Fath al-Rabbani

A man says: I said to Sayyiduna ‘Adi bin Hatim (may Allah be pleased with him), “A hadith has reached me about you, and I want to hear that hadith directly from you.” He said: “Alright. When the news reached me about the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) that he had appeared, I felt intense aversion to it, so I left and went towards the lands of Rome. Yazid, the narrator, said that he went to Baghdad. I went to the Caesar. The aversion I felt upon the appearance of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was less than the aversion I felt upon my arrival there. Then I thought, ‘By Allah! Why should I not go myself to this man? If he is a liar, he will not harm me, and if he is truthful, I will know his truth.’ So I came to the service of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). When I arrived, people began to say: ‘Adi bin Hatim has come, Adi bin Hatim has come.’ I presented myself before the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). He said to me three times: ‘Adi bin Hatim! Accept Islam, you will find peace.’ I said: ‘I am already following a religion.’ The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ‘I know your religion better than you.’ I said: ‘Do you know my religion better than I do?’ The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ‘Yes. Are you not from the Rukusiyyah, and do you not take a quarter of the spoils from your people?’ I said: ‘Yes.’ The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ‘According to your own religion, this is not lawful for you.’ As soon as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said this, I submitted to this statement. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ‘I know what is preventing you from accepting Islam. You think that among the people, only the weak have followed me, those who have no worldly power, and the Arabs have rejected these people. Do you know Hira?’ I said: ‘Yes, I have not seen it, but I have certainly heard about it.’ The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ‘By Him in Whose hand is my soul, Allah will surely make this religion prevail to such an extent that a woman riding a camel will travel from Hira and perform tawaf of the Ka‘bah without fear or danger, and the treasures of Kisra bin Hurmuz will be conquered.’ I said: ‘Kisra bin Hurmuz?’ The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ‘Yes, yes, Kisra bin Hurmuz, and wealth will become so abundant that no one will be willing to take it.’ Sayyiduna ‘Adi bin Hatim (may Allah be pleased with him) says: Indeed, a woman riding a camel travels alone from Hira and performs tawaf of the Ka‘bah without fear or danger, and the treasures of Kisra bin Hurmuz have been conquered, and I myself am among those who conquered the treasures of Kisra bin Hurmuz. And by Him in Whose hand is my soul, the third statement of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) will surely come true, because it was spoken by the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him).