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<strong>Al</strong>laah and His Messenger, and His Word which He bestowed upon Maryam, and a Spirit<br />
created by Him, and a son of the chaste Virgin.’ <strong>Al</strong>-Najaashee picked up a stick (from<br />
the ground) and said: ‘By <strong>Al</strong>laah! (`Eesaa) Ibn Maryam is no different than what you<br />
have said, not even as much as the weight of this stick.’ The high officials of Abyssinia<br />
said: ‘By <strong>Al</strong>laah! If the people of Abyssinia hear this (from you), they will revolt against<br />
you.’ He said: ‘By <strong>Al</strong>laah! I do not say (and believe) about `Eesaa (Ibn Maryam) other<br />
than this. And <strong>Al</strong>laah did not listen to the people concerning me when he gave me this<br />
kingdom, so should I obey the people and go against <strong>Al</strong>laah’s religion? I seek <strong>Al</strong>laah’s<br />
refuge from this!’”<br />
(From another chain) Yunus reported on the authority of Ibn Is-ḥaaq: “<strong>Al</strong>-Najaashee<br />
summoned them (the Muslims), and nothing was more hateful to `Amr Ibn al-`Aaṣ and<br />
`Abdullaah Ibn Abee Rabee`ah than that al-Najaashee should listen to what they (the<br />
Muslims) had to say. When the messenger from al-Najaashee came to them (the<br />
Muslims), they assembled and asked one another: ‘What will you say (to him)?’ The<br />
(others) replied: ‘And what can we say? By <strong>Al</strong>laah, we will tell what we know and what<br />
we are upon concerning our religion, and what our Prophet brought to us, no matter<br />
what happens!’ When they went to al-Najaashee, their spokesman was Ja`far Ibn Abu<br />
Ṭaalib .رضيُاهللُعنه <strong>Al</strong>-Najaashee said to him: ‘What is this religion that you are upon? You<br />
have abandoned the religion of your people and have not accepted Judaism or<br />
Christianity.’ Ja`far replied to him: ‘O king! We were a people who were into Shirk<br />
(polytheism). We used to worship idols, eat dead meat, offend our neighbors, and<br />
permitted the things which were forbidden, such as spilling the blood of one another<br />
and so on. We were like this until <strong>Al</strong>laah sent to us a Messenger from among us; we<br />
knew well of his honesty and trustworthiness. He called us to worship <strong>Al</strong>laah alone,<br />
Who is without partners. And he commanded us to uphold ties of kinship, treat the<br />
neighbors nicely, and to pray to <strong>Al</strong>laah alone and Fast for His sake and worship none<br />
other than Him.’”<br />
[From another chain, from the narration of Ziyaad from Ibn Is-ḥaaq, 242 with the<br />
addition: “He called us to <strong>Al</strong>laah, to affirm His Oneness, and to worship Him alone, and<br />
to give up all the stones and idols which we and our fathers used to worship. And he<br />
commanded us to be truthful in our speech, to keep our trust, to uphold ties of kinship,<br />
to treat neighbors well, and abandon the forbidden things and from shedding blood. He<br />
242 (Shaikh al-<strong>Al</strong>baanee said): He is Ziyaad al-Bakkaa’ee, one of the narrators of “al-<strong>Seerah</strong>” who narrated from Ibn<br />
Is-ḥaaq, and it is through this chain that Ibn Hishaam chose to narrate it in his “al-<strong>Seerah</strong>” while excluding the<br />
chain from Yunus Ibn Bukair from Ibn Is-ḥaaq. Between both these narrations, there are some differences, and<br />
this is why we see that the author (Ibn Katheer) highlighted the differences between these two chains regarding<br />
this Ḥadeeth. Even though he (Ibn Katheer) did not mention when the narration through Ziyaad ended, I (al-<br />
<strong>Al</strong>baanee) marked it with the brackets.<br />
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