The Life of the Prophet Muhammad by Ibn Kathir - Volume 3 of 4

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IMAM ABU AL-FIDA' ISMA'IL IBN KATH~R and you maintain that they are young, powerless and poor. That's how the followers of prophets are in every age. I asked you whether those who follow him like and respect him or despise and abandon him. You claim that only rarely does someone follow him then abandon him. In such circumstances the sweetness of faith does not enter a person's heart then leave again. "'I asked you about the warfare between you. You replied that sometimes it favours you, sometimes him. That is how warfare is for prophets, yet they win in the end. I asked you if he betrayed, and you said he did not. "'If what you have said is the truth, then he will conquer the land beneath these feet of mine. I wish I were with him so I could wash his feet!' "He then told me to go on about my business. So I arose, clapping my hands together and commented, 'This affair of Ihn Aba Kabsha has got to the point where the kings of those of pale skin fear him within their own domain!'" Ibn Ishaq stated that al-Zuhri related to him that a Christian bishop who lived at that time told him, "Dihya b. Khalifa took a message to Heraclius from the Messenger of God (SAAS) that said, 'In the name of the Most Merciful and Beneficent: From Muhammad, Messenger of God, to the Great Heraclius of Byzantium. Peace he upon those who follow the guidance. Accept Islam and be safe; God will then give you reward twice over. If you refuse, then the sin of al-akkzrin, "the culti~ators"~%ll be upon you.' "When the letter reached him he read it and placed it between his thigh and his waist. He then wrote to one of the Byzantines who read Hebrew asking what he had read that was relevant to what had come from the Messenger of God (SAAS). He wrote back, 'He is the prophet who is awaited; there is no doubt about this, so follow him.' "Caesar then summoned the Byzantine leaders and they were assembled for him in his capital chamber and he ordered that they be locked inside. He then looked down from an upper room at them, since he was afraid of them and said, 'Fellow Romans, I have received a message from m ad! He is, I swear by God, the prophet we were awaiting and about whom there is information in our book. We recognize him by his qualities and time. Accept him and follow him and you will he safe both on earth and in the hereafter.' They snorted in disbelief, as one man, and rushed to the doors of the chamber, which they found locked against them. "Caesar feared them and ordered, 'Bring them back!' He then said, 'Romans, I spoke to you these words only to test your commitment to your faith. I have been delighted by what I saw.' They all then fell in obeisance to him, be had the doors unlocked and they left." Al-Bukh~ri related the story of Aba Sufyan's contact with Heraclius with certain additions. I would like to give his account verbatim from his ~ahih 92. Perhaps a reference to the parable of the evil grape-growers given in Matthew, XXI, v.3346.
358 THE LIFE OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD collection so that the disparity between that he gives and that of Ibn Ishaq may be ascertained, along with the former's useful additions. Al-Bukhai stated, prior to the section of his sahib collection that deals with faith, as follows, "Abn al-Yam= al-Hakam b. NSlC related to us, quoting Shu'ayb, from al-Zuhri, (who said), 'Wbayd AU& b.
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