بسم الله الرحمن
الرحيم
والصلاة والسلام على
رسوله الكريم
وعلى آله واهل بيته اجمعين
والعاقبة للمتقين
Concerning the death of the promised Messiah, Jesus of
Nazareth , I previously cited a narration from
the Prophet’s beloved grandson, sayyidina Hasan , in which he stated, on the occasion of eulogizing his
mighty father, Mawla Ali who had been martyred:
ولقد قبض في الليلة التي عرج فيها بروح
عيسى بن مريم
“And (Ali)
was taken the (same) night in which the spirit of Jesus son of Mary was made to
ascend”
This
narration is authentic, as I demonstrated in that previous blog entry, and it
proves that Jesus son of Mary was not raised to Heaven in his physical body, rather
his soul ascended, indicating death.
A certain
polemicist, Mr. Waqar Akbar Cheema, who attempted to prove that Jesus son of
Mary was raised alive to Heaven in his physical body, brought forth an
alternative version of this narration from the Mustadrak of al-Hakim, with the
wording:
قُتِلَ لَيْلَةَ أُنْزِلَ الْقُرْآنُ
، وَلَيْلَةَ أُسْرِيَ بِعِيسَى
“(Ali) was
murdered the (same) night the Qur’an was sent down, and the (same) night Jesus
was moved”
Mr. Cheema
argues that this narration is authentic because: “I shall clarify that
al-Dhahbi did not comment on this narration. And scholars say that a narration
of al-Hakim’s Mustadrak on which al-Dhahbi does not comment is Hasan in status
if not criticized by others”
However,
the truth is whether or not Imam al-Dhahabi commented on this narration, a
simple review of its sanad is sufficient to cast doubt on its
authenticity due to the narrator al-Hurayth b. Makhshi, who is majhul
(unknown) as not a single Muhaddith mentioned his tawthiq:
Yet
another version of this narration is present in the Tarikh of al-Tabari, with
the wording:
لَقَدْ قَتَلْتُمُ اللَّيْلَةَ رَجُلا
فِي لَيْلَةٍ فِيهَا نَزَلَ الْقُرْآنُ ، وَفِيهَا رُفِعَ عِيسَى ابْنُ مَرْيَمَ ،
عَلَيْهِ السَّلامُ ، وَفِيهَا قُتِلَ يُوشَعُ بْنُ نُونٍ فَتَى مُوسَى
“Tonight
you have killed a man on a night in which the Qur’an came down, a night in
which Jesus the son of Mary was taken up, and a night in which Joshua the son
of Nun, the champion of Moses, was killed.”
This
narration is weak due to the narrator Muhammad b. Sinan al-Qazzaz:
Furthermore,
the content of this narration is questionable too, since the great Prophet
Joshua , Moses’s successor and champion, died a natural death, well advanced in
years, and was not murdered.
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