Saheeh Seerah Al Albaanee English

said: ‘Where are they?’ They replied: ‘They are in your land, send someone to get
them.’ So they were summoned. Ja`far said (to his associates): ‘I will be your
spokesman today.’ So they followed him (and when they came to al-Najaashee), he
(Ja`far) greeted him but did not prostrate to him. They said: ‘What is wrong with you
that you do not prostrate before the king?’ Ja`far said: ‘We do not prostrate except to
Allaah ‏’.عزُوجل They were asked: ‘And why is that?’ Ja`far replied: ‘Allaah has sent to us
‏,عزُوجل His Messenger and has Commanded us not to prostrate to anyone except Allaah
and He has also Commanded us with (establishing) the Salaah (prayers) and (giving) the
Zakaah (charity).’ `Amr said to al-Najaashee: ‘They differ with you regarding `Eesaa Ibn
Maryam.’ Al-Najaashee said: ‘And what do you say about `Eesaa Ibn Maryam and his
mother?’ Ja`far said: ‘We say what Allaah تعاىل had informed us: ‘He (`Eesaa) is Allaah’s
Word, (“Be!” - and he was), and a Spirit (Rooh) created by Him; which He bestowed on
the Virgin (Maryam) whom no man had touched (sexually), and no child had been
inside.’’”
Ibn Mas`ood continues: “He (al-Najaashee) picked up a stick from the ground and said:
‘O people of Abyssinia, and you, the priests and the monks! By Allaah, they are not so
much as the size of this stick away from what we say! You are welcome, and greetings
to him (i.e. the Prophet ‏(ﷺ from whom you come. I testify that he is indeed the
Messenger of Allaah, and it is him who is mentioned in the Injeel (gospel), and he is the
Messenger about whom `Eesaa Ibn Maryam gave the glad tidings. Go and reside
wherever you wish. By Allaah! Where it not for my role as king, I would have gone to
him so that I could be the one to carry his shoes for him.’ And he then commanded that
the gifts be returned to the two who brought them.” Then (after the Prophet’s
migration to al-Madeenah), `Abdullaah Ibn Mas`ood hurried (to leave Abyssinia), and
he was able to participate in the battle of Badr. He claimed that when the news of the
death of al-Najaashee reached the Prophet ‏,ﷺ he ﷺ prayed for his forgiveness. 234
234 (Shaikh al-Albaanee said): Musnad Aḥmad (4400), al-Mustadrak of al-Ḥaakim (4245), and Ibn Sayyid al-Naas in
“`Uyoon al-Athar” (1/118), all of them from the route of Ḥudaij Ibn Mu`aawiyah from Abu Is-ḥaaq from
`Abdullaah Ibn `Utbah from Ibn Mas`ood. Al-Ḥaakim said: “Its chain is “Ṣaḥeeḥ”“, and al-Dhahabee endorsed it.
Then after mentioning this, al-Ḥaakim said that he mentioned the complete Ḥadeeth under the chapter of “al-
Tafseer” but I (al-Albaanee) could not find it in his book, knowing that the copy I have has some text missing
between pages 406 to 415. And the author (Ibn Katheer) graded its chain as “Jayyid” (excellent), and al-Ḥaafiẓh
Ibn al-Ḥajar graded it as “Ḥasan” in “al-Fatḥ” (7/189), and this is more correct; except for Abee Is-ḥaaq – and he is
`Amr Ibn `Abdullaah al-Sabee`ee – and he narrated by saying `An (“from”, as opposed to “so-and-so told us” or “I
heard so-and-so say” etc.) (and he used to engage in Tadlees (saying ambiguous words to give the wrong
impression)), moreover, he got mixed-up (in his old age), and the one who narrated from him is Ḥudaij, he was
truthful but used to make mistakes. And it is because of him that al-Haithamee said that the narration has a
deficiency, saying: “It was reported by al-Ṭabaraanee, and in its chain is Ḥudaij Ibn Mu`aawiyah; Abu Ḥaatim said:
“he is reliable”, but he also said: “in some of his narrations there is weakness”. Ibn Ma`een and others have said:
“He (Ḥudaij) is “Ḍha`eef”. As for the rest of the narrators of this narration, they are reliable.” “Majma` al-
Zawaaid” (6/24). Al-Haithamee overlooked that this narration is also mentioned in Musnad Aḥmad.
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