Tarikh (al-Tabari) 689
The reports of the Jewish rabbis, Christian monks, and soothsayers and their glad tidings of the sending of the Beloved of the Most Merciful ﷺ
[ حَدِيثُهُ ﷺ مَعَ الْأَنْصَارِ فِي رَمْيِ الْجِنِّ بِالنُّجُومِ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَذَكَرَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمِ بْنِ شِهَابٍ الزُّهْرِيُّ، عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الْعَبَّاسِ، عَنْ نَفَرٍ مِنْ الْأَنْصَارِ: أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ، قَالَ لَهُمْ: مَاذَا كُنْتُمْ تَقُولُونَ فِي هَذَا النَّجْمِ الَّذِي يُرْمَى بِهِ ؟ قَالُوا: يَا نَبِيَّ اللَّهِ كُنَّا نَقُولُ حَيْنَ رَأَيْنَاهَا يُرْمَى بِهَا: مَاتَ مَلِكٌ مُلِّكَ مُلْكٌ، وُلِدَ مَوْلُودٌ مَاتَ مَوْلُودٌ؛ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ لَيْسَ ذَلِكَ كَذَلِكَ وَلَكُنَّ اللَّهَ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى كَانَ إذَا قَضَى فِي خَلْقِهِ أَمْرًا سَمِعَهُ حَمَلَةُ الْعَرْشِ، فَسَبَّحُوا، فَسَبَّحَ مَنْ تَحْتَهُمْ، فَسَبَّحَ لِتَسْبِيحِهِمْ مَنْ تَحْتَ ذَلِكَ، فَلَا يَزَالُ التَّسْبِيحُ يَهْبِطُ حَتَّى يَنْتَهِيَ إلَى السَّمَاءِ الدُّنْيَا، فَيُسَبِّحُوا ثُمَّ يَقُولُ بَعْضُهُمْ لِبَعْضٍ مِمَّ سَبَّحْتُمْ فَيَقُولُونَ سَبَّحَ مَنْ فَوْقَنَا فَسَبَّحْنَا لِتَسْبِيحِهِمْ؛ فَيَقُولُونَ: أَلَا تَسْأَلُونَ مَنْ فَوْقَكُمْ مِمَّ سَبَّحُوا ؟ فَيَقُولُونَ مِثْلَ ذَلِكَ، حَتَّى يَنْتَهُوا إلَى حَمَلَةِ الْعَرْشِ، فَيُقَالُ لَهُمْ: مِمَّ سَبَّحْتُمْ ؟ فَيَقُولُونَ: قَضَى اللَّهُ فِي خَلْقِهِ كَذَا وَكَذَا، لِلْأَمْرِ الَّذِي كَانَ؛ فَيَهْبِطُ بِهِ الْخَبَرُ مِنْ سَمَاءٍ إلَى سَمَاءٍ حَتَّى يَنْتَهِي إلَى السَّمَاءِ الدُّنْيَا، فَيَتَحَدَّثُوا بِهِ، فَتَسْتَرِقُهُ الشَّيَاطِينُ بِالسَّمْعِ، عَلَى تَوَهُّمٍ وَاخْتِلَافٍ، ثُمَّ يَأْتُوا بِهِ الْكُهَّانَ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْأَرْضِ فَيُحَدِّثُوهُمْ بِهِ فَيُخْطِئُونَ وَيُصِيبُونَ فَيَتَحَدَّثُ بِهِ الْكُهَّانُ، فَيُصِيبُونَ بَعْضًا وَيُخْطِئُونَ بَعْضًا ثُمَّ إنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ حَجَبَ الشَّيَاطِينَ بِهَذِهِ النُّجُومِ الَّتِي يُقْذَفُونَ بِهَا، فَانْقَطَعَتْ الْكَهَانَةُ الْيَوْمَ، فَلَا كَهَانَةَ. قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَحَدَّثَنِي عَمْرُو بْنُ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي لَبِيبَةَ، عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ ؓ بِمِثْلِ حَدِيثِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ عَنْهُ.
Translation
✧ [ His ﷺ discourse with the Anṣār concerning the hurling of shooting stars at the jinn ] Ibn Isḥāq said: Muḥammad b. Muslim b. Shihāb al-Zuhrī mentioned, from ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib, from ʿAbd Allāh b. al-ʿAbbās, from a group of the Anṣār: that the Messenger of God ﷺ said to them: “What were you saying about this star that is hurled?” They said: “O Prophet of God, when we saw it hurled, we used to say: a king has died, a king has been enthroned, a child has been born, a child has died.” So the Messenger of God ﷺ said: “It is not so. Rather, when God, Blessed and Exalted is He, decrees a matter among His creation, the bearers of the Throne hear it, and they glorify Him, and those below them glorify Him, and those below that glorify Him because of their glorification. The glorification continues to descend until it reaches the lowest heaven, and they glorify Him. Then some of them say to others: ‘Why did you glorify?’ They say: ‘Those above us glorified, so we glorified because of their glorification.’ Then they say: ‘Will you not ask those above you why they glorified?’ And they say the like of that, until it reaches the bearers of the Throne. It is said to them: ‘Why did you glorify?’ They say: ‘God decreed in His creation such and such, for the matter that was.’ Then the news descends with it from heaven to heaven until it reaches the lowest heaven, and they speak of it. The satans eavesdrop on it by hearing, with conjecture and discrepancy. Then they bring it to the soothsayers among the people of the earth and tell them of it; they err and they are right. The soothsayers speak of it and they are right in some things and err in others. Then God, Mighty and Majestic is He, veiled the satans with these stars by which they are pelted, and soothsaying has been cut off today. There is no soothsaying.” Ibn Isḥāq said: ʿAmr b. Abī Jaʿfar narrated to me, from Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Abī Labībah, from ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī ؓ, the like of the ḥadīth of Ibn Shihāb from him.
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