[8] Moving Away from the Epidemic...
[8] Moving Away from the Epidemic: وَ سَأَلْتُهُ عَنِ الْوَبَاءِ يَقَعُ فِي الْأَرْضِ هَلْ يَصْلُحُ لِلرَّجُلِ أَنْ يَهْرُبَ مِنْهُ قَالَ يَهْرُبُ مِنْهُ مَا لَمْ يَقَعْ فِي مَسْجِدِهِ الَّذِي يُصَلِّي فِيهِ فَإِذَا وَقَعَ فِي أَهْلِ مَسْجِدِهِ الَّذِي يُصَلِّي فِيهِ فَلَا يَصْلُحُ لَهُ الْهَرَبُ مِنْهُ And I asked him -asws about the epidemic occurring in the earth, is it correct for the man that he flees from it?’ He -asws said; ‘He can flee from it for as long it has not occurred in his Masjid in which he prays Salat in.
When it does occur among the people of his Masjid which he prays Salat in, then it is not correct for him to flee from it’.
[9] (An extract) علل الشرائع ابْنُ الْمُتَوَكِّلِ عَنِ السَّعْدَآبَادِيِّ عَنِ الْبَرْقِيِّ عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ حُمَيْدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ قَالَ: قُلْتُ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع الْقَوْمُ يَكُونُونَ فِي الْبَلَدِ يَقَعُ فِيهَا الْمَوْتُ أَ لَهُمْ أَنْ يَتَحَوَّلُوا عَنْهَا إِلَى غَيْرِهَا قَالَ نَعَمْ قُلْتُ بَلَغَنَا أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص عَابَ قَوْماً بِذَلِكَ Ibn Al Mutawakkal, from Al Sa’ad Abady, from Al Barqy, from Ibn Mahboub, from Aasim Bin Hameed, from Ali Bin Al Mugheira who said, ‘I said to Abu Abdullah -asws , ‘The people happen to be in the city in which the death occurs (by plague).
It is for them that they transfer from it to another?’ He -asws said: ‘Yes’. I said, ‘It has reached us that Rasool-Allah -saww faulted a people with that’. فَقَالَ أُولَئِكَ كَانُوا رَتَبَةً بِإِزَاءِ الْعَدُوِّ فَأَمَرَهُمْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص أَنْ يَثْبُتُوا فِي مَوْضِعِهِمْ وَ لَا يَتَحَوَّلُوا مِنْهُ إِلَى غَيْرِهِ فَلَمَّا وَقَعَ فِيهِمُ الْمَوْتُ تَحَوَّلُوا مِنْ ذَلِكَ الْمَكَانِ إِلَى غَيْرِهِ فَكَانَ تَحْوِيلُهُمْ مِنْ ذَلِكَ الْمَكَانِ إِلَى غَيْرِهِ كَالْفِرَارِ مِنَ الزَّحْفِ.
He -asws said: ‘Those were a category facing the enemy, so Rasool-Allah -saww ordered them that they should stay in their places and not to transfer from it to somewhere else. When the death (by killing of enemies) occurred among them, they transferred from that place to another, so their transfer from that place to another would (otherwise) have been like the fleeing from the army’’. [10] Additional Ahadith on moving away from the epidemic are given in Appendix II.
Wrath of Allah -azwj : محمد بن يحيى يرفعه، عَنْ أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ، قَالَ: «دَعَا نَبِيٌّ مِنَ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ عَلى قَوْمِهِ، فَقِيلَ لَهُ: أُسَلِّطُ عَلَيْهِمْ عَدُوَّهُمْ؟ فَقَالَ: لَا.
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