He asked, “From which branch of Muḍar are you?”
“We are from Khindif,” we replied.
He said, “Know that a prophet will be sent among you very soon; hurry to him and take your share of what he brings, and you will be rightly guided, for he is the Seal of the Prophets and his name is Muḥammad.”

When we left Ibn Jafnah al-Ghassānī and returned to our people, each one of us was blessed with a newborn son, and every one of us named him Muḥammad.

Imam Aḥmad said: Rawḥ narrated to us; Ḥammād ibn Salamah narrated to us, from ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib, from Abū ʿUbaydah ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd, from his father, who said:
“The Messenger of Allah ﷺ entered a church where Jews were gathered, and a Jewish man was reading the Torah to them. When they reached the passage describing the Prophet ﷺ, they fell silent. In another corner lay a sick man. The Prophet ﷺ asked, ‘Why have you stopped?’
The sick man answered, ‘They reached the description of a prophet, so they stopped.’ He then crawled over, took the Torah, and read until he reached the description of the Prophet ﷺ, whereupon he declared, ‘This is your description and the description of your community. I bear witness that there is no god but Allah and that you are the Messenger of Allah,’ and he died on the spot.
The Prophet ﷺ said to his Companions, ‘Take hold of your brother.’ (1)

Muḥammad ibn Saʿd said: Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar narrated to us; he said: Sulaymān ibn Dāwūd ibn al-Ḥuṣayn told me, from his father, from ʿIkrimah, from Ibn ʿAbbās, from