Tarikh (al-Tabari) 924
Some matters that occurred between the Messenger ﷺ and the Jews, Christians, and hypocrites in al-Madinah al-Munawwarah
[ طَلَبُهُمْ كِتَابًا مِنَ السَّمَاءِ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَأَتَى رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ مَحْمُودُ بْنُ سَيْحَانَ، وَنُعْمَانُ بْنُ أَضَاءَ، وَبَحْرِيُّ بْنُ عَمْرٍو، وَعُزَيْرُ بْنُ أَبِي عُزَيْرٍ، وَسَلَّامُ بْنُ مِشْكَمٍ، فَقَالُوا: أَحَقٌّ يَا مُحَمَّدُ أَنَّ هَذَا الَّذِي جِئْتَ بِهِ لَحَقٌّ مِنْ عِنْدِ اللَّهِ، فَإِنَّا لَا نَرَاهُ مُتَّسِقًا كَمَا تَتَّسِقُ التَّوْرَاةُ ؟ فَقَالَ لَهُمْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ: أَمَا وَاَللَّهِ إنَّكُمْ لَتَعْرِفُونَ أَنَّهُ مِنْ عِنْدِ اللَّهِ. تَجِدُونَهُ مَكْتُوبًا عِنْدَكُمْ فِي التَّوْرَاةِ، وَلَوْ اجْتَمَعَتْ الْإِنْسُ وَالْجِنُّ عَلَى أَنْ يَأْتُوا بِمِثْلِهِ مَا جَاءُوا بِهِ؛ فَقَالُوا عِنْدَ ذَلِكَ، وَهُمْ جَمِيعٌ: فَتَحَاصَّ، وَعَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ صُورِيَّا، وَابْنُ صَلُوبَا، وَكِنَانَةُ بْنُ الرَّبِيعِ بْنِ أَبِي الْحُقَيْقِ، وَأَشْيَعُ، وَكَعْبُ بْنُ أَسَدٍ، وَشَمْويِلُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ، وَجَبَلُ بْنُ عَمْرِو بْنِ سُكَيْنَةَ: يَا مُحَمَّدُ، أَمَا يُعَلِّمُكَ هَذَا إنْسٌ وَلَا جِنٌّ ؟ قَالَ: فَقَالَ لَهُمْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ: أَمَا وَاَللَّهِ إنَّكُمْ لَتَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّهُ مِنْ عِنْدِ اللَّهِ، وَإِنِّي لَرَسُولُ اللَّهِ: تَجِدُونَ ذَلِكَ مَكْتُوبًا عِنْدَكُمْ فِي التَّوْرَاةِ، فَقَالُوا: يَا مُحَمَّدُ، فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ يَصْنَعُ لِرَسُولِهِ إذَا بَعَثَهُ مَا يَشَاءُ وَيَقْدِرُ مِنْهُ عَلَى مَا أَرَادَ، فَأَنْزِلْ عَلَيْنَا كِتَابًا مِنْ السَّمَاءِ نَقْرَؤُهُ وَنَعْرِفُهُ، وَإِلَّا جِئْنَاكَ بِمِثْلِ مَا تَأْتِي بِهِ. فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى فِيهِمْ وَفِيمَا قَالُوا: قُلْ لَئِنِ اجْتَمَعَتِ الْإِنْسُ وَالْجِنُّ عَلَى أَنْ يَأْتُوا بِمِثْلِ هَذَا الْقُرْآنِ لَا يَأْتُونَ بِمِثْلِهِ وَلَوْ كَانَ بَعْضُهُمْ لِبَعْضٍ ظَهِيرًا
Translation
✧ [Their request for a book from heaven] Ibn Isḥāq said: Maḥmūd b. Sayḥān, Nuʿmān b. Aḍāʾ, Baḥrī b. ʿAmr, ʿUzayr b. Abī ʿUzayr, and Sallām b. Mishkam came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and said: "Is it true, O Muḥammad, that what you have brought is indeed truth from Allah, for we do not see it as coherent as the Torah is coherent?" The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to them: "By Allah, you know that it is from Allah. You find it written with you in the Torah. And if mankind and jinn gathered to bring the like of it, they could not bring it." Then they all said—Fataḥāṣṣ, ʿAbd Allāh b. Ṣūriyā, Ibn Ṣalūbā, Kinānah b. al-Rabīʿ b. Abī al-Ḥuqayq, Ashyaʿ, Kaʿb b. Asad, Shamwīl b. Zayd, and Jabal b. ʿAmr b. Sukaynah—"O Muḥammad, does no human or jinn teach you this?" He said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to them: "By Allah, you know that it is from Allah, and that I am the Messenger of Allah. You find that written with you in the Torah." They said: "O Muḥammad, Allah does for His messenger, when He sends him, whatever He wills and grants him power over whatever He desires. So send down upon us a book from heaven that we may read and recognize, or else we will bring the like of what you bring." Then Allah, exalted is He, revealed concerning them and what they said: Say: "If mankind and jinn gathered to bring the like of this Qurʾān, they could not bring the like of it, even if they were to one another a support."
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