While I was praying with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, a man among the people sneezed, so I said, "May Allah have mercy on you." The people glared at me with their eyes, so I said, "May my mother lose me, what is the matter with you that you look at me?" They began striking their hands on their thighs. When I saw them silencing me, I fell silent.When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ finished his prayer, by my father and mother, I have never seen a teacher before him or after him better in instruction than he was. By Allah, he did not scold me, nor strike me, nor revile me. He said, "This prayer is not appropriate for any of the speech of people. It is only glorification, magnification of Allah, and recitation of the Quran," or as the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said.I said, "Messenger of Allah, I am newly come from the days of ignorance, and Allah has now brought Islam. Among us are some men who go to soothsayers."He said, "Do not go to them."I said, "And among us are some men who take omens from birds."He said, "That is something they find in their hearts. Let it not turn them back." Ibn al-Sabbah's version reads, "Let it not turn you back."I said, "And among us are some men who draw lines on the ground."He said, "There was a prophet among the prophets who drew lines. So whoever's drawing matches his, that is correct."I had a slave girl who tended sheep for me near Uhud and al-Jawwaniyya. One day I went to check on them and found that a wolf had carried off one of the sheep. I am a man from the sons of Adam, I become angry as they become angry, but I struck her a blow. Then I came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and he considered that grave on my part.I said, "Messenger of Allah, shall I free her?"He said, "Bring her to me."So I brought her to him, and he asked her, "Where is Allah?"She said, "In the heavens."He asked, "Who am I?"She said, "You are the Messenger of Allah."He said, "Free her, for she is a believer."
حدثنا أبو جعفر محمد بن الصباح وأبو بكر بن أبي شيبة وتقاربا في لفظ الحديث قالا حدثنا إسمعيل بن إبراهيم عن حجاج الصواف عن يحيى بن أبي كثير عن هلال بن أبي ميمونة عن عطاء بن يسار
بينا أنا أصلي مع رسول الله ﷺ إذ عطس رجل من القوم فقلت يرحمك الله فرماني القوم بأبصارهم فقلت وا ثكل أمياه ما شأنكم تنظرون إلي فجعلوا يضربون بأيديهم على أفخاذهم فلما رأيتهم يصمتونني لكني سكت فلما صلى رسول الله ﷺ فبأبي هو وأمي ما رأيت معلما قبله ولا بعده أحسن تعليما منه فوالله ما كهرني ولا ضربني ولا شتمني قال إن هذه الصلاة لا يصلح فيها شيء من كلام الناس إنما هو التسبيح والتكبير وقراءة القرآن أو كما قال رسول الله ﷺ قلت يا رسول الله إني حديث عهد بجاهلية وقد جاء الله بالإسلام وإن منا رجالا يأتون الكهان قال فلا تأتهم قال ومنا رجال يتطيرون قال ذاك شيء يجدونه في صدورهم فلا يصدنهم قال ابن الصباح فلا يصدنكم قال قلت ومنا رجال يخطون قال كان نبي من الأنبياء يخط فمن وافق خطه فذاك قال وكانت لي جارية ترعى غنما لي قبل أحد والجوانية فاطلعت ذات يوم فإذا الذيب قد ذهب بشاة من غنمها وأنا رجل من بني آدم آسف كما يأسفون لكني صككتها صكة فأتيت رسول الله ﷺ فعظم ذلك علي قلت يا رسول الله أفلا أعتقها قال ائتني بها فأتيته بها فقال لها أين الله قالت في السماء قال من أنا قالت أنت رسول الله قال أعتقها فإنها مؤمنة