Sunan ad-Darimi 13

Translation

✧ A man said to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, “How was the beginning of your affair, O Messenger of Allah?” He said, “My caretaker was from Banū Saʿd b. Bakr. I went out with a son of hers among some lambs of ours, and we did not take any provisions with us. I said, ‘O my brother, go and bring us some provisions from our mother.’ My brother went, and I stayed with the lambs. Then two white birds came, like two eagles. One of them said to the other, ‘Is it he?’ The other said, ‘Yes.’ They came hastening to me, took me, and laid me on my back. They split my belly, then took out my heart and split it. They removed from it two black clots. One of them said to the other, ‘Bring me snow water,’ and he washed my inside with it. Then he said, ‘Bring me cool water,’ and he washed my heart with it. Then he said, ‘Bring me tranquility,’ and he sprinkled it in my heart. Then one of them said to the other, ‘Sew it up,’ and he sewed it up and sealed it with the seal of prophethood. Then one of them said to the other, ‘Put him in one scale and put a thousand of his community in the other scale.’” The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Then I looked at the thousand above me, fearing that some of them might fall on me. He said, ‘If his community were weighed against him, he would outweigh them.’ Then they left and left me.” The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “I was extremely terrified. Then I went to my mother and told her what I had encountered. She feared that something had confused me, so she said, ‘I seek refuge for you in Allah.’ She saddled a camel of hers, placed me on the saddle, and rode behind me until we reached my mother. She said, ‘I have fulfilled my trust and my duty,’ and told her what I had encountered. That did not alarm her, and she said, ‘When he came out of me, I saw something—meaning a light—that illuminated the palaces of Syria.’”

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• Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī

  رواه أحمد والطبراني ولم يسق المتن وإسناد أحمد حسن

  in مسند الدارمي, p. 13

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿUtbah b. ʿAbd al-Ḥimṣī

   Famous Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 87 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH
   عُتْبَةُ بْنُ عَبْدٍ الْحِمْصِيُّصحابي شهير
   حدثهم
2. 2
   ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAmr al-Sulamī

   acceptable (maqbūl)d. 110 AH
   عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ عَمْرٍو السُّلَمِيُّمقبول
   حدثنا
3. 3
   Khālid b. Maʿdān

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid), who often narrated with omission of the Companion or intermediary (yursilu kathīran).d. 103 AH, or: 104 AH, or: 105 AH, also said: 106 AH, or: 108 AH
   خَالِدِ بْنِ مَعْدَانَثقة عابد ، يرسل كثيرا.
   عن
4. 4
   Baḥīr b. Saʿd

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. between 141 and 150 AH
   بَحِيرٍثقة ثبت
   عن
5. 5
   Baqiyyah

   truthful (ṣadūq), frequently practises concealment (tadlīs) from weak narratorsd. Ibn Saʿd said, and more than one: died (197) AH, Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm b. al-ʿAlāʾ said: 198 AH; Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 199 AH; Ibn Ḥibbān said: 190 AH
   بَقِيَّةُصدوق ، كثير التدليس عن الضعفاء
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād

   truthful (ṣadūq), makes many mistakes, A jurist knowledgeable in the laws of inheritance (farāʾiḍ)d. 227 AH, or 228 AH, 229 AH
   نُعَيْمُ بْنُ حَمَّادٍصدوق يخطئ كثيرا ، فقيه عارف بالفرائض
   أخبرنا
7. 7
   al-Dārimī

   trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil), meticulous (mutqin)d. 254 AH, or 255 AH, also said: 250 AH
   الدارميثقة ، فاضل ، متقن

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