Tarikh (al-Tabari) 299
The story of Zakariyyā and Yaḥyā (peace be upon them both)
قِصَّةُ نَبِيِّ اللَّهِ يَحْيَى بْنِ زَكَرِيَّا عَلَيْهِمَا السَّلَامُ وُلِدَ يَحْيَى عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ قَبْلَ الْمَسِيحِ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ بِسِتَّةِ أَشْهُرٍ وَسَمَّاهُ وَالِدَيْهِ يَحْيَى وَلَمْ يُسَمَّى قَبْلَهُ أَحَدٌ بِهَذَا الِاسْمِ. وَقَدْ آتَاهُ اللَّهُ الْحِكْمَةَ وَهُوَ فِي صِبَاهُ قَالَ قَالَ مَعْمَرٌ: قَالَ الصِّبْيَانُ لِيَحْيَى بْنِ زَكَرِيَّا: اذْهَبْ بِنَا نَلْعَبْ. فَقَالَ: مَا لِلَّعِبِ خُلِقْنَا. وَكَانَ صِفَتَهُ الْحُنُوُّ عَلَى أَهْلِهِ وَطَهَارَةُ الْخُلُقِ وَالسُّمُوُّ عَنِ النَّقَائِصِ وَبَرًّا بِوَالِدَيْهِ وَلَمْ يَكُنْ جَبَّارًا عَصِيًّا. كَانَ كَثِيرَ الْعُزْلَةِ عَنِ النَّاسِ، حَيْثُ كَانَ يَأْنَسُ إِلَى الْبَرَارِيِّ، وَيَأْكُلُ مِنْ وَرَقِ الْأَشْجَارِ، وَيَرِدُ مَاءَ الْأَنْهَارِ، وَيَتَغَذَّى بِالْجَرَادِ فِي بَعْضِ الْأَحْيَانِ، وَيَقُولُ: مَنْ أَنْعَمَ مِنْكَ يَا يَحْيَى. وَقَدْ أَخْبَرَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى بِالسَّلَامِ عَلَيْهِ يَوْمَ وُلِدَ وَيَوْمَ يَمُوتُ وَيَوْمَ يُبْعَثُ حَيًّا. وَعَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيِّبِ، حَدَّثَنِي ابْنُ الْعَاصِ: أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: كُلُّ ابْنِ آدَمَ يَأْتِي يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ وَلَهُ ذَنْبٌ، إِلَّا مَا كَانَ مِنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ زَكَرِيَّا. حَيْثُ كَانَ سَيِّدًا وَحَصُورًا. وَقَدْ أَرْسَلَهُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى بِخَمْسِ كَلِمَاتٍ أَنْ يَعْمَلَ بِهِنَّ وَأَنْ يَأْمُرَ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ أَنْ يَعْمَلُوا بِهِنَّ. وَقَدْ قَتَلَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ ذَبْحًا لِأَجْلِ امْرَأَةٍ بِغَيٍّ، وَقِيلَ غَيْرُ ذَلِكَ فَظَلَّ دَمُهُ يَغْلِي حَتَّى جَاءَ بُخْتَ نَصَّرَ فَوَقَعَ فِي قَلْبِهِ أَنْ يَقْتُلَ عَلَيْهِ، فَقَتَلَ عَلَى الدَّمِ سَبْعِينَ أَلْفًا مِنْ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ حَتَّى سَكَنَ.
Translation
✧ The story of the Prophet of Allah Yaḥyā b. Zakariyyā (peace be upon them both) Yaḥyā ﷺ was born six months before the Messiah ﷺ, and his parents named him Yaḥyā, and no one before him had been given this name. Allah granted him wisdom while he was still a child. He said: Maʿmar said: The children said to Yaḥyā b. Zakariyyā: “Come with us and play.” He said: “We were not created for play.” His qualities were tenderness toward his family, purity of character, transcendence above faults, dutifulness to his parents, and he was not arrogant or disobedient. He was much secluded from people, finding comfort in the wilderness, eating the leaves of trees, drinking from rivers, and at times feeding on locusts, saying: “Who has been given more blessings than you, O Yaḥyā?” Allah, exalted is He, has conveyed peace upon him on the day he was born, the day he dies, and the day he is raised alive. On the authority of Saʿīd b. al-Musayyib, Ibn al-ʿĀṣ narrated to me that he heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: “Every son of Adam will come on the Day of Resurrection with a sin, except what was of Yaḥyā b. Zakariyyā, for he was a master and chaste.” Allah, exalted is He, sent him with five words to act upon and to command the Children of Israel to act upon them. He ﷺ was killed by slaughter for the sake of a profligate woman, and it is said otherwise, and his blood continued to boil until Bukht Naṣṣar came and it occurred to his heart to kill for him, and he killed seventy thousand of the Children of Israel for the blood until it subsided.
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