قَالَ مُوسَى فَسَأَلْتُ الْخَضِرَ عَنْ ذَلِكَ فَلَمْ يُجِبْ وَ إِذَا نَحْنُ بِصَيَّادٍ يَصْطَادُ فَنَظَرَ إِلَيْنَا وَ قَالَ مَا لِي أَرَاكُمَا فِي فِكْرٍ وَ تَعَجُّبٍ فَقُلْنَا فِي أَمْرِ الطَّائِرِ فَقَالَ أَنَا رَجُلٌ صَيَّادٌ وَ قَدْ عَلِمْتُ إِشَارَتَهُ وَ أَنْتُمَا نَبِيَّانِ لَا تَعْلَمَانِ قُلْنَا مَا نَعْلَمُ إِلَّا مَا عَلَّمَنَا اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ Musa -as said: ‘I -as asked Al Khizr -as about that, but he -as did not answer, and there we -as were by a fisherman fishing.
He looked at us -as and said: ‘What is the matter I see you -as both in thought and wondering?’ We -as said: ‘Regarding the matter of the bird’. He said, ‘I am a fisherman and I have known its gestures and you -as two are Prophets -as , not knowing’. We -as said: ‘We -as do not know except what Allah -azwj Mighty and Majestic Teaches us -as ’.
قَالَ هَذَا طَائِرٌ فِي الْبَحْرِ يُسَمَّى مسلم لِأَنَّهُ إِذَا صَاحَ يَقُولُ فِي صِيَاحِهِ مسلم وَ أَشَارَ بِذَلِكَ إِلَى أَنَّهُ يَأْتِي فِي آخِرِ الزَّمَانِ نَبِيٌّ يَكُونُ عِلْمُ أَهْلِ الْمَشْرِقِ وَ الْمَغْرِبِ وَ أَهْلِ السَّمَاءِ وَ الْأَرْضِ عِنْدَ عِلْمِهِ مِثْلَ هَذِهِ الْقَطْرَةِ الْمُلْقَاةِ فِي الْبَحْرِ وَ يَرِثُ عِلْمَهُ ابْنُ عَمِّهِ وَ وَصِيُّهُ He said, ‘This bird in the sea is called ‘Muslim’ because when it shouts, it says in its shouting, ‘Muslim’, and indicated by that to that there will be coming at the end of times, a Prophet ‑saww having knowledge of the people of the east and the west and the sky and the earth.
Your ‑as knowledge compared to his -saww knowledge is like this drop cast in the sea, and the son -asws of his -saww brother -as and his -saww successor -asws would inherit his -saww knowledge’ .
فَسَكَنَ مَا كُنَّا فِيهِ مِنَ الْمُشَاجَرَةِ وَ اسْتَقَلَّ كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ مِنَّا عِلْمَهُ بَعْدَ أَنْ كُنَّا بِهِ مُعْجَبِينَ وَ مَشَيْنَا ثُمَّ غَابَ الصَّيَّادُ عَنَّا فَعَلِمْنَا أَنَّهُ مَلَكٌ بَعَثَهُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ إِلَيْنَا يُعَرِّفُنَا بِنَقْصِنَا حَيْثُ ادَّعَيْنَا الْكَمَالَ So, the quarrelling what we were in was settled, and each one of us -as considered little afterwards, what we -as had been astounded with, and we -as walked away.
Then the fisherman disappeared from us and we -as knew that it was an Angel of Allah -azwj Mighty and Majestic had Sent him to us -as to make us -as recognise our deficiencies when we -as claiming the perfection’’.