\nNarrated Sa`id bin Jubair:\n\n
I said to Ibn `Abbas, \"Nauf-al-Bakali \" claims that Moses of Bani Israel was not Moses, the \ncompanion of Al-Khadir.\" Ibn `Abbas said, \"Allah's enemy tells a lie! Ubai bin Ka`b narrated to us \nthat Allah's Apostle said, 'Moses got up to deliver a sermon before Bani Israel and he was asked, 'Who \nis the most learned person among the people?' Moses replied, 'I (am the most learned).' Allah then \nadmonished Moses for he did not ascribe all knowledge to Allah only (Then) came the Divine \nInspiration:-- 'Yes, one of Our slaves at the junction of the two seas is more learned than you.' \nMoses said, 'O my Lord ! How can meet him?' Allah said, 'Take a fish in a basket and wherever the \nfish is lost, follow it (you will find him at that place). So Moses set out along with his attendant \nYusha` bin Noon, and they carried with them a fish till they reached a rock and rested there. Moses \nput his head down and slept. (Sufyan, a sub-narrator said that somebody other than `Amr said) 'At the \nrock there was a water spring called 'Al-Hayat' and none came in touch with its water but became \nalive. So some of the water of that spring fell over that fish, so it moved and slipped out of the basket \nand entered the sea. When Moses woke up, he asked his attendant, 'Bring our early meal' (18.62). \nThe narrator added: Moses did not suffer from fatigue except after he had passed the place he had \nbeen ordered to observe. His attendant Yusha` bin Noon said to him, 'Do you remember (what \nhappened) when we betook ourselves to the rock? I did indeed forget (about) the fish ...' (18.63) The \nnarrator added: So they came back, retracing their steps and then they found in the sea, the way of the \nfish looking like a tunnel. So there was an astonishing event for his attendant, and there was tunnel for \nthe fish. When they reached the rock, they found a man covered with a garment. Moses greeted him. \nThe man said astonishingly, 'Is there any such greeting in your land?' Moses said, 'I am Moses.' The \nman said, 'Moses of Bani Israel?' Moses said, 'Yes,' and added, 'may I follow you so that you teach me \nsomething of the Knowledge which you have been taught?' (18.66). Al-Khadir said to him, 'O Moses! \nYou have something of Allah's knowledge which Allah has taught you and which I do not know; and I \nhave something of Allah's knowledge which Allah has taught me and which you do not know.' Moses \nsaid, 'But I will follow you.' Al-Khadir said, 'Then if you follow me, ask me no question about \nanything until I myself speak to you concerning it.' (18.70). After that both of them proceeded along \nthe seashore. There passed by them a boat whose crew recognized Al-Khadir and received them on \nboard free of charge. So they both got on board. A sparrow came and sat on the edge of the boat and \ndipped its beak unto the sea. Al-Khadir said to Moses. 'My knowledge and your knowledge and all the \ncreation's knowledge compared to Allah's knowledge is not more than the water taken by this \nsparrow's beak.' \nThen Moses was startled by Al-Khadir's action of taking an adze and scuttling the boat with it. Moses \nsaid to him, 'These people gave us a free lift, but you intentionally scuttled their boat so as to drown \nthem. Surely you have...' (18.71) Then they both proceeded and found a boy playing with other \nboys. Al-Khadir took hold of him by the head and cut it off. Moses said to him, 'Have you killed an \ninnocent soul who has killed nobody? Surely you have done an illegal thing! ' (18.74) He said, \n\"Didn't I tell you that you will not be able to have patient with me up to ..but they refused to entertain \nthem as their guests. There they found a wall therein at the point of collapsing.' (18.75-77) Al-Khadir \nmoved his hand thus and set it upright (repaired it). Moses said to him, 'When we entered this town, \nthey neither gave us hospitality nor fed us; if you had wished, you could have taken wages for it,' Al- \nKhadir said, 'This is the parting between you and me I will tell you the interpretation of (those things) \nabout which you were unable to hold patience.'...(18.78) \nAllah's Apostle said, 'We wished that Moses could have been more patient so that He (Allah) could \nhave described to us more about their story.' Ibn `Abbas used to recite:-- 'And in front (ahead) of them \nthere was a king who used to seize every (serviceable) boat by force. (18.79) ...and as for the boy he \nwas a disbeliever. \"","english_grade":"Sahih","last_updated":null,"xrefs":""}