Hadith 116

And it is reported by Al-Waqidi (Wahabi imam), by a chain of his – ‘Rasool-Allah-saww, when his-saww companions were many, he-saww revealed his-saww matter. That was grievous upon Quraysh and they disliked each other and said, ‘Muhammad-saww has spoilt our foolish ones and has taken them out from our religion. So, let each tribe seize the ones from the Muslims who are in it, and the brother should seize the brother, and the cousin (should seize) his cousin, and be harsh to him and tie him down with straps, and hit him, and frighten him’, and they were not retracting. Allah-azwj Revealed: ‘Did not the earth of Allah happen to be capacious, so you could have emigrated therein? ’ [4: 97]. A group from the Muslims went out to Ethiopia, Ja’far-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws being in front of them. They descended to Al-Najashi, king of Ethiopia. They stayed with him in an honourable manner, and high status, and good neighbourliness, and Quraysh came to know that, so they sent Amro Bin Al-Aas and Amarah Bin Al-Waleed Bin Al-Mugheira Al-Makhzumi to Al-Najashi. They went out. When Amro Bin Al-Aas and Amarah Bin Al-Waleed and a group of their companions arrived to Al-Najashi, Amro Bin Al-Aas came forward and said, ‘O you king! They are a people of our foolish ones. Muhammad-saww Bin Abdullah Bin Abdul Muttalib-asws has enchanted them. So, push them away from you. Their master-saww is claiming that a Prophet-saww has come to abrogate your religion and obliterate what you are upon’. But Al-Najashi did not turn to his words and did not give any importance to what Quraysh had sent him with, and he flowed the honours upon Ja’far-as and his-as companion and increased in the favours to them. And that reached Abu Talib-asws, so he said (prosed) in praise of Al-Najashi: ‘If only I-as was aware how Ja’far-as is among the people, and Amro and enemies of the Prophet-saww the scorpions. And did the deeds of Al-Najashi harm Ja’far-as and his-as companion or was that flame put out? Let the good people know, you (Al-Najashi) are glorious, benevolent. So the sides would not be wretched in front of you. And know that Allah-azwj has Provided you with ample, and the reasons of good, all of them are fresh for you’. When the couplets reached Al-Najashi, he was cheered by that with great cheerfulness, and he had not coveted that Abu Talib-asws should praise him with a poem. So, he increased in honouring them and was more in revering them. When Abu Talib-asws came to know the joy of Al-Najashi, he-as said, ‘Call him to and urge him upon following the Prophet-saww, upon him-saww be the best of the Salawaat and the greetings. Know, O best of the people that Muhammad-saww is a vizier for Musa-as and the Messiah-as son-as of Maryam-as. He-saww has come with the guidance similar to that which they (they) had come with. Each one guided by the Command of Allah-azwj and was sinless, and you are reciting it in your Books he-saww is with the truthful narration, not a narration of the translator. So do not make a call to be for Allah-azwj and become Muslims, for the path of the truth isn’t with darkness, and you (Al-Najashi), a group from us did not come aiming to you except they returned with the honours’’. [190]