Hadith 98

And I found it in the book of Muslim Bin Mahmoud, reporting, From Ibn Abbas who said, ‘Sawadah Bin Qarib came as a delegate to Umar Bin Al-Khattab and greeted unto him. He responded the greeting to him, and Umar said, ‘O Sawadah! Nothing remains from your fortune-telling! ’ He was angered and said, ‘I did not think you have welcomed with this talk apart from me! ’
When Umar saw the abhorrence in his face, he said, ‘O Sawadah! The one having upon him the worshipping of the idols, is more grievous than the fortune-telling. Narrate to me a Hadeeth which I yearn from listening to it from you! ’
He said, ‘Yes! While I was among the camel is the journey (desert), and there used to be for me whisperings from the Jinn who used to come to me with the news, and one night I was sleeping when he nudged me with his leg and said, ‘Stand up, O Sawadah, for the caller to the truth and to the straight path has appeared! ’
I said, ‘I am sleepy! ’ So, he returned from me, and he was saying (a couplet), ‘I am surprised at the Jinn and their travelling, and their tying up the camels in their yards’ – up to his words, ‘And its rocks’ (from the previous poem). When it was during the second night, he came to me. He said to me similar to that. I said, ‘I am sleepy! ’ So, he turned around from me and prosed (a couplet) saying, ‘I am surprised at the Jinn and their young ones and the camels carrying it with the quickness’ – up to his words, ‘From (clan of) Hashim-as, their feet are not like their tails’. When it was during the third night, he said to me similar to his first words. I said, ‘I am sleepy! ’ He turned around from he and he was saying (a couplet), ‘I am surprised at the Jinn and their enquiries, and their tying up the camels in their yards’ – up to his words, ‘To their chief’. When I woke up in the morning, I enforced (prepared) to depart from my camels. I rode upon it until I ended to Rasool-Allah-as. I stood in front of him-as and prosed (a poem) saying, ‘Salvation came to be after guidance and sleeping and I am not lying in what I am making a pact’ – up to his words, ‘(Luweyh Bin) Ghalib’. ‘I rolled upon the loincloth from my legs and the strong solid camel took me between the wilderness. So order me with what I love, O best of the Messengers-as, and even if it was among what you-as say, the forelocks would turn grey’ – up to his words – ‘there is no one with (the right of) intercession besides you-as to help Sawad Bin Qarib’’. [109] (Not a Hadeeth)