Saheeh Seerah Al Albaanee English

Chapter 7: The Prophet’s ﷺ journey with his uncle Abu Ṭaalib to al-
Shaam and the encounter with Baḥeerah the monk
Al-Ḥaafiẓh Abu Bakr al-Kharaa’iṭee reported from the route of Younus Ibn Abee Is-ḥaaq,
from Abu Bakr Ibn Abee Moosaa that his father said:
“Abu Ṭaalib departed to al-Shaam along with the Prophet ‏,ﷺ and a number of elders
of Quraish. When they came across the monk – i.e. Baḥeerah 38 – they stopped there
and began setting up their camp, and the monk came out to them. Before that, they
used to pass by him and he wouldn’t come out nor pay attention to them.” He (Abu
Moosaa) said: “When they were setting up their camp, the monk walked amidst them
until he came and took the hand of the Messenger of Allaah ‏.ﷺ Then he said: ‘This is
the master of all mankind and Jinn; this is the Messenger of the Lord of the worlds.
Allaah will raise him as a mercy to the mankind and Jinn.’ So, some of the elders of
Quraish said: ‘What is it you know?’ He said: ‘When you people came along from the
mountain road, not a rock or a tree was left, except that it prostrated, and they do not
prostrate except for a Prophet. And I can recognize him by the seal of the Prophethood
which is below his shoulder blade.’ Then he went back and prepared some food for
them, and when he brought it to them, he [the Prophet ‏[(ﷺ)‏ was tending to the
camels. So he said: ‘Send for him.’ So he came, and there was a cloud over him that was
ﷺ shading him. He (the monk) said: ‘Look how the cloud is shading him.’ So, when he
came close to the people, he ﷺ found that they had beaten him to the tree’s shade.
So when he ﷺ sat down, the shade of the tree leaned towards him. He (the monk)
said: ‘Look at how the shade of the tree moved over him.’” He (Abu Moosaa) said: “So
while he was standing over them, telling them not to take him to Byzantine with him -
because if the Romans were to see him, they would recognize him by his description,
and they would kill him - he turned, and there were seven people who had come from
Rome. So he faced them and said: ‘What brought you here?’ They said: ‘We came
because this Prophet is going to appear during this month, and there isn’t a road left
except that people have been sent to it, and the information we had of him brought us
38 [TN: Shaikh al-Albaanee said in “Defense of the Prophetic narrations” pg. 69 (Arabic): “The name of the monk
has not been mentioned in any of the authentic narrations. The name “Baḥeerah” was mentioned in some of the
extremely weak narrations. In one of these chains is al-Waaqidee, who is a (known) liar; and the other is which
Muḥammad Ibn Is-ḥaaq, the author of “al-Seerah” reported without a chain. These are the two narrations which
many of the historians relied on, who referred to the monk with the name “Baḥeerah”. So their conclusion is not
considered since the authentic narration is in opposition to it. Moreover, other historians like al-Mas`oodee are of
the opinion that his name was “Jarjis”.]
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