مصنف ابن ابي شيبه
Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah
كتاب الزهدBook of Asceticism
(كلام ابن منبه)Sayings of Ibn Munabbih
Hadith 37908
٣٧٩٠٨ - حدثنا أبو خالد الأحمر قال: حدثني من لا أتهم عن ابن منبه أنه جلس هو وطاوس و (نحوهما) (١) من أهل (ذلك) (٢) الزمان فذكروا (أي) (٣) أمر اللَّه أسرع؟ (فقال بعضهم) (٤): قول اللَّه: ﴿كَلَمْحِ (الْبَصَرِ) (٥)﴾ [النحل: ٧٧]، وقال بعضهم: السرير حين أتي به سليمان، فقال ابن منبه: أسرع أمر اللَّه أن يونس على حافة السفينة إذ أوحى اللَّه إلى نون في نيل مصر، قال: فما خر من حافتها إلا في جوفه.
It is narrated about Hazrat Ibn Munabbih that he was sitting with Tawus and others like him and the people of that time. They began to discuss among themselves: which command of Allah was the swiftest? Some of them said: the word of Allah "like the twinkling of an eye" (__QUR_N__), and some said: the throne when it was brought to Hazrat Sulaiman (__XREF_N__). Upon this, Hazrat Ibn Munabbih said: The swiftest among the commands of Allah was when Hazrat Yunus was at the edge of the boat, and Allah commanded the fish of the Nile in Egypt (__REF_N__). Ibn Munabbih says: So he fell from the edge of the boat into the belly of the fish.
