Sirat Ibn Hisham 233
Their knowledge of his ﷺ mission
إخْبَارُ الْكُهَّانِ مِنْ الْعَرَبِ، وَالْأَحْبَارِ مِنْ يَهُودَ وَالرُّهْبَانِ مِنْ النَّصَارَى [ مُعْرِفَةُ الْكُهَّانِ وَالْأَحْبَارِ وَالرُّهْبَانِ بِمَبْعَثِهِ ﷺ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَكَانَتْ الْأَحْبَارُ مِنْ يَهُودَ، وَالرُّهْبَانُ مِنْ النَّصَارَى، وَالْكُهَّانُ مِنْ الْعَرَبِ، قَدْ تَحَدَّثُوا بِأَمْرِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَبْلَ مَبْعَثِهِ، لَمَّا تَقَارَبَ مِنْ زَمَانِهِ. أَمَّا الْأَحْبَارُ مِنْ يَهُودَ، وَالرُّهْبَانُ مِنْ النَّصَارَى، فَعَمَّا وَجَدُوا فِي كُتُبِهِمْ مِنْ صِفَتِهِ وَصِفَةِ زَمَانِهِ، وَمَا كَانَ مِنْ عَهْدِ أَنْبِيَائِهِمْ إلَيْهِمْ فِيهِ. وَأَمَّا الْكُهَّانُ مِنْ الْعَرَبِ فَأَتَتْهُمْ بِهِ الشَّيَاطِينُ مِنْ الْجِنِّ فِيمَا تَسْتَرِقُ مِنْ السَّمْعِ، إذْ كَانَتْ وَهِيَ لَا تُحْجَبُ عَنْ ذَلِكَ بِالْقَذْفِ بِالنُّجُومِ. وَكَانَ الْكَاهِنُ وَالْكَاهِنَةُ لَا يَزَالُ يَقَعُ مِنْهُمَا ذِكْرُ بَعْضِ أُمُورِهِ، لَا تُلْقِي الْعَرَبُ لِذَلِكَ فِيهِ بَالًا، حَتَّى بَعَثَهُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى، وَوَقَعَتْ تِلْكَ الْأُمُورُ الَّتِي كَانُوا يَذْكُرُونَ، فَعَرَفُوهَا.
Translation
✧ The reports of the soothsayers among the Arabs, the rabbis among the Jews, and the monks among the Christians [The soothsayers, rabbis, and monks knowing of his sending ﷺ] Ibn Isḥāq said: The rabbis among the Jews, the monks among the Christians, and the soothsayers among the Arabs had spoken about the affair of the Messenger of God ﷺ before his sending, when his time drew near. As for the rabbis among the Jews and the monks among the Christians, it was from what they found in their books of his description and the description of his time, and what their prophets had covenanted with them concerning him. As for the soothsayers among the Arabs, the devils of the jinn brought it to them in what they overheard from the hearing, when they were not veiled from that by the pelting of stars. And the soothsayer, male and female, did not cease to have mention of some of his affairs fall from them, while the Arabs paid no heed to that, until God Almighty sent him, and those affairs which they had been mentioning came to pass, and they recognized them.
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