Saeed bin Jubayr said, I said to Ibn Abbas, "Nawf Bikali claims that the Musa who accompanied Khidr was not the Musa of the Children of Israil."Ibn Abbas replied, "The enemy of Allah has lied. Ubayy bin Kaab told me that he heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say,'Musa stood up to address the Children of Israil, and he was asked, "Who is the most knowledgeable of people?" He answered, "I am." Allah reproached him for not referring the matter of knowledge back to Him, and Allah revealed to him, "I have a servant at the junction of the two seas who is more knowledgeable than you."Musa said, "My Lord, how do I reach him?"Allah said, "Take a fish with you and put it in a basket. Wherever you lose the fish, he will be there."So he took a fish and put it in a basket, then set out, and his young companion Yusha bin Nun set out with him. When they reached the rock, they laid down their heads and slept. The fish thrashed about in the basket, slipped out of it, and fell into the sea. "So it took its way into the sea, slipping away" [Kahf 18:61]. Allah held back the flow of the water from the fish, so that it became like an archway over it. When Musa awoke, his companion forgot to tell him about the fish, and they journeyed on for the rest of that day and night.The next day Musa said "to his young companion, 'Bring us our morning meal. We have suffered great fatigue on this journey of ours'" [Kahf 18:62]. Musa had felt no fatigue until they had passed the place Allah had told him about.His companion said to him, "Do you recall when we took shelter at the rock? I forgot the fish, and none but Satan made me forget to mention it. It took its way into the sea, wondrously" [Kahf 18:63]. For the fish there was a passage, and for Musa and his companion there was wonder.Musa said, "That is what we were seeking. So they retraced their steps, following their trail" [Kahf 18:64]. They went back tracing their footsteps until they came to the rock, and there was a man wrapped in a garment. Musa greeted him with peace.Khidr said, "How does peace come to be in your land?"He said, "I am Musa."Khidr asked, "The Musa of the Children of Israil?"He said, "Yes. I have come to you so that you may teach me some of the right guidance you have been taught."Khidr said, "You will not be able to bear with me patiently" [Kahf 18:67]. "Musa, I possess a knowledge from the knowledge of Allah which He taught me and which you do not know, and you possess a knowledge from the knowledge of Allah which He taught you and which I do not know."Musa said, "You will find me patient, if Allah wills, and I will not disobey you in anything" [Kahf 18:69].Khidr said to him, "If you follow me, then do not ask me about anything until I myself tell you about it" [Kahf 18:70].So the two of them set off walking along the shore of the sea. A ship passed by, and they spoke to the crew, asking to be carried aboard. The crew recognized Khidr and carried them without a fare. Once they had boarded the ship, before they knew it Khidr had pulled out one of the ship's planks with an adze.Musa said to him, "These are people who carried us without a fare, and you set upon their ship and made a hole in it so as to drown its people? You have done a dreadful thing." He said, "Did I not say that you would not be able to bear with me patiently?" He said, "Do not hold me to account for what I forgot, and do not be hard on me" [Kahf 18:71–73].'The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, 'This first instance from Musa was out of forgetfulness.''Then a sparrow came and landed on the edge of the ship and dipped its beak once into the sea. Khidr said to him, "My knowledge and yours, set against the knowledge of Allah, are no more than what this sparrow has taken from this sea."Then they left the ship, and while they were walking along the shore Khidr caught sight of a boy playing with other boys. Khidr took hold of the boy's head with his hand, tore it off, and killed him.Musa said to him, "Have you killed a pure soul who has taken no life? You have certainly done a terrible thing." He said, "Did I not tell you that you would not be able to bear with me patiently?" [Kahf 18:74–75]'He said, 'This was more serious than the first."He said, 'If I ask you about anything after this, then do not keep me in your company. You have already had excuse enough from me.' So they went on until they came to the people of a town, and they asked its people for food, but they refused to show them any hospitality. There they found a wall on the point of collapsing" [Kahf 18:76–77], that is, leaning over. Khidr stood up and set it straight with his hand.Musa said, "These are people we came to, and they gave us no food and showed us no hospitality. Had you wished, you could have taken a payment for this." He said, "This is where you and I part" [Kahf 18:77–78], up to His words, "That is the explanation of what you could not bear with patience" [Kahf 18:82].'"The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "We would have wished that Musa had been patient, so that Allah might have told us more of their story."Saeed bin Jubayr said, Ibn Abbas used to recite it as, "and ahead of them was a king who seized every sound ship by force," and he used to recite, "as for the boy, he was a disbeliever and his parents were believers."
حدثنا الحميدي حدثنا سفيان حدثنا عمرو بن دينار قال أخبرني
قلت لابن عباس إن نوفا البكالي يزعم أن موسى صاحب الخضر ليس هو موسى صاحب بني إسرائيل فقال ابن عباس كذب عدو الله حدثني أبي بن كعب أنه سمع رسول الله ﷺ يقول إن موسى قام خطيبا في بني إسرائيل فسئل أي الناس أعلم فقال أنا فعتب الله عليه إذ لم يرد العلم إليه فأوحى الله إليه إن لي عبدا بمجمع البحرين هو أعلم منك قال موسى يا رب فكيف لي به قال تأخذ معك حوتا فتجعله في مكتل فحيثما فقدت الحوت فهو ثم فأخذ حوتا فجعله في مكتل ثم انطلق وانطلق معه بفتاه يوشع بن نون حتى إذا أتيا الصخرة وضعا رءوسهما فناما واضطرب الحوت في المكتل فخرج منه فسقط في البحر {فاتخذ سبيله في البحر سربا} وأمسك الله عن الحوت جرية الماء فصار عليه مثل الطاق فلما استيقظ نسي صاحبه أن يخبره بالحوت فانطلقا بقية يومهما وليلتهما حتى إذا كان من الغد قال موسى {لفتاه آتنا غداءنا لقد لقينا من سفرنا هذا نصبا} قال ولم يجد موسى النصب حتى جاوزا المكان الذي أمر الله به فقال له فتاه {أرأيت إذ أوينا إلى الصخرة فإني نسيت الحوت وما أنسانيه إلا الشيطان أن أذكره واتخذ سبيله في البحر عجبا} قال فكان للحوت سربا ولموسى ولفتاه عجبا فقال موسى {ذلك ما كنا نبغي فارتدا على آثارهما قصصا} قال رجعا يقصان آثارهما حتى انتهيا إلى الصخرة فإذا رجل مسجى ثوبا فسلم عليه موسى فقال الخضر وأنى بأرضك السلام قال أنا موسى قال موسى بني إسرائيل قال نعم أتيتك لتعلمني مما علمت رشدا قال {إنك لن تستطيع معي صبرا} يا موسى إني على علم من علم الله علمنيه لا تعلمه أنت وأنت على علم من علم الله علمكه الله لا أعلمه فقال موسى {ستجدني إن شاء الله صابرا ولا أعصي لك أمرا} فقال له الخضر {فإن اتبعتني فلا تسألني عن شيء حتى أحدث لك منه ذكرا} فانطلقا يمشيان على ساحل البحر فمرت سفينة فكلموهم أن يحملوهم فعرفوا الخضر فحملوهم بغير نول فلما ركبا في السفينة لم يفجأ إلا والخضر قد قلع لوحا من ألواح السفينة بالقدوم فقال له موسى قوم قد حملونا بغير نول عمدت إلى سفينتهم فخرقتها {لتغرق أهلها لقد جئت شيئا إمرا قال ألم أقل إنك لن تستطيع معي صبرا قال لا تؤاخذني بما نسيت ولا ترهقني من أمري عسرا} قال وقال رسول الله ﷺ وكانت الأولى من موسى نسيانا قال وجاء عصفور فوقع على حرف السفينة فنقر في البحر نقرة فقال له الخضر ما علمي وعلمك من علم الله إلا مثل ما نقص هذا العصفور من هذا البحر ثم خرجا من السفينة فبينا هما يمشيان على الساحل إذ أبصر الخضر غلاما يلعب مع الغلمان فأخذ الخضر رأسه بيده فاقتلعه بيده فقتله فقال له موسى {أقتلت نفسا زاكية بغير نفس لقد جئت شيئا نكرا قال ألم أقل لك إنك لن تستطيع معي صبرا} قال وهذه أشد من الأولى {قال إن سألتك عن شيء بعدها فلا تصاحبني قد بلغت من لدني عذرا فانطلقا حتى إذا أتيا أهل قرية استطعما أهلها فأبوا أن يضيفوهما فوجدا فيها جدارا يريد أن ينقض} قال مائل فقام الخضر فأقامه بيده فقال موسى قوم أتيناهم فلم يطعمونا ولم يضيفونا {لو شئت لاتخذت عليه أجرا قال هذا فراق بيني وبينك} إلى قوله {ذلك تأويل ما لم تسطع عليه صبرا} فقال رسول الله ﷺ وددنا أن موسى كان صبر حتى يقص الله علينا من خبرهما قال سعيد بن جبير فكان ابن عباس يقرأ وكان أمامهم ملك يأخذ كل سفينة صالحة غصبا وكان يقرأ وأما الغلام فكان كافرا وكان أبواه مؤمنين