Muhammad's Donkey

1. Muhammad's Donkey
One day, Muhammad, the prophet of islam,
had an interesting conversation with ... a donkey!
Assuming that animals communicate, Muhammad asked the donkey:
What is your name?
My name is Yazid ibn (son of) Shihab said the donkey.
Thus, identifying himself as the son of his father much like the arabs of Muhammad's
time did.
The donkey added:
Allah had brought forth from my ancestry 60 donkeys, none of whom were ridden
on except by prophets.
Then the donkey said:
And I expected you to ride me!
(A true believer of Muhammad's prophethood!)
The donkey also admitted:
Before you, I belonged to a jewish man whom I caused to stumble and fall
frequently…
(Jihad?)
And the poor victim added:
..so he used to starve me and beat my back!
(Islamophobia!)
Muhammad decided to change the donkey's name to Ya'foor.
I'll call you Ya'foor, said Muhammad.
Then he asked Ya'foor a rather personal question.
Ya'foor, do you desire females?
The donkey blushed and said:
Sir! No Sir!
(A respectable donkey?)

2. So, Muhammad used to ride Ya'foor to complete his business. Sometimes he would send
Ya'foor to knock at the door of a person he wanted to visit and the donkey would signal
to that person to go see the prophet.
When Muhammad died, the donkey went to a well and threw himself in it out of sadness.
Ya'foor commited suicide!
The sad thing about all this is that Ya'foor went to hell for committing suicide. It seems
that the donkey wasn’t told that committing suicide is a sin that leads to hellfire!
Source:
The Beginning and the End (1) by Ibn Kathir (2) v.6, p.166-167
167-166.‫البداية و النهاية لنبن كثير ج.6 ص‬
‫لما فتح ا على نبيه صلى ا عليه وسلم خيبر أصانبه من سهمه أرنبعة أزواج نبغال‬
‫وأرنبعة أزواج خفاف، وعشر اواق ذهب وفضة، وحمار أسود ، ومكتل، قال: فكلم‬
‫النبي صلى ا عليه وسلم الحمار فكلمه الحمار ، فقال له: ما اسمك ، قال: يزيد نبن‬
‫شهاب ، أخرج ا من نسل جدي ستين حمارا كلهم لم يركبهم إل نبي، لم يبق من نسل‬
‫جدي غيري، ول من النبياء غيرك، وقد كنت أتوقعك أن تركبني ، قد كنت قبلك لرجل‬
‫يهودي، وكنت أعثر نبه عمدا، وكان يجيع نبطني ويضرب ظهري، فقال النبي صلى ا‬
‫عليه وسلم: سميتك يعفور ، يا يعفور، قال: لبيك ، قال: تشتهي الناث ؟ قال: ل، فكان‬
‫النبي صلى ا عليه وسلم يركبه لحاجته، فإذا نزل عنه نبعث نبه إلى نباب الرجل فيأتي‬
‫الباب فيقرعه نبرأسه فإذا خرج إليه صاحب الدار أومأ إليه أن أجب رسول ا صلى ا‬
‫عليه وسلم، فلما قبض النبي صلى ا عليه وسلم جاء إلى نبئر كان لنبي الهيثم نبن‬
‫. النبهان فتردى فيها فصارت قبره جزعا منه على رسول ا صلى ا عليه وسلم‬
Translation:
"When Allah opened Khaybar to his prophet Muhammad – may Allah’s prayers
and peace be upon him – he (Muhammad) received as his share of the spoils four
sheep, four goats, ten pots of gold and silver and a black, haggard donkey. The
prophet – may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him – addressed the donkey
asking, ‘What is your name?’ the donkey answered, ‘Yazid Ibn Shihab. Allah had
brought forth from my ancestry 60 donkeys, none of whom were ridden on except
by prophets. None of the descendants of my grandfather remain but me, and none
of the prophets remain but you and I expected you to ride me. Before you, I
belonged to a Jewish man, whom I caused to stumble and fall frequently so he used
to starve me and beat my back’. The prophet – may Allah’s prayers and peace be
upon him – said to him, ‘I will call you Ya’foor, Oh Ya’foor.’ Then Ya’foor replied,

3. ‘I obey.’ The prophet then asked, ‘Do you desire females?’ The donkey replied,
‘No!’. So the prophet used to ride the donkey to complete his business and if the
prophet dismounted from him he would send the donkey to the house of the person
he wanted to visit and Ya’foor would knock at the door with his head. When the
owner of the house would answer the door, the donkey would signal to that person
to go see the prophet. When the prophet died, the donkey went to a well belonging
to Abu Al-Haytham Ibn Al-Tahyan and threw himself in the well out of sadness for
the prophet’s death, making it his grave."
Download link (arabic):
http://www.almeshkat.net/books/open.php?cat=13&book=366
(1) The Beginning and the End: One of the most authoritative sources on Islamic
history. (Wikipedia)
(2) Ibn Kathir: Is known as a qadi, a master scholar of history. (Wikipedia)
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MUSLIMS, keep your heads down.
The world has read your books and history,
there’s no place for fairy tales or lies.
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