قَالَ فَعَلْتُهَآ إِذًۭا وَأَنَا۠ مِنَ ٱلضَّآلِّينَ
Qaala fa'altuhaaa izanw wa ana minad daaaleen
[Moses] said, "I did it, then, while I was of those astray.
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Lessons from past peoples
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He Moses said ‘I did that then when I was astray from the knowledge and the Message which God would later give me.
Related Hadiths
I came. And in the narration transmitted on the authority of Haddib (the words are): I happened to pass by Moses on the occasion of the Night journey near the red mound (and found him) saying his prayer in his grave.
I happened to pass by Moses as he was busy in saying prayer in his grave, and in the hadith transmitted on the authority of 'Isa there is an addition of these words:, I happened to pass on the occasion of the Night journey."
I said: Messenger of Allah, I did so some of the deeds in the state of ignorance. (One of the transmitters Hisham b. Urwa explained them as acts of piety. Upon this the Messenger, of Allah remarked: You have embraced Islam with all the previous acts of virtue. I said: By God, I would leave nothing undone in Islam the like of which I did in the state of ignorance.
“I
performed prayer with the Prophet (ﷺ) and when he said: ‘Nor of
those who went astray’, he said Amin and we heard that from
him.”
He who did it, i. e. the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), was better than I.
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