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The story of Musa and the servant of Allah in Surah al-Kahf and al-Bukhari
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machinesummary, machine-writtenMufti Abu Layth outlines the story of Musa and the servant of Allah from Surah al-Kahf 18:60 onwards and its fuller telling in al-Bukhari's hadith 4725.
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Mufti Abu Layth opens Surah al-Kahf at verse 60, where the story of Musa and his young companion, named in the hadith as Joshua (Yusha), begins. Mufti summarises the story: the fish slips into the sea where the two seas meet, they find a servant of Allah given special knowledge, who damages a ship, kills a boy and repairs a wall while Musa objects each time, and who finally explains that he acted on God's instruction. He says the fuller account is in Sahih al-Bukhari [?], hadith 4725 in the book of tafsir, which begins with Ibn Abbas being told that a storyteller claimed this was a different Musa, and Ibn Abbas saying he was lying. He relates from the hadith that Musa, asked who was the most knowledgeable of people, said he was, was told of a servant more knowledgeable than him where the two seas meet, and set off carrying a fish.
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now what is this whole story about what is this emergence and this is important because he is the the character the person that people say Allah is referring to inah so if I open for us if we go toah right uh when we approach verse 60 inah Allah
mentions that now this is a story of Moses begins at this stage inah and then it's about Moses and his assistant his kind of companion this young man who in the Hadith you'll see is yha Joshua and they set off on this journey
and that they reach this place and they uh they take some rest and they forget they have this fish and the fish kind of jumps out into the into the sea then they go off and and the whole point is that they are told that that was the place we were meant to go to with these two seas meet and here they meet it mentions that they found a slave of ours and this slave had been given certain knowledge and him and Moses go on this
[Music] journey so he asks him can I go with you on this journey and he says to him that uh this servant says that look you won't be able to keep up with me and you won't be able to be patient enough to put up with me and and Moses tells him no I will and and they set off on this journey and on this journey uh this this person uh or I will call him I prefer he embarks on certain uh tasks and Adventures amongst them they embark
on a ship and he purposely damages the ship and then in another place he murders a child and then in another place he rectifies a broken wall Moses on each of these occasions objects uh heavily and each time is reprimanded for not being able to uh maintain his promise of staying silent uh and then Moses apologizes on each occasion and then eventually he is told some of the secrets and says to him that that that's not something uh that I did out of my choice but this is what God
had in had instructed or inspired me to do so now this the elaboration of this Hadith we find in Sahari okay so and this is where we actually find the greater detail so this Hadith in and there's several Hadith to do with uh Moses and spanning several pages but this particular one um in the book of T where you have Hadith 4724 um sorry after that beginning uh
[Music] 4725 so M says that I will go he tells his Joshua that I will go so in this Hadith it begins with SB saying to Abbas that there's a person called noi now no B was somebody that would tell Tales he was an orator he said that the Moses of was a different Moses so he was saying this in their day and age so s tells this to objects and says that he's lying I
heard tell me that the prophet said so m one day stood and he preached and he said to people that uh somebody asked him B the Israelites who is the most knowledgeable of people so he said I am because he was a prophet of God so at this stage um that he is told by God that actually you there's other people more knowledgeable than you why don't you set off on this journey and he goes on this journey and so Allah tells him I have a servant who
is at a particular location with the two Seas unite uh he is more knowledgeable than you so uh so he sets about on this journey he's told to take a fish with him um and carry it so they go on they set off so he's so Joshua it mentions Inari his companion's name is Joshua
until they reach this big boulder this big rock they Place their heads down they lay their heads uh and they go to sleep now this is a really interesting point why because this is where a lot of I feel the scholars in the past for whatever reasons overlooked this the rest of everything that happens Happ happens whilst they were asleep it was a vision right so this thing of them going to sleep here as it mentions and it
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