Saheeh Seerah Al Albaanee English

forbade us to do anything immoral, to tell lies, to misuse the wealth of orphans, or to
slander chaste women. He instructed us to worship Allaah alone and not associate
anything with Him (in worship); he enjoined us to pray, give Zakaah, and Fast.” And he
enumerated for him all aspects of Islaam.
Ja`far added: “So we believed in him and trusted him, following him in all that which he
brought from Allaah. So we worshiped Allaah alone and without associating any
partners with Him. We considered as forbidden that which he forbade, and we
considered as permissible that which he allowed. But our people turned against us, they
tortured us and put us to trials, and tried to make us give up our religion and go back to
worshiping idols instead of worshiping Allaah, and to have us again consider
permissible the abominations we had previously allowed (during our days of ignorance).
But when they turned violent against us and persecuted us, besiege us, and prevented
us from practicing our religion, we came to your land, and chose you above all others.
We sought your protection and hoped that we would not be harmed in your land, O
king.”
She (Umm Salamah) said: “Al-Najaashee said to them: ‘Do you have with you anything
which he brought (from Allaah)?’ Ja`far recited to him a passage from Surah Maryam
and by Allaah, al-Najaashee wept until his beard was soaked. And his bishops ‏,(كهيعص)‏
also wept until their books became wet when they heard what he recited to them.”] 243
Then al-Najaashee said: ‘These words and what Moosaa ‏(عليهُالسالم)‏ brought came from
the same lamp. Pass on, (you have been) rightly guided.’ (Then he addressing the two
said): ‘By Allaah! I we will never hand them over to you and I will not give you any
satisfaction.’ Umm Salamah said: “When we left his presence. `Amr Ibn al-`Aaṣ said: ‘By
Allaah! Tomorrow I shall return to him and tell him something that will turn them all
upside down. I shall certainly tell him that they claim that the god he worships, `Eesaa
Ibn Maryam, is only a slave (of Allaah).’” She said: “`Abdullaah Ibn Rabee`ah, who was
the more reasonable of the two men towards us, said: ‘Don’t do it, even if they have
opposed us, they are related to us and have certain rights over us.’ But (Amr) insisted:
‘By Allaah! I will do it.’”
She said: “Then he (`Amr) came to al-Najaashee the next day and said to him: ‘O king!
They say terrible things about `Eesaa Ibn Maryam. Send for them and question them
about it.’ So he sent for them to ask them about that. Nothing like that had happened
243 And here ends the narration through the chain of Ziyaad, and this is what Ibn Hishaam reported in his “al-
Seerah” (1/359-360), and the additions are from him.
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