Some historians gave some pictures about
Abraham and his wife Sarah and what happened between her and Hagar with
her son Ishmael (PUT) and about the reasons for Hagar and her son
Ishmael travelling to Fârân (Paran) as in Torah, and Paran
is a name given to some locations of which Mecca's mounts are one of
them, and lot of these are not suitable for such a high place of
prophecy and unjust, and even can not be commited by a conscious man
and some of them are not right at all, but it has lot of exaggeration
as mentioned in the book of Genesis in Torah, and most of such pictures
are taken from jews and it has such matters that they report to Sarah
the wife of Abraham (PUH) but it opposes the dignity and nobleness, and
there is no doubt that for Muslims, Sarah is considered one of the best
of women, and she is attached to the degree of infallibility, and for
the prophet and his Household (PUT) she occupies a high leve, and for
them she is like Eve the mother of human beings and like Mary the
daughter of Amram (PUT), so she is a lady of her time and faithful
souls do not accept to report about her and other women untrue things.
They mentioned that when Sarah saw the son of Hagar that she gave birth
to from Abraham, she said then to Abraham: banish this maid and her son
for this maid's son will not inherit with my son Isaac, and they said:
then God said to Abraham: Whatever Sarah says do. They say also: So
Abraham went in the early morning and took with him bread and water and
gave them to Hagar then she put them on her shoulder and her son with
her, then he banished her with her son and she went along in the
deserts lost and did not know where to go. They said a lot of such
tidings and legends, but what we can say for the press that printed
such lies and what we can say for its owner, but no strength except by
God, the Exalted.
Yes, in Al-Bukhâri [Hadith collection made by Al-Bukhâri
after the prophet's death] as reported by Ibn `Abbâs that the
prophet (PUH) said in a speech that minds can accept and souls can
refuge in, and some of it is that Abraham braught her (Hagar) with her
son Ishmael and he was still an infant and he (Abraham) placed them
near by the House over the location of Zamzam, and at that time there
were no one in Mecca nor water, so he just put them there and gave them
dates and water, then Abraham went back from where he came then the
mother of Ishmael followed him and said: O Abraham where are you going
and leaving us in this valley with no one alive or anything? She said
that many times but he did not look at her, then she asked: God ordered
you to do this? He said: yes, then she said: then we are not lost. Then
she got back and Abraham went along until he reached a position that
they can't see him, he faced the House and prayed with these words and
raised his hands up to heaven and said:
Our Lord!
Lo! I have settled some of my posterity in an uncultivable valley near
unto Thy holy House..etc(Ibrâhim:37), then the mother of Ishmael
started breast feeding for Ishmael and drink of that water until it was
all finished and she got thirsty and also her son and then she looked
at him and saw him crooked so she hated that view and went along and
she found Al-Safâ so she went to the top and looked at the valley
that she might find someone but she did not, so she went down into the
valley with so much tiredness until she passed the valley and came to
Al-Marwâ and she went on top of it looking for someone, but she
did not find anyone, and so she did that for seven times. He
(Al-Bukhâari) said: said Ibn `Abbâs: the prophet (PUH)
said: that is why people now walk between them for seven times [during
the pilgrimage] then went she went to Al-Marwâ she heard a sound
and she said: Shh! She then paid attention and she heard it clearly
then she said: You've been heard, do you have any aid? Then she found
an angel searching in the location of Zamzam by his feet (or by his
wing) until the water appeared, so she started gathering the water. He
(Al-Bukhâri) said: said Ibn `Abbâs:
the prophet (PUH) said: Mercy be upon the mother of Ishmael, if she did
not take of the water then Zamzam would be a drying-out spring, then
the angel said to her: do not be afraid of the place, here is the House
of God which will be built by this boy and his father, and God will
never make his people astray, and the speech about this matter is long
and we've just taken what is in front of you, and it is close to
rightness, and not so different from what Imamism suppose, notice and
only God knows. In the same speech it is mentioned: Until Jorhom tribe
came and lived with them for ages, and it is as an answer from God to
Abraham, and so God made lot of people go to them like Jorhom and the
Giants (?), and when Ishmael grew up and married from them and been an
owner for lot of cattles and riches, then after that he built the House
with his holy hands with his father Abraham (PUT), then the mother of
Ishmael died (PUH) and he son buried her beside the Holy House and it
is the place called now Hajar Ismâ`eel [meaning: The stone of
Ishmael], and after his death he was buried also there beside his
mother, and this is the most probable we could find by ways we've
mentioned afore, and this is the most famous for them [I guess he means
by "them" Sunni people] and it is the most suitable for their high
level (Abraham and his Household), and only God knows what was hidden.
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