Sirat Ibn Hisham 1661
The last person to have contact with the Messenger
[ أَحْدَثُ النَّاسِ عَهْدًا بِالرَّسُولِ ] وَقَدْ كَانَ الْمُغِيرَةُ بْنُ شُعْبَةَ يَدَّعِي أَنَّهُ أَحْدَثُ النَّاسِ عَهْدًا بِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: أَخَذْتُ خَاتَمِي، فَأَلْقَيْتُهُ فِي الْقَبْرِ، وَقُلْتُ: إنَّ خَاتَمِي سَقَطَ مِنِّي، وَإِنَّمَا طَرَحْتُهُ عَمْدًا لِأَمَسَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ، فَأَكُونُ أَحْدَثَ النَّاسِ عَهْدًا بِهِ ﷺ قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: فَحَدَّثَنِي أَبِي إسْحَاقُ بْنُ يَسَارٍ، عَنْ مِقْسَمٍ أَبِي الْقَاسِمِ، مَوْلَى عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ نَوْفَلٍ، عَنْ مَوْلَاهُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ، قَالَ: اعْتَمَرْتُ مَعَ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ رِضْوَانُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ فِي زَمَانِ عُمَرَ أَوْ زَمَانِ عُثْمَانَ، فَنَزَلَ عَلَى أُخْتِهِ أُمِّ هَانِئٍ بِنْتِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ، فَلَمَّا فَرَغَ مِنْ عُمْرَتِهِ رَجَعَ فَسُكِبَ لَهُ غِسْلٌ، فَاغْتَسَلَ، فَلَمَّا فَرَغَ مِنْ غَسْلِهِ دَخَلَ عَلَيْهِ نَفَرٌ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْعِرَاقِ، فَقَالُوا: يَا أَبَا حَسَنٍ، جِئْنَا نَسْأَلُكَ عَنْ أَمْرٍ نُحِبُّ أَنْ تُخْبِرَنَا عَنْهُ ؟ قَالَ: أَظُنُّ الْمُغِيرَةَ بْنَ شُعْبَةَ يُحَدِّثُكُمْ أَنَّهُ كَانَ أَحْدَثَ النَّاسِ عَهْدًا بِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ. قَالُوا: أَجَلْ، عَنْ ذَلِكَ جِئْنَا نَسْأَلُكَ؛ قَالَ: كَذَبَ؛ قَالَ: أَحْدَثُ النَّاسِ عَهْدًا بِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ قُثَمُ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍ
Translation
✧ [The most recent of the people to have covenant with the Messenger] Al-Mughīrah b. Shuʿbah used to claim that he was the most recent of the people to have covenant with the Messenger of God ﷺ, saying: I took my ring and threw it into the grave, and I said: My ring has fallen from me—but I only threw it deliberately so that I might touch the Messenger of God ﷺ, and thus be the most recent of the people to have covenant with him ﷺ. Ibn Isḥāq said: My father Isḥāq b. Yasār narrated to me from Miqsam Abū al-Qāsim, the client of ʿAbd Allāh b. al-Ḥārith b. Nawfal, from his patron ʿAbd Allāh b. al-Ḥārith, who said: I performed the ʿumrah with ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib, may God's good pleasure be upon him, in the time of ʿUmar or the time of ʿUthmān. He stayed with his sister Umm Hāniʾ bt. Abī Ṭālib. When he had finished his ʿumrah, he returned, and a bath was poured for him, and he bathed. When he had finished his bathing, a group of people from Iraq entered upon him and said: O Abū al-Ḥasan, we have come to ask you about a matter we would like you to inform us about. He said: I suppose al-Mughīrah b. Shuʿbah is telling you that he was the most recent of the people to have covenant with the Messenger of God ﷺ. They said: Indeed, about that we have come to ask you. He said: He has lied. The most recent of the people to have covenant with the Messenger of God ﷺ is Qutham b. ʿAbbās.
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