Is the saying about the world being fresh blood a Prophetic statement?
2026-10-14
T161 · Ibn Taymiyyah
Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah
شيخ الإسلام أحمد بن تيمية
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النص العربي
السؤال الأصلي
ومما يروونه عنه صلى الله عليه وسلم، أنه قال: "لو كانت الدنيا دما عبيطا كان قوت المؤمن منها حلالا".
الجواب
الحمد لله، ليس هذا من كلام النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم، ولا يعرف عنه بإسناد، ولكن المؤمن لابد أن يتيح الله له من الرزق ما يغنيه، ويمتنع في الشرع أن يحرم على المؤمن مالا بد منه، فإن الله لم يوجب على المؤمنين مالا يستطيعونه، ولا حرم عليهم ما يضطرون إليه من غير معصية منهم. قاله وكتبه أحمد بن تيمية.
English translation
English translation prepared for SalafAlSalih.com from the cited Arabic source. It is not an official translation.
Original question
Among the reports they attribute to him, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, is that he said: “If the world were fresh blood, the believer's sustenance from it would be lawful.”
Answer
Praise be to Allah. These are not the words of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, nor is this known from him through a chain of transmission. But Allah will certainly make available to the believer provision sufficient for him. It is impossible in the revealed law for what the believer cannot do without to be forbidden to him: Allah has not required believers to do what they cannot do, nor forbidden them what necessity compels them to use when that necessity arises without disobedience on their part. Aḥmad ibn Taymiyyah stated and wrote this.
Source and editorial notes
Majmūʿ al-Fatāwā 18/375–376
مجموع الفتاوى
Majmūʿ al-Fatāwā
Arabic collated with the cited edition and a second transcription: https://quranislam.github.io/fatwa/ibn-taymiyyah/fatwa291.html. Each individual report and its full reply is preserved within the larger collected question. Diacritics omitted and honorific glyphs expanded. Titles and scope notes are editorial.