AN INCIDENT REGARDING THE FATHER OF OUR MOST NOBLE PROPHET (SALLALLAHU ALAIHI WA SALLAM)
Ibn ‘Abbās raḍiallāhu anhu mentions:
“As ‘Abdul Muṭalib set out with his son ‘Abdullāh for the imminent marriage ceremony, they came across a Jewish woman by the name of Fāṭimah bint Murr. She was well-versed with the Tawrāt and Injīl. When her gaze fell on the light of Nubuwwah radiating from ‘Abdullāh’s face, she imploringly beckoned him to come up to her and pleaded:
“I will compensate you with a hundred camels (for being illicitly intimate with me).” ‘Abdullāh responded with the following couplet:
أما الحرام فالممات دونه
والحل لا حل فاستبينه
فكيف بالأمر الذي تبغينه
يحمي الكريم عرضه ودينه
“Death is far easier than perpetrating a ḥarām act.And such an action, which I can’t even envisage ever occurring, cannot be permitted.
So, how is it possible to perpetrate the immoral deed you are longing for? An honourable man safeguards his honour and dīn.”
As father and son were returning home, they came across the same woman once again. She enquired:
“Where did you go after you left me?”
‘Abdullāh replied: “In the intervening period, I got married to ‘Āminah, the daughter of Wahab bin ‘Abdi Manāf. After the Nikāḥ, I stayed with her for three days.”
The woman finally revealed: “By Allāh ﷻ! I am not a woman of loose morals. When my gaze fell on the light of prophethood emanating from your face, I was unable to curb my wistful longing to transmit that Nūr (glow) from your body into mine.”
[Extracted from Sīratul Muṣṭafa ﷺ]
