al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4805
✧ The Virtue of Zayd b. Amr b. Nufayl and Waraqah, May Allah Have Mercy on Them Both
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وَقَالَ أَبُو يَعْلَى: حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ، ثَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَهَّابِ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْمَجِيدِ الثَّقَفِيُّ، أَمْلَاهُ عَلَيْنَا مِنْ كِتَابِهِ، ثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو، عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ وَيَحْيَى بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ حَاطِبٍ، عَنْ أُسَامَةَ بْنِ زَيْدٍ، عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ حَارِثَةَ ؓ قَالَ:
خَرَجْتُ مَعَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ يَوْمًا حَارًّا مِنْ أَيَّامِ مَكَّةَ، وَهُوَ مُرْدِفِي إِلَى نُصُبٍ مِنَ الْأَنْصَابِ، وَقَدْ ذَبَحْنَا لَهُ شَاةً فَأَنْضَجْنَاهَا، قَالَ: فَلَقِيَهُ زَيْدُ بْنُ عَمْرِو بْنِ نُفَيْلٍ، فَحَيَّا كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْهُمَا صَاحِبَهُ تَحِيَّةَ الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ، فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ: يَا زَيْدُ، مَا لِي أَرَى قَوْمَكَ قَدْ شَنِفُوا لَكَ ؟ قَالَ: وَاللهِ يَا مُحَمَّدُ، إِنَّ ذَلِكَ لِغَيْرِ نَايِلَةٍ لِي مِنْهُمْ، وَلَكِنِّي خَرَجْتُ أَبْتَغِي هَذَا الدِّينَ، حَتَّى أَقْدَمَ عَلَى أَحْبَارِ فَدَكَ، فَوَجَدْتُهُمْ يَعْبُدُونَ اللهَ وَيُشْرِكُونَ بِهِ، فَقُلْتُ: مَا هَذَا بِالَّذِي أَبْتَغِي. فَقَالَ شَيْخٌ مِنْهُمْ: إِنَّكَ لَتَسْأَلُ عَنْ دِينٍ مَا نَعْلَمُ أَنَّ أَحَدًا يَعْبُدُ اللهَ بِهِ تَعَالَى إِلَّا شَيْخًا بِالْحِيرَةِ، فَخَرَجْتُ حَتَّى أَقْدَمَ عَلَيْهِ، فَلَمَّا رَآنِي قَالَ: مِمَّنْ أَنْتَ ؟ قُلْتُ: مِنْ أَهْلِ بَيْتِ اللهِ، وَمِنْ أَهْلِ الشَّوْكِ وَالْقَرَظِ فَقَالَ: إِنَّ الَّذِي تَطْلُبُ قَدْ ظَهَرَ بِبِلَادِكَ، قَدْ بُعِثَ نَبِيٌّ قَدْ طَلَعَ نَجْمُهُ، وَجَمِيعُ مَنْ رَأَيْتَهُمْ فِي ضَلَالٍ، فَلَمْ أُحِسَّ بِشَيْءٍ بَعْدُ يَا مُحَمَّدُ. قَالَ: فَقَرَّبَ إِلَيْهِ السُّفْرَةَ، فَقَالَ: مَا هَذَا ؟ قَالَ: شَاةٌ ذَبَحْنَاهَا لِنُصُبٍ مِنَ الْأَنْصَابِ. فَقَالَ ﷺ: مَا كُنْتُ لِآكُلَ مِمَّا لَمْ يُذْكَرِ اسْمُ اللهِ عَلَيْهِ. قَالَ زَيْدُ بْنُ حَارِثَةَ ؓ: فَأَتَى النَّبِيُّ ﷺ الْبَيْتَ فَطَافَ بِهِ، وَأَنَا مَعَهُ، وَبِالصَّفَا وَالْمَرْوَةِ، وَكَانَ عِنْدَ الصَّفَا وَالْمَرْوَةِ صَنَمَانِ مِنْ نُحَاسٍ أَحَدُهُمَا يُقَالُ لَهُ: يَسَافٌ، وَالْآخَرُ يُقَالُ لَهُ: نَائِلَةُ، وَكَانَ الْمُشْرِكُونَ إِذَا طَافُوا تَمَسَّحُوا بِهِمَا، فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ: لَا تَمَسَّحَنَّهُمَا فَإِنَّهُمَا رِجْسٌ. فَقُلْتُ فِي نَفْسِي: لَأَمَسَّحَنَّهُمَا حَتَّى أَنْظُرَ مَا يَقُولُ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ، فَمَسَحْتُهُمَا، فَقَالَ ﷺ: يَا زَيْدُ، أَلَمْ تُنْهَ ؟ وَمَاتَ زَيْدُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو، وَأُنْزِلَ عَلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ لِزَيْدٍ: إِنَّهُ يُبْعَثُ أُمَّةً وَحْدَهُ
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Chain of narrators
- Abū Yaʿlá
- Muḥammad b. Bashhār
- ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. ʿAbd al-Majīd al-Thaqafī Amlāh ʿAlaynā Min Kitābih
- Muḥammad b. ʿAmr
- Abū Salamah and Yaḥyá b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Ḥāṭib
- Usāmah b. Zayd
- Zayd b. Ḥārithah
✧ I went out with the Messenger of God ﷺ on a hot day from the days of Makkah, and he was riding behind me, to a stone idol among the idols. We had slaughtered a sheep for it and cooked it. He said: Zayd b. ʿAmr b. Nufayl met him, and each greeted the other with the greeting of the Age of Ignorance. The Prophet ﷺ said: “O Zayd, why do I see your people have turned against you?” He said: “By God, O Muḥammad, that is not for any harm they have from me. But I went out seeking this religion, until I came to the rabbis of Fadak. I found them worshipping God and associating partners with Him. I said: ‘This is not what I seek.’ An old man among them said: ‘You ask about a religion that we do not know anyone worships God by except an old man in al-Ḥīrah.’ So I went out until I came to him. When he saw me, he said: ‘Who are you from?’ I said: ‘From the people of the House of God, from the people of thorns and acacia.’ He said: ‘The one you seek has appeared in your land. A prophet has been sent whose star has risen, and all whom you see are in error.’ I did not sense anything after that, O Muḥammad.” He said: So he brought the food near to him, and he said: “What is this?” He said: “A sheep we slaughtered for a stone idol.” He ﷺ said: “I would not eat from what the name of God has not been mentioned over.” Zayd b. Ḥārithah ؓ said: The Prophet ﷺ came to the House and circumambulated it, and I was with him, and [he went between] al-Ṣafā and al-Marwah. At al-Ṣafā and al-Marwah there were two idols of brass, one called Isāf and the other Nāʾilah. The polytheists, when they circumambulated, would rub themselves against them. The Prophet ﷺ said: “Do not rub them, for they are filth.” I said to myself: I will rub them to see what the Prophet ﷺ says. So I rubbed them, and he ﷺ said: “O Zayd, were you not forbidden?” Zayd b. ʿAmr died, and revelation came to the Prophet ﷺ. The Prophet ﷺ said to Zayd: “He will be raised as a nation alone.”
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- Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī
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Other narrations of this report
al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 4668Musnad al-Bazzar 1346al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 8151al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 4987
Narrators
- eminent, well-known Companion, among the first to embrace Islamd. 8 AH, also said 7 AHزَيْدُ بْنُ حَارِثَةَ الْكَلْبِيُّصحابي جليل مشهور ، من أول الناس إسلاماعن
- a well-known Companiond. Ibn Ḥibbān said: he died after ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān was killed. In al-Samʿānī's Amālī: 40 AH. Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr deemed correct that he died in the year 54 AH. Muṣʿab al-Zubayrī said: 58 AH or 59 AHأُسَامَةَ بْنِ زَيْدٍصحابي مشهورعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 104 AHوَيَحْيَى بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ حَاطِبٍثقةعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 144 AH, or 145 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَمْرٍوصدوق له أوهامحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah); his memory changed three years before his deathd. 194 AH or 195 AH or 184 AHعَبْدُ الْوَهَّابِ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْمَجِيدِ الثَّقَفِيُّثقة ، تغير قبل موته بثلاث سنينحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 252 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍثقةحدثنا
- d. 307 AHأَبُو يَعْلَى
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