Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 669-1b

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"From ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAwf, who said: I and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ were of the same age, and my mother al-Shifāʾ, the sister of ʿAmr b. ʿAwf, used to narrate to us about Āminah bint Wahb, the mother of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. Al-Shifāʾ said: When Āminah gave birth to Muḥammad, he fell into my hands and cried out, and I heard someone saying: May Allah – Exalted is He – have mercy on you, and may your Lord have mercy on you. Al-Shifāʾ said: Then everything between the east and the west was lit up for me, until I looked at some of the palaces of the Romans. She said: Then I laid him down, and before long darkness and terror overcame me, then it cleared for me on my right. Then I heard someone saying: Where did you go with him? He said: I went with him to the west. She said: And that cleared from me, then the terror and darkness came upon me again on my left, and I heard someone saying: Where did you go with him? He said: I went with him to the east. She said: The matter never left my mind until Allah – Exalted is He – sent him as a prophet, and I was among the first of the people to accept Islam."

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