Saeed bin Jubayr reported,

We were with Abdullah bin Abbas in his house when he said, "Ask me."I said, "Abu Abbas, may Allah make me your ransom, in Kufa there is a storyteller called Nawf who claims that he is not the Musa of the Children of Israil."Amr bin Dinar said, "The enemy of Allah has lied."Yala bin Muslim said, Ibn Abbas said, Ubayy bin Kaab told me, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Musa, the Messenger of Allah , was admonishing the people one day until eyes overflowed with tears and hearts were softened. Then he turned away, and a man caught up with him and said, 'Messenger of Allah, is there anyone on earth more knowledgeable than you?' He answered, 'No.' So Allah reproached him for not referring knowledge back to Allah , and Allah revealed to him, 'I have a servant more knowledgeable than you.' He said, 'My Lord, where?' Allah said, 'At the junction of the two seas.' He said, 'My Lord, give me a sign by which I will recognize that.'"Amr told me he said, "Where the fish parts from you."Yala said, "Take a dead fish, at the place where life is breathed back into it." So he took a fish and put it in a basket and said to his servant, "I do not ask of you anything except that you tell me where the fish parts from you."The servant said, "You have not asked much of me."That is the meaning of His statement , "When Musa said to his servant" — Yusha bin Nun. This part is not from Saeed bin Jubayr.While he was in the shade of a rock in a moist spot, the fish began to stir while Musa was asleep. His servant said, "I will not wake him." When Musa awoke, the servant forgot to tell him, and the fish stirred until it entered the sea, and Allah held back the flow of the sea over it so that its track was like an impression in stone.Amr said to me, "And its track was like an impression in stone," and he made a circle joining his thumbs and the fingers next to them."We have certainly suffered fatigue from this journey of ours." He said, "Allah has now removed the fatigue from you." This part is not from Saeed bin Jubayr.So he informed him, and they returned and found Khidr .Uthman bin Abu Sulayman told me he was on a green carpet in the middle of the sea.Saeed bin Jubayr said, "He was wrapped in his garment, with one end of it under his feet and the other end under his head." Musa greeted him with the salam, and he uncovered his face and said, "Is there peace in your land? Who are you?"He replied, "I am Musa."He asked, "The Musa of the Children of Israil?"He answered, "Yes."He asked, "What is your business?"He said, "I have come so that you may teach me from what you have been taught of right guidance."He said, "Is it not enough for you that the knowledge of the Torah is in your hands and that revelation comes to you? Musa, I have a knowledge that is not fitting for you to know, and you have a knowledge that is not fitting for me to know."Then a bird came and took something with its beak, and he said, "By Allah, my knowledge and your knowledge compared to Allah's knowledge are only like what this bird has taken from the sea with its beak."When they boarded the ship, they found small ferries that carried people from this shore to that shore. The crew recognized him and said, "The righteous servant of Allah." We said to Saeed, "Khidr?" He said, "Yes." So they did not charge him a fare. Then he made a hole in it and drove a peg into it.Musa said, "Have you made a hole in it to drown its people? You have certainly done a grave thing."Mujahid said, "Something detestable.""He said, 'Did I not tell you that you would never be able to bear with me patiently?'"The first instance was forgetfulness, the second was a condition, and the third was deliberate."He said, 'Do not blame me for what I forgot, and do not burden me in this matter of mine with hardship.'"Then they met a boy and he killed him.Yala bin Muslim said, Saeed bin Jubayr said, "They found boys playing, and he took hold of a disbelieving boy who was clever, laid him down, and slaughtered him with a knife."He said, "Have you killed an innocent soul?" one who has not committed any wrong.So they continued on and found a wall about to collapse, and he set it upright. Saeed said, "With his hand, like this," and he raised his hand, and it became upright.Yala said, "I think Saeed said, 'He wiped it with his hand and it became upright.'""He said, 'If you wished, you could have taken a wage for it.'"Saeed said, "A wage that we could eat."He used to recite it, "And there was behind them", but Ibn Abbas used to recite it as, "And there was before them a king."Some claim, on authority other than Saeed, that he said, "This boy who was killed, they claim his name was Jaysur."He said, "Seizing every ship by force", and he intended that when the boat passed by, he would let it go because of its defect, and once they had passed safely, they would repair it and benefit from it afterward. Some say they plugged it with a glass flask, and others say with tar.His parents were believers and he was a disbeliever. "So we feared that he would burden them with transgression and disbelief" — that his love would compel them to follow him in his religion. "So we wanted their Lord to give them in exchange one better than him in purity and nearer in mercy" — they would be more merciful to them than the first one whom Khidr killed.Someone other than Saeed claimed that they said it was a girl. Dawud bin Abu Asim reported from more than one person that it was a girl. It also reached me from Saeed bin Jubayr that it was a girl. I found in my father's book, from Yahya bin Maeen, from Hisham bin Yusuf, the same.

حدثنا عبد الله بن إبراهيم المروزي قال حدثني هشام بن يوسف في تفسير ابن جريج الذي أملاه عليهم أخبرني يعلى بن مسلم وعمرو بن دينار عن سعيد بن جبير يزيد أحدهما على الآخر وغيرهما قال قد سمعت يحدثه

عن سعيد بن جبير قال

إنا لعند عبد الله بن عباس في بيته إذ قال سلوني فقلت أبا عباس جعلني الله فداءك بالكوفة رجل قاص يقال له نوف يزعم أنه ليس موسى بني إسرائيل أما عمرو بن دينار فقال كذب عدو الله وأما يعلى بن مسلم فقال قال ابن عباس حدثني أبي بن كعب قال قال رسول الله ﷺ إن موسى رسول الله عليه السلام ذكر الناس يوما حتى إذا فاضت العيون ورقت القلوب ولى فأدركه رجل فقال يا رسول الله هل في الأرض أحد أعلم منك قال لا قال فعتب عليه إذ لم يرد العلم إلى الله تبارك وتعالى فأوحى الله إليه إن لي عبدا أعلم منك قال أي رب وأنى قال مجمع البحرين قال أي رب اجعل لي علما أعلم ذلك به قال لي عمرو قال حيث يفارقك الحوت وقال يعلى خذ حوتا ميتا حيث ينفخ فيه الروح فأخذ حوتا فجعله في مكتل قال لفتاه لا أكلفك إلا أن تخبرني حيث يفارقك الحوت قال ما كلفتني كثيرا فذلك قوله تبارك وتعالى {إذ قال موسى لفتاه} يوشع بن نون ليست عن سعيد بن جبير قال فبينا هو في ظل صخرة في مكان ثريان إذ تضرب الحوت وموسى نائم قال فتاه لا أوقظه حتى إذا استيقظ نسي أن يخبره وتضرب الحوت حتى دخل البحر فأمسك الله تبارك وتعالى عليه جرية البحر حتى كأن أثره في حجر فقال لي عمرو وكأن أثره في حجر وحلق إبهاميه واللتين تليانهما {لقد لقينا من سفرنا هذا نصبا} قال قد قطع الله تبارك وتعالى عنك النصب ليست هذه عن سعيد بن جبير فأخبره فرجعا فوجدا خضرا عليه السلام فقال لي عثمان بن أبي سليمان على طنفسة خضراء على كبد البحر قال سعيد بن جبير مسجى ثوبه قد جعل طرفه تحت رجليه وطرفه تحت رأسه فسلم عليه موسى فكشف عن وجهه وقال هل بأرضك من سلام من أنت قال أنا موسى قال موسى بني إسرائيل قال نعم قال فما شأنك قال جئت لتعلمني مما علمت رشدا قال أما يكفيك أن أنباء التوراة بيدك وأن الوحي يأتيك يا موسى إن لي علما لا ينبغي أن تعلمه وإن لك علما لا ينبغي أن أعلمه فجاء طائر فأخذ بمنقاره فقال والله ما علمي وعلمك في علم الله إلا كما أخذ هذا الطائر بمنقاره من البحر حتى إذا ركبا في السفينة وجدا معابر صغارا تحمل أهل هذا الساحل إلى هذا الساحل عرفوه فقالوا عبد الله الصالح فقلنا لسعيد خضر قال نعم لا يحملونه بأجر فخرقها ودق فيها وتدا قال موسى {أخرقتها لتغرق أهلها لقد جئت شيئا إمرا} قال قال مجاهد نكرا {قال ألم أقل إنك لن تستطيع معي صبرا} وكانت الأولى نسيانا والثانية شرطا والثالثة عمدا {قال لا تؤاخذني بما نسيت ولا ترهقني من أمري عسرا} فلقيا غلاما فقتله قال يعلى بن مسلم قال سعيد بن جبير وجدا غلمانا يلعبون فأخذ غلاما كافرا كان ظريفا فأضجعه ثم ذبحه بالسكين قال {أقتلت نفسا زكية} لم تعمل بالحنث فانطلقا فوجدا جدارا يريد أن ينقض فأقامه قال سعيد بيده هكذا ورفع يده فاستقام قال يعلى فحسبت أن سعيدا قال فمسحه بيده فاستقام {قال لو شئت لاتخذت عليه أجرا} قال سعيد أجرا نأكله قال وكان يقرؤها {وكان وراءهم} وكان ابن عباس يقرؤها وكان أمامهم ملك يزعمون عن غير سعيد أنه قال هذا الغلام المقتول يزعمون أن اسمه جيسور قال {يأخذ كل سفينة غصبا} وأراد إذا مرت به أن يدعها لعيبها فإذا جاوزوا أصلحوها فانتفعوا بها بعد منهم من يقول سدوها بقارورة ومنهم من يقول بالقار وكان أبواه مؤمنين وكان كافرا {فخشينا أن يرهقهما طغيانا وكفرا} فيحملهما حبه على أن يتابعاه على دينه {فأردنا أن يبدلهما ربهما خيرا منه زكاة وأقرب رحما} هما به أرحم منهما بالأول الذي قتله خضر وزعم غير سعيد أنهما قالا جارية وأما داود بن أبي عاصم فقال عن غير واحد إنها جارية وبلغني عن سعيد بن جبير أنها جارية ووجدته في كتاب أبي عن يحيى بن معين عن هشام بن يوسف مثله