SECTION REGARDING WHAT HAS BEEN NARRATED FROM THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK OF THE DAY OF HIS DEATH
Jareer Ibn ‘Abdullah Al-Bajali narrated: I was in Yemen and I met two men from the people of Yemen, Dhu Kala‘ and Dhu Amr. I began to inform them from the Messenger of Allah. Then they said to me: If what you say is true then your companion has been gone since three years. He said: So I advanced and they advanced; while we were on the journey we saw some travelers before Madinah so we asked them, and then they replied: The Messenger of Allah has died and he left Abu Bakr as a successor and the people are righteous. He said: Then they said to me: Inform your friend that we came and that we may return if Allah, the Most Honored and High, wills. He said: And we returned to Yemen. When I arrived I informed Abu Bakr of their talk. He said: If only you could bring them!
Then after sometime, Dhu Amr said to me: O Jareer, you have a high repute over me, and verily I am going to tell you something. Verily, you, O people of the Arabs, you will always be in a state of goodness if and when your leader dies you come under the command of another. And if it is by the sword, then you will become kings and have the anger of kings and you will be pleased like the pleasure of kings.
Ka‘b Ibn Adiyy narrated: I came to the Prophet, peace be upon him, in a delegation from the people of Al-Heerah. He explained the basics of Islam to us and we accepted Islam. Thereafter we went back to AlHeerah, and it wasn’t long that (news) of the death of the Prophet came to us. My companions began to doubt and they said: If he was a Prophet he wouldn’t have died. I said that have Prophets died before. I stayed firm upon my Islam.
Then I left and headed for Madinah, and I came across a monk and we would not be certain of a matter without him (i.e. without affirming from him). I said to him: Tell me about a matter that I intended, part of which has occurred in my chest. He said: Tell me any name from the names. I told him the name of Ka‘b. He said: Throw it in this big book, which he had brought. So I threw Ka‘b in it, then he looked in it and suddenly the description of the Prophet as I saw him, and suddenly he died at the time he died in.
He said: After this, I became stronger in my faith and went to Abu Bakr (May Allah be pleased with him) and informed him and stayed with him. Thereafter he sent me to Al-Muqawqis (a leader in Egypt) and then I returned. Later, ‘Umar also sent me. I came to him with his message and I came to him during the Battle of Al-Yarmook and I didn’t know of it. He said to me: Do you know that the Romans have killed the Arabs and humiliated them? I replied: No, I don’t know. He asked: Why? I replied: Verily, Allah promised his Prophet that He will make him victorious over every religion, and He doesn’t break His promise. He said: Verily, your Prophet has told you the truth, the Romans are going to die as Allah killed ‘Ad. He said: Then he asked me about the faces of the Companions of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. When I told him about them, he sent a gift to ‘Umar, may Allah be pleased with him, and to them. And from those whom he sent gifts were ‘Ali, ‘Abdur- Rahman and AzZubair and I think he mentioned Al-‘Abbas. Ka‘b said: I was a partner with ‘Umar in clothing in Jahiliyyah (the pre-Islamic era of ignorance). And when the register was invented, he made me from the people of ‘Adiyy Ibn Ka‘b. This is a rare narration (ghareeb), in it is a great story and it is authentic.
By Ibn Katheer
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