Saheeh Seerah Al Albaanee English

father: ‘O father! Who was that man who drove away the people that were fighting
with you in Makkah, on the day you accepted Islaam?’ He replied: ‘That, my son, was
al-`Aaṣ Ibn Waa’il al-Sahmee, [the father of `Amr Ibn al-`Aaṣ].’”
The chain of this narration is “Jayyid Qawiy” (extremely strong). 266 It also points to the
delay in `Umar’s conversion to Islaam. This is because `Abdullaah Ibn `Umar
participated in the battle of Uḥud for the first time when he was fourteen years old.
The battle of Uḥud occurred in the third year after Hijrah. He was at the age of
discrimination on the day his father accepted Islaam, an event that must have occurred
some four years before the Prophet’s migration to al-Madeenah. And that is some nine
years after the beginning of the mission of the Prophet ‏.ﷺ And Allaah knows best.
[Shaikh al-Albaanee’s addendum]
Narrated Ibn `Umar رضيُا هللُعنهما : The Messenger of Allaah ﷺ supplicated: ❝O Allaah!
Honor Islaam through the dearest of these two men to you: Through Abu Jahl or
through `Umar Ibn al-Khaṭṭaab.❞ He (Ibn `Umar) said: “And the dearest of them to
Him was `Umar.”
Reported by al-Tirmidhee in his “Sunan” (3681), and he said: “The Ḥadeeth is “Ḥasan-
Ṣaḥeeḥ””. 267 Also reported by Ibn Sa`d in “al-Ṭabaqaat al-Kubraa” (3/202), al-Ḥaakim in
266 I (al-Albaanee) say: It was reported by al-Ḥaakim in “al-Mustadrak” (4493), from the route of Ibn Is-ḥaaq, and
he said: “It is “Ṣaḥeeḥ as per the condition of Muslim””, and al-Dhahabee agreed with him. And what adds to the
strength of this narration is what al-Bukhaaree reported in his “Ṣaḥeeḥ” (3864), from the route of Zaid Ibn
`Abdullaah Ibn `Umar, from his father, who said: “While `Umar was at home in a state of fear, there came al-`Aaṣ
Ibn Waa’il al-Sahmee, Abu `Amr, wearing an embroidered cloak and a shirt having silk hems. He was from the
tribe of Banee Sahm who were our allies during the Jaahiliyyah (pre-Islaamic period of ignorance). Al-`Aaṣ said to
`Umar: ‘What is wrong with you?’ He said: ‘Your people claim that they would kill me if I become a Muslim.’ Al-
`Aaṣ said: ‘Nobody will harm you after I have given protection to you.’ So, al-`Aaṣ went out and met the people
streaming in the whole valley; he said: ‘Where are you going?’ They said: ‘We want Ibn Al-Khaṭṭaab who has
embraced Islaam.” Al-`Aaṣ said: ‘There is no way for anybody to touch him.’ So the people retreated.”
In another narration, a-Bukhaaree reported in his “Ṣaḥeeḥ” (3865) that Ibn `Umar رضيُاهللُعنهما said: “When `Umar
embraced Islaam, all the (disbelieving) people gathered around his home and said: ‘`Umar has embraced Islaam.’
At that time I was still a boy and was on the roof of my house. There came a man wearing a cloak of Dibaaj (i.e. a
kind of silk) and said: ‘`Umar has embraced Islaam. Nobody can harm him for I am his protector.’ I then saw the
people going away from `Umar and I asked who the man was, and they said: ‘Al-`Aaṣ Ibn Waa’il.’”
[TN: The Ḥadeeth under discussion was also graded as “Ḥasan” by Shaikh Waṣee-ullaah `Abbaas in his checking of
“Faḍhaa'il al-Ṣaḥaabah” (372b).]
267 [TN: Shaikh al-Albaanee رمحهُاهلل graded this Ḥadeeth as “Ṣaḥeeḥ” in his checking of Sunan al-Tirmidhee.
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