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On Doing Without Asking Others

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Darussalam · Volume 2

9. THE BOOK OF ZAKĀT

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الحديث: 1646 ¦ الجزء: 2 ¦ الصفحة: 122

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1646. It was reported from Muslim bin Makhshī, from Ibn Al-Fārīsi, that Al-Fārīsi asked the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ: "Should I ask (others), O Messenger of Allāh?" He said: "No, but if you must ask, then ask the righteous." (Daʿif)

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1646 - حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ، حَدَّثَنَا اللَّيْثُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ، عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ رَبِيعَةَ، عَنْ بَكْرِ بْنِ سَوَادَةَ، عَنْ مُسْلِمِ بْنِ مَخْشِيٍّ، عَنِ ابْنِ الْفِرَاسِيِّ، أَنَّ الْفِرَاسِيَّ، قَالَ لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: أَسْأَلُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «لَا، وَإِنْ كُنْتَ سَائِلًا لَا بُدَّ، فَاسْأَلِ الصَّالِحِينَ»

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It is permissible to ask pious people for help in matters subject to physical laws, like request for cooperation, loan, intercession and supplication, providing those pious people are alive. As for those pious people who are dead, it is prohibited to ask them for help or intercession. It is Shirk (ascribing partners to Allāh).