Saheeh Seerah Al Albaanee English

Ibn Is-ḥaaq reported that Salamah Ibn Salaamah Ibn Waqsh رضيُاهللُعنه – and he was from
the people of Badr – said: “We had a Jewish neighbor (living) with the tribe of Banee
`Abd al-Ash-hal.” He (Salamah) continued: “One day he (the Jew) came out of his house
and went to the tribe of Banee `Abd al-Ash-hal. I was the youngest at that time, and I
had a fur gown over me and was lying in it in the courtyard of my family’s house. He
(the Jew) talked about the Day of Judgment, mentioning the Resurrection, the
Judgment, the Scale, the Paradise and the Fire. This he told to the people who
committed Shirk and worshiped idols, and who do not believe in the resurrection after
death.” They said to him: ‘Woe to you! Do you really believe that all this will happen,
that people will be resurrected after their death and will be sent to the place where
there will be Paradise and Fire and that they will be rewarded according to their
deeds?’ He (the Jew) said: ‘Yes! By the One by whom oaths are sworn! I believe that my
share of that Fire will be like the hottest oven in your house. It will be heated up and I
will be cast into it and the next day I will be delivered from that fire.’ They said: ‘Woe to
you! What is its Sign?’ He said: ‘A Prophet will be sent from this land’, and he pointed
(to the South) towards Makkah and Yemen. They said: ‘When will we see him?’ He
looked at me, and I being the youngest one there, and then said: ‘If this boy lives a
normal lifespan, he will live up to his time.’” Salamah said: “By Allaah! Days and nights
had not passed by except that Allaah تعاىل sent Muḥammad ﷺ as Messenger, and the
Jew was still alive and living amongst us. We believed in him ﷺ while the Jew
disbelieved out of grudge and envy. We said to him: ‘Woe to you! Is he (Muḥammad)
not the one about whom you spoke?’ He said: ‘Indeed (I said what I said)! But he is not
the one.’” 93
(The same has been) reported by Imaam Aḥmad in his Musnad from the route of
Ya`qoob, from his father on the authority of Ibn Is-ḥaaq. 94
Al-Baihaqee reported from the route of al-Ḥaakim. 95
93 I (al-Albaanee) say: The chain of this narration is “Ṣaḥeeḥ”. And it is in “al-Seerah” of Ibn Hishaam (1/225-226);
and from his route, Abu Nu`aim reported it in “Dalaa’il al-Nubuwwah” and he added, “the Jews name was
Yoosha`u”.
[TN: Some corrections have been made from “Dalaa’il al-Nubuwwah” of al-Baihaqee]
94 Musnad Aḥmad (15841) and it is “Ḥasan”.
95 “Dalaa’il al-Nubuwwah” of al-Baihaqee (2/78-79) and al-Ḥaakim in al-Mustadrak (5764, 5765) and he said: “It is
“Ṣaḥeeḥ” as per the condition of Imaam Muslim”, and al-Dhahabee agreed with him.
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