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✧ The birth of our master the Messenger of Allah ﷺ

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وَقَالَ أَبُو يَعْلَى: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ النُّعْمَانِ الشَّامِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْلَى الْكُوفِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ صُبْحٍ، عَنْ ثَوْرِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ، عَنْ مَكْحُولٍ، عَنْ شَدَّادِ بْنِ أَوْسٍ ؓ، قَالَ: بَيْنَمَا نَحْنُ جُلُوسٌ عِنْدَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ، إِذْ أَتَاهُ رَجُلٌ مِنْ بَنِي عَامِرٍ، وَهُوَ سَيِّدُ قَوْمِهِ وَكَبِيرُهُمْ وَمِدْرَهُهُمْ، يَتَوَكَّأُ عَلَى عَصًا، فَقَامَ بَيْنَ يَدَيِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ، وَنَسَبَ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ إِلَى جَدِّهِ، فَقَالَ: يَا ابْنَ عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ، إِنِّي نُبِّئْتُ أَنَّكَ رَسُولُ اللهِ إِلَى النَّاسِ، أَرْسَلَكَ بِمَا أَرْسَلَ بِهِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَمُوسَى وَعِيسَى وَغَيْرَهُمْ مِنَ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ، أَلَا إِنَّكَ تَفَوَّهْتَ بِعَظِيمٍ، إِنَّمَا كَانَ الْأَنْبِيَاءُ وَالْمُلُوكُ فِي بَيْتَيْنِ مِنْ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ، بَيْتِ نُبُوَّةٍ، وَبَيْتِ مُلْكٍ، وَلَا أَنْتَ مِنْ هَؤُلَاءِ وَلَا مِنْ هَؤُلَاءِ، إِنَّمَا أَنْتَ مِنَ الْعَرَبِ مِمَّنْ يَعْبُدُ الْحِجَارَةَ وَالْأَوْثَانَ، فَمَا لَكَ وَالنُّبُوَّةَ ؟ وَلِكُلِّ أَمْرٍ حَقِيقَةٌ، فَأْتِنِي بِحَقِيقَةِ قَوْلِكَ وَبَدْءِ شَأْنِكَ ؟ قَالَ: فَأَعْجَبَ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ مَسْأَلَتُهُ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: إِنَّ لِلْحَدِيثِ الَّذِي تَسْأَلُ عَنْهُ نَبَأً وَمَجْلِسًا، فَاجْلِسْ، فَثَنَى رِجْلَهُ وَبَرَكَ كَمَا يَبْرُكُ الْبَعِيرُ، فَقَالَ لَهُ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ:

يَا أَخَا بَنِي عَامِرٍ، إِنَّ حَقِيقَةَ قَوْلِي وَبَدْءَ شَأْنِي دَعْوَةُ أَبِي إِبْرَاهِيمَ، وَبَشَّرَ بِي أَخِي عِيسَى ابْنُ مَرْيَمَ، وَإِنِّي كُنْتُ بِكْرًا لِأُمِّي، وَإِنَّهَا حَمَلَتْنِي كَأَثْقَلِ مَا تَحْمِلُ النِّسَاءُ، حَتَّى جَعَلَتْ تَشْتَكِي إِلَى صَوَاحِبِهَا بِثِقَلِ مَا تَجِدُ، وَإِنَّ أُمِّي رَأَتْ فِي الْمَنَامِ أَنَّ الَّذِي فِي بَطْنِهَا نُورٌ، قَالَتْ: فَجَعَلْتُ أُتْبِعُ بَصَرِي النُّورَ، فَجَعَلَ النُّورُ يَسْبِقُ بَصَرِي حَتَّى أَضَاءَ لِي مَشَارِقَ الْأَرْضِ وَمَغَارِبَهَا، ثُمَّ إِنَّهَا وَلَدَتْنِي، فَلَمَّا نَشَأْتُ بُغِّضَ إِلَيَّ الْأَوْثَانُ، وَبُغِّضَ إِلَيَّ الشِّعْرُ، فَاسْتُرْضِعْتُ فِي بَنِي جُشَمِ بْنِ بَكْرٍ، فَبَيْنَمَا أَنَا ذَاتَ يَوْمٍ فِي بَطْنِ وَادٍ مَعَ أَتْرَابٍ لِي مِنَ الصِّبْيَانِ، إِذَا أَنَا بِرَهْطٍ ثَلَاثٍ، مَعَهُمْ طَشْتٌ مِنْ ذَهَبٍ مَلْآنُ نُورٍ وَثَلْجٍ، فَأَخَذُونِي مِنْ بَيْنِ أَصْحَابِي، وَانْطَلَقَ أَصْحَابِي هِرَابًا، حَتَّى انْتَهَوْا إِلَى شَفِيرِ الْوَادِي، فَأَقْبَلُوا عَلَى الرَّهْطِ، وَقَالُوا: مَا لَكُمْ وَلِهَذَا الْغُلَامِ ؟ إِنَّهُ غُلَامٌ لَيْسَ مِنَّا، وَهُوَ مِنْ بَنِي سَيِّدِ قُرَيْشٍ، وَهُوَ مُسْتَرْضَعٌ فِينَا مِنْ غُلَامٍ يَتِيمٍ، لَيْسَ لَهُ أَبٌ، فَمَاذَا يَرُدُّ عَلَيْكُمْ قَتْلُهُ ؟ وَلَكِنْ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ لَا بُدَّ فَاعِلِينَ فَاخْتَارُوا مِنَّا أَيَّنَا شِئْتُمْ، فَلْنَأْتِكُمْ فَاقْبَلُونَا مَكَانَهُ، وَدَعُوا هَذَا الْغُلَامَ، فَلَمْ يُجِيبُوهُمْ، فَلَمَّا رَأَى الصِّبْيَانُ أَنَّ الْقَوْمَ لَا يُجِيبُونَهُمُ انْطَلَقُوا هِرَابًا مُسْرِعِينَ إِلَى الْحَيِّ يُعْلِمُونَهُمْ وَيَسْتَصْرِخُونَهُمْ عَلَى الْقَوْمِ، فَعَمَدَ إِلَيَّ أَحَدُهُمْ فَأَضْجَعَنِي إِلَى الْأَرْضِ إِضْجَاعًا لَطِيفًا، ثُمَّ شَقَّ مَا بَيْنَ صَدْرِي إِلَى مُنْتَهَى عَانَتِي وَأَنَا أَنْظُرُ، فَلَمْ أَجِدْ لِذَلِكَ شَيْئًا، ثُمَّ أَخْرَجَ أَحْشَاءَ بَطْنِي فَغَسَلَهُ بِذَلِكَ الثَّلْجِ فَأَنْعَمَ غَسْلَهُ، ثُمَّ أَعَادَهَا فِي مَكَانِهَا، ثُمَّ قَامَ الثَّانِي، وَقَالَ لِصَاحِبِهِ: تَنَحَّ، ثُمَّ أَدْخَلَ يَدَهُ فِي جَوْفِي فَأَخْرَجَ قَلْبِي وَأَنَا أَنْظُرُ، فَصَدَعَهُ فَأَخْرَجَ مِنْهُ مُضْغَةً سَوْدَاءَ رَمَى بِهَا، ثُمَّ قَالَ بِيَدِهِ يَمْنَةً مِنْهُ كَأَنَّهُ يَتَنَاوَلُ شَيْئًا، ثُمَّ أَتَى بِالْخَاتَمِ فِي يَدِهِ مِنْ نُورِ النُّبُوَّةِ وَالْحِكْمَةِ يَخْطَفُ أَبْصَارَ النَّاظِرِينَ دُونَهُ، فَخَتَمَ قَلْبِي فَامْتَلَأَ نُورًا، وَخَتَمَهُ ثُمَّ أَعَادَهُ مَكَانَهُ، فَوَجَدْتُ بَرْدَ ذَلِكَ الْخَاتَمِ فِي قَلْبِي دَهْرًا، ثُمَّ قَامَ الثَّالِثُ فَنَحَّى صَاحِبَهُ، فَأَمَرَّ يَدَهُ بَيْنَ ثَدْيَيَّ وَمُنْتَهَى عَانَتِي فَالْتَأَمَ ذَلِكَ الشِّقُّ بِإِذْنِ اللهِ تَعَالَى، ثُمَّ أَخَذَ بِيَدِهِ فَأَنْهَضَنِي مِنْ مَكَانِي إِنْهَاضًا لَطِيفًا، ثُمَّ قَالَ الْأَوَّلُ الَّذِي شَقَّ بَطْنِي: زِنُوهُ بِعَشَرَةٍ مِنْ أُمَّتِهِ، فَوَزَنُونِي فَرَجَحْتُهُمْ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: زِنُوهُ بِمِائَةٍ مِنْ أُمَّتِهِ، فَوَزَنُونِي فَرَجَحْتُهُمْ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: زِنُوهُ بِأَلْفٍ مِنْ أُمَّتِهِ، فَوَزَنُونِي فَرَجَحْتُهُمْ، قَالَ: دَعُوهُ، فَلَوْ وَزَنْتُمُوهُ بِأُمَّتِهِ جَمِيعًا لَرَجَحَ بِهِمْ، ثُمَّ قَامُوا إِلَيَّ فَضَمُّونِي إِلَى صُدُورِهِمْ، وَقَبَّلُوا رَأْسِي وَمَا بَيْنَ عَيْنَيَّ، ثُمَّ قَالُوا: يَا حَبِيبُ لَمْ تُرَعْ، إِنَّكَ لَوْ تَدْرِي مَا يُرَادُ بِكَ مِنَ الْخَيْرِ لَقَرَّتْ عَيْنُكَ، قَالَ: فَبَيْنَمَا نَحْنُ كَذَلِكَ إِذْ أَقْبَلَ الْحَيُّ بِحَذَافِيرِهِمْ، فَإِذَا ظِئْرِي أَمَامَ الْحَيِّ تَهْتِفُ بِأَعْلَى صَوْتِهَا وَهِيَ تَقُولُ: يَا ضَعِيفَاهُ، قَالَ: فَأَكَبُّوا عَلَيَّ يُقَبِّلُونِي، وَيَقُولُونَ: يَا حَبَّذَا أَنْتَ مِنْ ضَعِيفٍ، ثُمَّ قَالَتْ: وَاوَحِيدَاهُ، قَالَ: فَأَكَبُّوا عَلَيَّ يُقَبِّلُونِي وَيَقُولُونَ: يَا حَبَّذَا أَنْتَ مِنْ وَحِيدٍ، مَا أَنْتَ بِوَحِيدٍ، إِنَّ اللهَ مَعَكَ وَمَلَائِكَتَهُ وَالْمُؤْمِنِينَ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْأَرْضِ، ثُمَّ قَالَتْ: يَا يَتِيمَاهُ، اسْتُضْعِفْتَ مِنْ بَيْنِ أَصْحَابِكَ فَقُتِلْتَ لِضَعْفِكَ، فَأَكَبُّوا عَلَيَّ وَضَمُّونِي إِلَى صُدُورِهِمْ وَقَبَّلُوا رَأْسِي، وَقَالُوا: يَا حَبَّذَا أَنْتَ مِنْ يَتِيمٍ، مَا أَكْرَمَكَ عَلَى اللهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ، لَوْ تَعْلَمُ مَاذَا يُرَادُ بِكَ مِنَ الْخَيْرِ، قَالَ: فَوَصَلُوا إِلَى شَفِيرِ الْوَادِي، فَلَمَّا بَصُرَتْ بِي ظِئْرِي قَالَتْ: يَا بُنَيَّ، أَلَا أَرَاكَ حَيًّا بَعْدُ، فَجَاءَتْ حَتَّى أَكَبَّتْ عَلَيَّ فَضَمَّتْنِي إِلَى صَدْرِهَا، فَوَالَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ إِنِّي لَفِي حِجْرِهَا قَدْ ضَمَّتْنِي إِلَيْهَا وَإِنَّ يَدِي لَفِي يَدِ بَعْضِهِمْ، فَظَنَنْتُ أَنَّ الْقَوْمَ يُبْصِرُونَهُمْ، فَإِذَا هُمْ لَا يُبْصِرُونَ، فَجَاءَ بَعْضُ الْحَيِّ، فَقَالَ: هَذَا الْغُلَامُ أَصَابَهُ لَمَمٌ أَوْ طَائِفٌ مِنَ الْجِنِّ، فَانْطَلِقُوا بِهِ إِلَى الْكَاهِنِ يَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهِ وَيُدَاوِيهِ، فَقُلْتُ لَهُ: يَا هَذَا لَيْسَ بِي شَيْءٌ مِمَّا تَذْكُرُونَ، أَرَى نَفْسِي سَلِيمَةً، وَفُؤَادِي صَحِيحًا، وَلَيْسَ بِي قَلْبَةٌ، فَقَالَ أَبِي - وَهُوَ زَوْجُ ظِئْرِي -: أَلَا تَرَوْنَ ابْنِي كَلَامُهُ صَحِيحٌ، إِنِّي لَأَرْجُو أَنْ لَا يَكُونَ بِابْنِي بَأْسٌ، فَاتَّفَقَ الْقَوْمُ عَلَى أَنْ يَذْهَبُوا بِي إِلَى الْكَاهِنِ، فَاحْتَمَلُونِي حَتَّى ذَهَبُوا بِي إِلَيْهِ، فَقَصُّوا عَلَيْهِ قِصَّتِي، فَقَالَ: اسْكُتُوا حَتَّى أَسْمَعَ مِنَ الْغُلَامِ، فَإِنَّهُ أَعْلَمُ بِأَمْرِهِ، فَقَصَصْتُ عَلَيْهِ أَمْرِي مِنْ أَوَّلِهِ إِلَى آخِرِهِ، فَلَمَّا سَمِعَ مَقَالَتِي ضَمَّنِي إِلَى صَدْرِهِ وَنَادَى بِأَعْلَى صَوْتِهِ: يَا آلَ الْعَرَبِ، اقْتُلُوا هَذَا الْغُلَامَ وَاقْتُلُونِي مَعَهُ، فَوَاللَّاتِ وَالْعُزَّى لَئِنْ تَرَكْتُمُوهُ لَيُبَدِّلَنَّ دِينَكُمْ، وَلَيُسَفِّهَنَّ أَحْلَامَكُمْ وَأَحْلَامَ آبَائِكُمْ، وَلَيُخَالِفَنَّ أَمْرَكُمْ، وَلَيَأْتِيَنَّكُمْ بِدِينٍ لَمْ تَسْمَعُوا بِمِثْلِهِ، قَالَ: فَانْتَزَعَنِي ظِئْرِي مِنْ يَدِهِ، قَالَ: لَأَنْتَ أَعْتَهُ مِنْهُ وَأَجَنُّ، وَلَوْ عَلِمْتُ أَنَّ هَذَا يَكُونُ مِنْ قَوْلِكَ مَا أَتَيْتُكَ بِهِ، ثُمَّ احْتَمَلُونِي وَرَدُّونِي إِلَى أَهْلِي، فَأَصْبَحْتُ مُعَزًّى مِمَّا فُعِلَ بِي، وَأَصْبَحَ أَثَرُ الشَّقِّ مَا بَيْنَ صَدْرِي إِلَى مُنْتَهَى عَانَتِي كَأَنَّهُ شِرَاكٌ، فَذَاكَ حَقِيقَةُ قَوْلِي وَبَدْءُ شَأْنِي. فَقَالَ الْعَامِرِيُّ: أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللهُ، وَأَنَّ أَمْرَكَ حَقٌّ، فَأَنْبِئْنِي بِأَشْيَاءَ أَسْأَلُكَ عَنْهَا، قَالَ ﷺ: سَلْ عَنْكَ، قَالَ: وَكَانَ ﷺ يَقُولُ لِلسَّائِلِينَ قَبْلَ ذَلِكَ: سَلْ عَمَّا بَدَا لَكَ، فَقَالَ يَوْمَئِذٍ لِلْعَامِرِيِّ: سَلْ عَنْكَ، فَكَلَّمَهُ بِلُغَةِ بَنِي عَامِرٍ، فَكَلَّمَهُ بِمَا يَعْرِفُ، فَقَالَ الْعَامِرِيُّ

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Chain of narrators
  1. Abū Yaʿlá
  2. Yaḥyá b. ʿUmar b. al-Nuʿmān al-Shāmī
  3. Muḥammad b. Yaʿlá al-Kūfī
  4. ʿUmar b. Ṣubḥ
  5. Thawr b. Yazīd
  6. Makḥūl
  7. Shaddād b. Aws
  8. Baynamā Naḥn Julūs ʿInd Rasūl Allāh ﷺ Idh Atāh a man Min Banī ʿĀmir / Sayyid Qawmih Wakabīruhum Wamidrahuhum Yatawakkaʾ
  9. ʿAṣ Faqām Bayn Yaday al-Nabī ﷺ Wanasab al-Nabī ﷺ
  10. his father
  11. Yā Ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib Innī Nubbiʾt Annak Rasūl Allāh
  12. al-Nās Arsalak Bimā Arsal Bih Ibrāhīm Wamūsá Waʿīsá Waghayrahum Min al-Anbiyāʾ Alā Innak Tafawwaht Biʿaẓīm Innamā Kān al-Anbiyāʾ Wa-al-Mulūk Fī Baytayn Min Banī Isrāʾīl Bayt Nubuwwah Wabayt Mulk Walā Ant Min Haʾulāʾ Walā Min Haʾulāʾ Innamā Ant Min al-ʿArab Mimman Yaʿbud al-Ḥijārah Wa-al-Awthān Famā Lak Wa-al-Nnubuwwah Walikul Amr Ḥaqīqah Faʾtinī Biḥaqīqah Qawlik Wabadʾ Shaʾnik
  13. Faʾaʿjab al-Nabī ﷺ Masʾalatuh Thum
  14. In Lilḥadīth al--Adhī Tasʾal ʿAnh Nabaʾ Wamajlis Fājlis Fathaná Rijlah Wabarak Kamā Yabruk al-Baʿīr
  15. Lah al-Nabī ﷺ

✧ O brother of Banu 'Amir, the truth of my saying and the beginning of my affair is the supplication of my father Ibrahim, and my brother 'Isa ibn Maryam gave glad tidings of me. I was the firstborn of my mother, and she carried me as the heaviest thing women carry, until she began complaining to her companions of the weight she felt. My mother saw in a dream that what was in her womb was a light. She said: I began following the light with my eyes, and the light went ahead of my sight until it illuminated for me the easts of the earth and its wests. Then she gave birth to me. When I grew up, idols were made hateful to me, and poetry was made hateful to me. I was nursed among Banu Jusham b. Bakr. While I was one day in the bottom of a valley with companions of mine among the boys, behold, a group of three came with a basin of gold filled with light and snow. They took me from among my companions, and my companions fled until they reached the edge of the valley. They turned to the group and said, "What do you want with this boy? He is not one of us. He is from Banu Sayyid Quraysh, and he is being nursed among us as an orphan boy with no father. What would killing him avail you? But if you must do something, choose any of us you wish, and we will come to you and you can take us in his place. Leave this boy." They did not answer them. When the boys saw that the people would not answer them, they ran away quickly to the settlement to inform them and call for help against the people. One of them came to me and laid me down gently on the ground, then split open what was between my chest and the end of my pubic area while I was watching, and I felt nothing of that. Then he took out my intestines and washed them with that snow, washing them thoroughly. Then he returned them to their place. Then the second one came and said to his companion, "Step aside." Then he inserted his hand into my inside and took out my heart while I was watching. He split it open and took out a black clot and threw it away. Then he gestured with his hand to his right as if reaching for something. Then he brought the seal in his hand, made of the light of prophethood and wisdom, dazzling the eyes of onlookers. He sealed my heart and it became full of light. He sealed it and returned it to its place. I felt the coolness of that seal in my heart for a long time. Then the third one came and moved his companion aside. He passed his hand between my chest and the end of my pubic area, and the split closed by the permission of Allah, Most High. Then he took me by the hand and raised me from my place gently. Then the first one who had split my belly said, "Weigh him against ten of his community." They weighed me and I outweighed them. Then he said, "Weigh him against a hundred of his community." They weighed me and I outweighed them. Then he said, "Weigh him against a thousand of his community." They weighed me and I outweighed them. He said, "Leave him, for if you weighed him against his entire community, he would outweigh them." Then they came to me and embraced me to their chests, kissed my head and between my eyes, and said, "O beloved, do not be afraid. If you knew what good is intended for you, your eye would be comforted." He said: While we were thus, behold, the settlement came with all its people, and my wet-nurse was at the front of the settlement crying out at the top of her voice, saying, "O poor weak one!" He said: They crowded around me kissing me and saying, "How wonderful you are as a weak one!" Then she said, "O lonely one!" He said: They crowded around me kissing me and saying, "How wonderful you are as a lonely one! You are not lonely, for Allah is with you, and His angels, and the believers of the people of the earth." Then she said, "O orphan! You were taken advantage of among your companions and killed because of your weakness." They crowded around me and embraced me to their chests and kissed my head, and said, "How wonderful you are as an orphan! How honored you are with Allah, Mighty and Majestic! If you knew what good is intended for you." He said: They reached the edge of the valley. When my wet-nurse saw me, she said, "O my son, do I see you still alive?" She came and bent over me, embracing me to her chest. By the One in whose hand is my soul, I was in her lap, she had embraced me to herself, and my hand was in the hand of one of them, and I thought the people could see them, but they could not. Some of the settlement came and said, "This boy has been touched by madness or a visitation from the jinn. Take him to the soothsayer to look at him and treat him." I said to him, "O you, there is nothing wrong with me as you claim. I see myself sound, my heart healthy, and there is no defect in me." My father—meaning the husband of my wet-nurse—said, "Do you not see that my son's speech is sound? I hope there is no harm in my son." The people agreed to take me to the soothsayer. They carried me until they brought me to him. They told him my story. He said, "Be quiet until I hear from the boy, for he knows best about his affair." So I told him my story from beginning to end. When he heard my words, he embraced me to his chest and cried out at the top of his voice, "O Arabs, kill this boy and kill me with him! By al-Lat and al-'Uzza, if you leave him, he will change your religion, make fools of your minds and the minds of your fathers, oppose your command, and bring you a religion the like of which you have never heard." He said: My wet-nurse snatched me from his hand and said, "You are more foolish and crazier than him. If I had known this would come from you, I would not have brought him to you." Then they carried me and returned me to my family. I woke up saddened by what had been done to me, and the trace of the split between my chest and the end of my pubic area was like a shoelace. That is the truth of my saying and the beginning of my affair. The 'Amiri said, "I bear witness that there is no god but Allah, and that your affair is true. Tell me about things I will ask you." He ﷺ said, "Ask about yourself." He said: And the Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to say to questioners before that, "Ask about whatever appears to you." That day he said to the 'Amiri, "Ask about yourself," and he spoke to him in the dialect of Banu 'Amir, and he spoke to him in what he knew. The 'Amiri said...

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