{"id":3401,"date":"2013-10-22T20:18:01","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T20:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/?p=3401"},"modified":"2013-11-06T21:12:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T21:12:00","slug":"the-story-of-jesus-and-the-third-loaf-of-bread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/the-story-of-jesus-and-the-third-loaf-of-bread.htm","title":{"rendered":"The Story of Jesus and the Third Loaf of Bread"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the Name of Allaah, the Most Gracious, the Ever Merciful…<\/em><\/p>\n

A story about ‘Eesaa (Jesus), the son of Mary (Peace be upon him), and a greedy man who stole a loaf of bread,\u00a0was told by an unreliable\u00a0mid-second-century narrator,\u00a0Layth ibn Abee Sulaym.[1] The story goes as follows:<\/p>\n

[Allegedly] Jesus and a traveling companion had three loaves of bread. They stopped at a\u00a0beach to eat, and each one of them had a loaf of bread. When Jesus stood up\u00a0to wash his hands, he returned to find that the third loaf of bread was missing. He asked his companion about it, and he\u00a0replied that he did not know about it.<\/p>\n

They moved on [allegedly, as the story goes] until\u00a0they encountered\u00a0three deer – an adult and\u00a0two fawns. Jesus called one of the fawns\u00a0and it came. He then slaughtered it, and so\u00a0they cooked it and ate\u00a0part of it. Miraculously, Jesus ordered the fawn back to life by the Permission of Allaah, and so it stood up and left! Jesus then turned to the man and said, “I ask you by the One who has shown you this miracle, who took the third loaf of bread?” He\u00a0answered,\u00a0“I do not know.”<\/p>\n

They [allegedly]\u00a0moved on until they reached a flooded valley. Jesus took the man’s hand and they walked on top of the surface of the water! Jesus then\u00a0said, “I ask you by the One who has shown you this miracle, who took the third loaf of bread?” He\u00a0answered,\u00a0“I do not know.”<\/p>\n

They moved on until they stopped\u00a0in the middle of a wide plain. Jesus [allegedly] gathered a mound of dirt and ordered it to become gold by the Permission of Allaah. It became gold right in front of the man’s eyes! Then Jesus divided it into three parts, and said, “One part is for me, another for you, and the third part is for the one who took the loaf of bread.”<\/p>\n

“I\u00a0am the one who took the loaf of bread!”\u00a0admitted the man.<\/p>\n

Jesus said, “Then all of it is yours!” and he left him and moved on.<\/p>\n

Later, two men came upon this man with his gold. They wanted to take it from him and kill him, yet they agreed to take a third each and leave him with a third.<\/p>\n

When they became hungry, one of them was chosen\u00a0on their behalf to go get some food from a nearby village.\u00a0He\u00a0poisoned the food, planning to kill them with it and take all the gold for himself. Meanwhile, the\u00a0other two plotted to\u00a0kill him when he returned to split his share among themselves. When he returned they\u00a0attacked and killed him. Afterwards, they ate the poisoned food and died themselves. So there the treasure\u00a0sat, out in the open, unclaimed, surrounded by three\u00a0murder victims.<\/p>\n

Jesus later passed by this scene [allegedly], and said, “Such is the life of this world, so be warned!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As mentioned, the story was told by Layth ibn Abee Sulaym, a\u00a0follower of the students of\u00a0Ibn ‘Abbaas.[2]\u00a0The story is\u00a0most likely based on\u00a0things heard from the Christians and their stories about Jesus. We have no way to confirm this story as being correct or accurate,\u00a0while there does not seem to be anything inappropriate in it. Thus, we are\u00a0allowed to tell it as a\u00a0story told by the\u00a0Christians, based on the hadeeth:<\/p>\n

\u062d\u062f\u062b\u0648\u0627 \u0639\u0646 \u0628\u0646\u064a \u0625\u0633\u0631\u0627\u0626\u064a\u0644 \u0648\u0644\u0627 \u062d\u0631\u062c
\n<\/strong>“Narrate things from Banee Israa’eel <\/strong>(i.e. the Jews and Christians), and there is no harm in that…”<\/strong> [3]<\/p>\n

On the\u00a0latter end of the chain of narration, in our modern\u00a0age,\u00a0in the West, in the English language, we find\u00a0those who would\u00a0recklessly claim this\u00a0to be a hadeeth of the Messenger of Allaah (may Allaah\u00a0raise his rank and grant him peace)! [4]<\/p>\n

While the story\u00a0may<\/strong><\/em> have a basis from the stories told by the\u00a0Christians, it is absolutely impermissible\u00a0– in fact a major sin<\/strong><\/em> – to attribute it to the Messenger of Allaah (may Allaah raise his rank and grant him peace). The ruling\u00a0in Islaam\u00a0on such\u00a0a story is that we may\u00a0pass it on, without affirming it, just as a\u00a0tale that is told and it may be\u00a0true and maybe not,\u00a0so long as there is no\u00a0falsehood in it.<\/p>\n

However, the same hadeeth quoted above which allows the passing on of Christian\u00a0stories also identifies the act of lying on the Messenger of Allaah (may Allaah raise his rank and grant him peace) as a\u00a0serious transgression which leads a person to Hell:<\/p>\n

\u0648\u0645\u0646 \u0643\u0630\u0628 \u0639\u0644\u064a \u0645\u062a\u0639\u0645\u062f\u0627 \u0641\u0644\u064a\u062a\u0628\u0648\u0623 \u0645\u0642\u0639\u062f\u0647 \u0645\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0646\u0627\u0631<\/strong>
\n“…And whoever lies on me intentionally, let him take his seat in the Fire.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

And in the hadeeth collected by Imam Muslim in the Introduction of his Saheeh<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\u0643\u0641\u0649 \u0628\u0627\u0644\u0645\u0631\u0621 \u0643\u0630\u0628\u0627 \u0623\u0646 \u064a\u062d\u062f\u062b \u0628\u0643\u0644 \u0645\u0627 \u0633\u0645\u0639<\/strong>
\n“It is sufficient for a man to be known as a liar that he passes on everything he hears.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let it be known:<\/strong> This is not a hadeeth from our Messenger (may Allaah raise his rank and grant him peace). Those who have narrated it as such are required by their Religion to produce\u00a0a verifiable source\u00a0for their claim or\u00a0to make hasty repentence from attributing things to\u00a0the Messenger of Allaah\u00a0falsely, and to refrain from narrating things from him (may Allaah raise his rank and grant him peace)\u00a0except what they are certain is from him, as found in the authenticly preserved\u00a0source books of Islaam. And Allaah knows best.<\/p>\n

Written by: Moosaa Richardson<\/em><\/p>\n

FOOTNOTES:<\/strong><\/p>\n

[1] Layth ibn Abee Sulaym [d.141 or 142]<\/strong>\u00a0was considered highly unreliable\u00a0by Yahyaa ibn Sa’eed, Aboo Haatim, and Aboo Zur’ah. Other scholars did not abandon him, but they\u00a0did not rely on his narrations, like Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Yahyaa ibn Ma’een,\u00a0and Muslim. Even\u00a0Yahyaa ibn Ma’een and Ahmad ibn Hanbal were reported to have abandoned him in his later years after he became severely confused in his narrations. Review: Tah-theeb Tah-theeb al-Kamaal<\/em> (8\/466-468) of Ibn Hajr.<\/p>\n

[2] The story was\u00a0reported by Ibn Abee Dunyaa in az-Zuhd<\/em> (#175) and in Thamm ad-Dunyaa<\/em> (#79), Ibn al-A’raabee in his Mu’jam<\/em> (#2232), and Ibn ‘Asaakir in his Taareekh<\/em> (47\/394-396). All of them trace it back to Layth ibn Abee Sulaym. The few scholars after them who\u00a0mentioned\u00a0this story\u00a0in their books likewise attributed it to Layth.<\/p>\n

[3] Saheeh al-Bukhaaree<\/em> (#3461)<\/p>\n

[4] He is the preacher known as Yusuf Estes<\/strong> (may Allaah guide him). This is not the case of a scholar erring in a reference to a source book. Rather, this is another\u00a0case of an ignorant person speaking above his level. Without any meaningful studies of Islaam, Yusuf Estes is unable to quote Islaamic texts\u00a0from their sources accurately\u00a0or explain their meanings in accordance to the teachings of Islaam. When confronted and\u00a0asked for a source of this hadeeth recently, Yusuf Estes claimed it to be a\u00a0narration of our Prophet (may Allaah raise his rank and grant him peace) found in the\u00a0hadeeth collection of at-Tirmithee! (see this)<\/a><\/p>\n

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