Sirat Ibn Hisham 329
The account of the leaders of Quraysh with the Messenger ﷺ
[ مَا كَانَ يُؤْذِي بِهِ النَّضْرُ بْنُ الْحَارِثِ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ ] وَكَانَ النَّضْرُ بْنُ الْحَارِثِ مِنْ شَيَاطِينِ قُرَيْشٍ، وَمِمَّنْ كَانَ يُؤْذِي رَسُولَ اللَّهِ - ﷺ وَيَنْصِبُ لَهُ الْعَدَاوَةَ، وَكَانَ قَدْ قَدِمَ الْحِيرَةَ، وَتَعَلَّمَ بِهَا أَحَادِيثَ مُلُوكِ الْفُرْسِ، وَأَحَادِيثَ رُسْتُمَ وَاسْبِنْدِيَارَ. فَكَانَ إذَا جَلَسَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ مَجْلِسًا فَذَكَّرَ فِيهِ بِاَللَّهِ، وَحَذَّرَ قَوْمَهُ مَا أَصَابَ مَنْ قَبْلَهُمْ مِنْ الْأُمَمِ مِنْ نِقْمَةِ اللَّهِ، خَلَفَهُ فِي مَجْلِسِهِ إذَا قَامَ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: أَنَا وَاَللَّهِ يَا مَعْشَرَ قُرَيْشٍ، أَحْسَنُ حَدِيثًا مِنْهُ، فَهَلُمَّ إلَيَّ، فَأَنَا أُحَدِّثُكُمْ أَحْسَنَ مِنْ حَدِيثِهِ، ثُمَّ يُحَدِّثُهُمْ عَنْ مُلُوكِ فَارِسَ وَرُسْتُمَ وَاسْبِنْدِيَارَ، ثُمَّ يَقُولُ: بِمَاذَا مُحَمَّدٌ أَحْسَنُ حَدِيثًا مِنِّي ؟. قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: وَهُوَ الَّذِي قَالَ فِيمَا بَلَغَنِي: سَأُنْزِلُ مِثْلَ مَا أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ. قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَكَانَ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ ؓ يَقُولُ، فِيمَا بَلَغَنِي: نَزَلَ فِيهِ ثَمَانِ آيَاتٍ مِنْ الْقُرْآنِ: قَوْلُ اللَّهِ - عَزَّ وَجَلَّ -: إِذَا تُتْلَى عَلَيْهِ آيَاتُنَا قَالَ أَسَاطِيرُ الْأَوَّلِينَ. وَكُلُّ مَا ذُكِرَ فِيهِ مِنْ الْأَسَاطِيرِ مِنْ الْقُرْآنِ
Translation
✧ [What al-Naḍr b. al-Ḥārith used to do to harm the Messenger of God ﷺ] Al-Naḍr b. al-Ḥārith was one of the devils of Quraysh and among those who used to harm the Messenger of God ﷺ and show enmity toward him. He had been to al-Ḥīrah and learned there the stories of the kings of Persia and the stories of Rustum and Isfandiyār. Whenever the Messenger of God ﷺ sat in a gathering and reminded them of God and warned his people of the punishment of God that had befallen the nations before them, al-Naḍr would take his place in the gathering after he left and say: 'By God, O Quraysh, I am a better storyteller than he. Come to me and I will tell you better stories than his.' Then he would tell them about the kings of Persia, Rustum, and Isfandiyār, and then say: 'In what way is Muḥammad a better storyteller than I?' Ibn Hishām said: He is the one who said, as it has reached me: 'I will send down the like of what God has sent down.' Ibn Isḥāq said: Ibn ʿAbbās ؓ used to say, as it has reached me: Eight verses of the Qurʾān were revealed concerning him: the words of God, mighty and glorious: 'When Our verses are recited to him, he says, "Tales of the ancients."' And everything mentioned in the Qurʾān about 'tales of the ancients' refers to him.
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