Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 599-8b
✧ Wathilah b. al-Asqa'
"عَنْ وَاثِلَةَ بْنِ الأسْقَع قَالَ: كَان إِسْلَامُ الحَجَّاجِ بْنِ عِلَاطٍ البَهْزِىِّ ثُمَ السّلمِّى أنَهُ خَرَجَ في رَكْبٍ مِنْ قَوْمِهِ يُرِيدُ مَكَةَ، فَلَمَّا جنَّ عَلَيْه اللَّيْلُ وَهمْ في وَاد وَحْشٍ مُخِيفٍ قَفْرٍ، فَقَالَ لَهُ أصْحَاُبهُ: يَا أَبَا كِلَاب: قُمْ فَاتَخِذْ لنَفْسِكَ وَأصْحَابِكَ أمَانًا، فَقَامَ الحَجَّاجُ فَجَعَلَ يَقُولُ: أُعِيذُ نَفْسِى وَأُعِيذُ صَحْبِى مِنْ كُلِّ جِنِّىٍ بِهَذَا النَّقْبِ) حَتَّى أَأُوبَ سَالِمًا وَرَكْبِى فَسَمِعَ صَوْتَ قَائِل يَقُولُ: {يَامَعْشَرَ الْجِنِّ وَالْإِنْسِ إِنِ اسْتَطَعْتُمْ أَنْ تَنْفُذُوا مِنْ أَقْطَارِ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ فَانْفُذُوا لَا تَنْفُذُونَ إِلَّا بِسُلْطَانٍ} فَلَمَّا قَدِمُوا مَكَّةَ خبَّرَ بِذَلِكَ في نَادِى قُرَيْش فَقَالُوا: صَدَقْتَ وَالله يَا أبَا كِلَابٍ، إِنَّ هَذَا مِمَّا يَزْعُمُ مُحَمدٌ أنَهُ أنزِلَ عَلَيْهِ، قَالَ: قَدْ وَالله سَمعْتُهُ وَسَمِعَهُ هَؤُلَاءِ مَعِىِ، فَبيَنْمَا هُمْ كَذَلِكَ إِذ جَاءَ العَاصِى بْنُ وَائِلٍ السَّهْمِىُّ فَقَالُوا لَهُ: يَا أَبَا هَاشِمٍ أَمَا تَسَمع مَا يَقُولُ أبُو كلابٍ؟ قَالَ: وَمَا يَقُولُ؟ فَخَبَّروُهُ بِذَلِكَ، فَقَالَ: وَمَا يُعْجبكُمْ مِنْ ذَلِكَ؟ إِنَّ الَّذِى سَمِعَ هُنَاكَ هُوَ الَّذِى ألقَاهُ عَلَى لِسَانِ مُحَمَّدٍ فنَهْنَهَ ذَلِكَ القَوْمَ منِّى وَلَمْ يَزِدنْى في الأمْرِ إِلا بَصيرَةً، فَسَأَلَتُ عَنِ النَّبِىِّ ﷺ فَأخْبِرتُ أَنهُ قَد خَرَجَ مِنْ مَكَّة إِلَى المَدِينَةِ فَرَكبْتُ رَاحِلَتِى وَانْطَلَقْتُ حَتَّى أتَيْتُ النَّبِى ﷺ بِالمدينَة فَأخبَرْتُهُ مَا سَمِعْتُ، فَقَالَ: سَمِعْتَ وَالله الحَق، وَالله إِنهُ مِنْ كَلَام ربِّى ﷻ الَّذِى أنزَلَ عَلَىَّ، وَلَقَدْ سَمِعْتَ حَقا يَا كِلَابُ، فَقُلتُ يَا رَسُولَ الله ﷺ عَلِّمْنِى الإِسْلَامَ فَشَهَّدَنِى كَلِمَةَ الإِخْلَاصِ وَقَالَ: سِرْ إِلَى قَوْمِكَ وَأَدْعُهُم إِلَى مِثْلِ الَّذِىِ أدْعُوكَ إِلَيْهِ فَإِنَّهُ الحَقُّ".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Wāthilah b. al-Sqaʿ
Machine translation, not reviewed
"From Wāthilah b. al-Asqaʿ, who said: The conversion to Islam of al-Ḥajjāj b. ʿIlāṭ al-Bahzī, then al-Sulamī, was that he set out with a party of riders from his people, intending Makkah. When night fell upon him, they were in a wild, frightening, desolate valley. His companions said to him: O Abū Kilāb, get up and secure safety for yourself and your companions. So al-Ḥajjāj got up and began to say: I seek refuge for myself and I seek refuge for my companions from every jinn in this valley, until I return safe, with my riders. Then he heard the voice of a speaker saying: {O company of jinn and mankind, if you are able to pass beyond the regions of the heavens and the earth, then pass. You will not pass except by authority}. When they arrived in Makkah, he told of this in the assembly of Quraysh. They said: By God, you have spoken truly, O Abū Kilāb; this is among what Muḥammad claims has been revealed to him. He said: By God, I heard it, and these people with me heard it. While they were like that, al-ʿĀṣ b. Wāʾil al-Sahmī came. They said to him: O Abū Hāshim, do you not hear what Abū Kilāb is saying? He said: And what does he say? So they told him of it. He said: What about that astonishes you? The one who heard it there is the very one who cast it upon the tongue of Muḥammad. That checked those people from me, and it only increased me in insight regarding the matter. So I asked about the Prophet ﷺ and was told that he had left Makkah for Madīnah. So I mounted my riding beast and set off until I came to the Prophet ﷺ in Madīnah and told him what I had heard. He said: By God, you heard the truth. By God, it is from the speech of my Lord, Mighty and Majestic, which He sent down upon me, and you have truly heard the truth, O Kilāb. I said: O Messenger of God ﷺ, teach me Islam. So he made me testify to the word of sincerity (the testimony of faith) and said: Go to your people and call them to the like of what I call you to, for it is the truth."
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Notes
ابن أبى الدنيا في هواتف الجن، [كر] ابن عساكر في تاريخه وفيه أيوب بن سويد، ومحمد بن عبد الله الليثى، ضعيفان
machine translationIbn Abī al-Dunyā in Hawātif al-Jinn; [Kr] Ibn ʿAsākir in his Tārīkh. In its chain are Ayyūb b. Suwayd and Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh al-Laythī, both weak (ḍaʿīf).
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