Hadith 13

aw, it was Rasool-Allah-saww, and as for after the Prophet-saww, it is someone else’. The Syrian said, ‘Who is he other than the Prophet-saww, the one standing in his-saww place regarding his-saww Divine Authority? ’ Hisham said, ‘During this time of ours or before it? ’ The Syrian said, ‘But, during this time of ours’. Hisham said, ‘This one-asws seated’ – meaning Abu Abdullah-asws, ‘The one-asws to whom the travellers come to, and he-asws informs us with the news of the sky, being an inheritance from a father-asws, from a grandfather-asws’. The Syrian said, ‘And how can it be for me to know that? ’ Hisham said, ‘Ask him-asws about whatever comes to you’. He said, ‘My excuses have been cut off, so it is upon me to question’. Abu Abdullah-asws said: ‘I-asws will suffice you of the questions, O Syrian! I-asws shall inform you about your travel and your journey. You came out on such and such day, in your such and such road, and passed by such and such, and such and such passed by you’. The Syrian, every time he-asws described something from his matter, was saying, ‘You-asws speak the truth, by Allah-azwj’. Then the Syrian said, ‘I submit to Allah-azwj at the moment’. Abu Abdullah-asws said to him: ‘But, you believed in Allah-azwj at the moment. Surely, (the submission) is before the Eman, and upon it we are inheriting each other, and marrying each other, and the Eman, they are being Rewarded upon it’. The Syrian said, ‘You-asws speak the truth, and at this moment I testify that there is no god except Allah-azwj and that Muhammad-saww is Rasool-saww of Allah-azwj, and you-asws are a successor-asws of the Prophets-as’. He (the narrator) said, ‘Abu Abdullah-asws turned towards Humran and said: ‘O Humran! You should flow the speech upon the Hadeeth, and you will be correct’, and he-asws turned towards Hisham Bin Salim and said: ‘You intended the Hadeeth and did not understand’. Then he-asws turned to Al-Ahowl and said: ‘Analogies dodge (the issues), breaking the falsehood with the falsehood, except that your falsehood won’. Then he-asws turned to Qays Al-Masir and said: ‘You spoke and were closest as can happen to be from the good about the Rasool-saww, remotest as can be from him-saww. You mixed the truth with the falsehood, and the little truth can suffice about a lot of falsehood. You and Al-Ahowl are both skilful manoeuvres’. Yunus Bin Yaqoub said, ‘By Allah-azwj! I thought he would say to Hisham near to what he-asws had said to them both, but he-asws said: ‘O Hisham! You almost fell down twisting your legs. When you hit the ground, you flew off. The one who is like you, so let him speak to the people. Fear the slips, and the intercession would be shading you’’. [12]
(The book) ‘Illal Al Sharaie’ – My father, from Sa’ad, from Ibn Yazeed, from Safwan Bin Yahya, from Ibn Hazim who said,