English translation
3535. Zirr bin Ḥubaish said: “I came to Ṣafwān bin ‘Assāl Al-Murādī to ask him about wiping over the Khuff, so he said: ‘What has brought you, O Zirr?’ So I said: ‘The desire for knowledge.’ So he said: ‘Indeed, the angels lower their wings for the seeker of knowledge, out of pleasure with what he is seeking.’ So I said: ‘Indeed there is some doubt in my chest concerning wiping over the Khuff after defecation and urination, and you were a man from the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ, so I came to you to ask you: Have you heard him (ﷺ) mention anything concerning that?’ He said: ‘Yes, he used to order us, that when we were travelers’ – or – ‘in travel, to not remove our Khuff for three days
and nights except, from sexual impurity, but not from defecation, urination, and sleep.” He said: “Have you heard him mention anything concerning love?” He said: “Yes. We were with the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ on a journey when a Bedouin with a loud voice called upon him (saying): ‘O Muhammad!’ So the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ responded to him with a voice similar to his (saying): ‘Come.’ So we said to him: ‘Lower your voice for you are with the Prophet ﷺ, and you have been prohibited from this.’ He said: ‘By Allāh, I will not lower (my voice).’ The Bedouin said: ‘A man loves a people but he has not reached them?’[1] He said: ‘A man is with whomever he loves on the Day of Judgment.’ So he did not cease talking with us,[2] until he mentioned a gate in the direction of the west with a width of seventy years journey – or a rider would travel its width – for forty or seventy years.” Sufyān (one of the narrators) said: “In the direction of Ash-Shām, Allāh created it the Day He created the heavens and the earth, open – that is, for repentance. It shall not be locked until the sun rises through it.”
(Hasan)
[Abū ‘Eisā said:] This Hadīth is Hasan Ṣaḥīḥ.
Arabic text
٣٥٣٥ - حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي عُمَرَ ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ أَبِي النَّجُودِ ، عَنْ زِرِّ بْنِ حُبَيْشٍ قَالَ: «أَتَيْتُ صَفْوَانَ بْنَ عَسَّالٍ الْمُرَادِيَّ أَسْأَلُهُ عَنِ الْمَسْحِ عَلَى الْخُفَّيْنِ، فَقَالَ:» مَا جَاءَ بِكَ يَا زِرُّ؟ فَقُلْتُ: ابْتِغَاءَ الْعِلْمِ، فَقَالَ: إِنَّ الْمَلَائِكَةَ لَتَضَعُ أَجْنِحَتَهَا لِطَالِبِ الْعِلْمِ رِضًا بِمَا يَطْلُبُ، فَقُلْتُ: إِنَّهُ حَكَّ فِي صَدْرِي الْمَسْحُ عَلَى الْخُفَّيْنِ بَعْدَ الْغَائِطِ وَالْبَوْلِ وَكُنْتَ امْرَأً مِنْ أَصْحَابِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، فَجِئْتُ أَسْأَلُكَ هَلْ سَمِعْتَهُ يَذْكُرُ فِي ذَلِكَ شَيْئًا؟ قَالَ: نَعَمْ. كَانَ يَأْمُرُنَا إِذَا كُنَّا سَفْرًا أَوْ مُسَافِرِينَ أَنْ لَا نَنْزِعَ خِفَافَنَا ثَلَاثَةَ أَيَّامٍ وَلَيَالِيَهُنَّ إِلَّا مِنْ جَنَابَةٍ، لَكِنْ مِنْ غَائِطٍ وَبَوْلٍ وَنَوْمٍ، فَقُلْتُ: هَلْ سَمِعْتَهُ يَذْكُرُ فِي الْهَوَى شَيْئًا؟ قَالَ: نَعَمْ. كُنَّا مَعَ النَّبِيِّ - صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - فِي سَفَرٍ، فَبَيْنَا نَحْنُ عِنْدَهُ إِذْ نَادَاهُ أَعْرَابِيٌّ بِصَوْتٍ لَهُ جَهْوَرِيٍّ: يَا مُحَمَّدُ، فَأَجَابَهُ رَسُولُ اللهِ - صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - عَلَى نَحْوٍ مِنْ صَوْتِهِ: هَاؤُمُ. وَقُلْنَا لَهُ: وَيْحَكَ اغْضُضْ مِنْ صَوْتِكَ، فَإِنَّكَ عِنْدَ النَّبِيِّ - صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - وَقَدْ نُهِيتَ عَنْ هَذَا، فَقَالَ: وَاللهِ لَا أَغْضُضُ، قَالَ الْأَعْرَابِيُّ: الْمَرْءُ يُحِبُّ الْقَوْمَ وَلَمَّا يَلْحَقْ بِهِمْ، قَالَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: الْمَرْءُ مَعَ مَنْ أَحَبَّ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ. فَمَا زَالَ يُحَدِّثُنَا حَتَّى ذَكَرَ بَابًا مِنْ قِبَلِ الْمَغْرِبِ مَسِيرَةُ عَرْضِهِ، أَوْ يَسِيرُ الرَّاكِبُ فِي عَرْضِهِ أَرْبَعِينَ، أَوْ سَبْعِينَ عَامًا. قَالَ سُفْيَانُ: قِبَلَ الشَّامِ خَلَقَهُ اللهُ يَوْمَ خَلَقَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ مَفْتُوحًا - يَعْنِي لِلتَّوْبَةِ - لَا يُغْلَقُ حَتَّى تَطْلُعَ الشَّمْسُ مِنْهُ.
هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ.
