Abu Hurayra reported that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless
him and grant him peace, said, "Ibrahim, may Allah bless him and grant
him peace, was circumcised when he was eighty years old. He was circumcised
with an axe (qadum)."
أَخْبَرَنَا شُعَيْبُ بْنُ أَبِي حَمْزَةَ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الزِّنَادِ، عَنِ الأَعْرَجِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ: اخْتَتَنَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ صلى الله عليه وسلم بَعْدَ ثَمَانِينَ سَنَةً، وَاخْتَتَنَ بِالْقَدُومِ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ: يَعْنِي مَوْضِعًا.
An old woman from Kufa, the grandmother of 'Ali ibn Ghurab, reported
that Umm al-Muhajir said, "I was captured with some girls from Byzantium.
'Uthman offered us Islam, but only myself and one other girl accepted Islam.
'Uthman said, 'Go and circumcise them and purify them.'"
Salim said, "Ibn 'Umar, Nu'aym and I were circumcised and they
sacrificed a ram on our behalf. I think that we were more happy about it
than the other children since a ram had been sacrificed on our behalf."
Umm 'Alqama related that when the daughters of 'A'isha's brother
were circumcised, 'A'isha was asked, "Shall we call someone to amuse them?"
"Yes," she replied. 'Adi was sent for and he came to them. 'A'isha passed
by the room and saw him singing and shaking his head in rapture - and
he had a large head of hair. 'Uff!' she exclaimed, 'A shaytan! Get him
out! Get him out!'"
Aslam, the client of 'Umar, said, "When we came to Syria with
'Umar ibn al-Khattab, the chief came to him, 'Amir al-Mu'minin, I have
prepared some food for you and I would like you to bring some nobles with
you. That will be a stronger and nobler action for me.' 'Umar said, 'We
cannot enter these churches of yours with the images which are inside them.'"
Abu Hurayra said, "Ibrahim, may Allah bless him and grant him
peace, was circumcised when he was 120 years old. Then he lived eighty
years after that."
حَدَّثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيِّبِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ: اخْتَتَنَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ صلى الله عليه وسلم وَهُوَ ابْنُ عِشْرِينَ وَمِئَةٍ، ثُمَّ عَاشَ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ ثَمَانِينَ سَنَةً.
It is reported that al-Hasan said, "Are you not astonished by
this man? (i.e. Malik ibn al-Mundhir) He went to some of the old people
of Kaskar who had become Muslim and examined them and then commanded that
they be circumcised although it was winter. I heard that some of them died.
Greeks and Abyssinians became Muslim with the Messenger of Allah, may Allah
bless him and grant him peace, and they were not examined at all."
Bilal ibn Ka'b al-'Ukki said, "We - Ibrahim ibn Adham, 'Abdu'l-'Aziz
ibn Qarir, Musa ibn Yasar and I - visited Yahya ibn Hassan (al-Bakri
al-Filistini) in his village. He brought us some food, but Musa held back
because he was fasting. Yahya said, 'We had a man with the kunya of Abu
Qursafa from the Banu Kinana who had been one of the Companions of the
Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and he was in this mosque
for forty years. He would fast one day and break the fast the next day,
My father had a son born to him and he invited this man on the day that
he was fasting and he broke his fast.' Ibrahim stood up and swept him with
cloak and Musa broke his fast."
Anas said, "On the day he was born, I took 'Abdullah ibn Abi Talha
to the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. I found him wearing
a woollen robe while he was marking one of his camels with tar. The Prophet
said, 'Do you have any dates with you?' 'Yes,' I replied. I gave him some
dates. He chewed the dates and opened the child's mouth and put some chewed
dates into the child's mouth. The child licked his lips. The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, 'The Ansar love dates,' and
gave him the name 'Abdullah."
حَدَّثَنَا حَجَّاجُ بْنُ مِنْهَالٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ ثَابِتٍ، عَنْ أَنَسٍ قَالَ: ذَهَبْتُ بِعَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ أَبِي طَلْحَةَ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم يَوْمَ وُلِدَ، وَالنَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم فِي عَبَاءَةٍ يَهْنَأُ بَعِيرًا لَهُ، فَقَالَ: مَعَكَ تَمَرَاتٌ؟ قُلْتُ: نَعَمْ، فَنَاوَلْتُهُ تَمَرَاتٍ فَلاَكَهُنَّ، ثُمَّ فَغَرَ فَا الصَّبِيِّ، وَأَوْجَرَهُنَّ إِيَّاهُ، فَتَلَمَّظَ الصَّبِيُّ، فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم: حُبَّ الأَنْصَارِ التَّمْرَ، وَسَمَّاهُ: عَبْدَ اللهِ.
Mu'awiya ibn Qurra said, "When Iyas was born to me, I invited
a group of the Companions of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant
him peace, and I fed them and they made supplication. I said, 'You have
made supplication, so may Allah bless you for your supplication. If I make
supplication, then you say, "Amen".' He went on, 'I made a lot of supplication
for him for his deen, his intellect and things like that.' He added, 'I
still recognise the supplication of that day in him."
Kathir ibn 'Ubayd said, "When someone in the family of 'A'isha
had a child, she did not ask, 'boy or girl?' She asked, 'Was he created
well-formed?' If the answer was 'Yes,' she said, 'Praise be to Allah, the
Lord of the Worlds.'"
