{"id":9805,"date":"2023-04-29T04:20:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alsunna.org\/wp\/blog\/2023\/04\/29\/the-story-of-the-nursing-of-prophet-muhammad\/"},"modified":"2023-08-17T21:25:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T01:25:16","slug":"the-story-of-the-nursing-of-prophet-muhammad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alsunna.org\/wp\/blog\/2023\/04\/29\/the-story-of-the-nursing-of-prophet-muhammad\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story of the Nursing of Prophet Muhammad"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Story Of The Nursing Of The Prophet <\/strong><\/p>\n

And The Splitting Open Of His Chest<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some reports say the Prophet\u2019s father, ^Abdullah, died when the Prophet was two months old.\u00a0 Some said he died even before the Prophet was born. There are also other reports on the subject.\u00a0 Halimah as-Sa^diyyah was honored to be the wet-nurse of the Prophet and she told the following story:
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I went to Makkah with other women from the tribe of Bani Sa^d Ibn Bakr.\u00a0 We were looking for infants whose parents wanted them wet-nursed.\u00a0 During the journey to Makkah, I was riding a female donkey off-white in color.\u00a0 It was a year of drought and we had nothing, only an old camel that hardly gave any milk.\u00a0 My own son\u2019s hungry crying kept my husband and I awake at night because I did not have a drop of milk in my breasts to feed him.<\/p>\n

When we arrived in Makkah, each one of us was offered the Prophet as a nursing son.\u00a0 We all refused at first because he was an orphan, and we depended on the generosity of the child\u2019s father for our services.\u00a0 We used to say, \u201cHe is an orphan.\u00a0 How generous can his mother be?\u201d\u00a0 Every woman in our group except for me managed to get a baby to nurse.\u00a0 I hated to return the only one empty handed.\u00a0 I told my husband I would go back and take that orphan, and I did.\u00a0 When I came back to where my animal was, my husband asked me, \u201cDid you take him?\u201d\u00a0 I told him I had because I could not find any other.\u00a0 He said, \u201cMay Allah endow His blessings on us.\u201d<\/p>\n

By Allah, as soon as I put him in my lap my breasts filled with milk.\u00a0 Both he and his brother (her own son) drank their fill.\u00a0 When my husband went out that night to check our old camel, he found her udder full of milk.\u00a0 We got all the milk we wanted from her.\u00a0 My husband and I drank our fill and slept soundly that night, as did our boys.\u00a0 My husband said, \u201cO Halimah, I think you have put your hands on a blessed creation.\u00a0 Look how our sons sleep.\u201d<\/p>\n

We started heading back, and to everyone\u2019s surprise my female donkey was energetic and in the lead.\u00a0 They asked me, \u201cIs this the same donkey you rode on our trip here?\u201d\u00a0 I said it was.\u00a0 My donkey remained in the lead until we reached the outskirts of where our tribe, Bani Sa^d Ibn Bakr, was camped, and it was a very dry land.<\/p>\n

We all used to send our sheep out to graze with our shepherds.\u00a0 By Allah, my sheep would come back satiated; their udders full of milk, whereas the others\u2019 sheep would come back hungry and dry.\u00a0 We had all the milk we wanted when none of the others had a drop of milk.\u00a0 The others told their shepherds to take their sheep to the same place Halimah\u2019s shepherd takes hers to graze.\u00a0 They sent their sheep to graze in the same meadow with ours, but their sheep would still come back hungry and dry when ours came back satiated and full of milk.<\/p>\n

The Prophet matured in a day what a child normally matures in a month and in a month what a child normally matures in a year.\u00a0 At one (1) year old,[1] he was a very strong child.[ii]\u00a0 We went back to his mother, and I, or rather my husband, asked if she would allow us to keep him a while longer.\u00a0 We told her we were afraid for him to be exposed to the diseases of Makkah.\u00a0 In reality, we wanted to keep him with us because of the blessings we saw from having him.\u00a0 We kept on asking her until she agreed that we take him.\u00a0 We took him back and he stayed with us for two months.\u00a0 One day, he and his brother were attending to one of our animals behind the houses and his brother rushed back trembling.\u00a0 \u201cRescue my brother!\u201d he said to his father and me.\u00a0 \u201cTwo men came, laid him down, and split his chest open!!\u201d\u00a0 We were terrified and rushed out to him.\u00a0 When we reached him, we found him standing, very pale in color.\u00a0 His father and I embraced him and asked him about the matter.\u00a0 He said, \u201cTwo men in white clothing came to me, laid me down, and split open my abdomen.\u00a0 By Allah, I do not know what they have done.\u201d\u00a0 We carried him back home.\u00a0 His father said, \u201cO Halimah, I see this child has been inflicted with a matter.\u00a0 Let us take him back to his mother before any signs of that appear.\u201d\u00a0 So, we took him back to his mother.<\/p>\n

His mother wanted to know what brought us back so soon when we had been so persistent in wanting to take him away.\u00a0 I said that we had fulfilled our commitment and it would be better for her to keep him because now we feared for him.\u00a0 His mother knew this was not the real reason.\u00a0 She insisted we tell her what had happened, and we did.\u00a0 She said, \u201cSo this is why you feared for him.\u201d\u00a0 Then, she reassured us, saying, \u201cThis child of mine has a special status.\u00a0 Let me tell you about him.\u00a0 I conceived and carried him, yet I felt I never had carried a lighter load or any greater blessing.\u00a0 When I delivered him, I saw a great light coming out of me, similar to a shooting star that illuminated the necks of the camels in Busrah.\u00a0 Contrary to most deliveries, he came out putting his hands on the ground and raising his head to the sky.\u201d\u00a0 Then his mother told us, \u201cLeave him here, and go attend to your business.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Hafidh al-Bayhaqiyy said (after attributing the story to Muslim), \u201cIt conforms to that which is known to the people who authored about the subject of raids.\u00a0 In his Sahih, Muslim also narrated from the route of Anas that he said, \u201cThe Messenger of Allah said:<\/p>\n

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This means :\u00a0 <<When I was with my parents, I was approached and taken to the Well of Zamzam.\u00a0 My chest was split open and washed with Zamzam water.\u00a0 The contents of a golden container full of belief and wisdom were stuffed inside my chest.\u00a0 (Anas said, \u201cThe Prophet would be pointing out the trace for us.\u201d)\u00a0 The angel took me up to the lower sky and requested the gate be opened\u2026>>\u201d and Anas continued to mention the Hadith of the Mi^raj (the Ascension).<\/p>\n

The Hafidh al-Bayhaqiyy in Dala\u2019il An-Nubuwwah said after mentioning the hadith,\u00a0 \u201cIt is possible that this incident occurred twice; once when the Prophet was a child with Halimah, his wet nurse, and once when he was in Makkah after his Revelation on the night of the Mi^raj (Ascension).\u201d
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What supports these words is the saying of Ibn Hibban in his book, Al-Ihsan.\u00a0 He said, \u201cThe chest of the Prophet was split open when he was a lad playing with the boys.\u00a0 The clot was removed from him.\u00a0 When Allah willed for him to ascend to the skies, Allah sent Jibril to split his chest open a second time.\u00a0 He took his heart out, washed it and put it back in its place.\u00a0 It is not contradictory that this might have happened two times at two different locations.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Endnotes<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

[1] Al-^Iraqi said the one (1) year is an error in Ibn Hibban\u2019s narration and what is correct is two (2) years.\u00a0 For more detail, see endnote (ii) <\/em><\/p>\n

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[ii]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ibn Hibban in Al-Ihsan Bitartib Sahih Ibn Hibban said, after he mentioned the aforementioned story, \u201cWahb Ibn Jarir Ibn Hazim told us from the route of his father from the route of Muhammad Ibn Ishaq. We were told the same by Jahm Ibn Abi Jahm. ^Abdullah Ibn Muhammad told us, Ishaq Ibn Ibrahim told us Wahb Ibn Jarir told us the Hafidh al-^Iraqi said, after attributing the story to Ibn Hibban and reporting his words,\u00a0 \u201cThis is how Ziyad Ibn ^Abdullah al-Bakka\u2019iyy narrated it from the route of Ibn Ishaq. \u201d\u2014So he was explicit in stating that it was narrated, however, he was doubtful about the continuity of the chain (the ittisal).\u00a0 Likewise, he said, it was narrated to us by a ^ali chain of narration from the route of Muhammad Ibn ^Aliyy Ibn ^Abd al-^Aziz al-Qatrawaniyy; narrated to us by Muhammad Ibn Rabi^ah, by ^Abd al-Qawiyy Ibn ^Abd al-^Aziz Ibn al-Hasan al-Khal^iyy by ^Abdur-Rahman Ibn ^Umar an-Nahhas.\u00a0 We were told by ^Abdul Malik Ibn Hisham, by Ziyad Ibn ^Abdullah al-Bakka\u2019iyy, by Muhammad Ibn Ishaq he said:\u00a0 Jahm Ibn Abu Jahm, the freed slave of al-Harith Ibn Hatib al-Jumahi, from the route of ^Abdullah Ibn Ja^far Ibn Abu Talib or from he who told him he said:<\/p>\n

Halimah Bint Abu Dhu\u2019ayb as-Sa^diyyah, the mother of the Messenger of Allah that wet-nursed him, narrated that she left her town with her husband, a young son of hers that she was nursing\u2026 and he mentioned the rest of the story using different terminology and he added:\u00a0 the Prophet kept on taking from the endowments and blessings that Allah provided for him until both of his years lapsed.\u00a0 He used to grow up vigorously unlike other children; by the time he became two years of age he was a very strong child.\u00a0 He said –\u2018both of his years,\u2019– which is correct.\u00a0 Likewise, the narration of al-Bayhaqiyy stipulates.\u00a0 The narration of Ibn Hibban of \u2018one year\u2019 is an error on the part of one of the narrators.\u00a0 This is the end of the words of al-^Iraqi.<\/p>\n

<\/em>Allah knows best. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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