Hadith 259

(The book) ‘Al Kashy’ – from Muhammad Bin Masoud, from Ja’far Bin Ahmad, from Al Amraky, from Ahmad Bin Sheyba, from Yahya Bin Al Musanna, from Ali Bin Al-Hassan, and Ziyad, from Hareyz who said, ‘I entered to see Abu Haneefa. He said to me, ‘I shall ask you about an issue, there does not happen to be anything regarding it. What are you saying regarding a camel extracted from the sea? ’
I said, ‘If he so desires, let him heat a camel, and if he so desires let him eat a cow, if there were scales upon it, we can eat it, or else, so no’’. [131] (This is not a Hadeeth)
(The book) ‘Al Dalaail’ of Al Himeyri – from his brother, from Ahmad Bin Ali, well known as Ibn Al Baghdady who said, ‘I found in the book ‘Al Mo’zilaat’ (the dillemmas) a reported by Abu Talib Muhammad Bin Al Husayn Bin Zayd, from his father Ibn Rabah, raitins it from his men, from Muhammad Bin Sabit who said, ‘I was seated in a gathering of our chief Abu Al-Hassan Ali Bin Al Husayn Zayn Al Abideen-asws when Abdullah Bin Umar Bin Al-Khattab paused by him-asws. He said to him-asws, ‘O Ali-asws Bin Al Husayn-asws! It has reached me that you-asws are claiming that Yunus Bin Mata-as, the Wilayah of your-asws (grand) father-asws (Ali-asws) was presented to him-as, but he-as did not accept it, therefore he-as was withheld in the belly of the whale! ’
Ali-asws Bin Al Husayn-asws said to him: ‘O Abdullah Bin Umar! And what make you deny from that? ’ He said, ‘I do not accept it’. He-asws said: ‘Would you like that to be proven correct for you? ’ He said, ‘Yes’. He-asws said: ‘Be seated’. Then he-asws called his-asws servant and said to him: ‘Bring us two blindfolds! ’ And he-asws said to me: ‘O Muhammad! Blindfold the eyes of Abdullah with one of the blindfolds and tie your eyes with the other’. So we ti