Tarikh (al-Tabari) 129
The story of Abraham the Friend (peace and blessings be upon him)
صِفَةِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ قَالَ الْإِمَامُ أَحْمَدُ: بسنده عَنْ جَابِرٍ، عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَنَّهُ قَالَ: عُرِضَ عَلَيَّ الْأَنْبِيَاءُ؛ فَإِذَا مُوسَى ضَرْبٌ مِنَ الرِّجَالِ كَأَنَّهُ مِنْ رِجَالِ شَنُوءَةَ، وَرَأَيْتُ عِيسَى ابْنَ مَرْيَمَ فَإِذَا أَقْرَبُ مَنْ رَأَيْتُ بِهِ شَبَهًا عُرْوَةُ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ، وَرَأَيْتُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ فَإِذَا أَقْرَبُ مَنْ رَأَيْتُ بِهِ شَبَهًا صَاحِبُكُمْ يَعْنِي نَفْسَهُ ﷺ، وَرَأَيْتُ جِبْرِيلَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ فَإِذَا أَقْرَبُ مَنْ رَأَيْتُ بِهِ شَبَهًا دِحْيَةُ. تَفَرَّدَ بِهِ الْإِمَامُ أَحْمَدُ مِنْ هَذَا الْوَجْهِ، وَبِهَذَا اللَّفْظِ. وَقَالَ أَحْمَدُ بسنده عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ: رَأَيْتُ عِيسَى ابْنَ مَرْيَمَ، وَمُوسَى، وَإِبْرَاهِيمَ؛ فَأَمَّا عِيسَى فَأَحْمَرُ جَعْدٌ عَرِيضُ الصَّدْرِ ، وَأَمَّا مُوسَى فَآدَمُ جَسِيمٌ . قَالُوا لَهُ: فَإِبْرَاهِيمُ ؟ قَالَ: انْظُرُوا إِلَى صَاحِبِكُمْ. يَعْنِي نَفْسَهُ. وَقَالَ الْبُخَارِيُّ بسنده عَنْ مُجَاهِدٌ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ ابْنَ عَبَّاسٍ وَذَكَرُوا لَهُ الدَّجَّالَ بَيْنَ عَيْنَيْهِ مَكْتُوبٌ: كَافِرٌ أَوْ ك ف ر فَقَالَ: لَمْ أَسْمَعْهُ. وَلَكِنَّهُ قَالَ ﷺ: أَمَّا إِبْرَاهِيمُ فَانْظُرُوا إِلَى صَاحِبِكُمْ، وَأَمَّا مُوسَى فَجَعْدٌ آدَمُ عَلَى جَمَلٍ أَحْمَرَ مَخْطُومٍ بِخُلْبَةٍ، كَأَنِّي أَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهِ انْحَدَرَ فِي الْوَادِي.
Translation
✧ The Description of Ibrāhīm ﷺ Imām Aḥmad said: with his chain of narration from Jābir, from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ that he said: “The prophets were presented to me; and there was Mūsā, a lean man, as if he were one of the men of Shanūʾah, and I saw ʿĪsā son of Maryam, and the closest of those I have seen in resemblance to him is ʿUrwah b. Masʿūd, and I saw Ibrāhīm, and the closest of those I have seen in resemblance to him is your companion — meaning himself ﷺ — and I saw Jibrīl ﷺ, and the closest of those I have seen in resemblance to him is Diḥyah.” Imām Aḥmad is alone in transmitting it from this route and with this wording. And Aḥmad said: with his chain of narration from Ibn ʿAbbās who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “I saw ʿĪsā son of Maryam, and Mūsā, and Ibrāhīm. As for ʿĪsā, he was reddish, with curly hair, broad-chested. As for Mūsā, he was dark-skinned and large-bodied.” They said to him: “And Ibrāhīm?” He said: “Look at your companion,” meaning himself. And al-Bukhārī said: with his chain of narration from Mujāhid that he heard Ibn ʿAbbās — and they mentioned to him the Dajjāl, between whose eyes is written: kāfir, or k f r — and he said: “I did not hear it. But he ﷺ said: ‘As for Ibrāhīm, look at your companion; and as for Mūsā, he was curly-haired, dark-skinned, on a red camel, bridled with a palm-fiber rope, as if I were looking at him descending into the valley.’”
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