Sirat Ibn Hisham 600
The conversion of ʿAbd Allāh b. Salām to Islam
إسْلَامُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ سَلَامٍ [ كَيْفَ أَسْلَمَ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَكَانَ مِنْ حَدِيثِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ سَلَامٍ، كَمَا حَدَّثَنِي بَعْضُ أَهْلِهِ عَنْهُ وَعَنْ إسْلَامِهِ حَيْنَ أَسْلَمَ، وَكَانَ حَبْرًا عَالِمًا، قَالَ: لَمَّا سَمِعْتُ بِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ عَرَفْتُ صِفَتَهُ وَاسْمَهُ وَزَمَانَهُ الَّذِي كُنَّا نَتَوَكَّفُ لَهُ، فَكُنْتُ مُسِرًّا لِذَلِكَ، صَامِتًا عَلَيْهِ، حَتَّى قَدِمَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ الْمَدِينَةَ، فَلَمَّا نَزَلَ بقُباءٍ، فِي بَنِي عَمْرِو بْنِ عَوْفٍ، أَقْبَلَ رَجُلٌ حَتَّى أَخْبَرَ بِقُدُومِهِ، وَأَنَا فِي رَأْسِ نَخْلَةٍ لِي أَعَمَلُ فِيهَا، وَعَمَّتِي خَالِدَةُ ابْنَةُ الْحَارِثِ تَحْتِي جَالِسَةٌ، فَلَمَّا سَمِعْتُ الْخَبَرَ بِقُدُومِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ كَبَّرْتُ؛ فَقَالَتْ لِي عَمَّتِي، حَيْنَ سَمِعَتْ تَكْبِيرِي: خَيَّبَكَ اللَّهُ، وَاَللَّهِ لَوْ كُنْتَ سَمِعْتَ بِمُوسَى بْنِ عِمْرَانَ قَادِمًا مَا زِدْتَ، قَالَ: فَقُلْتُ لَهَا: أَيْ عَمَّةُ، هُوَ وَاَللَّهِ أَخُو مُوسَى بْنِ عِمْرَانَ، وَعَلَى دِينِهِ، بُعِثَ بِمَا بُعِثَ بِهِ. قَالَ: فَقَالَتْ: أَيْ ابْنَ أَخِي، أَهُوَ النَّبِيُّ الَّذِي كُنَّا نُخْبَرُ أَنَّهُ يُبْعَثُ مَعَ نَفْسِ السَّاعَةِ ؟ قَالَ: فَقُلْتُ لَهَا: نَعَمْ. قَالَ: فَقَالَتْ: فَذَاكَ إذًا. قَالَ: ثُمَّ خَرَجْتُ إلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ، فَأَسْلَمْتُ، ثُمَّ رَجَعْتُ إلَى أَهْلِ بَيْتِي، فَأَمَرْتُهُمْ فَأَسْلَمُوا
Translation
✧ The Islam of ʿAbd Allāh b. Salām [how he became Muslim]. Ibn Isḥāq said: Part of the account of ʿAbd Allāh b. Salām, as one of his family related to me from him and about his conversion when he became Muslim—he was a learned rabbi—he said: When I heard of the Messenger of God ﷺ, I recognized his description, his name, and the time for which we had been waiting, and I kept this secret and remained silent about it until the Messenger of God ﷺ arrived in Madinah. When he alighted at Qubāʾ among the Banū ʿAmr b. ʿAwf, a man came and announced his arrival while I was at the top of a date palm of mine, working on it, and my paternal aunt Khālidah bt. al-Ḥārith was sitting below me. When I heard the news of the arrival of the Messenger of God ﷺ, I exclaimed, 'Allāhu akbar!' My aunt said, when she heard my exclamation: 'May God thwart you! By God, if you had heard that Moses son of ʿImrān was coming, you would not have done more.' He said: I said to her, 'Aunt, by God, he is the brother of Moses son of ʿImrān, and upon his religion; he has been sent with what he was sent with.' He said: She said, 'O son of my brother, is he the prophet about whom we were told that he would be sent with the same breath as the Hour?' He said: I said to her, 'Yes.' He said: She said, 'Then it is he.' He said: Then I went out to the Messenger of God ﷺ and became Muslim, then returned to my household and commanded them, and they became Muslim.
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