al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 949

Translation

✧ Did you not know that the forbearing man was about to be a prophet! Then he turned to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and said, 'By al-Lat and al-'Uzza, I will not believe in you!' The Messenger of Allah ﷺ had said to him, 'O Bedouin, what made you say what you said? You spoke untruth and did not honour my gathering.' He said, 'And you speak to me belittling the Messenger of Allah. By al-Lat and al-'Uzza, I will not believe in you unless this lizard believes in you!' He took out a lizard from his sleeve and threw it before the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and said, 'If this lizard believes in you, I will believe in you!' The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, 'O lizard!' The lizard spoke in clear Arabic that all the people understood: 'At your service and at your pleasure, O Messenger of the Lord of the worlds!' The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to it, 'Whom do you worship?' It said, 'The One whose Throne is in the heaven, whose authority is in the earth, whose path is in the sea, whose mercy is in Paradise, and whose punishment is in the Fire.' He said, 'Who am I, O lizard?' It said, 'You are the Messenger of the Lord of the worlds and the Seal of the Prophets. He who believes in you has succeeded, and he who denies you has failed.' The Bedouin said, 'I bear witness that there is no god but Allah, and that you are truly the Messenger of Allah! By Allah, I came to you while there was no one on the face of the earth more hateful to me than you, and by Allah, at this moment you are dearer to me than myself and my child. My hair, my skin, my inner self, my secret and my open self have all believed in you!' The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, 'Praise be to Allah who has guided you to this religion, which rises and is not risen above. Allah does not accept it except with prayer, and He does not accept prayer except with Qur'an.' The Messenger of Allah ﷺ taught him al-hamdu lillah and Qul Huwa Allahu Ahad. He said, 'O Messenger of Allah, by Allah, I have never heard in simple speech or poetry anything more beautiful than this!' The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to him, 'This is the speech of the Lord of the worlds, and it is not poetry. If you recite Qul Huwa Allahu Ahad once, it is as if you have recited a third of the Qur'an. If you recite it twice, it is as if you have recited two thirds of the Qur'an. If you recite it three times, it is as if you have recited the entire Qur'an.' The Bedouin said, 'What an excellent god our God is; He accepts the easy and gives greatly!' Then the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, 'Give to the Bedouin!' So they gave him until they made him overwhelmed. 'Abd al-Rahman b. 'Awf stood up and said, 'O Messenger of Allah, I wish to give him a she-camel to draw near to Allah, Mighty and Majestic, one that is less than a Bukhti camel but above an ordinary Bedouin camel, and it is pregnant.' The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, 'You have described what you will give. Shall I describe for you what Allah will give you in return?' He said, 'Yes.' He said, 'You will have a she-camel of pearl, hollow, its legs of green chrysolite, its neck of yellow chrysolite, upon it a howdah, and on the howdah fine silk and brocade. It will pass with you over the Sirat like a flash of lightning.' The Bedouin left from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and met a thousand Bedouins on a thousand mounts with a thousand spears and a thousand swords. He said to them, 'Where are you heading?' They said, 'We are going to fight this one who lies and claims to be a prophet!' The Bedouin said, 'I bear witness that there is no god but Allah, and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah!' They said, 'Have you apostatized?' He said, 'I have not apostatized!' He told them this account, and they all said, 'There is no god but Allah, Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah!' This reached the Prophet ﷺ, and he met them wrapped in a cloak. They dismounted on their knees, kissing what they had turned away from, and saying, 'There is no god but Allah, Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah!' They said, 'Command us with your command, O Messenger of Allah!' He said, 'Enter under the banner of Khalid b. al-Walid.' He said: 'There is no group from the Arabs, a thousand all together, who believed except the Banu Sulaym.' - None narrated it from Dawud b. Abi Hind with this full text except Kahmas, and none from Kahmas except Mu'tamir. Muhammad b. 'Abd al-A'la was alone in narrating it.

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• al-Dhahabi

  خبر باطل

  machine translationA false (bāṭil) report. Report a problem

  in المعجم الصغير, p. 949
• Maghlaṭay

  سند صحيح من حديث محمد بن عبد الأعلى عن المعتمر ثنا كهمس نا داود بن أبي هند عن الشعبي ثنا عبد الله بن عمر عن أبيه وقال لم يروه بهذا التمام إلا كهمس ولا عن كهمس إلا المعتمر تفرد به محمد بن عبد الأعلى

  in المعجم الصغير, p. 949
• Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī

  وإسناده ضعيف جدا

  machine translationIts chain of transmission is very weak (ḍaʿīf jiddan). Report a problem

  in المعجم الصغير, p. 949

Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 811a

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb

   Commander of the Faithful (amīr al-muʾminīn), well-known, of abundant virtues (jamm al-manāqib)d. 23 AH, also said: 24 AH
   عُمَر بْن الْخَطَّابأمير المؤمنين مشهور جم المناقب
   عن
2. 2
   ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb

   One of the Companions who narrated most often, and one of the ʿAbādilah; he was among the people most strict in following the narrations (athar).d. 72 AH, or 73 AH, or 74 AH, also said: 75 AH
   عبد الله بن عمر بن الخطابأحد المكثرين من الصحابة والعبادلة ، وكان من أشد الناس اتباعا للأثر
   عن
3. 3
   al-Shaʿbī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), well-known, a virtuous jurist (faqīh fāḍil)d. 103 AH, said by al-Haytham b. ʿAdī, and Yaḥyā b. Bukayr, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, 104 AH, said by Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, and Ismāʿīl b. Mujālid, and Abū Nuʿaym, and Muḥammad b. ʿImrān al-Bajalī, and ʿUmar b. Shabīb al-Muslī, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Idrīs, 105 AH, said by Isḥāq b. Yaḥyā, Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Numayr, or: 106 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, and ʿAmr b. ʿAlī, 107 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, or: 109 AH, said by Ibn Ḥibbān, 110 AH, said by ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Tamīmī
   الشعبيثقة ، مشهور ، فقيه فاضل
   عن
4. 4
   Dāwūd b. Abī Hind

   Trustworthy and meticulous (thiqah mutqin), though he would make mistakes (yahim) toward the end of his lifed. 139 AH, or 140 AH, or: 141 AH, also said: 127 AH
   داود بن أبي هندثقة متقن ، كان يهم بآخره
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Kahmas

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 149 AH
   كهمس بن الحسن النمريثقة
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Muʿtamir

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 186 AH, or: 187 AH, or: 188 AH
   معتمر بن سليمانثقة
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Aʿlā

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 245 AH
   محمد بن عبد الأعلى القيسيثقة
   حدثنا
8. 8
   Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. al-Walīd al-Sulamī
   محمد بن علي بن الوليد السلمي
   حدثنا
9. 9
   al-Ṭabarānī

   d. 360 AH
   الطبراني

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