al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4544
✧ Signs of Prophethood
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وَقَالَ إِسْحَاقُ: أَخْبَرَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مُوسَى، أَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ الصُّفَيْرَاءِ، عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ، عَنْ جَابِرٍ - ؓ قَالَ:
خَرَجْتُ مَعَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فِي سَفَرٍ، فَكَانَ لَا يَأْتِي الْبَرَازَ حَتَّى يَغِيبَ فَلَا يُرَى، فَنَزَلْنَا بِأَرْضِ فَلَاةٍ لَيْسَ فِيهَا شَجَرٌ وَلَا عَلَمٌ، فَقَالَ ﷺ: يَا جَابِرُ، انْطَلِقِ، اجْعَلْ فِي الْإِدَاوَةِ مَاءً، ثُمَّ انْطَلِقْ بِنَا حَتَّى لَا نُرَى، قَالَ ؓ: فَإِذَا هُوَ ﷺ بِشَجَرَتَيْنِ بَيْنَهُمَا أَذْرُعٌ، فَقَالَ لِي: يَا جَابِرُ، انْطَلِقْ إِلَى هَاتَيْنِ الشَّجَرَتَيْنِ، فَقُلْ لَهُمَا: يَأْمُرُكُمَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ أَنْ تَجْتَمِعَا، حَتَّى أَجْلِسَ خَلْفَكُمَا، فَجَاءَتَا، فَجَلَسَ ﷺ خَلْفَهُمَا، ثُمَّ رَجَعَتَا إِلَى مَكَانِهِمَا. قَالَ: وَكُنَّا مَعَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ بِفَلَاةٍ، كَأَنَّمَا عَلَى رُؤُوسِنَا الطَّيْرُ تُظِلُّنَا، فَعَرَضَتْ لَنَا امْرَأَةٌ مَعَهَا صَبِيٌّ لَهَا، فَقَالَتْ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، هَذَا الصَّبِيُّ يَأْخُذُهُ الشَّيْطَانُ كُلَّ يَوْمٍ ثَلَاثَ مَرَّاتٍ، قَالَ: فَوَقَفَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ، ثُمَّ أَخَذَ الصَّبِيَّ، فَحَمَلَهُ بَيْنَهُ وَبَيْنَ مُقَدَّمِ الرَّحْلِ، ثُمَّ قَالَ ﷺ: اخْسَ عَدُوَّ اللهِ، أَنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ، ثُمَّ دَفَعَ ﷺ الصَّبِيَّ لَهَا، فَلَمَّا قَضَيْنَا مَسِيرَنَا، مَرَرْنَا بِذَلِكَ الْمَكَانِ، عَرَضَتْ لَنَا الْمَرْأَةُ وَصَبِيُّهَا، وَمَعَهَا كَبْشَانِ، فَقَالَتْ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، اقْبَلْ مِنِّي هَذَيْنِ، فَوَالَّذِي بَعَثَكَ بِالْحَقِّ مَا عَادَ إِلَيْهِ بَعْدُ، فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: خُذُوا أَحَدَهُمَا، وَرُدُّوا الْآخَرَ قَالَ: ثُمَّ سَارَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ، وَسِرْنَا وَرَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ بَيْنَنَا، كَأَنَّ عَلَى رُؤُوسِنَا الطَّيْرَ تُظِلُّنَا، فَإِذَا جَمَلٌ نَادٌّ، فَجَاءَ حَتَّى خَرَّ بَيْنَ السِّمَاطَيْنِ سَاجِدًا، فَوَقَفَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ، وَقَالَ لِلنَّاسِ: مَنْ صَاحِبُ هَذَا الْجَمَلِ ؟ قَالَ فِتْيَةٌ مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ ؓ: هُوَ لَنَا يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، قَالَ ﷺ: فَمَا شَأْنُهُ ؟ قَالُوا: سَنَيْنَا عَلَيْهِ عِشْرِينَ سَنَةً، فَكَانَ بِهِ شُحَيْمَةٌ، فَأَرَدْنَا أَنْ نَنْحَرَهُ وَنَقْسِمَهُ بَيْنَ غِلْمَانِنَا، قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: فَتَبِيعُونِيهِ ؟ قَالُوا: بَلْ هُوَ لَكَ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: أَمَّا لَا، فَأَحْسِنُوا إِلَيْهِ حَتَّى يَأْتِيَهُ أَجَلُهُ، قَالُوا: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، نَحْنُ أَوْلَى بِالسُّجُودِ لَكَ مِنَ الْبَهَائِمِ، فَقَالَ ﷺ: لَوْ كَانَ يَنْبَغِي أَنْ يَسْجُدَ بَشَرٌ لِأَحَدٍ، كَانَ النِّسَاءُ لِأَزْوَاجِهِنَّ
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Chain of narrators
- Isḥāq
- ʿUbaydullāh b. Mūsá
- Ismāʿīl b. ʿAbd al-Malik b. al-Ṣufayrāʾ
- Abū al-Zubayr
- Jābir
✧ I went out with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ on a journey. He would not go to relieve himself until he had gone out of sight and could not be seen. We camped in a desolate land with no trees or landmarks. He ﷺ said, 'O Jabir, go and put some water in the water-skin, then let us go until we cannot be seen.' He ؓ said: And there he ﷺ was, between two trees with some cubits between them. He said to me, 'O Jabir, go to these two trees and say to them: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ commands you both to come together so that I may sit behind you both.' So they came together, and he ﷺ sat behind them, then they returned to their places. He said: And we were with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ in a desolate land, as if birds were shading our heads. A woman with her child came to us and said, 'O Messenger of Allah, this child is seized by the devil three times every day.' He said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ stopped, then took the child and carried him between himself and the front of the saddle. Then he ﷺ said, 'Begone, enemy of Allah, I am the Messenger of Allah.' Then he ﷺ handed the child back to her. When we completed our journey and passed by that place, the woman and her child came to us, and with her were two rams. She said, 'O Messenger of Allah, accept these two from me. By the One who sent you with the truth, it has not returned to him since.' The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, 'Take one of them and return the other.' He said: Then the Messenger of Allah ﷺ moved on, and we moved on with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ among us, as if birds were shading our heads. Then a stray camel came and fell down prostrating between the two rows. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ stopped and said to the people, 'Who owns this camel?' A group of young men from the Ansar ؓ said, 'It is ours, O Messenger of Allah.' He ﷺ said, 'What is the matter with it?' They said, 'We worked it for twenty years, and it had a little fat on it, so we wanted to slaughter it and divide it among our servants.' The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, 'Will you sell it to me?' They said, 'Rather, it is yours, O Messenger of Allah.' The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, 'As for no, then be good to it until its appointed time comes.' They said, 'O Messenger of Allah, we are more worthy of prostrating to you than the beasts.' He ﷺ said, 'If it were fitting for a human to prostrate to anyone, women would prostrate to their husbands.'
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- Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
إسماعيل سيئ الحفظ وقد ذكر الدارقطني أنه تفرد بهذا الحديث بطوله
machine translationIsmāʿīl has poor memory (sayyiʾ al-ḥifẓ), and al-Dāraquṭnī mentioned that he was alone (tafarrada) in narrating this ḥadīth in its full length.
in المطالب العالية, p. 4544 - Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
وإسماعيل سيئ الحفظ وقد ذكر الدارقطني أنه تفرد بهذا الحديث بطوله
machine translationAnd Ismāʿīl has poor memory (sayyiʾ al-ḥifẓ), and al-Dāraquṭnī mentioned that he was alone (tafarrada) in narrating this ḥadīth in its full length.
in المطالب العالية, p. 4544 - ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Mudhirī
فيه إسماعيل بن عبد الملك الكوفي نزيل مكة قد تكلم فيه غير واحد
machine translationIn it is Ismāʿīl b. ʿAbd al-Malik al-Kūfī, who settled in Mecca; more than one scholar has spoken against him.
in المطالب العالية, p. 4544
Other narrations of this report
Sunan Abi Dawud 1Jami' at-Tirmidhi 20Sunan an-Nasa'i 17Sunan Ibn Majah 331Musnad Ahmad 18392Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 62
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in some reports from them: 68 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 72 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī in another report: 73 AH. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān said: 77 AH. Abū ʿAwn al-Madanī and others said: 78 AH. Abū Nuʿaym and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in another report said: 79 AHجَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابيعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq), except that he practiced concealment (yudallis)d. before 126 AH, or 128 AHأَبِي الزُّبَيْرِصدوق إلا أنه يدلسعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), has many lapses (wahm)إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ الصُّفَيْرَاءِصدوق ، كثير الوهمأنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah); he leaned towards Shiism (kāna yatashayyaʿ).d. 212 AH or 213 AH or 214 AHعُبَيْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مُوسَىثقة ، كان يتشيعأخبرنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer, a mujtahid (thiqah ḥāfiẓ mujtahid)d. 237 AH, or 238 AHإِسْحَاقُثقة حافظ مجتهد
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