Hadith 13

(The book) ‘Al-Ihtijaj’ – From Yunus Bin Yaqoub who said, ‘I was in the presence of Abu Abdullah-asws and a man from Syria came to him-asws and said, ‘I am a man of theology and jurisprudence and Obligations, and I (have come to debate your companions’. Abu Abdullah-asws said to him: ‘This talk of yours, is it from the speech of Rasool-Allah-saww of from yourself? ’ He said, ‘Some of it is from the speech of Rasool-Allah-saww and some of it is from me’. Abu Abdullah-asws said to him: ‘So then you are a partner of Rasool-Allah-saww’. He said, ‘No’. He-asws said: ‘So you have heard the Revelation from Allah-azwj’. He said, ‘No’. He-asws said: ‘So is obedience to you Obligated just as obedience to Rasool-Allah-saww was Obligated? ’ He said, ‘No’. He (the narrator) said, ‘Abu Abdullah-asws turned towards me and said: ‘O Yunus! This one had debated himself before even speaking’. Then he-asws said: ‘O Yunus! If you were good of the speech, then speak to him’. Yunus said, ‘O the regret for it! May I be sacrificed for you-asws! I heard you-asws forbidding from the theology and saying: ‘Woe be unto the people of theology, saying, ‘This one can guide and this one cannot guide’, and ‘This one can be followed and this one cannot be followed’, and ‘This is reasonable and this is unreasonable’. Abu Abdullah-asws said: ‘But rather I-asws said: ‘Woe be unto a people who are neglecting my-asws words for the theology and they are going to wherever they want with it’. Then he-asws said: ‘Go out to the door, the one from the theologians you see, bring him in’. He (the narrator) said, ‘I went out and found Humran Bin Ayn, and was good with the speech, and Muhammad Bin Al-Numan Al-Ahowl, and they were both theologians, and Hisham Bin Salim and Qays Al-Masir, and they were both theologians, and in my view Qays was their better one in theology, and he had (claimed that he had) learnt the theology from Ali-asws Bin Al-Husayn-asws’. I brought them in to him-asws. When the gathering had settled with us, and we were in a tent of Abu Abdullah-asws in a side of a mountain in the road of the Sanctuary (Hurrum), and that was before the Hajj by (few) days. Abu Abdullah-asws brought his-asws head out from the tent, and there he-asws was by a camel growling. He-asws said: ‘Hisham, by Lord-azwj of the Kabah! ’
And we used to think that Hisham was a man from the children of Aqeel being with intense love for Abu Abdullah-asws, and there it was, Hisham Bin Al-Hakam had arrived and he was the first one who had sprouted his beard and there wasn’t anyone among us except he was older in years than him’. He (the narrator) said, ‘Abu Abdullah-asws made space for him and said to him: ‘He helps us with his heart, and his hands, and his tongue’. Then he-asws said: ‘Humran! Speak to the man’ – meaning the Syrian. Humran spoke to