Tarikh (al-Tabari) 695
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
[ سَلْمَانُ وَنَقْلَتُهُ إلَى وَادِي الْقُرَى ثُمَّ إلَى الْمَدِينَةِ سَمَاعُهُ بِبَعْثَةِ الرَّسُولِ ﷺ ] قَالَ: ثُمَّ مَاتَ وَغُيِّبَ، وَمَكَثْتُ بِعَمُورِيَّةَ مَا شَاءَ اللَّهُ أَنْ أَمْكُثَ، ثُمَّ مَرَّ بِي نَفَرٌ مِنْ كَلْبٍ تُجَّارٌ، فَقُلْتُ لَهُمْ: احْمِلُونِي إلَى أَرْضِ الْعَرَبِ وَأُعْطِيكُمْ بَقَرَاتِي هَذِهِ وَغُنَيْمَتِي هَذِهِ؛ قَالُوا: نَعَمْ. فأعْطَيْتُهُمُوها وَحَمَلُونِي مَعَهُمْ، حَتَّى إذَا بَلَغُوا وَادِيَ الْقُرَى ظَلَمُونِي، فَبَاعُونِي مِنْ رَجُلٍ يَهُودِيٍّ عَبْدًا، فَكُنْتُ عِنْدَهُ، وَرَأَيْتُ النَّخْلَ، فَرَجَوْتُ أَنْ يَكُونَ الْبَلَدَ الَّذِي وَصَفَ لِي صَاحِبِي، وَلَمْ يَحِقْ فِي نَفْسِي، فَبَيْنَا أَنَا عِنْدَهُ، إذْ قَدِمَ عَلَيْهِ ابْنُ عَمٍّ لَهُ مِنْ بَنِي قُرَيْظَةَ مِنْ الْمَدِينَةِ، فَابْتَاعَنِي مِنْهُ، فَاحْتَمَلَنِي إلَى الْمَدِينَةِ، فَوَاَللَّهِ مَا هُوَ إلَّا أَنْ رَأَيْتُهَا فَعَرَفْتهَا بِصِفَةِ صَاحِبِي، فَأَقَمْتُ بِهَا، وَبُعِثَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ، فَأَقَامَ بِمَكَّةَ مَا أَقَامَ، لَا أَسْمَعُ لَهُ بِذكَرٍ مَعَ مَا أَنَا فِيهِ مِنْ شُغْلِ الرِّقِّ، ثُمَّ هَاجَرَ إلَى الْمَدِينَةِ، فَوَاَللَّهِ إنِّي لَفِي رَأْسِ عِذْقٍ لِسَيِّدِي أَعْمَلُ لَهُ فِيهِ بَعْضَ الْعَمَلِ، وَسَيِّدِي جَالِسٌ تَحْتِي، إذْ أَقْبَلَ ابْنُ عَمٍّ لَهُ حَتَّى وَقَفَ عَلَيْهِ، فَقَالَ: يَا فُلَانُ، قَاتَلَ اللَّهُ بَنِي قَيْلَةَ، وَاَللَّهِ إنَّهُمْ الْآنَ لَمُجْتَمِعُونَ بِقُبَاءَ عَلَى رَجُلٍ قَدِمَ عَلَيْهِمْ مِنْ مَكَّةَ الْيَوْمَ، يَزْعُمُونَ أَنَّهُ نَبِيٌّ. [ نَسَبُ قَيْلَةَ ] قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: قَيْلَةُ: بِنْتُ كَاهِلِ بْنِ عُذْرَةَ بْنِ سَعْدِ بْنِ زَيْدِ بْنِ لَيْثِ بْنِ سُودِ بْنِ أَسْلَمَ بْنِ الْحَافِ بْنِ قُضَاعَةَ، أُمُّ الْأَوْسِ وَالْخَزْرَجِ. قَالَ النُّعْمَانُ بْنُ بَشِيرٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ يَمْدَحُ الْأَوْسَ وَالْخَزْرَجَ: : بَهَالِيلُ مِنْ أَوْلَادِ قَيْلَةَ لَمْ يَجِدْ عَلَيْهِمْ خَلِيطٌ فِي مُخَالَطَةِ عَتْبَا مَسَامِيحُ أَبْطَالٌ يَرَاحُونَ لِلنَّدَى يَرَوْنَ عَلَيْهِمْ فِعْلَ آبَائِهِمْ نَحْبَا وَهَذَانِ الْبَيْتَانِ فِي قَصِيدَةٍ لَهُ: قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَحَدَّثَنِي عَاصِمُ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ قَتَادَةَ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ، عَنْ مَحْمُودِ بْنِ لَبِيدٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، قَالَ: قَالَ سَلْمَانُ: فَلَمَّا سَمِعْتُهَا أَخَذَتْنِي الْعُرَوَاءُ. فَقَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: وَالْعُرَوَاءُ: الرِّعْدَةُ مِنْ الْبَرْدِ وَالِانْتِفَاضُ، فَإِنْ كَانَ مَعَ ذَلِكَ عَرَقٌ فَهِيَ الرُّحَضَاءُ، وَكِلَاهُمَا مَمْدُودٌ - حَتَّى ظَنَنْتُ أَنِّي سَأَسْقُطُ عَلَى سَيِّدِي، فَنَزَلْتُ عَنْ النَّخْلَةِ، فَجَعَلْتُ أَقُولُ لِابْنِ عَمِّهِ ذَلِكَ: مَاذَا تَقُولُ ؟ ( مَاذَا تَقُولُ ) ؟ فَغَضِبَ سَيِّدِي، فَلَكَمَنِي لَكْمَةً شَدِيدَةً، ثُمَّ قَالَ: مَا لَكَ وَلِهَذَا ؟ أَقْبِلْ عَلَى عَمَلِكَ. قَالَ: قُلْتُ: لَا شَيْءَ: إنَّمَا أَرَدْتُ أَنْ أَسْتَثْبِتَهُ عَمَّا قَالَ.
Translation
✧ [Salmān and his transfer to Wādī al-Qurā then to Madinah, his hearing of the sending of the Messenger ﷺ] He said: Then he died and was buried, and I remained in ʿAmūriyyah as long as Allah willed that I remain. Then a group of merchants from Kalb passed by me, and I said to them: Carry me to the land of the Arabs, and I will give you these cows of mine and these sheep of mine. They said: Yes. So I gave them to them, and they carried me with them, until when they reached Wādī al-Qurā they wronged me and sold me to a Jewish man as a slave. I stayed with him, and I saw the palm trees, and I hoped that it might be the land which my companion had described to me, but it was not confirmed in my soul. While I was with him, a cousin of his from the Banū Qurayẓah came to him from Madinah, and he bought me from him, and he carried me to Madinah. By Allah, no sooner did I see it than I recognized it by the description of my companion. So I stayed there, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was sent, and he remained in Makkah as long as he remained, I heard no mention of him because of the occupation of slavery that I was in. Then he emigrated to Madinah. By Allah, I was at the top of a palm cluster belonging to my master, doing some work for him in it, and my master was sitting below me, when a cousin of his came and stood before him and said: O so-and-so, may Allah destroy the Banū Qaylah! By Allah, they are now gathered in Qubāʾ around a man who has come to them from Makkah today, claiming that he is a prophet. [The lineage of Qaylah] Ibn Hishām said: Qaylah is the daughter of Kāhil b. ʿUdhrah b. Saʿd b. Zayd b. Layth b. Sūd b. Aslam b. al-Ḥāf b. Quḍāʿah, the mother of the Aws and the Khazraj. Al-Nuʿmān b. Bashīr al-Anṣārī said, praising the Aws and the Khazraj: Generous nobles from the children of Qaylah, mixing with them No confederate ever found cause for reproach Open-handed heroes who go forth to generosity, They see it as a duty upon them, the deed of their fathers These two verses are from a poem of his. Ibn Isḥāq said: ʿĀṣim b. ʿUmar b. Qatādah al-Anṣārī narrated to me, from Maḥmūd b. Labīd, from ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAbbās, who said: Salmān said: When I heard it, trembling seized me. Ibn Hishām said: Al-ʿurawāʾ is shivering from cold and shaking; if sweat accompanies it, then it is al-ruḥaḍāʾ, both with the long vowel — so much so that I thought I would fall on my master. So I climbed down from the palm tree and began saying to that cousin of his: What are you saying? What are you saying? My master became angry and struck me a severe blow with his fist, then said: What is it to you? Get on with your work. He said: I said: Nothing; I only wanted to verify what he said.
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