سنن ابي داود
Abu Dawud
كتاب الأدبGeneral Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)
باب فِي الْجُلُوسِ فِي الطُّرُقَاتِChapter: Regarding sitting in the streets.
Hadith 4819
اُردوEn
حَدَّثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ ، حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ هَارُونَ ، أَخْبَرَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ ، عَنْ ثَابِتٍ ، عَنْ أَنَسٍ ، أَنَّ امْرَأَةً كَانَ فِي عَقْلِهَا شَيْءٌ ، بِمَعْنَاهُ .
Anas reported this tardition to the same effect through a different chain of narrators. This version adds: A woman who had something (feebleness) in her mind.
Explanation & Benefits
Shaykh Umar Farooq Saeedi
Benefits and Issues:
➊ If, due to some necessity, one has to sit by the roadside, there is nothing blameworthy in it.
This hadith has also been understood to mean that the Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) instructed to sit aside in a separate place rather than sitting directly on the roadside.
➋ Consoling and showing kindness to simple-minded and unintelligent people is also a religious and moral obligation.
In this way, such people become quite happy and at ease.
Otherwise, due to their distress, they may engage in various kinds of behaviors.
It is absolutely impermissible to mock or ridicule such people.
Such an act is a great injustice to them, and those who do so are great wrongdoers.
Islam absolutely does not permit this.
➌ "Qada al-hajah" (relieving oneself/fulfilling a need) is a general expression and phrase, as it has come in this narration, and its meaning is also clear: that she said what she wanted to say.
➊ If, due to some necessity, one has to sit by the roadside, there is nothing blameworthy in it.
This hadith has also been understood to mean that the Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) instructed to sit aside in a separate place rather than sitting directly on the roadside.
➋ Consoling and showing kindness to simple-minded and unintelligent people is also a religious and moral obligation.
In this way, such people become quite happy and at ease.
Otherwise, due to their distress, they may engage in various kinds of behaviors.
It is absolutely impermissible to mock or ridicule such people.
Such an act is a great injustice to them, and those who do so are great wrongdoers.
Islam absolutely does not permit this.
➌ "Qada al-hajah" (relieving oneself/fulfilling a need) is a general expression and phrase, as it has come in this narration, and its meaning is also clear: that she said what she wanted to say.
Source: Sunan Abu Dawood – Commentary by Shaykh Umar Farooq Saeedi, Page: 4819
