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people looked unfamiliar to him. Even, he did not find his own house easily.When he reached the house, he found a crippled blind old woman at the age ofone hundred twenty years old. She was a maid owned by him in the past and heleft her while she was only twenty years old. He asked her saying: is this thehouse of 'Uzair? She said: Yes, it is. She wept and said: Today, no one everremembers `Uzair. He told her that he was 'Uzair and Allah the Almighty causedme to die for one hundred years then He gave me life again. She said: Glory is tobe to Allah! We lost 'Uzair one hundred years ago and never heard anythingabout him. He said: Verily, I am 'Uzair. She said: 'Uzair was a man whosesupplications were acceptable by Allah the Almighty, so invoke Allah to return mysight to me to look at you, so if you were 'Uzair, I would certainly know you.Consequently, he invoked Allah the Almighty, then, he wiped over her eyes andthey were recovered and took her by the hand and said: Stand up by the Leaveof Allah! She stood up by the Leave of Allah. She looked at him and said: I bearwitness that you are 'Uzair. Then, she set out for the Children of Israel in theirmeetings and gatherings and 'Uzair's son who was about one hundred andeighteen years old and his grandsons, and she called them saying: This is 'Uzairwho came back to you. They belied her, but she said: I am so and so, your maid.He invoked Allah for me and He recovered my eyesight and legs. She added: heclaims that Allah caused him to die for one hundred years and then He gave himlife again. The people rose up and went to look at him. His son said: my fatherhad a black mole between his shoulders. He disclosed his shoulders and theyrealized that he was 'Uzair. The Children of Israel said: 'Uzair was the only onewho committed the whole Torah to his heart and Bikhtinassar burnt it andnothing is left thereof but. what the men can remember, so (if you are the true'Uzair) write it down for us. His father, Surukha buried the Torah during that eraof Bikhrinassar in a place known to nobody but 'Uzair. Thus, he took them tothat place and brought it out, but unfortunately, the papers were rotten andruined. Consequently, he sat under the shade of a tree circulated by the Childrenof Israel and he renovated the Torah for them. At that time, two stars descendedfrom the sky and entered into his mouth whereby he remembered the whole textof the Torah and thus renovated it to the Children of Israel. Thus, {The Jewssay: 'Uzair (Ezra) is the son of Allah}. (At-Taubah, 30) for the matter of the twostars, renovating the Torah and charging the affairs of the Children of Israel. Herenovated the Torah for them in the land of As-Sawad. The town in which hedied is said to be called "Sairabadh."'Abdullah Ibn 'Abbas (May Allah be pleased with him) said: Thus he was assaid by Allah the Almighty: {And thus We have made of you a sign for thepeople} i.e. for the Children of Israel. That he was with his sons a young manamong old people for he died when he was only forty and was revived on thesame age and status. 'Abdullah Ibn 'Abbas said: he was resurrected after thetime of Bikhtinassar. The same was related by Al-Hasan.www.islambasics.com
Was He a Prophet?It is well known that 'Uzair was one of the Prophets sent to the Children ofIsrael; he came during the interval between Dawud and Sulaiman, and Zakariyaand Yahya. At his time, none from among the Children of Israel happened tomemorize the Torah, Allah the Almighty inspired him to commit it to his heartand then he recited it to the Children of Israel. Wahb Ibn Munabih said: Allah theAlmighty ordered an Angel to descend with light to throw on 'Uzair .In doing this,he copied the Torah letter by letter till he was finished.Ibn 'Asakir narrated on the authority of 'Abdullah Ibn 'Abbas (May Allah bepleased with him) that he asked' Abdullah Ibn Salam about Allah's Statement:{The Jews say: 'Uzair (Ezra) is the son of Allah}. (At-Taubah, 30) why didthey say so? Ibn Salam mentioned his ('Uzair's) writing down of the Torah out ofhis memory, and the saying of the Jews that Musa (Moses) could not get themthe Torah but in a book, and that 'Uzair got it without a book. Thereupon, someof them said: 'Uzair (Ezra) is the son of Allah. For this reason, many scholarssay: there was a discontinuation pertaining to the transmission of the Torah atthe time of 'Uzair. This is very likely if 'Uzair was not a Prophet which is adoptedby 'Ata 'Ibn Abu Rabah and Al-Hasan Al-Basri, and that was narrated by IshaqIbn Bishr after Muqatil Ibn Sulaiman after 'Ata 'Ibn Abu Rabah as saying: thatperiod witnessed nine things: Bikhtinassar, Sanaa garden, Saba' garden, Ownersof the Ditch, Gasura, Owners of the Cave, Owners of the Elephant, Antioch, andTubba'.Ishaq Ibn Bishr said: I was told by Sa'id after Qatadah after Al-Hasan assaying: That period witnessed the issues of 'Uzair and Bikhtinassar. Moreover, itis transmitted in the Sahih Muslim that Allah's Messenger (Peace be upon him)said: "l am most akin to the son of Mary among the whole of mankind and theProphets are of different mothers, but of one religion, and no Prophet was raisedbetween me and him (Jesus Christ). "Wahb Ibn Munabih said: He was raised between Sulaiman and 'Isa (Jesus)(Peace be upon them). Ibn 'Asakir narrated after Anas Ibn Malik and' Ata 'IbnAs-Sa'ib as saying: 'Uzair was raised during the time of Musa Ibn 'Imran, andthat he asked for permission to meet with Musa (Peace be upon him), but herefused because of his asking about the Divine Decree. He left while saying: todie a hundred times, is easier than tasting the humiliation for an hour.As for what was narrated by Ibn 'Asakir and others on the authority of Ibn'Abbas, Nuf AIBakali, Sufyan Ath-Thawri and others that he asked about theDivine Decree and consequently his name was erased from among the names ofthe Prophets. It is a rejected and unauthentic Hadith that it is likely to be copiedfrom the tales and stories that were invented by the Israelites.Narrated 'Abdul Razzaq and Qutaibah Ibn Sa' id after Ja'far Ibn Sulaimanafter Abu 'Imran Al-Juni after Nuf Al-Bakali as saying: 'Uzair said to his Lord: 0Lord! You fashioned the creation, and You mislead whom You will and guidewww.islambasics.com
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Translator's NoteAll praise and tha
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Page 14 and 15: Allah the Almighty says:In the Name
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Page 34 and 35: Allah the Almighty says: {And as fo
Page 36 and 37: Is Al-Khadir Still Alive?The majori
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Page 50 and 51: whoever is ungrateful, (he is ungra
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Page 70 and 71: people of Paradise." We shouted, "A
Page 72 and 73: In Ibn Jarir's exegesis of the Qur'
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