Anas reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) happened to pass by the people who had been busy in grafting the trees. Thereupon he said:
If you were not to do it, it might be good for you. (So they abandoned this practice) and there was a decline in the yield. He (the Prophet) happened to pass by them (and said): What has gone wrong with your trees? They said: You said so and so. Thereupon he said: You have better knowledge (of a technical skill) in the affairs of the world.
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ، وَعَمْرٌو النَّاقِدُ، كِلاَهُمَا عَنِ الأَسْوَدِ بْنِ عَامِرٍ، - قَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَسْوَدُ بْنُ عَامِرٍ، - حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ، وَعَنْ ثَابِتٍ، عَنْ أَنَسٍ، أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم مَرَّ بِقَوْمٍ يُلَقِّحُونَ فَقَالَ " لَوْ لَمْ تَفْعَلُوا لَصَلُحَ " . قَالَ فَخَرَجَ شِيصًا فَمَرَّ بِهِمْ فَقَالَ " مَا لِنَخْلِكُمْ " . قَالُوا قُلْتَ كَذَا وَكَذَا قَالَ " أَنْتُمْ أَعْلَمُ بِأَمْرِ دُنْيَاكُمْ " .
Isnad
10 transmitters- 1Abu Bakr bin Abi ShaybaKufa · d. ~235 AH
- 2al-'Aswad bin 'Amir ShadhanSyria,Baghdad · d. 208 AH
- 3Abu Bakr bin Abi UvaisMedina · d. 202 AH
- 4al-'Aswad bin 'Amir ShadhanSyria,Baghdad · d. 208 AH
- 5Hammad bin SalamaBasra · d. 167 AH
- 6Hisham bin 'UrwaMedina · d. 146 AH
- 7'Urwa ibn al-ZubayrMedina · d. 93 AH/713 CE
- 8'Aisha bint Abi BakrMakkah/Medina · d. 57 AH/678 CE (17 Ramadan)
- 9Thabit bin Aslam Albananial-Basra · d. > 120 AH
- 10Anas bin MalikMedinah,Damascus, Basrah · d. 93 AH/712 CE
References2 variants
- In-Book Reference
- Book 43, Hadith 186
- USC-MSA web (English) reference
- Book 30, Hadith 5832 (deprecated numbering scheme)