Tarikh (al-Tabari) 183
Chapter mentioning the offspring of Abraham (peace and blessings be upon him)
مُلَخَّصُ قِصَّةِ ذِي الْكِفْلِ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ اخْتَلَفَ أَهْلُ الْعِلْمِ فِي نُبُوَّةِ ذِي الْكِفْلِ، وَالْمَشْهُورُ أَنَّهُ نَبِيٌّ عَلَيْهِ الصَّلَاةُ وَالسَّلَامُ، وَاخْتُلِفَ فِي تَعْيِينِهِ مَنْ يَكُونُ؟ فَقَالَ بَعْضُ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ: إِنَّهُ بِشْرُ بْنُ أَيُّوبَ، وَأَرْسَلَهُ أَيُّوبُ دَاعِيًا إِلَى تَوْحِيدِ اللَّهِ بِالشَّامِ، وَقَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ: هُوَ يُوشَعُ بْنُ نُونٍ، وَقِيلَ: غَيْرُ ذَلِكَ. وَاخْتُلِفَ فِي سَبَبِ تَسْمِيَتِهِ ذِي الْكِفْلِ عَلَى أَوْجُهٍ كَثِيرَةٍ مِنْهَا: أَنَّهُ تَكَفَّلَ بِأَنْ يَصُومَ النَّهَارَ وَيُقِيمَ اللَّيْلَ وَلَا يَغْضَبَ وَوَفَّى لِلَّهِ بِذَلِكَ، وَمِنْهَا: أَنَّ مَلِكًا ظَالِمًا قَتَلَ أَنْبِيَاءَ اللَّهِ سُبْحَانَهُ وَهَرَبَ مِنْهُ مِائَةُ نَبِيٍّ فَكَفَلَهُمْ فَسُمِّيَ الْكِفْلُ، إِلَى غَيْرِ ذَلِكَ مِمَّا ذَكَرَهُ الْعُلَمَاءُ. وَقَدْ مَاتَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ وَهُوَ بِالشَّامِ وَعُمْرُهُ خَمْسٌ وَسَبْعُونَ سَنَةً.
Translation
✧ Summary of the story of Dhu al-Kifl ﷺ The people of knowledge differed regarding the prophethood of Dhu al-Kifl. The well-known view is that he was a prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). They also differed in identifying who he was. Some of the people of knowledge said: He is Bishr b. Ayyūb, and Ayyūb sent him as a caller to the oneness of God in al-Shām. Others said: He is Yūshaʿ b. Nūn. It was also said: other than that. They differed regarding the reason for naming him Dhu al-Kifl in many ways, among them: that he undertook to fast during the day, stand in prayer at night, and not become angry, and he fulfilled that for God. Among them: that an unjust king killed the prophets of God, glorified be He, and a hundred prophets fled from him, so he took charge of them, and thus he was called al-Kifl, and other explanations mentioned by the scholars. He ﷺ died while he was in al-Shām, at the age of seventy-five years.
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