I really wanted to complete reciting it

Reference: Siyar A’laam an-Nubalaa v12 p391

Muhammad ibn Abi Haatim رحمه الله said:

Muhammad ibn Ismaa’eel [al-Bukhaaree] was invited to a garden belonging to some of his friends. [Later], after he had prayed the Zhuhr [prayer] with them, he then began to pray voluntary (nawaafil) prayers. When he had finished, he raised the bottom of his shirt and asked some of those around him to have a look to see if there was anything under his shirt.

[What had actually happened was that] hornets had bitten him in 16 or 17 different places, and his body had become swollen as a result of that; some of those around him said [to him]: ‘How is it you didn’t break your prayer when you were first stung?’

And he responded: ‘I was reciting a soorah, and really wanted to complete [reciting] it.’


Translation originally published on 28 April, 2016.

Graduate of the Islaamic University of Madeenah, having completed the Arabic Language programme at the Institute of Arabic Language before progressing to the Faculty of Sharee'ah, from which he graduated in 2004. He currently resides in Birmingham, UK.

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