Sirat Ibn Hisham 193
Ḥalīmah's return of him ﷺ to his mother
[ تَعْرِيفُهُ ﷺ بِنَفْسِهِ، وَقَدْ سُئِلَ عَنْ ذَلِكَ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ وَحَدَّثَنِي ثَوْرُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ، عَنْ بَعْضِ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ، وَلَا أَحْسَبُهُ إلَّا عَنْ خَالِدِ بْنِ مَعْدَانَ الْكُلَاعِيِّ: أَنَّ نَفَرًا مِنْ أَصْحَابِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالُوا لَهُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، أَخْبِرْنَا عَنْ نَفْسِكَ ؟ قَالَ: نَعَمْ، أَنَا دَعْوَةُ أَبِي إبْرَاهِيمَ، وَبُشْرَى ( أَخِي ) عِيسَى، وَرَأَتْ أُمِّي حِينَ حَمَلَتْ بِي أَنَّهُ خَرَجَ مِنْهَا نُورٌ أَضَاءَ لَهَا قُصُورَ الشَّامِ، وَاسْتُرْضِعْتُ فِي بَنِي سَعْدِ بْنِ بَكْرٍ، فَبَيْنَا أَنَا مَعَ أَخٍ لِي خَلْفَ بُيُوتِنَا نَرْعَى بَهْمًا لَنَا، إذْ أَتَانِي رَجُلَانِ عَلَيْهِمَا ثِيَابٌ بِيضٌ بِطَسْتٍ مِنْ ذَهَبٍ مَمْلُوءَةٍ ثَلْجًا، ثُمَّ أَخَذَانِي فَشَقَّا بَطْنِي، وَاسْتَخْرَجَا قَلْبِي فَشَقَّاهُ، فَاسْتَخْرَجَا مِنْهُ عَلَقَةً سَوْدَاءَ فَطَرَحَاهَا، ثُمَّ غَسَلَا قَلْبِي وَبَطْنِي بِذَلِكَ الثَّلْجِ حَتَّى أَنْقَيَاهُ، ثُمَّ قَالَ أَحَدُهُمَا لِصَاحِبِهِ زِنْهُ بِعَشَرَةِ مِنْ أُمَّتِهِ، فَوَزَنَنِي بِهِمْ فَوَزَنْتهمْ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: زِنْهُ بِمِئَةِ مِنْ أُمَّتِهِ، فَوَزَنَنِي بِهِمْ فَوَزَنْتهمْ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: زَنِّهِ بِأَلْفِ مِنْ أُمَّتِهِ، فَوَزَنَنِي بِهِمْ فَوَزَنْتهمْ؛ فَقَالَ: دَعْهُ عَنْكَ، فَوَاَللَّهِ لَوْ وَزَنْتَهُ بِأُمَّتِهِ لَوَزَنَهَا [ هُوَ وَالْأَنْبِيَاءُ قَبْلَهُ رَعَوْا الْغَنَمَ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَكَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: مَا مِنْ نَبِيٍّ إلَّا وَقَدْ رَعَى الْغَنَمَ، قِيلَ: وَأَنْتَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ؟ قَالَ: وَأَنَا
Translation
✧ [ His ﷺ identifying himself, when asked about that ] Ibn Isḥāq said: Thawr b. Yazīd narrated to me, from some of the people of knowledge — and I do not think it is other than from Khālid b. Maʿdān al-Kulāʿī — that a group of the companions of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to him: “O Messenger of Allah, tell us about yourself?” He said: “Yes. I am the prayer of my father Abraham, and the good tidings of (my brother) Jesus. My mother saw, when she was pregnant with me, that a light came forth from her which illuminated for her the palaces of Syria. I was nursed among the Banū Saʿd b. Bakr. While I was with a brother of mine behind our houses tending some young lambs of ours, two men came to me wearing white garments, with a basin of gold filled with snow. Then they took me and split open my belly, and brought out my heart and split it open, and took out from it a black clot and cast it away. Then they washed my heart and my belly with that snow until they purified them. Then one of them said to his companion: ‘Weigh him against ten of his community.’ So he weighed me against them, and I outweighed them. Then he said: ‘Weigh him against a hundred of his community.’ So he weighed me against them, and I outweighed them. Then he said: ‘Weigh him against a thousand of his community.’ So he weighed me against them, and I outweighed them. Then he said: ‘Let him be from you; by Allah, if you weighed him against his entire community, he would outweigh it.’ [ He and the prophets before him shepherded sheep ] Ibn Isḥāq said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to say: ‘There is no prophet but that he shepherded sheep.’ It was said: ‘And you, O Messenger of Allah?’ He said: ‘And I.’
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