صحيح البخاري
Sahih al-Bukhari — Hadith 4550
Compiled by Imam al-Bukhari
Arabic Text
حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ حَدَّثَنَا جَرِيرٌ عَنْ الْأَعْمَشِ عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ الْأَسْوَدِ قَالَ قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِبَيْنَا نَحْنُ مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فِي غَارٍ إِذْ نَزَلَتْ عَلَيْهِ وَالْمُرْسَلَاتِ فَتَلَقَّيْنَاهَا مِنْ فِيهِ وَإِنَّ فَاهُ لَرَطْبٌ بِهَا إِذْ خَرَجَتْ حَيَّةٌ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ عَلَيْكُمْ اقْتُلُوهَا قَالَ فَابْتَدَرْنَاهَا فَسَبَقَتْنَا قَالَ فَقَالَ وُقِيَتْ شَرَّكُمْ كَمَا وُقِيتُمْ شَرَّهَا
English Translation
Telah menceritakan kepada kami [Qutaibah] Telah menceritakan kepada kami [Jarir] dari [Al A'masy] dari [Ibrahim] dari [Al Aswad] ia berkata; [Abdullah] berkata; Ketika kami bersama Rasulullah shallallahu 'alaihi wasallam berada di dalam gua, tiba-tiba turunlah wahyu kepada beliau yakni surat Al Mursalat. Maka kami pun langsung memperoleh surat itu langsung dari lisan beliau. Dan saat itu, bibir beliau basah lembab karena membacanya. Tiba-tiba nampaklah seekor ular, maka Rasulullah shallallahu 'alaihi wasallam bersabda: "Segera kalian bunuhlah ular itu." Maka kami pun langsung mengejarnya, namun ular itu telah lebih dahulu kabur. Beliau bersabda: "Ia telah terbebas dari keburukan kalian, sementara kalian pun telah diselamatkan dari keburukannya."
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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