Sirat Ibn Hisham 74
Kisrā and the sending of the Prophet ﷺ
[ كِسْرَى وَبَعْثَةُ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ ] فَبَلَغَنِي عَنْ الزُّهْرِيِّ أَنَّهُ قَالَ: كَتَبَ كِسْرَى إلَى بَاذَانَ: أَنَّهُ بَلَغَنِي أَنَّ رَجُلًا مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ خَرَجَ بِمَكَّةَ، يَزْعُمُ أَنَّهُ نَبِيٌّ، فَسِرْ إلَيْهِ فَاسْتَتِبْهُ، فَإِنْ تَابَ وَإِلَّا فَابْعَثْ إلَيَّ بِرَأْسِهِ. فَبَعَثَ بَاذَانُ بِكِتَابِ كِسْرَى إلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ، فَكَتَبَ إلَيْهِ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ: إنَّ اللَّهَ قَدْ وَعَدَنِي أَنْ يُقْتَلَ كِسْرَى فِي يَوْمِ كَذَا مِنْ شَهْرِ كَذَا فَلَمَّا أَتَى بَاذَانَ الْكِتَابُ تَوَقَّفَ لِيَنْظُرَ، وَقَالَ: إنْ كَانَ نَبِيًّا فَسَيَكُونُ مَا قَالَ. فَقَتَلَ اللَّهُ كِسْرَى فِي الْيَوْمِ الَّذِي قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ. قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: قُتِلَ عَلَى يَدَيْ ابْنِهِ شِيرَوَيْهِ، وَقَالَ خَالِدُ بْنُ حِقٍّ الشَّيْبَانِيُّ:: وَكِسْرَى إذْ تَقَسَّمْهُ بَنُوهُ بِأَسْيَافٍ كَمَا اُقْتُسِمَ اللَّحَّامُ تَمَخَّضَتْ الْمَنُونُ لَهُ بِيَوْمٍ أَنَّى وَلِكُلِّ حَامِلَةٍ تِمَامُ
Translation
✧ [Kisrā and the mission of the Prophet ﷺ] It has reached me from al-Zuhrī that he said: Kisrā wrote to Bādhān: “It has reached me that a man of Quraysh has come forth in Makkah, claiming that he is a prophet. Go to him and ask him to repent; if he repents, well and good, otherwise send me his head.” So Bādhān sent Kisrā’s letter to the Messenger of God ﷺ, and the Messenger of God ﷺ wrote to him: “God has promised me that Kisrā will be killed on such-and-such a day of such-and-such a month.” When the letter came to Bādhān, he paused to see, and said: “If he is a prophet, then what he said will come to pass.” And God killed Kisrā on the day which the Messenger of God ﷺ had stated. Ibn Hishām said: He was killed at the hands of his son Shīrawayh, and Khālid b. Ḥiqq al-Shaybānī said: And Kisrā, when his sons divided him with swords, as meat is divided up, the fates laboured with him for a day — how remote! — and every pregnant one has her full term.
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