Saheeh Seerah Al Albaanee English

me what has brought you here?’ Abu Dhar said: ‘If you give me a solemn promise that
you will guide me, then I will tell you.’ `Alee promised him, and he informed `Alee about
the matter. `Alee said: ‘It is true, and he is the Messenger of Allaah, when it is morning,
follow me, and if I see any danger for you, I will stop as if to pass water, but if I go on,
follow me and enter the place which I will enter.’ Abu Dhar did so, and followed `Alee
till he entered the place of the Prophet ‏,ﷺ and Abu Dhar went in with him, Abu Dhar
listened to some of the Prophet’s talks and embraced Islaam on the spot. The Prophet
said to him: ❝Go back to your people and inform them (about it) (and stay ﷺ
there) till you receive my command.❞ Abu Dhar said: ‘By Him in Whose Hand is my
life, I will proclaim my conversion loudly amongst them (i.e. the pagans).’ So he went
out, and when he reached the Masjid, he said as loudly as possible: ‘I bear witness that
none has the right to be worshiped except Allaah, and Muḥammad is the Messenger of
Allaah.’ The People got up and beat him badly. Then al-`Abbaas came and knelt over
him (to protect him) and said (to the people): ‘Woe to you! Don’t you know that this
man belongs to the tribe of Ghifaar and your trade to Shaam is through their way?’ So
he rescued him from them. Abu Dhar again did the same the next day. They beat him
and took vengeance on him and again al-Abbas knelt over him (and rescued him).” 187
This is the wording of al-Bukhaaree.
In Ṣaḥeeḥ Muslim and Musnad Aḥmad, there is a more detailed narration of his
conversion to Islaam.
`Abdullaah Ibn al-Ṣaamit reported that Abu Dharr رضيُاهللُعنه said: “We set out from our
tribe Ghifaar, who used to regard the sacred months as permissible (for fighting). I set
out with my brother Unais and our mother, and we stayed with a maternal uncle of
ours. Our uncle honored us and treated us kindly, but his people felt jealous of us, and
they said: ‘When you are away from your wife, Unais comes into your house (i.e., an
accusation of adultery).’ Our uncle came and told us of what had been said to him. I
said: ‘As for your past kindness, you have undone it, and we cannot stay with you after
this.’ We went to our camels and loaded them up, and our uncle covered himself with
his garment and started weeping. We set out and halted at Makkah. Unais made a
wager that our herd of camels was better than another similar herd, and they went to a
soothsayer and he made Unais win and Unais came with our camels and an equal
number along with them.”
187 Ṣaḥeeḥ al-Bukhaaree (3522, 3861) and Ṣaḥeeḥ Muslim (2474-133), Al-Ḥaakim also reported it in his “al-
Mustadrak”, and said that they (al-Bukhaaree and Muslim) did not report it, but this was his imagination.
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