Then he opened another compartment and drew out a white silk cloth bearing the image of a man broad-hipped, long-legged, mounted (1) on a horse. He asked, “Do you recognize this?” We said, “No.” He replied, “This is Solomon son of David.”

Next he opened another compartment and brought forth a black silk cloth; within it was a bright image of a young man with a jet-black beard, soft hair, a comely face, and beautiful eyes. He asked, “Do you recognize this?” We said, “No.” He said, “This is Jesus.”

We asked, “Where did you obtain these portraits? We know they are exactly (2) how the prophets were depicted, for we have seen an image of our own Prophet that matches them.” He answered, “Adam asked his Lord to show him the prophets who would descend from him, so He sent down their likenesses. They (3) were kept in Adam’s treasury at the place where the sun sets, until Dhu al-Qarnayn retrieved them, and from him they passed to Daniel. Then he added, ‘By Allah, my soul is now content to leave my realm, and I had been a servant to the worst (4) of you in sovereignty until I die.’ He rewarded us generously, treated us with great honor, and then dismissed us. (5)

When we reached Abu Bakr al-Siddiq and related to him what we had seen, what the man had told us, and what he had given us, Abu Bakr wept and said, “Had Allah willed good for him, He would have done so.”

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This, then, is one part of the testimony to his prophethood that the Muslims received from the statements of the scholars among the People