“The polytheists would ascribe the Prophet to Abu Kabshah. He was a man of Khuza‘ah who differed from Quraysh in their worship of idols and worshipped Sirius, al-Shi‘ra al-‘Abur (1). When the Prophet differed from them regarding the worship of idols, they likened him to him.”
The verb amura means: to become extensive and complete.
I had previously traced this hadith, in abbreviated form, in al-Irwa’ (1/37). *
3608—“Give Khadijah glad tidings of a house of hollow pearl in Paradise, in which there will be no clamour or fatigue.”
It has been narrated from ‘Abd Allah ibn Abi Awfa, ‘Aishah, Abu Hurayrah, ‘Abd Allah ibn Ja‘far, and a man from among the Companions:
- As for the hadith of Ibn Abi Awfa:
It was narrated by al-Bukhari (1792 and 3829)—and the wording is his—Muslim (7/133), al-Nasa’i in al-Kubra (8360), Ibn Abi Shaybah (12/133), Ibn Hibban (7004), Ahmad in his Musnad (4/355, 356, and 381) and in al-Fada’il (1577, 1581, and 1582), his son ‘Abd Allah in his additions to al-Fada’il (1593 and 1594), al-Qati‘i in his additions to al-Fada’il (1595), al-Humaydi (720), and al-Tabarani in al-Kabir (23/no. 11), through various routes from Isma‘il ibn Abi Khalid, from Ibn Abi Awfa.
- As for the hadith of ‘Aishah:
It was narrated by al-Bukhari (3826 and 3827), Muslim (7/133), and al-Tirmidhi (3876),