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5 Jumada II 1448 AH

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Al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 3687 — the slave woman of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ

حَدَّثَنَا طَاهِرُ بْنُ عِيسَى بْنِ قَيْرَسٍ الْمِصْرِيُّ قَالَ : نَا يَحْيَى بْنُ بُكَيْرٍ الْمَخْزُومِيُّ قَالَ : نَا ابْنُ لَهِيعَةَ ، عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ أَبِي حَبِيبٍ ، عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ ، عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ : كَانَتْ سُرِّيَّةُ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ أُمُّ إِبْرَاهِيمَ فِي مَشْرُبَةٍ لَهَا ، وَكَانَ قِبْطِيٌّ يَأْوِي إِلَيْهَا ، وَيَأْتِيهَا بِالْمَاءِ وَالْحَطَبِ ، فَقَالَ النَّاسُ فِي ذَلِكَ : عِلْجٌ يَدْخُلُ عَلَى عِلْجَةٍ ، فَبَلَغَ ذَلِكَ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَأَرْسَلَ عَلِيَّ بْنَ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ، فَأَمَرَهُ بِقَتْلِهِ ، فَانْطَلَقَ فَوَجَدَهُ عَلَى نَخْلَةٍ ، فَلَمَّا رَأَى الْقِبْطِيُّ السَّيْفَ مَعَ عَلِيٍّ وَقَعَ ، فَأَلْقَى الْكِسَاءَ الَّذِي كَانَ عَلَيْهِ وَاقْتَحَمَ ، فَإِذَا هُوَ مَجْبُوبٌ ، فَرَجَعَ عَلِيٌّ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَقَالَ : يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ ، أَرَأَيْتَ إِذَا أَمَرْتَ أَحَدَنَا بِأَمْرٍ ، ثُمَّ رَأَى غَيْرَ ذَلِكَ أَيُرَاجِعُكَ ؟ قَالَ : I " نَعَمْ I " ، فَأَخْبَرَهُ بِمَا رَأَى مِنَ الْقِبْطِيِّ قَالَ : فَوَلَدَتْ أُمُّ إِبْرَاهِيمَ إِبْرَاهِيمَ فَكَانَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مِنْهُ فِي شَكٍّ حَتَّى جَاءَهُ جِبْرِيلُ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ فَقَالَ : I " السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكَ يَا أَبَا إِبْرَاهِيمَ ، فَاطْمَأَنَّ إِلَى ذَلِكَ .
لَمْ يَرْوِ هَذَا الْحَدِيثَ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ إِلَّا يَزِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي حَبِيبٍ ، وَعُقَيْلُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ ، تَفَرَّدَ بِهِ : ابْنُ لَهِيعَةَ ، عَنْهُمَا .
Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the slave woman of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), Sayyidah Umm Ibrahim (may Allah be pleased with her), lived in her upper room, and a Coptic man used to come and stay with her and bring her water and firewood. People talked about this, saying that a non-Arab man was visiting a non-Arab woman. This reached the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), so he (peace and blessings be upon him) sent Sayyiduna Ali bin Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him) and ordered him to kill him. He went and found him on a date palm. When the Copt saw the sword with Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him), he fell down in fright, threw off the cloak he was wearing and came forward, and it was seen that he had no male organ. Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) returned to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: "O Messenger of Allah, what is your view: if you give one of us an order, and then he sees (the real situation) to be otherwise, may he refer back to you?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Yes." Then he told him what he had seen of the Copt. Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Then Sayyidah Umm Ibrahim (may Allah be pleased with her) gave birth to Ibrahim (may Allah be pleased with him), and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) had some doubt about him, until Jibril (peace be upon him) came to him (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: 'Al-salamu 'alayka ya Aba Ibrahim' (Peace be upon you, O father of Ibrahim). Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) was reassured about it.
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "No one narrated this hadith from al-Zuhri except Yazid bin Abi Habib and Uqayl bin Khalid, and Ibn Lahi'ah is alone in narrating it from the two of them."
Hadith Reference المعجم الأوسط / باب الطاء / 3687
Hadith Grading محدثین: إسناده ضعيف لضعف ابن لهيعة
Hadith Takhrij «قال الهيثمي: فيه ابن لهيعة وهو ضعيف «مجمع الزوائد ومنبع الفوائد، ج 9، ص 161»»
«أخرجه الحاكم فى «المستدرك» برقم: 4210، والبيهقي فى «السنن الكبرى» برقم: 15470، والبزار فى «مسنده» برقم: 6331»

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