Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 457-9b

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“My wet-nurse was from Banu Sa‘d ibn Bakr. I set out with a foster brother of mine, and we were herding some young goats of ours, and we had not taken any provisions with us. I said: ‘O brother, go and bring us provisions from our mother.’ My brother went, and I stayed with the young goats. Then two white birds came, as if they were two eagles. One of them said to his companion: ‘Is it him?’ He said: ‘Yes.’ So they came rushing toward me, took hold of me, laid me on my back, split open my belly, then extracted my heart and split it, and took out from it two black clots. One of them said to his companion: ‘Bring me snow water,’ and they washed my inside with it. Then he said: ‘Bring me cold water,’ and they washed my heart with it. Then he said: ‘Bring me the tranquility,’ and they sprinkled it into my heart. Then one of them said to his companion: ‘Seal him,’ meaning mark him, and seal him with the seal of prophethood. Then one of them said to his companion: ‘Put him in one pan and put a thousand of his community in the other pan.’ And I was looking at the thousand above me, fearing that they would fall. He said: ‘If his community were weighed against him, he would outweigh them.’ Then they went away and left me, and I was overcome with great fear. Then I went to my mother and told her what I had encountered, and she feared that something had afflicted me. She said: ‘I seek refuge for you in Allah.’ So she saddled a camel of hers and made me sit on the saddle, and she rode behind me until we reached my mother. She said: ‘I have fulfilled my trust and my responsibility.’ And she told her what I had encountered, but that did not alarm her. She said: ‘When he came out from me, I saw a light from which the palaces of Sham were illuminated.’”

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