Question:
Salam ‘alaykum Shaykh Gibril,
In Adab al-Mufrad, the hadith from ibn Sayyidina ‘Umar (r) on the Kabair,
he mentions one as وَالَّذِي يَسْتَسْخِرُ translated as “scoffing”. Can you clarify the meaning?
http://sunnah.com/adab/1
بَابُ لِينِ الْكَلاَمِ لِوَالِدَيْهِ
Answer:
`Alaykum Salam,
They are those meant in Surat al-Saaffaat (37) verse 14, mocking Allah and the Prophet when they see a miracle like the splitting of the moon, or (in our time) are told about it:
وَإِذَا رَأَوْا آيَةً يَسْتَسْخِرُونَ وَقَالُوا إِنْ هَذَا إِلَّا سِحْرٌ مُّبِينٌ
But other, less authoritative versions of the same hadith have يستحسر “to despair” and يستسحر “to resort to witchcraft” (see here, note 20).
Hajj Gibril Haddad
