Sirat Ibn Hisham 337
What God revealed concerning the story of the Companions of the Cave
[ مَا أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى فِي خَبَرِ الرَّجُلِ الطَّوَّافِ ] وَقَالَ فِيمَا سَأَلُوهُ عَنْهُ مِنْ أَمْرِ الرَّجُلِ الطَّوَّافِ: وَيَسْأَلُونَكَ عَنْ ذِي الْقَرْنَيْنِ قُلْ سَأَتْلُو عَلَيْكُمْ مِنْهُ ذِكْرًا إِنَّا مَكَّنَّا لَهُ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَآتَيْنَاهُ مِنْ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ سَبَبًا فَأَتْبَعَ سَبَبًا حَتَّى انْتَهَى إلَى آخِرِ قِصَّةِ خَبَرِهِ. وَكَانَ مِنْ خَبَرِ ذِي الْقَرْنَيْنِ أَنَّهُ أُوتِيَ مَا لَمْ يُؤْتَ أَحَدٌ غَيْرُهُ، فَمُدَّتْ لَهُ الْأَسْبَابُ حَتَّى انْتَهَى مِنْ الْبِلَادِ إلَى مَشَارِقِ الْأَرْضِ وَمَغَارِبِهَا، لَا يَطَأُ أَرْضًا إلَّا سُلِّطَ عَلَى أَهْلِهَا، حَتَّى انْتَهَى مِنْ الْمَشْرِقِ وَالْمَغْرِبِ إلَى مَا لَيْسَ وَرَاءَهُ شَيْءٌ مِنْ الْخَلْقِ. قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: فَحَدَّثَنِي مِنْ يَسُوقُ الْأَحَادِيثَ عَنْ الْأَعَاجِمِ فِيمَا تَوَارَثُوا مِنْ عِلْمِهِ: أَنَّ ذَا الْقَرْنَيْنِ كَانَ رَجُلًا مِنْ أَهْلِ مِصْرَ. اسْمُهُ مَرْزُبَانُ بْنُ مَرْذُبَةَ الْيُونَانِيُّ، مِنْ وَلَدِ يُونَانِ بْنِ يَافِثَ بْنِ نُوحٍ. قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: وَاسْمُهُ الْإِسْكَنْدَرُ، وَهُوَ الَّذِي بَنَى الْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّةَ فَنُسِبَتْ إلَيْهِ. قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَقَدْ حَدَّثَنِي ثَوْرُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ عَنْ خَالِدِ بْنِ مَعْدَانَ الْكُلَاعِيُّ، وَكَانَ رَجُلًا قَدْ أَدْرَكَ: أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ سُئِلَ عَنْ ذِي الْقَرْنَيْنِ فَقَالَ: مَلِكٌ مَسَحَ الْأَرْضَ مِنْ تَحْتِهَا بِالْأَسْبَابِ وَقَالَ خَالِدٌ: سَمِعَ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ ؓ رَجُلًا يَقُولُ: يَا ذَا الْقَرْنَيْنِ، فَقَالَ عُمَرُ: اللَّهُمَّ غَفْرًا، أَمَا رَضِيتُمْ أَنْ تَسَمَّوْا بِالْأَنْبِيَاءِ حَتَّى تَسَمَّيْتُمْ بِالْمَلَائِكَةِ. قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: اللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ أَيُّ ذَلِكَ كَانَ، أَقَالَ ذَلِكَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَمْ لَا ؟ ( فَإِنْ كَانَ قَالَهُ )، فَالْحَقُّ مَا قَالَ. [ مَا أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى فِي أَمْرِ الرُّوحِ ] وَقَالَ تَعَالَى فِيمَا سَأَلُوهُ عَنْهُ مِنْ أَمْرِ الرُّوحِ: وَيَسْأَلُونَكَ عَنِ الرُّوحِ قُلِ الرُّوحُ مِنْ أَمْرِ رَبِّي وَمَا أُوتِيتُمْ مِنَ الْعِلْمِ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا
Translation
✧ [What God Most High revealed concerning the story of the wandering man] And He said regarding what they asked him about the affair of the wandering man: "And they ask you about Dhū al-Qarnayn. Say: I shall recite to you a remembrance of him. Indeed, We established him in the earth and gave him a means to everything. So he followed a means until he reached the end of the story of his account." And it was part of the account of Dhū al-Qarnayn that he was given what no one other than him was given, and the means were extended for him until he reached from the lands to the easts of the earth and its wests. He did not tread upon any land but that he was given authority over its people, until he reached from the east and the west to that beyond which there is nothing of creation. Ibn Isḥāq said: Someone who transmits the narratives from the non-Arabs, regarding what they inherited of their knowledge, related to me that Dhū al-Qarnayn was a man from the people of Egypt, whose name was Marzubān b. Mardhuba the Greek, from the descendants of Yūnān b. Yāfith b. Nūḥ. Ibn Hishām said: His name was al-Iskandar, and he is the one who built Alexandria, so it was named after him. Ibn Isḥāq said: Thawr b. Yazīd related to me from Khālid b. Maʿdān al-Kulāʿī—and he was a man who had met some of the Companions—that the Messenger of God ﷺ was asked about Dhū al-Qarnayn, and he said: "A king who traversed the earth beneath it by the means." And Khālid said: ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb ؓ heard a man saying, "O Dhū al-Qarnayn," and ʿUmar said: "O God, forgive! Are you not satisfied to call yourselves by the names of the prophets, until you call yourselves by the names of the angels?" Ibn Isḥāq said: God knows best whether that was so—whether the Messenger of God ﷺ said that or not. If he said it, then the truth is what he said. [What God Most High revealed concerning the matter of the spirit] And He, Most High, said regarding what they asked him about the matter of the spirit: "And they ask you about the spirit. Say: The spirit is from the command of my Lord, and you have not been given of knowledge except a little."
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