Tarikh (al-Tabari) 698
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
ذِكْرُ وَرَقَةَ بْنِ نَوْفَلِ بْنِ أَسَدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْعُزَّى وَعُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ جَحْشٍ وَعُثْمَانَ بْنِ الْحُوَيْرِثِ وَزَيْدِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ نُفَيْلٍ [ بَحْثُهُمْ فِي الْأَدْيَانِ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَاجْتَمَعَتْ قُرَيْشٌ يَوْمًا فِي عِيدٍ لَهُمْ عِنْدَ صَنَمٍ مِنْ أَصْنَامِهِمْ، كَانُوا يُعَظِّمُونَهُ وَيَنْحَرُونَ لَهُ، وَيَعْكُفُونَ عِنْدَهُ، وَيُدِيرُونَ بِهِ، وَكَانَ ذَلِكَ عِيدًا لَهُمْ فِي كُلِّ سَنَةٍ يَوْمًا، فَخَلَصَ مِنْهُمْ أَرْبَعَةُ نَفَرٍ نَجِيًّا، ثُمَّ قَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ لِبَعْضٍ: تَصَادَقُوا وَلْيَكْتُمْ بَعْضُكُمْ عَلَى بَعْضٍ؛ قَالُوا: أَجَلْ. وَهُمْ: وَرَقَةُ بْنُ نَوْفَلِ بْنِ أَسَدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْعُزَّى بْنِ قُصَيِّ بْنِ كِلَابِ بْنِ مُرَّةَ بْنِ كَعْبِ بْنِ لُؤَيٍّ؛ وَعُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ جَحْشِ بْنِ رِئَابِ بْنِ يَعْمُرَ بْنِ صَبْرَةَ بْنِ مُرَّةَ بْنِ كَبِيرِ بْنِ غَنْمِ بْنِ دُودَانَ بْنِ أَسَدِ بْنِ خُزَيْمَةَ، وَكَانَتْ أُمُّهُ أُمَيْمَةَ بِنْتَ عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ، وَعُثْمَانِ بْنِ الْحُوَيْرِثِ بْنِ أَسَدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْعُزَّى بْنِ قُصَيٍّ، وَزَيْدِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ نُفَيْلِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْعُزَّى بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ قُرْطِ بْنِ رِيَاحِ بْنِ رَزَاحِ بْنِ عَدِيِّ بْنِ كَعْبِ بْنِ لُؤَيٍّ؛ فَقَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ لِبَعْضٍ: تَعَلَّمُوا وَاَللَّهِ مَا قَوْمُكُمْ عَلَى شَيْءٍ لَقَدْ أَخْطَئُوا دِينَ أَبِيهِمْ إبْرَاهِيمَ مَا حَجَرٌ نُطِيفُ بِهِ، لَا يَسْمَعُ وَلَا يُبْصِرُ، وَلَا يَضُرُّ وَلَا يَنْفَعُ، يَا قَوْمِ الْتَمِسُوا لِأَنْفُسِكُمْ ( دِينًا )، فَإِنَّكُمْ وَاَللَّهِ مَا أَنْتُمْ عَلَى شَيْءٍ. فَتَفَرَّقُوا فِي الْبُلْدَانِ يَلْتَمِسُونَ الْحَنِيفِيَّةَ، دِينَ إبْرَاهِيمَ. [ مَا وَصَلَ إلَيْهِ وَرَقَةُ وَابْنُ جَحْشٍ ] فَأَمَّا وَرَقَةُ بْنُ نَوْفَلٍ فَاسْتَحْكَمَ فِي النَّصْرَانِيَّةِ، وَاتَّبَعَ الْكُتُبَ مِنْ أَهْلِهَا، حَتَّى عَلِمَ عِلْمًا مِنْ أَهْلِ الْكِتَابِ. وَأَمَّا عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ جَحْشٍ، فَأَقَامَ عَلَى مَا هُوَ عَلَيْهِ مِنْ الِالْتِبَاسِ حَتَّى أَسْلَمَ، ثُمَّ هَاجَرَ مَعَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ إلَى الْحَبَشَةِ، وَمَعَهُ امْرَأَتُهُ أُمُّ حَبِيبَةَ بِنْتُ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ مُسْلِمَةً؛ فَلَمَّا قَدِمَهَا تَنَصَّرَ، وَفَارَقَ الْإِسْلَامَ حَتَّى هَلَكَ هُنَالِكَ نَصْرَانِيًّا.
Translation
✧ Mention of Waraqah b. Nawfal b. Asad b. ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā, ʿUbayd Allāh b. Jaḥsh, ʿUthmān b. al-Ḥuwayrith, and Zayd b. ʿAmr b. Nufayl [their investigation into religions] Ibn Isḥāq said: Quraysh gathered one day at a festival of theirs before an idol of their idols, which they used to venerate, sacrifice to, seclude themselves at, and circumambulate. It was a festival they held one day every year. Four of them withdrew in private conference, then said to one another: Be true to one another, and let each of you conceal what the other says. They said: Yes. They were: Waraqah b. Nawfal b. Asad b. ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā b. Quṣayy b. Kilāb b. Murrah b. Kaʿb b. Luʾayy; ʿUbayd Allāh b. Jaḥsh b. Riʾāb b. Yaʿmur b. Ṣabrah b. Murrah b. Kabīr b. Ghanm b. Dūdān b. Asad b. Khuzaymah, whose mother was Umaymah bt. ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib; ʿUthmān b. al-Ḥuwayrith b. Asad b. ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā b. Quṣayy; and Zayd b. ʿAmr b. Nufayl b. ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Qurṭ b. Riyāḥ b. Razāḥ b. ʿAdī b. Kaʿb b. Luʾayy. They said to one another: Know, by Allah, your people are upon nothing; they have erred from the religion of their father Ibrāhīm. What is a stone that we circumambulate, that does not hear, does not see, does not harm, and does not benefit? O people, seek for yourselves a religion, for by Allah you are upon nothing. So they dispersed throughout the lands seeking the ḥanīfiyyah, the religion of Ibrāhīm. [What Waraqah and Ibn Jaḥsh reached] As for Waraqah b. Nawfal, he became firm in Christianity and followed the scriptures from its people until he acquired knowledge from the People of the Book. As for ʿUbayd Allāh b. Jaḥsh, he remained in the confusion he was in until he became Muslim, then he emigrated with the Muslims to Abyssinia, accompanied by his wife Umm Ḥabībah bt. Abī Sufyān, who was a Muslimah. When he arrived there, he became Christian and abandoned Islam until he died there as a Christian.
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