al-Islam fi Ifriqiya Abr al-TarikhMuhammad Aman al-Jami

Those who responded to the call of Islam during this phase understood it correctly, for those who called them were an outstanding elite. Their teacher, who taught them Islam and from whom they learned their religion, was the Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace.

Everyone knows the influence, good or bad, that a teacher has upon his pupils. It is therefore no wonder that they attained such excellence in their understanding and conception of Islam, and likewise in their manner of calling others to it, conveying its message, and their lofty aspirations. Their call thus had such an influence and found such acceptance among people that, through their efforts, the Negus became their brother: they sought forgiveness for him and offered the funeral prayer for him on the day he died.

It is authentically reported in both Sahīh collections, on the authority of Abū Hurayrah—may Allah be pleased with him—that the Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—announced the Negus’s death on the very day he died. He went out to the prayer ground, proclaimed “Allah is the Greatest” four times, and said: “Seek forgiveness for your brother.”1 Al-Suhaylī mentioned that the Negus died in Rajab, in the ninth year after the Hijrah.2 When the Prophet offered the funeral prayer for him, the Negus’s bier in Abyssinia was raised before him, so that he saw it from Medina. The hypocrites spoke out, saying: “He offers the funeral prayer for a non-Arab unbeliever who died in Abyssinia!” May Allah destroy them! How they are turned away from the truth! The Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—never offered the funeral prayer for a non-Arab unbeliever3. Rather, he prayed for someone whom Allah had honoured with Islam, so that he became one of his followers—may Allah bless him and grant him peace.

(1) Reported by al-Bukhārī, “Funerals,” (4), (64), and “Virtues of the Ansār,” (38); Muslim, “Funerals,” 63, 64; Abū Dāwūd, “Funerals,” (58); Th, “Funerals,” (27), (72), (76); and Imam Ahmad in his Musnad, 2:281, from Abū Hurayrah—may Allah Most High be pleased with him. (2) This hadith was reported by Ibn Abī Hātim in his Tafsīr through Thābit, and by al-Dāraqutnī in al-Afrād and al-Bazzār through Humayd, both narrating from Anas, as al-Hāfiz states in al-Fath, 3:188. As for the raising of the bier and the Prophet’s subsequent sight of it—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—al-Hāfiz mentions a report concerning its circumstances in al-Fath through al-Wāqidī, without a chain of transmission, from Ibn ‘Abbās. Al-Hāfiz then states: “Ibn Hibbān reports from ‘Imrān ibn Husayn: ‘He stood, and they gathered behind him, believing that the bier was before him.’ He transmitted it through al-Awzā‘ī, from Yahyā ibn Abī Kathīr, from Abū Qilābah, from Abū al-Muhallab, from him. Abū ‘Awānah reports through Abān and others, from Yahyā: ‘We prayed behind him, believing that the bier was in front of us.’” Al-Bayhaqī states in al-Dalā’il that the Negus died in the eighth year after the Hijrah. Al-Fath, 7:191. (3) A non-Arab unbeliever.
والذين لبوا دعوة الإسلام في هذا الدور فهموه حق فهمه لأن الدعاة كانوا من النخبة الممتازة لأن معلمهم الذي لقنهم الإسلام وأخذوا منه دينهم هو رسول الله ﵊. وليس بخاف على أحد ما للمعلم من الآثار الطيبة أو السيئة على تلاميذه فلا غرو إذا أن يكونوا بذلك المستوى الممتاز في فهم الإسلام وتصوره وأن يكونوا بذلك المستوى الممتاز أيضا في أسلوب الدعوة والتبلبغ وعلو الهمة حتى يكون لدعوتهم ذلك التأثير وذلك القبول لدى الناس حتى صار النجاشي أخا لهم بدعوتهم يستغفرون له ويصلون عليه يوم وفاته. وقد ثبت في الصحيحين عن أبى هريرة ﵁ أن رسول الله ﵊ نعى النجاشي في اليوم الذي مات فيه فخرج إلى المصلى، فكبر أربع تكبيرات فقال: استغفروا لأخيكم١ وذكر السهيلي: فكان موت النجاشي فى رجب سنة تسع من الهجرة٢ فلما صلى عليه رفع غليه سريه بأرض الحبشة حتى رآه بالمدينة. وتكلم المنافقون فقالوا: يصلى على علج مات بأرض الحبشة. قاتلهم الله أنى يؤفكون، لم يصل رسول الله ﵊ على علج٣ قط وإنما صلى على من أكرمه الله بالإسلام حتى صار فردا من أفراد أتباعه ﵊.
١ أخرجه خ الجنائز (٤) (٦٤) مناقب الأنصار (٣٨) م، الجنائز ٦٣ ٦٤، د الجنائز (٥٨) ث الجنائز (٢٧) (٧٢) (٧٦) الإمام أحمد في مسنده ٢٨١/ ٢ وذلك من حديث أبى هربرة رضي الله تعالى عنه. ٢أخرج هذا الحديث ابن أبى حاتم في التفسير من طريق ثابت والدارقطني في الأفراد، والبزار، من طريق حميد كلاهما عن أنس قاله الحافظ في الفتح ١٨٨/٣ ولكن رفع السرير ثم رؤية النبي ﷺ له قال الحافظ في الفتح عن طريق الواقدي في أسبابه بغير إسناد عن ابن عباس، ثم قال الحافظ: لابن حبان من حديث عمران بن حصين فقام وحفوا خلفه وهم لا يظنون إلا أن جنازته بين يديه. أخرجه من طريق الأوزاعي عن يحي بن أبى كثيرعن أبي قلابة عن أبي المهلب عنه ولأبي عوانة من طريق أبان وغيره عن يحي فصلينا خلفه ونحن لا نرى إلا أن الجنازة قدامنا. وقال البيهقي في الدلائل كان موت النجاشي في سنة ثماني من الهجرة الفتح ١٩١/ ٧. ٣ كافر من الأعاجم.

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