English translation
7418. Narrated ‘Imrān bin Ḥuṣain : While I was with the Prophet ﷺ, some people from Banī Tamīm came to him. The Prophet ﷺ said, “O Banī Tamīm! Accept the glad tidings!” They said, “You have given us the good news; now give us (something).” (After a while) some Yemenites entered, and he said to them, “O the people of Yemen! Accept the glad tidings, as Banī Tamīm have refused it.” They said, “We accept it, for we have come to you to learn the religion. So we ask you what the beginning of this universe was.” The Prophet ﷺ said, “There was Allāh and nothing else before Him, and His Throne was over the water, and He then created the heavens and the earth and wrote everything in the Book.” Then a man came to me and said, ‘O ‘Imrān! Follow your she-camel for it has run away!’ So I set out seeking it, and behold, it was beyond the mirage! By Allāh! I wished that it (my she-camel) had gone but that I had not left (the gathering).