al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4803

Translation

✧ Zayd b. ʿAmr and Waraqah b. Nawfal went out seeking the religion until they came to a monk in Mosul. He said to Zayd b. ʿAmr: “Where have you come from, O owner of the camel?” He said: “From the house of Abraham.” He said: “What do you seek?” He said: “I seek the religion.” He said: “Return, for the one you seek is about to appear in your land.” As for Waraqah, he became a Christian. As for me, Christianity was offered to me but it did not suit me. He returned saying: “At Your service, truly, truly; in worship and servitude; righteousness I seek, not the fancy. Do you see one who emigrates like one who says: I believe in what Abraham believed?” Then he would say: “I seek for you, O God, a humble, submissive servant. Whatever You impose on me, I will undertake.” Then he would fall down in prostration. His son came to the Prophet ﷺ and said: “O Messenger of God, my father was as you have seen and as you have heard. Shall I seek forgiveness for him?” He ﷺ said: “Yes, for he will be raised on the Day of Resurrection as a nation alone.” Zayd b. ʿAmr came to the Messenger of God ﷺ while Zayd b. Ḥārithah ؓ was with him, and they were eating from their food. They invited him to their meal, but Zayd b. ʿAmr said to the Prophet ﷺ: “We do not eat what is slaughtered on stone altars.”

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Other narrations of this report

Musnad al-Bazzar 1283al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 8151Musnad Abi Ya'la 973al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 5855al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 5856

Narrators

1. 1
   Saʿīd b. Zayd b. ʿAmr al-ʿAdawī

   One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 50 AH, or 51 AH, or 52 AH, in «Tārīkh al-Bukhārī» in Abū Dharr's handwriting: 58 AH
   سَعِيد بْن زَيْد بْن عَمْرِو الْعَدَوِيّأحد العشرة
   عن
2. 2
   Hishām b. Saʿīd b. Zayd b. ʿAmr al-ʿAdawī
   أَبِيهِ
   عن
3. 3
   Nufayl b. Hishām b. Saʿīd b. Zayd b. ʿAmr b. Nufayl
   نُفَيْلِ بْنِ هِشَامِ بْنِ سَعِيدِ بْنِ زَيْدِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ نُفَيْلٍ الْعَدَوِيِّ ، عَدَوِيِّ قُرَيْشٍ
   عن
4. 4
   al-Masʿūdī

   Truthful (ṣadūq); he became confused (ikhtalaṭa) before his death, and the rule is: whoever heard from him in Baghdad heard after the confusion.d. 160 AH, also said: 165 AH
   الْمَسْعُودِيُّصدوق ، اختلط قبل موته ، وضابطه : أن من سمع منه ببغداد فبعد الاختلاط
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Abū Dāwūd

   trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), who erred in some hadithsd. 203 AH, or 204 AH
   الطَّيَالِسِيُّثقة حافظ , غلط في أحاديث

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