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Hadith 197

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Concerning Denial By The Jahmiyyah (i.e. Seeing Allâh In The Hereafter, etc.)

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Darussalam · Volume 1

The Book Of The Sunnah

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الحديث: 197 ¦ الجزء: 1 ¦ الصفحة: 71

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197. It was narrated from Abu Hurairah that the Prophet ﷺ said: “The Right Hand of Allāh is full and that is never affected by the continuous spending, night and day. In His other Hand is the Scale, which He raises and lowers. Have you seen what Allāh has spent since He created the heavens and the earth? And that has not decreased what is in His Hands in the slightest.” (Sahih)

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197 - حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ هَارُونَ قَالَ: أَنْبَأَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ، عَنْ أَبِي الزِّنَادِ، عَنِ الْأَعْرَجِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: " يَمِينُ اللَّهِ مَلْأَى، لَا يَغِيضُهَا شَيْءٌ، سَحَّاءُ اللَّيْلَ وَالنَّهَارَ، وَبِيَدِهِ الْأُخْرَى الْمِيزَانُ، يَرْفَعُ الْقِسْطَ وَيَخْفِضُ، قَالَ: أَرَأَيْتَ مَا أَنْفَقَ مُنْذُ خَلَقَ اللَّهُ السَّمَوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ؟ فَإِنَّهُ لَمْ يَنْقُصْ مِمَّا فِي يَدَيْهِ شَيْئًا "

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a. The Hadith contains the mention of “Hand” as well as “Hands” for Allāh. This is also one of those phenomena (attributes) that needs unquestioning literal faith without searching for resemblance in this world. The Qur’ān speaks of the two Hands of Allāh at several places (e.g. Sād. 38:75). b. This Hadith describes Allāh’s Hand as ‘right’. The Arabic text, in fact, contains the word Yamin that contains the sense of Barakah (blessing). A Hadith in Sahih Muslim (H. 1827) says that both His Hands are Yamin. Therefore, to describe one of Allāh’s Hands as right or blessed does not mean that the other Hand is not so. The truth is that both His Hands are blessed.