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   From: francine@enicnarf.tld   
      
   "Francine Herrera"  wrote in message   
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   > Hadith: Islamic law or traditional belief outside of the Quran. The   
   > following hadith is certainly the most hilarious I've come across so far.   
   >   
   >  Volume 1, Book 5, Number 277:   
   >   Narrated Abu Huraira:   
   >   
   >   The Prophet said, 'The (people of) Bani Israel used to take bath naked   
   > (all together) looking at each other. The Prophet Moses used to take a   
   bath   
   > alone. They said, 'By Allah! Nothing prevents Moses from taking a bath   
   with   
   > us except that he has a scrotal hernia.' So once Moses went out to take a   
   > bath and put his clothes over a stone and then that stone ran away with   
   his   
   > clothes. Moses followed that stone saying, "My clothes, O stone! My   
   clothes,   
   > O stone! till the people of Bani Israel saw him and said, 'By Allah, Moses   
   > has got no defect in his body. Moses took his clothes and began to beat   
   the   
   > stone." Abu Huraira added, "By Allah! There are still six or seven marks   
   > present on the stone from that excessive beating."   
   >   
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   http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/00   
   .sbt.html#001.005.277   
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