Sirat Ibn Hisham 601
The conversion of ʿAbd Allāh b. Salām to Islam
[ قَوْمُهُ يُكَذِّبُونَهُ وَلَا يَتَّبِعُونَهُ ] قَالَ: وَكَتَمْتُ إسْلَامِي مِنْ يَهُودَ، ثُمَّ جِئْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ، فَقُلْتُ لَهُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، إنَّ يَهُودَ قَوْمٌ بُهْتٌ، وَإِنِّي أُحِبُّ أَنْ تُدْخِلَنِي فِي بَعْضِ بُيُوتِكَ، وَتُغَيِّبَنِي عَنْهُمْ، ثُمَّ تَسْأَلُهُمْ عَنِّي، حَتَّى يُخْبِرُوكَ كَيْفَ أَنَا فِيهِمْ، قَبْلَ أَنْ يَعْلَمُوا بِإِسْلَامِي، فَإِنَّهُمْ إنْ عَلِمُوا بِهِ بَهَتُونِي وَعَابُونِي. قَالَ: فَأَدْخَلَنِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ فِي بَعْضِ بُيُوتِهِ، وَدَخَلُوا عَلَيْهِ، فَكَلَّمُوهُ وَسَاءَلُوهُ، ثُمَّ قَالَ لَهُمْ: أَيُّ رَجُلٍ الْحُصَيْنُ بْنُ سَلَامٍ فِيكُمْ ؟ قَالُوا: سَيِّدُنَا وَابْنُ سَيِّدِنَا، وَحَبْرُنَا وَعَالِمُنَا. قَالَ: فَلَمَّا فَرَغُوا مِنْ قَوْلِهِمْ خَرَجْتُ عَلَيْهِمْ، فَقُلْتُ لَهُمْ: يَا مَعْشَرَ يَهُودَ، اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ وَاقْبَلُوا مَا جَاءَكُمْ بِهِ، فَوَاَللَّهِ إنَّكُمْ لَتَعْلَمُونَ إنَّهُ لَرَسُولُ اللَّهِ، تَجِدُونَهُ مَكْتُوبًا عِنْدَكُمْ فِي التَّوْرَاةِ بِاسْمِهِ وَصِفَتِهِ، فَإِنِّي أَشْهَدُ أَنَّهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ، وَأُومِنُ بِهِ وَأُصَدِّقُهُ وَأَعْرِفُهُ، فَقَالُوا: كَذَبْتَ ثُمَّ وَقَعُوا بِي، قَالَ: فَقُلْتُ لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَلَمْ أُخْبِرْكَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَنَّهُمْ قَوْمٌ بُهْتٌ، أَهْلُ غَدْرٍ وَكَذِبٍ وَفُجُورٍ اليهود وعبد الله بن سلام قَالَ: فَأَظْهَرْتُ إسْلَامِي وَإِسْلَامُ أَهْلِ بَيْتِي، وَأَسْلَمَتْ عَمَّتِي خَالِدَةُ بِنْتُ الْحَارِثِ، فَحَسُنَ إسْلَامُهَا
Translation
✧ [His people deny him and do not follow him] He said: I concealed my Islam from the Jews. Then I came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and said to him: O Messenger of Allah, the Jews are a people of slander, and I would like you to admit me into one of your houses and hide me from them, then ask them about me, so that they may tell you how I am among them before they learn of my Islam. For if they learn of it, they will slander me and find fault with me. He said: So the Messenger of Allah ﷺ admitted me into one of his houses, and they entered upon him and spoke with him and questioned him. Then he said to them: What sort of man is al-Ḥuṣayn b. Salām among you? They said: Our chief and the son of our chief, our rabbi and our scholar. He said: When they had finished their words, I came out upon them and said to them: O assembly of Jews, fear Allah and accept what he has brought you. For by Allah, you know that he is the Messenger of Allah; you find him written with you in the Torah by his name and description. I bear witness that he is the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and I believe in him, and I affirm him, and I know him. They said: You have lied. Then they fell upon me. He said: I said to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ: Did I not tell you, O Messenger of Allah, that they are a people of slander, a people of treachery, lying, and wickedness? The Jews and ʿAbd Allāh b. Salām. He said: I made my Islam public, and the Islam of my household, and my paternal aunt Khālida bt. al-Ḥārith embraced Islam, and her Islam was good.
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