Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3620

Translation

"Abu Talib departed to Ash-Sham, and the Prophet ﷺ left with him, along with some older men from the Quraish. When they came across the monk they stopped there and began setting up their camp, and the monk came out to them. Before that they used to pass by him and he wouldn't come out nor pay attention to them." He said: "They were setting up their camp when the monk was walking amidst them, until he came and took the hand of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. Then he said: 'This is the master of the men and jinn, this is the Messenger of the Lord of the worlds. Allah will raise him as a mercy to the men and jinn.' So some of the older people from the Quraish said: 'What do you know?' He said: 'When you people came along from the road, not a rock nor a tree was left, except that it prostrated, and they do not prostrate except for a Prophet. And I can recognize him by the seal of the Prophethood which is below his shoulder blade, like an apple.' Then he went back, and made them some food, and when he brought it to them, he [the Prophet ﷺ] was tending to the camels. So he said: 'Send for him.' So he came, and there was a cloud over him that was shading him. When he came close to the people, he found that they had beaten him to the tree's shade. So when he sat down, the shade of the tree leaned towards him. He (the monk) said: 'Look at the shade of the tree leaning towards him.'" He said: "So while he was standing over them, telling them not to take him to Rome with him - because if the Romans were to see him, they would recognize him by his description, and they would kill him - he turned, and there were seven people who had come from Rome. So he faced them and said: 'Why have you come?' They said: 'We came because this Prophet is going to appear during this month, and there isn't a road left except that people have been sent to it, and we have been informed of him, and we have been send to this road of yours.' So he said: 'Is there anyone better than you behind you?' They said: 'We only have news of him from this road of yours.' He said: 'Do you think that if there is a matter which Allah wishes to bring about, there is anyone among the people who can turn it away?' They said: 'No.'" He said: "So they gave him their pledge, and they stayed with him. And he said: 'I ask you by Allah, which of you is his guardian?' They said: 'Abu Talib.' So he kept adjuring him until Abu Talib returned him (back to Makkah) and he sent Abu Bakr and Bilal with him. And the monk gave him provisions of Ka'k (a type of bread) and olive oil."

Notes

• Abū ʿĪsá said that this Ḥadīth is Ḥasan-Gharīb and we do not know of any other Ḥadīth except through this particular context.

• أُخْبِرْنَا خَبَرَهُ بُعِثْنَا إِلَى طَرِيقِكَ هَذَا فَقَالَ هَلْ خَلْفَكُمْ أَحَدٌ هُوَ خَيْرٌ مِنْكُمْ قَالُوا إِنَّمَا أُخْبِرْنَا خَبَرَهُ بِطَرِيقِكَ هَذَا قَالَ أَفَرَأَيْتُمْ أَمْرًا أَرَادَ اللَّهُ أَنْ يَقْضِيَهُ هَلْ يَسْتَطِيعُ أَحَدٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ رَدَّهُ قَالُوا لاَ قَالَ فَبَايَعُوهُ وَأَقَامُوا مَعَهُ قَالَ أَنْشُدُكُمُ اللَّهَ أَيُّكُمْ وَلِيُّهُ قَالُوا أَبُو طَالِبٍ فَلَمْ يَزَلْ يُنَاشِدُهُ حَتَّى رَدَّهُ أَبُو طَالِبٍ وَبَعَثَ مَعَهُ أَبُو بَكْرٍ بِلاَلاً وَزَوَّدَهُ الرَّاهِبُ مِنَ الْكَعْكِ وَالزَّيْتِ قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ غَرِيبٌ لاَ نَعْرِفُهُ إِلاَّ مِنْ هَذَا الْوَجْهِ

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What scholars said about it

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• al-Tirmidhi

  حسن غريب

  machine translationGood and gharīb (ḥasan gharīb). Report a problem

  in جامع الترمذي, p. 3988
• المبارك بن محمد الشيباني

  إسناده صحيح ورجاله رجال الصحيحين أو أحدهما

  in جامع الترمذي, p. 3988
• al-Dhahabi

  ضعف الذهبي هذا الحديث

  in جامع الترمذي, p. 3988
• Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī

  رجاله ثقات

  machine translationIts narrators are trustworthy (thiqāt). Report a problem

  in جامع الترمذي, p. 3988

Same hadith, other wordings

• Misykatul Mashabih 5918عَنْ أَبِي مُوسَى قَالَ: خَرَجَ أَبُو طَالِبٍ إِلَى الشَّام وَخرج مَعَه النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فِي أَشْيَاخٍ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ فَلَمَّا أَشْرَفُوا عَلَى الرَّاهِبِ هَبَطُوا فَحَلُّوا رِحَالَهُمْ فَخَرَجَ إِلَيْهِمُ الرَّاه

Other narrations of this report

Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 32392Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 37697Musnad al-Bazzar 3093al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 4229

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Mūsá al-Ashʿarī

   a well-known Companiond. 42 AH, or 44 AH, or 50 AH, or 52 AH, or 53 AH, also said 49 AH, also said 51 AH
   أَبُو مُوسَى الْأَشْعَرِيُّصحابي مشهور
   عن
2. 2
   Abū Bakr b. Abī Mūsá al-Ashʿarī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 106 AH
   أَبِي بَكْرِ بْنِ أَبِي مُوسَى الْأَشْعَرِيِّثقة
   عن
3. 3
   Yūnus b. Abī Isḥāq

   truthful (ṣadūq), has a few lapses (wahm).d. Abū al-Ḥasan al-Madāʾinī said: 152 AH. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān said: 154 AH. Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim said: 158 AH. Ibn Ḥibbān and others said: 159 AH. Also said: 157 AH
   يُونُسُ بْنُ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَصدوق يهم قليلا .
   أخبرنا
4. 4
   Qurād Abū Nūḥ

   Trustworthy (thiqah), with some unique narrations (afrād)d. 187 AH, or 207 AH
   عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ غَزْوَانَثقة له أفراد
   حدثنا
5. 5
   al-Faḍl b. Sahl

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. 255 AH
   الْفَضْلُ بْنُ سَهْلٍ أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ الْأَعْرَجُ الْبَغْدَادِيُّصدوق
   حدثنا
6. 6
   al-Tirmidhī

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 279 AH, in Ikmāl al-Tahdhīb: 275 AH
   التِّرْمِذِيُّثقة حافظ

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

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Mishkat al-Masabih 5918