Quiz time (14):
What are the only things Allah created with his Hands directly?
Ans:
The Throne,
The Pen, Adam and Paradise(garden
of Eden).
Abdullah ibn Umar (may
Allah be pleased with him)said,” Allah created four things with His hands; The Throne, The Pen, Adam and Paradise. Then
for the rest of creation He simply said exist then it did.”
Collected by Al-Hakim in
his Mustadarak (3244). Al-Hakim graded this hadeeth as being Saheeh. Imam
Ath-Thahabee and Shaykh Al-Albani(May
Allah have mercy on them) both agreed
with this ruling as well.
Allah, may He be exalted, singled out Adam (peace be
upon him) to create him with His hands, as He has told us, and He did not
create any other animate being with His hands. Allah, may He be glorified, says
(interpretation of the meaning):
“[Allah] said, ‘O Iblees, what prevented you from
prostrating to that which I created with My hands? Were you arrogant [then], or
were you [already] among the haughty?’”
[Saad 38:75].
In the hadith of intercession, the Prophet
(blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said: “I will be the leader of the
people on the Day of Resurrection. Do you know why that is? Allah will gather
together the first and the last in one plain, so that the onlooker will be able
to see them and the caller will be able to make them hear. The sun will be
brought close to them, And some of the people will say: ‘Do you not see the
state you are in? Do you not see what has happened to you. Why do you not
look for someone who will intercede for you with your Lord?’ Some of the people
will say, ‘[Go to] your father Adam.’ So they will go to him and say, ‘O Adam,
you are the father of mankind, Allah created you with His own hand and breathed
into you the soul that He had created for you, and commanded the angels to
prostrate to you, and He caused you to dwell in Paradise. Intercede for us with
your Lord. Do you not see the state we are in? Do you not see what has happened
to us?’ [Adam] will say: ‘My Lord is angry today in a way in which He has never
been angry before and will never be angry again. He forbade me to approach the
tree, but I disobeyed Him. Myself, myself. Go to someone else, go to Nooh…’”
Narrated by al-Bukhaari (3340) and Muslim (194).
Imam ad-Daarimi (may Allah have mercy on him) said:
Allah created Adam with His hand directly; He did not create any other animate
being with His hands. Thus He singled him out, favoured him and honoured him
with that renown.
End quote from Naqd ad-Daarimi ‘ala al-Mureesi, p.
64
Ad-Daarimi, al-Laalkaa’i, al-Aajurri and others
narrated with a saheeh isnad from Ibn ‘Umar that he said: Allah created four
things with His hand: the Throne, the Pen, Eden and Adam. Then He said to the
rest of creation: “Be,” and it was.
Ad-Daarimi narrated with a hasan isnad from Maysarah
Abu Saalih, the freed slave of Kindah, one of the Taabi‘een, that he said:
Allah did not directly handle anything of His creation except in three cases:
He created Adam with His hand, he wrote the Torah with His hand, and He planted
the Garden of Eden (Jannat ‘Adan) with His hand.
Naqd ad-Daarimi, p. 99. The commentator, Shaykh
Mansoor as-Samaari, said in his introduction to the book: It was narrated from
other Taabi‘een, such as Hakeem ibn Jaabir and Muhammad ibn Ka‘b al-Qurazi,
with a saheeh isnad, which I have quoted in my comment on the report where it
appears in the book.
These are the four things that Allah created with
His hand: the Throne, the Pen, the garden of Eden, and Adam. As for all other
created beings, they were created by the word “Be,” and they were.
By Mohammed Asif Ali. #MohammedAsifAli
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