صحيح البخاري
Sahih al-Bukhari — Hadith 1699
Compiled by Imam al-Bukhari
Arabic Text
حَدَّثَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ حَفْصِ بْنِ غِيَاثٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي إِبْرَاهِيمُ عَنْ الْأَسْوَدِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ قَالَبَيْنَمَا نَحْنُ مَعَ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فِي غَارٍ بِمِنًى إِذْ نَزَلَ عَلَيْهِ وَالْمُرْسَلَاتِ وَإِنَّهُ لَيَتْلُوهَا وَإِنِّي لَأَتَلَقَّاهَا مِنْ فِيهِ وَإِنَّ فَاهُ لَرَطْبٌ بِهَا إِذْ وَثَبَتْ عَلَيْنَا حَيَّةٌ فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ اقْتُلُوهَا فَابْتَدَرْنَاهَا فَذَهَبَتْ فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وُقِيَتْ شَرَّكُمْ كَمَا وُقِيتُمْ شَرَّهَا
English Translation
Telah menceritakan kepada kami ['Umar bin Hafsh bin Ghiyats] telah menceritakan kepada kami [bapakku] telah menceritakan kepada kami [Al A'masy] berkata, telah menceritakan kepada saya [Ibrahim] dari [Al Aswad] dari ['Abdullah radliallahu 'anhu] berkata: "Ketika kami sedang bersama Nabi shallallahu 'alaihi wasallam di dalam goa di Mina, wahyu turun kepada Beliau yaitu surat Wal mursalaat. Saat itu Beliau membacakannya, dan aku mengambil hafalan bacaan surah tersebut langsung dari gerak bibir (mulut) Beliau. Ketika mulut Beliau masih basah membacakan surah tersebut tiba-tiba ada seekor ular melompat kepada kami, maka Nabi shallallahu 'alaihi wasallam berkata: "Bunuhlah ular itu". Maka kami mengejar ular itu namun ular itu sudah pergi. Maka Nabi shallallahu 'alaihi wasallam berkata: "Ular itu telah lolos dari kejahatan kalian sebagaimana kalian sudah lolos dari kejahatannya".
About Sahih al-Bukhari
Born
194 AH / 810 CE — Bukhara, Uzbekistan
Died
256 AH / 870 CE
Imam al-Bukhari dedicated 16 years to compiling Sahih al-Bukhari, selecting approximately 7,275 hadiths from over 600,000 narrations he examined. His strict conditions for accepting a hadith — requiring narrator continuity, reliable memory, and confirmed meeting between narrators — make it the most rigorously authenticated hadith collection in Islamic scholarship.
Imam al-Bukhari would perform ghusl and pray two rak'ahs before recording each hadith. Sahih al-Bukhari is universally regarded as the most authentic book after the Quran.
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