Saheeh Seerah Al Albaanee English

drinking it. We used to have a gathering place at al-Hazwarah where the men from Quraish used to meet. One
night I went out looking for my drinking partners but found not one of them there. So I told myself, I should go off
to a wine dealer named so-and-so to get some for myself to drink. But I could not find him. So I told myself, I
might as well go to the Ka`bah and circumambulate it seven or seventy times. So I went to al-Masjid (al-Ḥaraam)
and there I saw the Messenger of Allaah ﷺ offering the Salaah. When he prayed, he would face towards al-
Shaam, placing the Ka`bah between himself and it. The spot he prayed at was between the two corners, al-Aswad
(Black Stone) and al-Yamaanee. When I saw him, I told myself, I might just as well spend the evening listening to
Muḥammad. If I came too close to him to listen I might scare him. So I approached him from the side of al-Ḥijr,
passing beneath its covering and walking slowly, while the Messenger of Allaah ﷺ continued standing there in
prayer, reciting the Qur’aan. Eventually, I stood facing towards him with nothing there between us but the
covering of the Ka`bah. When I heard the Qur’aan, my heart was touched by it, I wept and Islaam entered in me. I
stayed where I was until the Messenger of Allaah ﷺ had finished his Salaah and departed. Whenever he would
depart, he would pass by the house of Ibn Abu Ḥusain, whose dwelling happened to be at Daar al-Raqttaa’, which
was owned by Mu`aawiyah. I followed him until, as he went between the house of `Abbaas and that of Ibn Az-har,
I caught up with him. When he heard my voice he recognized me and thought I had followed him only to harm
him. So he told me to keep away, and said: ❝O Ibn al-Khaṭṭaab! What brings you here at this hour?❞ I replied:
‘I have come to believe in Allaah, in His Messenger, and in what has come down from Allaah.’ The Messenger of
Allaah ﷺ then praised Allaah and thanked Him for this, and said: ❝Allaah has guided you, O `Umar!❞ He then
touched my chest and supplicated (that Allaah) keeps me firm (upon the Deen). After that, I left and the
Messenger of Allaah went inside his house.
Ibn Is-ḥaaq then said: Allaah knows best which of these versions really happened.
[This is another narration which Shaikh al-Albaanee omitted because of its weakness.
Shaikh Waṣee-ullaah `Abbaas said in his checking of “Faḍhaa'il al-Ṣaḥaabah” (374): “The chain of this narration is
“Ḍha`eef” (weak) due to the break up (interruption) in its chain. Furthermore, there is Tadlees (saying ambiguous
words to give the wrong impression or masking the identity of his immediate authority in order to strengthen his
Isnaad) by Ibn Abee Najeeh. Abu Nu`aim also reported something similar but short in his “al-Ḥilyah” (1/39) from
the route of Abu Bakr Ibn Abee Shaibah, from Abu al-Zubair, from Jaabir ‏.رضيُاهللُعنه But Abu al-Zubair is a Mudallis
(i.e. one who gives the wrong impression that he had heard it from the narrator) and he narrated using the
phrase “`An” عن)‏ “from”, as opposed to “so-and-so told us” or “I heard so-and-so say” etc.) –end of quote from
Shaikh Waṣee-ullaah.]
The third narration: Regarding the conversion of `Umar رضي اهلل عنه and the recitation of Surah al-Ḥaaqqah:
Shuraih Ibn `Ubaid narrated that `Umar Ibn al-Khaṭṭaab هللا ُ عنه ُ said: “I went out looking for the Messenger of
Allaah ﷺ before I became Muslim, and I found that he had reached the al-Masjid (al-Ḥaraam) before me. I
stood behind him and he started to recite Surah al-Ḥaaqqah, and I was amazed by the way in which the Qur’aan
was composed. I said: ‘By Allaah, this man is a poet as the Quraish said.’ Then he ﷺ recited:
ؤضي
‏﴿إِنَُّه ‏ُلَقَو ل ‏ُرَس ول ‏ُكَرِمي ‏ُ*ُوَمَاُه وَُبِقَو لِ‏ ‏ُشَاعِر ُُۖ قَلِيال ‏ُمَّاُت ؤ مِن ونَ﴾‏
{That this is verily the word of an honored Messenger [i.e. Jibreel which he has brought from Allaah]. It is not
the word of a poet, little is that you believe!} [Surah al-Ḥaaqqah (69): 40-41]
I said: ‘He is a soothsayer.’ He ﷺ recited:
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