Hayatus Sahabah - The Lives of the Sahabah - Part 3

5 70 THE LIVES OF THE SAHABAH @Es> (Vol-3)
A Jinn brought the News of Rasulullaah m 's
Prophethood to Hadhrat Sawaad bin Qaarib %!%j
Hadhrat Abdullaah bin Umar 9GWi says, "Whenever I heard Hadhrat Umar
%lG@i say, 'I think that this is like this,' it would always be exactly as he thought.
However, we were once sitting together when a handsome man passed by and
Hadhrat Umar %lGw said, 'Either my assumption has been wrong or this man is
still on his religion of ignorance or he had been a fortune-teller. Bring that man
to me.' When the man was brought, Hadhrat Umar %w told him what he had
just mentioned. The man remarked, 'To this day have I never seen any Muslim
man being confronted in this manner.' Hadhrat Umar ?Zi&W!& then said to him, 'I
command you to inform me (about yourself).'
The man said, 'I had been a fortune-teller during the Period of Ignorance.' 'What
was the strangest incident that you experienced with your Jinn?' The man related,
'I was in the marketplace one day when he came to me and I could see that he,
was extremely scared. He recited the following couplets (which mean):
Wave you not seen the ]inn and their bewilderment?
Have you not seen their despondence after their retreat?
And that they have now joined the ranks of young camels and their saddle
blankets?(')
'He is speaking the truth,' Hadhrat Umar %.WW said, 'I was also sleeping near
the idols of the Mushrikeen when someone brought a calf and slaughtered it.
Just then, someone screamed so loudly that I had never before heard such a loud
scream. The voice said, '0 Jaleeh! The matter is one of salvation and the man is
an eloquent man saying, 'Laa Ilaaha IlJallaahMThe people there sprang up in
surprise, but I told them to remain where they were until I found out who was
behind it. The voice then called out again, '0 Jaleeh! The matter is one of
salvation and the man is an eloquent man saying, Zaa ilaaha Illallaah"1 then left
and we did not have to wait long afterwards when it was said that this referred to
Rasulullaah @@%."I
The man mentioned in the narration above was Hadhrat Sawaad bin Qaarib
i&~$&j. (2)
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Hadhrat Muhammad bin Ka'b Qurazi reports that Hadhrat Umar 3XiWj was
sitting somewhere one day when a man passed by. Someone asked, "0 Ameerul
Mu'mineen! Do you know who that passer-by is?" When Hadhrat Umar
asked who he was, the people replied, "He is Sawaad bin Qaarib, the man who
was informed about the coming of Rasulullaah @@ by the )inn in his service."
Hadhrat Umar %w sent for the man and (when he arrived) asked, "Are you
Sawaad bin Qaarib?" When he replied in the affirmative, Hadhrat Umar ~,13W
asked, "Are you still practising ,fortune-telling?" Hadhrat Sawaad 3,w became
angry and said, "0 Ameerul Mu'mineen! No one has ever confronted me in this
(1) These words explain how the Jinn who had been frequenting the heavens to hear the discussions
of the angels were subsequently stopped when revelation started coming to Rasulullaah m.
Thev were now forced to remain on earth iust like camels and other creatures.