[Machine] I was walking with the Prophet in a field in the city, and we passed by a group of Jews. Some of them said to each other, "Ask him about the soul." Some of them said, "Don't ask him." So they said, "O Muhammad, what is the soul?" He stood up while leaning on a stick, and I was behind him, thinking that he was being inspired. He said, "{They ask you, [O Muhammad], about the soul. Say, 'The soul is of the affair of my Lord. And you have not been given of knowledge except a little}'" [Al-Isra, 17:85]. Some of them said to each other, "We had already told you not to ask him."
كُنْتُ أَمْشِي مَعَ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ فِي حَرْثٍ بِالْمَدِينَةِ فَمَرَّ عَلَى قَوْمٍ مِنَ الْيَهُودِ فَقَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ لِبَعْضٍ سَلُوهُ عَنِ الرُّوحِ؟ فَقَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ لَا تَسْأَلُوهُ فَقَالُوا يَا مُحَمَّدُ مَا الرُّوحُ؟ قَالَ فَقَامَ وَهُوَ مُتَوَكِّئٌ عَلَى عَسِيبٍ وَأَنَا خَلْفَهُ فَظَنَنْتُ أَنَّهُ يُوحَى إِلَيْهِ فَقَالَ {يَسْأَلُونَكَ عَنِ الرُّوحِ قُلِ الرُّوحُ مِنْ أَمْرِ رَبِّي وَمَا أُوتِيتُمْ مِنَ الْعِلْمِ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا} [الإسراء 85] قَالَ فَقَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ قَدْ قُلْنَا لَا تَسْأَلُوهُ