Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 4-1008b
"عَنْ عَلِىٍّ قَالَ: بَعَثنِى رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ إِلَى الْيَمَنِ، فَإِنِّى لأَخْطبُ يَوْمًا عَلَى النَّاسِ وَحَبْرٌ مِنْ أَحْبَارِ الْيَهُودِ وَاقِفٌ فِى يَدِهِ سفْرٌ يَنْظُرُ فِيهِ، فَنَادَانِى فَقَالَ: صِفْ لَنَا أَبَا الْقَاسِم، فَقَالَ عَلِىٌّ: رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ لَيْسَ بِالْقَصِيرِ وَلاَ بِالطَّوِيلِ الْبَائِن، وَلَيْسَ بِالْجَعْد القَطَطِ، وَلاَ بِالسَّبْط، هُوَ رَجِلُ الشَّعَرِ أَسْوَدُهُ، ضَخْمُ الرَّأسِ، مُشْربٌ لَوْنُهُ بِحُمْرَةٍ، عَظِيمُ الْكَرادِيسِ، شَثْنُ الْكَفَّيْنِ وَالْقَدَمَيْنِ، طَوِيلُ الْمَسْرُبَة، وَهُوَ الشَّعَرُ الَّذِى يَكُونُ فِى النَّحْرِ إِلَى السُّرَّةِ، أَهْدَبُ الأَشْفَارِ، مَقْرونُ الْحَاجِبَيْنِ، صَلْتُ الْجَبِينِ، بَعْيدُ مَا بَينَ الْمَنْكبَيْنِ، إِذَا مَشَى يَتَكَفَّأُ كَأَنَّمَا يَنْزِلُ مِنْ صَبَبٍ، لَمْ أَرَ قَبْلَهُ مِثْلَهُ، وَلَمْ أَرَ بَعْدَهُ مثْلَهُ، قَالَ عَلِىٌّ: ثُمَّ سَكَتُّ، فَقَالَ لِىَ الحَبْرُ: وَمَاَذا؟ قَاَل عَلِىٌّ: هَذَا مَا يَحْضُرُنِى، قَالَ الْحَبْرُ: فِى عَيْنَيْه حُمْرَةٌ، حَسَنُ اللِّحْيَةِ، حَسَنُ الفَمِ، تامُّ الأُذُنَيْنِ، يُقْبِلُ جَمِيعًا، وَيُدْبِرُ جَميعًا، فَقَالَ عَلِىٌّ: هَذِهِ وَاللهِ صِفَتُهُ قَالَ الْحَبْرُ: وَشَئٌ آخَرُ، قَالَ عَلِىٌّ: وَمَا هُوَ؟ قَالَ الْحَبْرُ: وَفِيهِ حَيَاءٌ، قَالَ عَلِىٌّ: هُوَ الَّذِى قُلْتُ لَكَ كَأَنَّمَا يَنْزِلُ مِنْ صَبَبٍ، قَالَ الْحَبْرُ: فَإِنِّى أَجِدُ هَذِهِ الصِّفَةَ فِى سِفْرِ آبائى، وَنَجِدُهُ يُبْعَثُ مِنْ حَرَمِ اللهِ وَأَمْنِهِ وَمَوْضِعِ بَيْتِهِ، ثُمَّ مُهَاجِرٌ إِلَى حَرَمٍ يُحَرمُهُ هُوَ، وَيَكُونُ لَهُ حُرْمَةٌ كَحُرْمَةِ الْحَرَمَ الَّذِى حَرَّمَ الله، وَنَجِدُ أَنْصَارَهُ الَّذِينَ هَاجَرَ إِلَيْهِمْ قَوْمًا مِنْ وَلَد عَمْرِو بْنِ عَامِرٍ أَهْلَ نَخْلٍ، وَأَهْلُ الأَرْضِ قَبْلَهُمْ يَهُودُ، قَالَ عَلِىٌّ: هُوَ هُوَ، فَقَالَ الْحَبْرُ: فَإنِّى أَشْهَدُ أَنَّهُ نَبِىٌّ وَأَنَّهُ رَسُولُ اللهِ إِلَى النَّاسِ كَافَّةً، فَعَلَى ذَلِكَ أَحْيَا، وَعَلَيْهِ أَمُوتُ، وَعَليْهِ أُبَعَثُ إِنْ شَاءَ الله".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAli
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Ali said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ sent me to Yemen. One day, while I was delivering a sermon to the people, a rabbi from the rabbis of the Jews stood with a book in his hand, looking into it. He called out to me and said: "Describe Abu al-Qasim to us." 'Ali said: "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was neither short nor overly tall, neither curly-haired nor straight-haired; his hair was wavy and black, his head large, his complexion tinged with redness, his joints large, thick-palmed and thick-footed, his waist-line long, meaning the hair extending from the chest to the navel, long-lashed, with joined eyebrows, broad-foreheaded, wide between the shoulders. When he walked, he moved forward as though descending a slope. I have never seen anyone like him before, nor have I seen anyone like him after." Ali said: "Then I fell silent." The rabbi said to me: "And what else?" Ali said: "That is what comes to my mind." The rabbi said: "There is redness in his eyes, a beautiful beard, a beautiful mouth, full ears; he turns to face all at once and turns away all at once." Ali said: "By Allah, this is his description." The rabbi said: "And there is something else." Ali said: "And what is it?" The rabbi said: "And in him is modesty." Ali said: "That is what I told you: as though he descends from a slope." The rabbi said: "I find this description in the books of my forefathers, and we find that he will be sent from the sanctuary and safety of Allah and the site of His House, then he will emigrate to a sanctuary that he himself will make sacred, and he will have a sanctity like the sanctity of the Sanctuary that Allah made sacred. We find that his helpers, to whom he emigrates, are a people from the descendants of 'Amr ibn 'Amir, the people of palm groves, and the people of the land before them were Jews." Ali said: "He is the one." The rabbi said: "I bear witness that he is a Prophet and that he is the Messenger of Allah to all mankind. Upon this I live, upon this I die, and upon this I will be resurrected, if Allah wills."
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Notes
ابن سعد، [كر] ابن عساكر في تاريخه
machine translationIbn Saʿd; [Kr] Ibn ʿAsākir in his Tārīkh.
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