I was with Saeed bin Jubayr when he asked, "Which of you saw the shooting star that fell last night?"I said, "I did." Then I added, "I was not engaged in prayer, but I had been stung."He asked, "What did you do then?"I replied, "I sought a ruqya."He asked, "What led you to do that?"I said, "A hadith that Shaybi narrated to us."He asked, "And what did Shaybi narrate to you?"I said, "He narrated to us from Burayda bin Husayb al-Aslami that he said, 'There is no ruqya except for the evil eye or a venomous sting.'"He said, "He has done well, the one who stops at what he has heard. But Ibn Abbas narrated to us from the Prophet ﷺ who said, 'The nations were displayed before me. I saw a prophet with a small band of followers, a prophet with one or two men, and a prophet with no one at all. Then a great multitude was raised up before me, and I supposed they were my nation, but I was told, This is Musa ﷺ and his people. Look instead toward the horizon. I looked, and there was a great multitude. I was told, Look at the other horizon, and there too was a great multitude. I was told, This is your nation, and along with them are seventy thousand who will enter Paradise without reckoning or punishment.'Then he rose and entered his house, and the people began discussing those who would enter Paradise without reckoning or punishment.Some of them said, "Perhaps they are those who accompanied the Messenger of Allah ﷺ."Others said, "Perhaps they are those who were born in Islam and never associated anything with Allah." They mentioned various other possibilities.The Messenger of Allah ﷺ then came out to them and asked, "What are you discussing?"They told him, and he said, "They are the ones who do not seek ruqya, do not request to be cauterized, do not take omens from birds, and place their trust in their Lord."Ukkasha bin Mihsan stood up and said, "Pray to Allah to make me one of them."He said, "You are one of them."Then another man stood and said, "Pray to Allah to make me one of them."He replied, "Ukkasha has preceded you in this."
كنت عند سعيد بن جبير فقال: أيكم رأى الكوكب الذي انقض البارحة؟ قلت: أنا ثم قلت: أما إني لم أكن في صلاة ولكني لدغت قال: فماذا صنعت قلت استرقيت قال: فما حملك على ذلك؟ قلت حديث حدثناه الشعبي فقال: وما حدثكم الشعبي؟ قلت: حدثنا عن بريدة بن حصيب الأسلمي أنه قال: لا رقية إلا من عين أو حمة فقال: قد أحسن من انتهى إلى ما سمع. ولكن حدثنا ابن عباس عن النبي ﷺ قال: عرضت علي الأمم فرأيت النبي ومعه الرهيط، والنبي ومعه الرجل والرجلان، والنبي ليس معه أحد، إذ رفع لي سواد عظيم، فظننت أنهم أمتي فقيل لي: هذا موسى ﷺ وقومه، ولكن انظر إلى الأفق، فنظرت فإذا سواد عظيم فقيل لي: انظر إلى الأفق الآخر، فإذا سواد عظيم فقيل لي: هذه أمتك ومعهم سبعون ألفا يدخلون الجنة بغير حساب ولا عذاب ثم نهض، فدخل منزله، فخاض الناس في أولئك الذين يدخلون الجنة بغير حساب ولا عذاب فقال بعضهم: فلعلهم الذين صحبوا رسول الله ﷺ، وقال بعضهم: فلعلهم الذين ولدوا في الإسلام، ولم يشركوا بالله، وذكروا أشياء فخرج عليهم رسول الله ﷺ فقال: ما الذي تخوضون فيه؟ فأخبروه فقال: هم الذين لا يرقون ولا يسترقون ولا يتطيرون وعلى ربهم يتوكلون. فقام عكاشة بن محصن فقال: ادع الله أن يجعلني منهم فقال: أنت منهم ثم قام رجل آخر فقال: ادع الله أن يجعلني منهم فقال: سبقك بها عكاشة.
Bukhari narrated it in the Book of Softening of Hearts (6541), and Muslim in the Book of Faith (220: 374, 375), both from the hadith of Hushaym bin Bashir and Muhammad bin Fudayl, both from Husayn bin Abdul-Rahman, from Saeed bin Jubayr, from Ibn Abbas, and he related it. This is the wording of Muslim. In the wording of Bukhari it says "a great blackness" instead of "great," and likewise his saying, "But look at the horizon," so I looked and there was a great blackness. He said, "These are your nation..." He limited the matter of looking at the horizon to only one instance, unlike the wording of Muslim, in which Jibreel drew the attention of the Prophet ﷺ to the other horizon as well. Allah knows best.In another wording of Bukhari, "And I saw a great blackness filling the horizon, and I hoped it would be my nation, but it was said, 'This is Musa and his people.' Then it was said to me, 'Look,' and I saw a great blackness filling the horizon. It was said to me, 'Look this way and that way,' and I saw a great blackness filling the horizon. It was said, 'These are your nation.'" Bukhari narrated it in the Book of Medicine (5752) from Musaddad, who said, Husayn bin Numayr narrated to us, from Husayn bin Abdul-Rahman, from Saeed bin Jubayr, from Ibn Abbas, and he related it.In another wording of his, "A great blackness was shown to me. I said, 'What is this? Is this my nation?' It was said, 'Rather, this is Musa and his people.' It was said, 'Look at the horizon.' There was a blackness filling the horizon. Then it was said to me, 'Look here and there in the horizons of the sky.' There was a blackness that had filled the horizon. It was said, 'This is your nation...'" Bukhari narrated it in the Book of Medicine (5705) from Imran bin Maysara, who said, Ibn Fudayl narrated to us, who said, Husayn narrated to us, from Amir, from Imran bin Husayn, from Saeed bin Jubayr, from Ibn Abbas, and he related it.His saying, "This is Musa and his people" means all the followers of Banu Israil, including the followers of Isa
, for all of them believe in what Musa
brought, which is the Torah. None of the prophets of Banu Israil ever came to abrogate anything of the Torah except our Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, who was not from Banu Israil.