Sirat Ibn Hisham 247
Salmān's transfer to Wādī al-Qurā then to Madinah and his hearing of the mission of the Messenger ﷺ
[ سَلْمَانُ وَنَقْلَتُهُ إلَى وَادِي الْقُرَى ثُمَّ إلَى الْمَدِينَةِ سَمَاعُهُ بِبَعْثَةِ الرَّسُولِ ﷺ ] قَالَ: ثُمَّ مَاتَ وَغُيِّبَ، وَمَكَثْتُ بِعَمُورِيَّةَ مَا شَاءَ اللَّهُ أَنْ أَمْكُثَ، ثُمَّ مَرَّ بِي نَفَرٌ مِنْ كَلْبٍ تُجَّارٌ، فَقُلْتُ لَهُمْ: احْمِلُونِي إلَى أَرْضِ الْعَرَبِ وَأُعْطِيكُمْ بَقَرَاتِي هَذِهِ وَغُنَيْمَتِي هَذِهِ؛ قَالُوا: نَعَمْ. فأعْطَيْتُهُمُوها وَحَمَلُونِي مَعَهُمْ، حَتَّى إذَا بَلَغُوا وَادِيَ الْقُرَى ظَلَمُونِي، فَبَاعُونِي مِنْ رَجُلٍ يَهُودِيٍّ عَبْدًا، فَكُنْتُ عِنْدَهُ، وَرَأَيْتُ النَّخْلَ، فَرَجَوْتُ أَنْ يَكُونَ الْبَلَدَ الَّذِي وَصَفَ لِي صَاحِبِي، وَلَمْ يَحِقْ فِي نَفْسِي، فَبَيْنَا أَنَا عِنْدَهُ، إذْ قَدِمَ عَلَيْهِ ابْنُ عَمٍّ لَهُ مِنْ بَنِي قُرَيْظَةَ مِنْ الْمَدِينَةِ، فَابْتَاعَنِي مِنْهُ، فَاحْتَمَلَنِي إلَى الْمَدِينَةِ، فَوَاَللَّهِ مَا هُوَ إلَّا أَنْ رَأَيْتُهَا فَعَرَفْتهَا بِصِفَةِ صَاحِبِي، فَأَقَمْتُ بِهَا، وَبُعِثَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ، فَأَقَامَ بِمَكَّةَ مَا أَقَامَ، لَا أَسْمَعُ لَهُ بِذكَرٍ مَعَ مَا أَنَا فِيهِ مِنْ شُغْلِ الرِّقِّ، ثُمَّ هَاجَرَ إلَى الْمَدِينَةِ، فَوَاَللَّهِ إنِّي لَفِي رَأْسِ عِذْقٍ لِسَيِّدِي أَعْمَلُ لَهُ فِيهِ بَعْضَ الْعَمَلِ، وَسَيِّدِي جَالِسٌ تَحْتِي، إذْ أَقْبَلَ ابْنُ عَمٍّ لَهُ حَتَّى وَقَفَ عَلَيْهِ، فَقَالَ: يَا فُلَانُ، قَاتَلَ اللَّهُ بَنِي قَيْلَةَ، وَاَللَّهِ إنَّهُمْ الْآنَ لَمُجْتَمِعُونَ بِقُبَاءَ عَلَى رَجُلٍ قَدِمَ عَلَيْهِمْ مِنْ مَكَّةَ الْيَوْمَ، يَزْعُمُونَ أَنَّهُ نَبِيٌّ. [ نَسَبُ قَيْلَةَ ] قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: قَيْلَةُ: بِنْتُ كَاهِلِ بْنِ عُذْرَةَ بْنِ سَعْدِ بْنِ زَيْدِ بْنِ لَيْثِ بْنِ سُودِ بْنِ أَسْلَمَ بْنِ الْحَافِ بْنِ قُضَاعَةَ، أُمُّ الْأَوْسِ وَالْخَزْرَجِ. قَالَ النُّعْمَانُ بْنُ بَشِيرٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ يَمْدَحُ الْأَوْسَ وَالْخَزْرَجَ:: بَهَالِيلُ مِنْ أَوْلَادِ قَيْلَةَ لَمْ يَجِدْ عَلَيْهِمْ خَلِيطٌ فِي مُخَالَطَةِ عَتْبَا مَسَامِيحُ أَبْطَالٌ يَرَاحُونَ لِلنَّدَى يَرَوْنَ عَلَيْهِمْ فِعْلَ آبَائِهِمْ نَحْبَا وَهَذَانِ الْبَيْتَانِ فِي قَصِيدَةٍ لَهُ: قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَحَدَّثَنِي عَاصِمُ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ قَتَادَةَ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ، عَنْ مَحْمُودِ بْنِ لَبِيدٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، قَالَ: قَالَ سَلْمَانُ: فَلَمَّا سَمِعْتُهَا أَخَذَتْنِي الْعُرَوَاءُ. فَقَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: وَالْعُرَوَاءُ: الرِّعْدَةُ مِنْ الْبَرْدِ وَالِانْتِفَاضُ، فَإِنْ كَانَ مَعَ ذَلِكَ عَرَقٌ فَهِيَ الرُّحَضَاءُ، وَكِلَاهُمَا مَمْدُودٌ - حَتَّى ظَنَنْتُ أَنِّي سَأَسْقُطُ عَلَى سَيِّدِي، فَنَزَلْتُ عَنْ النَّخْلَةِ، فَجَعَلْتُ أَقُولُ لِابْنِ عَمِّهِ ذَلِكَ: مَاذَا تَقُولُ ؟ ( مَاذَا تَقُولُ ) ؟ فَغَضِبَ سَيِّدِي، فَلَكَمَنِي لَكْمَةً شَدِيدَةً، ثُمَّ قَالَ: مَا لَكَ وَلِهَذَا ؟ أَقْبِلْ عَلَى عَمَلِكَ. قَالَ: قُلْتُ: لَا شَيْءَ: إنَّمَا أَرَدْتُ أَنْ أَسْتَثْبِتَهُ عَمَّا قَالَ
Translation
✧ [Salmān and his transfer to Wādī al-Qurā, then to Madīnah, and his hearing of the sending of the Messenger ﷺ] He said: Then he died and was buried, and I remained in ʿAmūriyyah as long as God willed that I remain. Then a party of traders from Kalb passed by me, and I said to them, “Carry me to the land of the Arabs, and I will give you these cows of mine and this small flock of mine.” They said, “Yes.” So I gave them to them, and they carried me with them, until when they reached Wādī al-Qurā they wronged me and sold me to a Jewish man as a slave. I stayed with him, and I saw the palm trees, and I hoped that it might be the town which my companion had described to me, but it was not confirmed in my mind. While I was with him, a cousin of his from the Banū Qurayẓah came to him from Madīnah, and he bought me from him and carried me to Madīnah. By God, no sooner had I seen it than I recognized it by the description of my companion. So I stayed there, and the Messenger of God ﷺ was sent, and he remained in Makkah as long as he remained, and I heard no mention of him, what with the business of slavery that I was in. Then he emigrated to Madīnah, and by God, I was at the top of a palm cluster belonging to my master, doing some work for him in it, while my master was sitting beneath me, when a cousin of his came up and stood over him and said, “O so-and-so, may God curse the Banū Qaylah! By God, they are now gathered in Qubāʾ around a man who has come to them from Makkah today, claiming that he is a prophet.” [The lineage of Qaylah] Ibn Hishām said: Qaylah was the daughter of Kāhil b. ʿUdhrah b. Saʿd b. Zayd b. Layth b. Sūd b. Aslam b. al-Ḥāf b. Quḍāʿah, the mother of the Aws and the Khazraj. Al-Nuʿmān b. Bashīr al-Anṣārī said, praising the Aws and the Khazraj: Noble leaders from the children of Qaylah; no close associate ever found fault with them in their close association. Generous, heroic, they go forth to liberality; they consider the deeds of their forefathers a binding duty upon themselves. These two verses are in a poem of his. Ibn Isḥāq said: ʿĀṣim b. ʿUmar b. Qatādah al-Anṣārī related to me, from Maḥmūd b. Labīd, from ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAbbās, who said: Salmān said: When I heard it, the ʿurawāʾ seized me. Ibn Hishām said: al-ʿurawāʾ is the trembling from cold and the shivering; and if with that there is sweat, it is al-ruḥaḍāʾ, and both are with the long vowel — until I thought I would fall on my master. So I came down from the palm tree and began saying to that cousin of his, “What are you saying? What are you saying?” My master became angry and struck me a hard blow with his fist, then said, “What is it to you and this? Get on with your work.” He said: I said, “Nothing; I only wanted to verify what he said.”
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