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A Benefit on the Verses of Poetry of Ḥalīmah al Saʿdīyyah raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhā | Excerpts from Imām Jalāl al Dīn al Suyūṭī’s al Khaṣāʾiṣ al Kubrā

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Ibn al Ṭarrāḥ said: “I saw in al Tarqīṣ of Abū ʿAbdiLlāh Muḥammad b. al Muʿallā al Azdī that from the poetry of Ḥalīmah [al Saʿdīyyah]* when she was singing words of amusement to the Prophet ﷺ:

O Lord, when You grant him, You preserved him,
and raised him to lofty heights,

and refuted the falsehood of the enemies by his right.

* al Muḥaddith, Shaykh Nabīl bin Hāshim al Ghamrī Bā ʿAlawī: al Qasṭallānī in al Mawāhib al Ladunnīyyah concurred with the author on the attribution of the verses to Ḥalīmah al Saʿdīyyah. al Ḥāfidh [Ibn Ḥajar…

…al ʿAsqalānī] in al Iṣābah mentioned its attribution to Shaymāʾ bint al Ḥārith, the Prophet’s ﷺ sister through breastfeeding, and not Ḥalīmah al Saʿdīyyah. He said: “And it is mentioned by Muḥammad b. al Muʿallā al Azdī in al Tarqīṣ who said: ‘al Shaymāʾ sang…

…words of amusement to the Prophet ﷺ when he was a boy:
“O Lord, preserve for us Muḥammad,
until I see him reach adolescence;
then, [until] I see him [becoming] a master of servants;
And I accompanied his return together and he spurred on,

Grant him honour [O Lord] that lasts forever!”

He said: When Abū ʿUrwah al Azdī recited these verses, he said: ‘What is more beautiful than her supplication that is answered by Allāh!’