Sirat Ibn Hisham 238
The account of the soothsayer of Janb about the Messenger of God ﷺ
[ حَدِيثُ كَاهِنِ جَنْبٍ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَحَدَّثَنِي عَلِيُّ بْنُ نَافِعٍ الْجُرَشِيُّ: أَنَّ جَنْبًا: بَطْنًا مِنْ الْيَمَنِ، كَانَ لَهُمْ كَاهِنٌ فِي الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ، فَلَمَّا ذُكِرَ أَمْرُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ وَانْتَشَرَ فِي الْعَرَبِ، قَالَتْ لَهُ جَنْبٌ: اُنْظُرْ لَنَا فِي أَمْرِ هَذَا الرَّجُلِ، وَاجْتَمَعُوا لَهُ فِي أَسْفَلِ جَبَلِهِ، فَنَزَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ حِينَ طَلَعَتْ الشَّمْسُ، فَوَقَفَ لَهُمْ قَائِمًا مُتَّكِئًا عَلَى قَوْسٍ لَهُ، فَرَفَعَ رَأْسَهُ إلَى السَّمَاءِ طَوِيلًا، ثُمَّ جَعَلَ يَنْزُو، ثُمَّ قَالَ: أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ، إنَّ اللَّهَ أَكْرَمَ مُحَمَّدًا وَاصْطَفَاهُ، وَطَهَّرَ قَلْبَهُ وَحَشَاهُ، وَمُكْثُهُ فِيكُمْ أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ قَلِيلٌ، ثُمَّ أَسْنَدَ فِي جَبَلِهِ رَاجِعًا مِنْ حَيْثُ جَاءَ
Translation
✧ [The account of the soothsayer of Janb concerning the Messenger of Allah ﷺ] Ibn Isḥāq said: ʿAlī b. Nāfiʿ al-Jurashī told me that Janb—a sub-tribe of Yemen—had a soothsayer in the Jāhiliyyah. When the matter of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was mentioned and spread among the Arabs, Janb said to him, "Look into the matter of this man for us." They gathered for him at the foot of his mountain, and he came down to them at sunrise. He stood before them, leaning on a bow of his, and raised his head to the sky for a long time. Then he began to leap about, and then he said: "O people, God has honored Muhammad and chosen him, and purified his heart and his inward parts. His stay among you, O people, will be short." Then he climbed back up his mountain, returning the way he had come.
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