Hadith 186

report, ‘House of a man from Turk Kaboul’. And it is strange, his ignorance and the ignorance of the community, that he wrote to all of his office bearers that, ‘The one who is in requirement of the major ablution, if he does not find water, it is not upon him to pray Salat and it is not upon him to perform ‘Tayammum’ with the earth until he does find water, even though he does not find it until he meets Allah-azwj’. And in another report, ‘And if he does not find a Sunnah’. Then the people accepted that and were happy with it, and he knew as well as the people that the Messenger of Allah-saww had ordered Ammar and ordered Abu Zarr-ra that they should perform Tayammum from the sexual impurity and pray Zarr-ra, and he was a witness to it as well as the others, but he did not accept that and did not raise any heads with it. And it is strange, when he mixed up different issues with regards to the inheritance from a grandfather arbitrarily without knowledge and due to ignorance, and what these two claimed to know and their audacity against Allah-azwj and their lack of piety. They claimed that Rasool-Allah-azwj passed away never having made any decision with regards to the (inheritance of) grandfather, and no one knows what is to be the inheritance from the grandfather. Then the people followed them on that and ratified the two of them. And the freeing of the mothers of the boys (Ummuhaat Al-Awlaad), so the people took his word but left (ignored) the order of Rasool-Allah-saww. And what he did with Nasr Bin Al-Hajjaj, and with Jo’da and the son of Wabrat. And stranger than that is when Abu Kanaf Al-Abady came up to him and said, ‘I divorced my wife whilst I was away, and the news of the divorce reached her. Then I reverted back to her whilst she was still in her waiting period, and I wrote to her. The letter did not reach her until after she had remarried’. He (Umar) wrote to him, ‘If this man who has married her did establish marital relations with her then she is his wife, and if had not had marital relations with her then she is your wife’. And he wrote that to him, and I-asws am a witness to it. He never consulted me-asws and did not even ask me-asws about it. He thought that due to his knowledge, he was in no need of me-asws. I-asws intended to prevent him, but then I-asws thought: ‘What do I-asws care if Allah-azwj Exposes him’. Then the people did not fault him, but beautified his actions and took to his ways and accepted it from him and saw it as being correct, and that is such a judgment that even if an insane person would not judge it. Then he left from the Call to Prayer (Azaan), ‘Hurry to the best of the deeds’ (Hayya Alaa Khayr Al-Amal). They took to his ways and followed him on that. And he judged regarding the missing husband, and that if four years have passed, then she could wed again. If her husband turns up then he shall have the choice between the wife and the dowry. The people beautified it and took to his wa