Forgotten Sunnah # 32: To suppress arrogance and say I DO NOT KNOW!!! It was narrated from Jubayr ibn Mut’im that a man came to the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) and said: O Messenger of Allaah, which part of the land is worst? He said: I do not know.” When Jibreel (peace be upon him) came to him he said: “O Jibreel, which part of the land is worst?” He said: “I do not know, until I ask my Lord, may He be glorified and exalted.” Jibreel (peace be upon him) went away, and stayed away for as long as Allaah willed that he should stay away. Then he came and said: “O Muhammad, you asked me which part of the land is worst and I saidI did not know. I asked my Lord, may He be glorified and exalted, and He said: Its markets.” [Narrated by Ahmad (16302); classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in Saheeh al-Targheeb (325)] It is reported that ‘Alî b. Abî Tâlib – Allâh be pleased with him – said, “The servant [of Allâh] should not fear except his sins, and should not hope except in his Lord. The ignorant should not be ashamed to ask, and the knowledgeable should not be ashamed to say – if he does not know something – ‘Allâh knows best.’ Patience (al-sabr) to faith (Al- Eemaan) is like the head to the rest of the body: if the head is cut off, the body will rot. And one who has no patience, has no faith.” [Al-Bayhaqi, Shu’ab Al-Eemaan, Vol.12 p195] The best of creations Muhammad (s.a.w) and Jibrael (a.s) both said I do not know when confronted with something they had no knowledge of. ! But today, unfortunately, students, laymen, scholars, etc end up issuing a fatwa or commenting something because they are too embarrassed to say We dont know We also have the example of Musa (a.s) when he was asked who is the most knowledgable of people on earth and then he (a.s) errd by saying I am. So Allah rebuked him (a.s) for that and asked him to meet Khidr (a.s). This also serves as a proof against those who say the prophet (s.a.w) had ilm e gaeb (knowledge of the unseen) in an absolute manner i.e the same as Allah knows Naudhubillah. Saying of Ibn Mas’ud – radiyallaahu ‘anhu - يا أيها الناس من علم شيئا فليقل به ومن لم يعلم فليقل الله أعلم فإن من العلم أن يقول لما لا يعلم الله أعلم “O People! Whoever knows something then let him say it (speak of it), and whoever doesn’t know then let him say ‘Allahu ‘A’lam’ (Allaah knows best), for it is a sign of having knowledge to say about that which one doesn’t know ‘Allahu ‘A’lam’” [Saheeh al-Bukhari #4435. English Translation Online #4481 in Book of Exegesis of the Qur’an. Also found in Sahih Muslim #5007; English Translation Online Book 39, Ch. 8, #6720 – Sh. Ibn Uthaymin’s site provides more references.] Abdullah ibn ‘Umar (rd) says: “Knowledge is of three types, the Book that is forever speaking (Quran), an established Sunnah, and ‘I do not know’.” (Ad-Daraqutni: Ghara’ib Mälik. Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi: Asmä’ man rawa Abu Dawud. Kitab al-Fara’id, vol. 3, p. 164. Ibn Majah: in the lntroduction to his Sunan, chapter eight.) قَالَ عَمْرٌو: عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ: لاَ يَقُولَنَّ أَحَدُكُمْ لِشَيْءٍ لاَ يَعْلَمُهُ: اللَّهُ يَعْلَمُهُ ؛ وَاللَّهُ يَعْلَمُ غَيْرَ ذَلِكَ، فَيُعَلِّمَ اللَّهَ مَا لاَ يَعْلَمُ، فَذَاكَ عِنْدَ اللهِ عَظِيمٌ. Ibn Abbas said, None of you should say about a thing which he does not know, Allah knows it when Allah may know that it is other than what he said and thus he (tries to) teach Allah what he does not know. That is something terrible in Allahs sight. [Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 764, Saheeh ] Imam Malik رحمه الله said, : “The shield of the scholar is, ‘I don’t know’, so If he leaves it down, his attacker will strike him” [Yusuf Ibn Abd al-Barr رحمه الله in his al-Intiqa’ fi Fada’il at-Thalatha al-Fuqaha]
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