Sirat Ibn Hisham 1643
The Messenger’s supplication ﷺ for Usāmah by gesture
[ دُعَاءُ الرَّسُولِ لِأُسَامَةَ بِالْإِشَارَةِ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَحَدَّثَنِي سَعِيدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدِ بْنِ السَّبَّاقِ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أُسَامَةَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ أُسَامَةَ بْنِ زَيْدٍ، قَالَ: لَمَّا ثَقُلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ هَبَطْتُ وَهَبَطَ النَّاسُ مَعِي إلَى الْمَدِينَةِ، فَدَخَلْتُ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ، وَقَدْ أُصْمِتَ فَلَا يَتَكَلَّمُ، فَجَعَلَ يَرْفَعُ يَدَهُ إلَى السَّمَاءِ ثُمَّ يَضَعُهَا عَلَيَّ، فَأَعْرِفُ أَنَّهُ يَدْعُو لِي قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَقَالَ ابْنُ شِهَابٍ الزُّهْرِيُّ: حَدَّثَنِي عُبَيْدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُتْبَةَ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ، قَالَتْ: كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ كَثِيرًا مَا أَسْمَعُهُ يَقُولُ: إنَّ اللَّهَ لَمْ يَقْبِضْ نَبِيًّا حَتَّى يُخَيِّرْهُ. قَالَتْ: فَلَمَّا حُضِرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ كَانَ آخِرُ كَلِمَةٍ سَمِعْتُهَا وَهُوَ يَقُولُ: بَلْ الرَّفِيقُ الْأَعْلَى مِنْ الْجَنَّةِ، قَالَتْ: فَقُلْتُ: إذًا وَاَللَّهِ لَا يَخْتَارُنَا، وَعَرَفْتُ أَنَّهُ الَّذِي كَانَ يَقُولُ لَنَا: إنَّ نَبِيًّا لَمْ يُقْبَضْ حَتَّى يُخَيَّرَ
Translation
✧ [The Messenger's supplication for Usāmah by gesture] Ibn Isḥāq said: Saʿīd b. ʿUbayd b. al-Sabbāq narrated to me, from Muḥammad b. Usāmah, from his father Usāmah b. Zayd, who said: When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ became gravely ill, I descended, and the people descended with me to al-Madinah. I entered upon the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and he had been rendered speechless, so he was not speaking. He began raising his hand toward the sky, then placing it upon me, and I knew that he was supplicating for me. Ibn Isḥāq said: Ibn Shihāb al-Zuhrī said: ʿUbayd b. ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿUtbah narrated to me, from ʿĀʾishah, who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ often—I used to hear him say: "Allah does not take a prophet until He gives him the choice." She said: When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was near death, the last word I heard from him was his saying: "Nay, the Highest Companion, from Paradise." She said: I said: Then, by Allah, he will not choose us. And I knew that it was what he used to say to us: "A prophet is not taken until he is given the choice."
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