Select a passage to highlight it. Click or tap a highlight to remove it.
Text and translation
English translation
3766. Abū Hurairah said: "I used to ask a man from among the Companions of the Prophet (ﷺ) concerning Āyāt of the Qur'an which I would be more knowledgeable about than him, so that he might inform me something (more about them). So when I would ask Ja'far bin Abī Tālib, he would not answer me until he would go with me to his place, and say to his wife: 'O Asmā', give us some food.' Once she had given us some food, he would answer me. And Ja'far used to love the poor and sit with them, and speak with them, and they would speak with him, so the Messenger of Allāh (ﷺ) used to call him Abū Al-Masākīn (the Father of the Poor). (Ḍa'if)
[Abū 'Eisā said:] This Ḥadīth is Gharīb and Ishāq Al-Makhzūmī is Ibrāhīm bin Al-Faḍl Al-Madānī, and some of the people of Ḥadīth have criticized him due to his memory. [And he has some Gharīb narrations.]
Your commentary saves automatically in this browser, separate from the published commentary. It stays private unless you include it in a shared study file.
Commentary
Abū Hurairah was a poor man. When he felt too hungry, he would go to some wealthy Companion and ask him the meaning of some Verse from the Qur'an concerning the feeding of the poor. Asking the meaning was not his real purpose and the Companions knew the purpose.
