Sirat Ibn Hisham 471
ʿAlī’s description of the Messenger of God ﷺ
[ حَدِيثُ أُمِّ هَانِئٍ عَنْ مَسْرَاهُ ﷺ ] قَالَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَكَانَ فِيمَا بَلَغَنِي عَنْ أُمِّ هَانِئِ بِنْتِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ؓ، وَاسْمُهَا هِنْدٌ، فِي مَسْرَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ، أَنَّهَا كَانَتْ تَقُولُ: مَا أُسْرِيَ بِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ إلَّا وَهُوَ فِي بَيْتِي، نَامَ عِنْدِي تِلْكَ اللَّيْلَةَ فِي بَيْتِي، فَصَلَّى الْعِشَاءَ الْآخِرَةَ، ثُمَّ نَامَ وَنِمْنَا، فَلَمَّا كَانَ قُبَيْلَ الْفَجْرِ أَهَبَّنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ، فَلَمَّا صَلَّى الصُّبْحَ وَصَلَّيْنَا مَعَهُ، قَالَ: يَا أُمَّ هَانِئٍ، لَقَدْ صَلَّيْتُ مَعَكُمْ الْعِشَاءَ الْآخِرَةَ كَمَا رَأَيْتِ بِهَذَا الْوَادِي، ثُمَّ جِئْتُ بَيْتَ الْمَقْدِسِ فَصَلَّيْتُ فِيهِ، ثُمَّ قَدْ صَلَّيْتُ صَلَاةَ الْغَدَاةِ مَعَكُمْ الْآنَ كَمَا تَرَيْنَ، ثُمَّ قَامَ لِيَخْرُجَ، فَأَخَذْتُ بِطَرَفِ رِدَائِهِ، فَتَكَشَّفَ عَنْ بَطْنِهِ كَأَنَّهُ قُبْطِيَّةٌ مَطْوِيَّةٌ، فَقُلْتُ لَهُ: يَا نَبِيَّ اللَّهِ، لَا تُحَدِّثْ بِهَذَا النَّاسَ فَيُكَذِّبُوكَ وَيُؤْذُوكَ، قَالَ: وَاَللَّهِ لِأُحَدِّثَنَّهُمُوهُ. قَالَتْ: فَقُلْتُ لِجَارِيَةٍ لِي حَبَشِيَّةٍ: وَيْحَكَ اتْبَعِي رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ حَتَّى تَسْمَعِي مَا يَقُولُ لِلنَّاسِ، وَمَا يَقُولُونَ لَهُ. فَلَمَّا خَرَجَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ إلَى النَّاسِ أَخْبَرَهُمْ، فَعَجِبُوا وَقَالُوا: مَا آيَةُ ذَلِكَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ ؟ فَإِنَّا لَمْ نَسْمَعْ بِمِثْلِ هَذَا قَطُّ؛ قَالَ: آيَةُ ذَلِكَ أَنِّي مَرَرْتُ بِعِيرِ بَنِي فُلَانٍ بِوَادِي كَذَا وَكَذَا. فَأَنْفَرَهُمْ حِسُّ الدَّابَّةِ، فَنَدَّ لَهُمْ بَعِيرٌ، فَدَلَلْتُهُمْ عَلَيْهِ، وَأَنَا مُوَجَّهٌ إلَى الشَّامِ. ثُمَّ أَقْبَلْتُ حَتَّى إذَا كُنْتُ بِضَجَنَانَ مَرَرْتُ بِعِيرِ بَنِي فُلَانٍ، فَوَجَدْتُ الْقَوْمَ نِيَامًا، وَلَهُمْ إنَاءٌ فِيهِ مَاءٌ قَدْ غَطَّوْا عَلَيْهِ بِشَيْءِ، فَكَشَفْتُ غِطَاءَهُ وَشَرِبْتُ مَا فِيهِ، ثُمَّ غَطَّيْتُ عَلَيْهِ كَمَا كَانَ ؟ وَآيَةُ ذَلِكَ أَنَّ عِيرَهُمْ الْآنَ يَصُوبُ مِنْ الْبَيْضَاءِ ثَنِيَّةِ التَّنْعِيمِ يَقْدُمُهَا جَمَلٌ أَوْرَقُ، عَلَيْهِ غِرَارَتَانِ، إحْدَاهُمَا سَوْدَاءُ، وَالْأُخْرَى بَرْقَاءُ. قَالَتْ: فَابْتَدَرَ الْقَوْمُ الثَّنِيَّةَ فَلَمْ يَلْقَهُمْ أَوَّلُ مِنْ الْجَمَلِ كَمَا وَصَفَ لَهُمْ، وَسَأَلُوهُمْ عَنْ الْإِنَاءِ، فَأَخْبَرُوهُمْ أَنَّهُمْ وَضَعُوهُ مَمْلُوءًا مَاءً ثُمَّ غَطَّوْهُ، وَأَنَّهُمْ هَبُّوا فَوَجَدُوهُ مُغَطًّى كَمَا غَطَّوْهُ، وَلَمْ يَجِدُوا فِيهِ مَاءً. وَسَأَلُوا الْآخَرِينَ وَهُمْ بِمَكَّةَ، فَقَالُوا: صَدَقَ وَاَللَّهِ، لَقَدْ أُنْفِرْنَا فِي الْوَادِي الَّذِي ذَكَرَ، وَنَدَّ لَنَا بَعِيرٌ، فَسَمِعْنَا صَوْتَ رَجُلٍ يَدْعُونَا إلَيْهِ حَتَّى أَخَذْنَاهُ
Translation
✧ Muḥammad b. Isḥāq said: Among what reached me about Umm Hāniʾ bt. Abī Ṭālib ؓ—and her name was Hind—concerning the night journey of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, is that she used to say: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was not taken on the night journey except while he was in my house. He slept at my place that night in my house. He prayed the latter ʿishāʾ, then slept and we slept. Then, shortly before dawn, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ woke us. When he prayed the morning prayer and we prayed with him, he said: “O Umm Hāniʾ, I prayed the latter ʿishāʾ with you as you saw in this valley, then I went to the Holy House (Jerusalem) and prayed in it, and then I have prayed the morning prayer with you now as you see.” Then he rose to leave, and I took hold of the edge of his cloak, and his belly was uncovered as though it were a folded Egyptian linen. I said to him: “O Prophet of Allah, do not tell this to the people, lest they call you a liar and harm you.” He said: “By Allah, I will tell them of it.” She said: I said to an Abyssinian slave girl of mine: “Woe to you! Follow the Messenger of Allah ﷺ until you hear what he says to the people and what they say to him.” When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ went out to the people, he told them, and they were astonished and said: “What is the sign of that, O Muḥammad? For we have never heard the like of this before.” He said: “The sign of that is that I passed by the camels of Banū so-and-so in such-and-such a valley. The sound of the animal startled them, and a camel of theirs bolted. I pointed it out to them while I was heading toward Syria. Then I turned back, and when I was at Ḍajānan, I passed by the camels of Banū so-and-so. I found the people sleeping, and they had a vessel with water in it which they had covered with something. I uncovered its covering and drank what was in it, then I covered it again as it was. And the sign of that is that their caravan is now descending from al-Bayḍāʾ, the mountain pass of al-Tanʿīm, led by a grayish camel carrying two sacks, one black and the other speckled.” She said: The people rushed to the mountain pass, and the first thing they met was the camel as he had described to them. They asked them about the vessel, and they told them that they had left it full of water and covered it, and that when they woke they found it covered as they had covered it, and did not find any water in it. They asked the others who were in Makkah, and they said: “By Allah, he has spoken the truth. We were startled in the valley he mentioned, and a camel of ours bolted, and we heard the voice of a man calling us to it until we caught it.”
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