Tom Facchine – The Story Of Imam Al-Bukhari And The Thief
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They say that the ulema
are the warithun
alambiya.
They say that the the scholars are the
inheritors of the prophets.
And so the scholars throughout our ages
have preserved this quality of being trustworthy.
Some of you know the story of Imam
al Bukhari,
the famous Muaddid,
author or compiler we should say of the
most
authentic book of hadith in Islam.
And we know that he traveled around the
Muslim world from the Hejaz
to the south, to Yemen, to Sham, all
over in order to collect the sayings of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
Well, one day,
Imam Abu Ghari was on a ship,
and he had all of his things with
him, his books, and his ink, and these
sorts of things.
And he also had the money, think about
it, it's not like today. You don't have
your bank card.
You don't have the ATM.
You can't buy it on credit.
If you're gonna go traveling for a month,
or 2 months, or 3 months, you gotta
carry it all on you, or you've gotta
find a way to make money on the
road.
So the Imam al Bukhari, he had his
money with him.
And one night,
he's in the ship down below, and he's
in his bed, and he's counting out his
money to make sure it's all there, and
someone's watching him.
There's a thief on the ship,
and he's watching Imam Abu Khali count his
money, and he's counting up the money too
right along with him.
The next day,
sun goes up, alarm sound
on the ship.
There's a thief. There's a thief. Everybody's
called up to the top of the ship.
What happened?
The thief is standing there saying, somebody stole
my money from me, It was such and
such an amount, and it's the same exact
amount that Imam Abu Khari had counted in
his bed the night before.
You see, he's trying to set him up.
So the captain of the ship, he does
what any good captain will do, everybody stand
in a line, pat you down, where's your
belongings, let me check your bags. You think
TSA is bad? I'm sure that the captain
was much worse.
He looks through everybody.
He doesn't find anything.
Absolutely nothing. It's as if the money just
vanished.
Well, you can imagine how the thief feels
about now.
He wants his money,
and so he can't even hold it inside.
After the search is over, he finds Imam
Abu Khary and he confronts him. He said,
I know I saw you count out that
money last night. Where did it go?
Imam Abu Khare, he said, I threw it
overboard.
I've been working my whole life on this
book of hadith.
If someone even accuses me
of stealing money,
nobody's gonna believe in anything I say.
So I'll happily throw it overboard,
and lose something small in the dunya
to have the reward. Think about it. We
have the book on one of the shelves.
How many people have benefited from imam al
Bukhari?
How much
mountains
of rewards in the afterlife.
Because Imam al Bukhari understood
the value
of being trustworthy.