Holy Prophet of Islam - Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa — Page 80
80. The Holy Prophet of Islam, Hadrat Muḥammad Mustafa sa revealed. The heart of the Prophet lied not regarding what he saw. Will you then dispute with him about what he saw? And certainly, he saw Him a second time also. Near the farthest lote-tree. Near which is the Garden of Eternal Abode. This was when that which covers covered the. Lote-tree. The eye deviated not, nor did it wander. (53:8-18) sa. All the facts, mentioned in Surah Al-Najm which was revealed immediately after the Emigration to Abyssinia which took place in the month of Rajab in the 5th year of the Call, are to be found narrated in detail in the traditions which deal with the Mi'rāj of the Holy Prophet". The Isra' or the Spiritual Night Journey of the Holy Prophet" from Mecca to Jerusalem, with which the present verse deals, took place in the eleventh year of the Call, according to Zurqānī, and in the 12th year according to Muir and some other Christian writers. According to Merdawaih and Ibn. Sa'd, however, the Isra' took place on the 17th of Rabi' Al-Awwal, a year before Hijrah. (Ibn Sa'd's Al-Tabaqat Al-Kabir, Translation by Moʻinul Haq, Kifab. Bhavan, New Delhi, India, Vol. 1, p. 247; Al-Khaṣāis Al-Kubra, Suyūtī) sa. Baihaqi also relates that the Isra' took place a year or six months before the Hijrah. Thus all relevant traditions go to show that the Isra' took place a year or six months prior to Hijrah about the 12th year of the Call when after the death of Hadrat Khadijah", which took place in the 10th year of the Call, the Holy Prophet was living with Hadrat Umm Hāni", his cousin. But the Mi'raj, according to overwhelming scholarly opinion, took place about the 5th year of the Call. Thus, the two incidents are separated from each other by an interval of six or seven years and, therefore, cannot be identical; the one must be regarded as quite distinct and separate from the other. Moreover, the incidents which are mentioned in the Traditions to have taken place in the Prophet's". Mi'raj, are of quite a distinct nature from those which took place in his Isra' sa