Malfuzat - Volume VIII — Page 83
29 October 1905 83 except death and taking of the soul. Whoever denies it, it is incumbent upon him to present some example counter to this from the lexicons. 3. With great effort and striving, as far as it was possible for me, I have carefully looked at the S i hah -e-Sitta [Six Authentic Books of Hadith] and other books of a ha d i th. I did not come across a single place in which the meaning of ْ تَوَفِّی ْ تَوَفِّی —[ tawaff i ] was any- thing other than death in the Hadith. 1 However, I discovered approximately 300 such instances where it meant death in every case. 4. As far as it was possible for me, I have also seen different divans of Arabia. However, I have not found any phrase in the writ- ings of the poets of J a hiliyyah [the pre-Islamic period known as ‘Ignorance’], or the authentic poets of the age of Islam, in the circumstances described above where any other meaning than death was found. 5. The same is also written in Sh a h Waliull a h’s Fauzul-Kab i r that َ ْك َ مُـمِیْتُك ِّی مُتَوَف َ ْك َ مُـمِیْتُك ِّی مُتَوَف [ mutawaff i ka means mum i tuka— ‘I shall give you death’]. Furthermore, I know that Sh a h Waliull a h Sahib was a mu h addith [jurist] and learned scholar of excellent standing. 6. It is found in the hadith of the Mi‘r a j [Spiritual Ascension], which is in S a hih al-Bukh a r i , that on the night of the Mi‘r a j, the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, saw Jesus, peace be on him, among the deceased Prophets. 2 1. S a hih al-Bukh a rī, Kit a b Tafs i r al-Qur’ a n, B a bu M ā Ja‘ala All a hu min Ba-h i ratin wa l a S a ’ibatin wa l a Wa si latin wa l a Ha min [ al-M a ‘idah : 103]. [Publisher] 2. S a hih a l- Bukh a r i , Kit a bu A ha d i th al-Anbiy a ’, b a b Dhikr Ra h mat Rabik, Hadith 3430 [Publisher]