Sirat Ibn Hisham 240
The warning of the Jews about the Messenger of God ﷺ
إنْذَارُ الْيَهُودِ بِرَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ [ إنْذَارُ الْيَهُودِ بِهِ ﷺ، وَلَمَّا بُعِثَ كَفَرُوا بِهِ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَحَدَّثَنِي عَاصِمُ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ قَتَادَةَ، عَنْ رِجَالٍ مِنْ قَوْمِهِ، قَالُوا: إنَّ مِمَّا دَعَانَا إلَى الْإِسْلَامِ، مَعَ رَحْمَةِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى وَهَدَاهُ لَنَا، لَمَا كُنَّا نَسْمَعُ مِنْ رِجَالِ يَهُودَ، ( وَ ) كُنَّا أَهْلَ شِرْكٍ أَصْحَابَ أَوَثَانٍ، وَكَانُوا أَهْلَ كِتَابٍ، عِنْدَهُمْ عِلْمٌ لَيْسَ لَنَا، وَكَانَتْ لَا تَزَالُ بَيْنَنَا وَبَيْنَهُمْ شُرُورٌ، فَإِذَا نِلْنَا مِنْهُمْ بَعْضَ مَا يَكْرَهُونَ، قَالُوا لَنَا: إنَّهُ ( قَدْ ) تَقَارَبَ زَمَانُ نَبِيٍّ يُبْعَثُ الْآنَ نَقْتُلُكُمْ مَعَهُ قَتْلَ عَادٍ وَإِرَمٍ فَكُنَّا كَثِيرًا مَا نَسْمَعُ ذَلِكَ مِنْهُمْ. فَلَمَّا بَعَثَ اللَّهُ رَسُولَهُ ﷺ أَجَبْنَاهُ، حِينَ دَعَانَا إلَى اللَّهِ تَعَالَى، وَعَرَفْنَا مَا كَانُوا يَتَوَعَّدُونَنَا بِهِ، فَبَادَرْنَاهُمْ إلَيْهِ، فَآمَنَّا بِهِ، وَكَفَرُوا بِهِ، فَفِينَا وَفِيهِمْ نَزَلَ هَؤُلَاءِ الْآيَاتُ مِنْ الْبَقَرَةِ: وَلَمَّا جَاءَهُمْ كِتَابٌ مِنْ عِنْدِ اللَّهِ مُصَدِّقٌ لِمَا مَعَهُمْ وَكَانُوا مِنْ قَبْلُ يَسْتَفْتِحُونَ عَلَى الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا فَلَمَّا جَاءَهُمْ مَا عَرَفُوا كَفَرُوا بِهِ فَلَعْنَةُ اللَّهِ عَلَى الْكَافِرِينَ قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: يَسْتَفْتِحُونَ: يَسْتَنْصِرُونَ، وَيَسْتَفْتِحُونَ ( أَيْضًا ): يَتَحَاكَمُونَ، وَفِي كِتَابِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى: رَبَّنَا افْتَحْ بَيْنَنَا وَبَيْنَ قَوْمِنَا بِالْحَقِّ وَأَنْتَ خَيْرُ الْفَاتِحِينَ.
Translation
✧ The warning of the Jews concerning the Messenger of Allah ﷺ [The warning of the Jews concerning him ﷺ, and when he was sent they disbelieved in him] Ibn Isḥāq said: ʿĀṣim b. ʿUmar b. Qatādah related to me, from men of his people, who said: Among what summoned us to Islam—along with the mercy of God Most High and His guidance to us—was what we used to hear from the men of the Jews. We were people of polytheism, companions of idols, and they were people of the Book, possessing knowledge that we did not have. There used to be hostilities between us and them. When we would inflict upon them some of what they disliked, they would say to us: 'Indeed, the time of a prophet is near, who will be sent now; we will kill you along with him as ʿĀd and Iram were killed.' Thus we would hear that from them often. So when God sent His Messenger ﷺ, we answered him when he summoned us to God Most High, and we recognized what they had been threatening us with. We raced them to him, believed in him, and they disbelieved in him. Thus concerning us and them these verses of al-Baqarah were revealed: 'And when there came to them a Book from God confirming what was with them—though before they had been praying for victory over those who disbelieved—when there came to them what they recognized, they disbelieved in it; so the curse of God is upon the disbelievers' [Qur'an 2:89]. Ibn Hishām said: yastaftiḥūn means 'they seek victory'; and yastaftiḥūn also means 'they seek judgment', as in the Book of God Most High: 'Our Lord, judge between us and our people in truth, and You are the best of judges' [Qur'an 7:89].
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