Sirat Ibn Hisham 261
When the Prophet ﷺ reached forty years, God Almighty sent him as a mercy to the worlds
مَبْعَثُ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ تَسْلِيمًا قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: فَلَمَّا بَلَغَ مُحَمَّدٌ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةً بَعَثَهُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى رَحْمَةً لِلْعَالَمِينَ، وَكَافَّةً لِلنَّاسِ بَشِيرًا، وَكَانَ اللَّهُ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى قَدْ أَخَذَ الْمِيثَاقَ عَلَى كُلِّ نَبِيٍّ بَعَثَهُ قَبْلَهُ بِالْإِيمَانِ بِهِ، وَالتَّصْدِيقِ لَهُ، وَالنَّصْرِ لَهُ عَلَى مَنْ خَالَفَهُ، وَأَخَذَ عَلَيْهِمْ أَنْ يُؤَدُّوا ذَلِكَ إلَى كُلِّ مَنْ آمَنْ بِهِمْ وَصَدَّقَهُمْ، فَأَدَّوْا مِنْ ذَلِكَ مَا كَانَ عَلَيْهِمْ مِنْ الْحَقِّ فِيهِ. يَقُولُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى لِمُحَمَّدٍ ﷺ وَإِذْ أَخَذَ اللَّهُ مِيثَاقَ النَّبِيِّينَ لَمَا آتَيْتُكُمْ مِنْ كِتَابٍ وَحِكْمَةٍ ثُمَّ جَاءَكُمْ رَسُولٌ مُصَدِّقٌ لِمَا مَعَكُمْ لَتُؤْمِنُنَّ بِهِ وَلَتَنْصُرُنَّهُ قَالَ أَأَقْرَرْتُمْ وَأَخَذْتُمْ عَلَى ذَلِكُمْ إِصْرِي أَيْ ثِقَلَ مَا حَمَّلْتُكُمْ مِنْ عَهْدِي قَالُوا أَقْرَرْنَا قَالَ فَاشْهَدُوا وَأَنَا مَعَكُمْ مِنَ الشَّاهِدِينَ فَأَخَذَ اللَّهُ مِيثَاقَ النَّبِيِّينَ جَمِيعًا بِالتَّصْدِيقِ لَهُ، وَالنَّصْرِ لَهُ مِمَّنْ خَالَفَهُ، وَأَدَّوْا ذَلِكَ إلَى مَنْ آمَنْ بِهِمْ وَصَدَّقَهُمْ مِنْ أَهْلِ هَذَيْنِ الْكِتَابَيْنِ.
Translation
✧ The sending of the Prophet ﷺ, salutations. Ibn Isḥāq said: When Muḥammad the Messenger of Allah ﷺ reached forty years, Allah Almighty sent him as a mercy to the worlds, and for all people as a bearer of good tidings. Allah, blessed and exalted, had taken the covenant from every prophet He sent before him to believe in him, to affirm him, and to aid him against whoever opposed him, and He took from them that they would convey that to everyone who believed in them and affirmed them; and they conveyed of that what was incumbent upon them of the right concerning it. Allah Almighty says to Muḥammad ﷺ: 'And when Allah took the covenant of the prophets: “For what I have given you of Book and wisdom, then there comes to you a messenger confirming what is with you—you shall surely believe in him and you shall surely aid him.” He said: “Do you affirm and take upon that My burden?”—that is, the weight of what I have laid upon you of My covenant. They said: “We affirm.” He said: “Then bear witness, and I am with you among the witnesses.”' So Allah took the covenant of all the prophets to affirm him, and to aid him against whoever opposed him, and they conveyed that to those who believed in them and affirmed them from the people of these two Books.
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