Hadith 24

Sahih Bukhari

Book 96: Holding Fast to the Qur'an and Sunnah

Chapter 3

Asking too many questions and troubling with what does not concern one

باب مَا يُكْرَهُ مِنْ كَثْرَةِ السُّؤَالِ وَتَكَلُّفِ مَا لاَ يَعْنِيهِ

وَقَوْلُهُ تَعَالَى: {لاَ تَسْأَلُوا عَنْ أَشْيَاءَ إِنْ تُبْدَ لَكُمْ تَسُؤْكُمْ}.
Sahih al-Bukhari 7293
حَدَّثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ، حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ، عَنْ ثَابِتٍ، عَنْ أَنَسٍ، قَالَ كُنَّا عِنْدَ عُمَرَ فَقَالَ نُهِينَا عَنِ التَّكَلُّفِ‏.‏
Anas:

We were with `Umar and he said, "We have been forbidden to undertake a difficult task beyond our capability (i.e. to exceed the religious limits e.g., to clean the inside of the eyes while doing ablution).

Chain of Narrators

companion
1

Anas bin Malik

أنس بن مالك بن النضر

2,476 narrations

follower
2

Thabit bin Aslam Albanani

ثابت بن أسلم البناني

444 narrations

successor
3

Hammad bin Zayd

حماد بن زيد بن درهم الأزدي الأزرق

1,007 narrations

successor
4

Sulaiman bin Harb

سليمان بن حرب

229 narrations