Sirat Ibn Hisham 593
The dream of ʿUmar concerning the call to prayer and the revelation preceding it
[ رُؤْيَا عُمَرُ فِي الْأَذَانِ وَسَبْقُ الْوَحْيِ بِهِ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: حَدَّثَنِي بِهَذَا الْحَدِيثِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ زَيْدِ بْنِ ثَعْلَبَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ رَبِّهِ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ. قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: وَذَكَرَ ابْنُ جُرَيْجٍ، قَالَ: قَالَ لِي عَطَاءٌ: سَمِعْتُ عُبَيْدَ بْنَ عُمَيْرٍ اللَّيْثِيَّ يَقُولُ: ائْتَمَرَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ وَأَصْحَابُهُ بِالنَّاقُوسِ لِلِاجْتِمَاعِ لِلصَّلَاةِ، فَبَيْنَمَا عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ يُرِيدُ أَنْ يَشْتَرِيَ خَشَبَتَيْنِ لِلنَّاقُوسِ، إذْ رَأَى عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ فِي الْمَنَامِ: لَا تَجْعَلُوا النَّاقُوسَ، بَلْ أَذِّنُوا لِلصَّلَاةِ. فَذَهَبَ عُمَرُ إلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ لِيُخْبِرَهُ بِاَلَّذِي رَأَى، وَقَدْ جَاءَ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ الْوَحْيُ بِذَلِكَ، فَمَا رَاعَ عُمَرُ إلَّا بِلَالٌ يُؤَذِّنُ، فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ حَيْنَ أَخْبَرَهُ بِذَلِكَ: قَدْ سَبَقَكَ بِذَلِكَ الْوَحْيُ. [ مَا كَانَ يَقُولُهُ بِلَالٌ قَبْلَ الْأَذَانِ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَحَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ الزُّبَيْرِ، عَنْ عُرْوَةَ بْنِ الزُّبَيْرِ، عَنْ امْرَأَةٍ مِنْ بَنِي النَّجَّارِ، قَالَتْ: كَانَ بَيْتِي مِنْ أَطْوَلِ بَيْتٍ حَوْلَ الْمَسْجِدِ، فَكَانَ بِلَالٌ يُؤَذِّنُ عَلَيْهِ لِلْفَجْرِ كُلَّ غَدَاةٍ، فَيَأْتِي بِسَحَرٍ، فَيَجْلِسُ عَلَى الْبَيْتِ يَنْتَظِرُ الْفَجْرَ، فَإِذَا رَآهُ تَمَطَّى، ثُمَّ قَالَ: اللَّهُمَّ إنِّي أَحَمْدُكَ وَأَسْتَعِينُكَ عَلَى قُرَيْشٍ أَنْ يُقِيمُوا عَلَى دِينِكَ. قَالَتْ: وَاَللَّهِ مَا عَلِمْتُهُ كَانَ يَتْرُكُهَا لَيْلَةً وَاحِدَةً
Translation
✧ [The dream of ʿUmar regarding the call to prayer and the revelation preceding it] Ibn Isḥāq said: Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. al-Ḥārith related this ḥadīth to me, from Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Zayd b. Thaʿlabah b. ʿAbd Rabbih, from his father. Ibn Hishām said: And Ibn Jurayj mentioned, saying: ʿAṭāʾ said to me: I heard ʿUbayd b. ʿUmayr al-Laythī saying: The Prophet ﷺ and his companions took counsel about using a clapper (nāqūs) to gather for prayer. While ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb was about to buy two pieces of wood for the clapper, ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb saw in a dream: Do not make the clapper, but rather call to prayer. ʿUmar went to the Prophet ﷺ to inform him of what he had seen, and the revelation had already come to the Prophet ﷺ concerning that. ʿUmar was not startled except by Bilāl calling to prayer. The Messenger of God ﷺ said when ʿUmar informed him of that: The revelation has preceded you in that. [What Bilāl used to say before the call to prayer] Ibn Isḥāq said: And Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar b. al-Zubayr related to me, from ʿUrwah b. al-Zubayr, from a woman of Banū al-Najjār, she said: My house was among the tallest houses around the mosque. Bilāl used to give the call to prayer for dawn from it every morning. He would come at the time before dawn, sit on the house awaiting the dawn. When he saw it, he would stretch, then say: O God, I praise You and seek Your help against Quraysh, that they may uphold Your religion. She said: By God, I do not know him to have omitted it for a single night.
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