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ahmad:18411Sufyān > Mujālid > al-Shaʿbī Samiʿah from al-Nuʿmān b. Bashīr

[Machine] I heard the Prophet ﷺ saying: "The example of the person abiding by Allah's limits and the one who exceeds them is like the example of people who drew lots for their seats in a boat. Some of them got seats in the upper part, and the others in the lower part. When the latter needed water, they had to go up to bring water (and that troubled the others), so they said, 'Let us make a hole in our part of the ship (and get water) saving those who are above us from troubling them.' So, if the people in the upper part left the others do what they had suggested, all the people of the ship would be destroyed, but if they prevented them, both parties would be saved."  

أحمد:١٨٤١١حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ مُجَالِدٍ عَنِ الشَّعْبِيِّ سَمِعَهُ مِنَ النُّعْمَانِ بْنِ بَشِيرٍ

سَمِعْتُ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ يَقُولُ مَثَلُ الْمُدَّهِنِ وَالْوَاقِعِ فِي حُدُودِ اللهِ قَالَ سُفْيَانُ مَرَّةً الْقَائِمِ فِي حُدُودِ اللهِ مَثَلُ ثَلَاثَةٍ رَكِبُوا فِي سَفِينَةٍ فَصَارَ لِأَحَدِهِمْ أَسْفَلُهَاوَأَوْعَرُهَا وَشَرُّهَا فَكَانَ يَخْتَلِفُ وَثَقُلَ عَلَيْهِمْ كُلَّمَا مَرَّ فَقَالَ أَخْرِقُ خَرْقًا يَكُونُ أَهْوَنَ عَلَيَّ وَلَا يَكُونُ مُخْتَلَفِي عَلَيْهِمْ فَقَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ إِنَّمَا يَخْرِقُ فِي نَصِيبِهِ وَقَالَ آخَرُونَ لَا فَإِنْ أَخَذُوا عَلَى يَدَيْهِ نَجَا وَنَجَوْا وَإِنْ تَرَكُوهُ هَلَكَ وَهَلَكُوا