Tarikh (al-Tabari) 479
Genealogy of Our Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and Some Accounts of His Forefathers and Ancestors
ذِكْرُ نذر عبد المطلب ذبح ولده نَذْرِ عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ ذَبْحَ وَلَدِهِ قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَكَانَ عَبْدُ الْمُطَّلِبِ بْنُ هَاشِمٍ - فِيمَا يَزْعُمُونَ وَاَللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ - قَدْ نَذَرَ حِينَ لَقِيَ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ مَا لَقِيَ عِنْدَ حَفْرِ زَمْزَمَ، لَئِنْ وُلِدَ لَهُ عَشَرَةُ نَفَرٍ، ثُمَّ بَلَغُوا مَعَهُ حَتَّى يَمْنَعُوهُ، لَيَنْحَرَنَّ أَحَدَهُمْ لِلَّهِ عِنْدَ الْكَعْبَةِ. فَلَمَّا تَوَافَى بَنُوهُ عَشَرَةً، وَعَرَفَ أَنَّهُمْ سَيَمْنَعُونَهُ، جَمَعَهُمْ ثُمَّ أَخْبَرَهُمْ بِنَذْرِهِ، وَدَعَاهُمْ إلَى الْوَفَاء لِلَّهِ بِذَلِكَ، فَأَطَاعُوهُ وَقَالُوا: كَيْفَ نَصْنَعُ ؟ قَالَ: لِيَأْخُذْ كُلُّ رَجُلٍ مِنْكُمْ قِدْحًا ثُمَّ يَكْتُبُ فِيهِ اسْمَهُ، ثُمَّ ائْتُونِي. فَفَعَلُوا ثُمَّ أَتَوْهُ، فَدَخَلَ بِهِمْ عَلَى هُبَلَ فِي جَوْفِ الْكَعْبَةِ، وَكَانَ هُبَلُ عَلَى بِئْرٍ فِي جَوْفِ الْكَعْبَةِ، وَكَانَتْ تِلْكَ الْبِئْرُ هِيَ الَّتِي يُجْمَعُ فِيهَا مَا يُهْدَى لِلْكَعْبَةِ.
Translation
✧ Mention of ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib’s vow to slaughter his son Ibn Isḥāq said: ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib b. Hāshim — as they allege, and Allah knows best — had made a vow, when he encountered from Quraysh what he encountered at the digging of Zamzam, that if ten sons were born to him, and they reached maturity with him so that they could protect him, he would surely slaughter one of them for Allah at the Kaʿbah. When his sons reached ten in number, and he knew that they would protect him, he gathered them and informed them of his vow, and summoned them to fulfill it for Allah. They obeyed him and said: How shall we do? He said: Let each man of you take an arrow and write his name on it, then bring them to me. They did so and brought them to him. He entered with them upon Hubal in the interior of the Kaʿbah. Hubal was over a well in the interior of the Kaʿbah, and that well was the one in which what was offered as a gift to the Kaʿbah was collected.
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