around and said, ‘O Ibn Muslim, who is this one? ’ He said, ‘This is Musa-asws, his-asws son-asws’. He said, ‘I shall challenge him-asws in front of his-asws Shias’. He said, ‘Shh! You will never be able upon that’. He said, ‘By Allah-azwj! I will do it’. Then he turned towards Musa-asws and he said, ‘O boy! Where does the stranger place his need (toilet) in this city of yours-asws? ’ He-asws said: ‘He would take cover behind the wall, and save himself from the eyes of the neighbours, and the riverbanks, and the falling places of the fruits, and he would not face the Qiblah with his front nor his back. Then he can place it wherever he so wishes to’. Then he said, ‘O boy! From who is the disobedience? ’ He-asws said: ‘O sheykh! You are not empty from three (things). Either it happens from Allah-azwj and there isn’t anything from the servants, and it isn’t for the Wise One-azwj that He-azwj Seizes His-azwj servant with what he did not do; and either if happens from the servant and from Allah-azwj, and Allah-azwj Stronger of the two associates, and it isn’t for the greater associate that He-azwj Seizes the smaller associate with his sins, or it happens from the servant, and there isn’t anything from Allah-azwj. If He-azwj so Desires, He-azwj Pardon, and if He-azwj so Desires He-azwj Punishes’. He (the narrator) said, ‘Abu Haneefa took to the silence as if his mouth had swallowed a stone’. He (the narrator) said, ‘I said to him, ‘Did I not say to you not to plot against the children of Rasool-Allah-saww? ’’’. [33]