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Main page Bahira (Arabic: , Syriac: ), or Sergius the Monk to the Latin West, was a Syriac or Arab[1] Arian, Nestorian or possibly Gnostic Nasorean[2] monk who, according to Islamic tradition, foretold to the adolescent Muhammad his future as a Part of a series on
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Contact page The story of Muhammad's encounter with Bahira is found in the works of the early Muslim historians Ibn Hisham, Ibn Sa'd al-Baghdadi, and Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari, whose versions differ in some details. When Muhammad was either nine or
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Tools twelve years old, he met Bahira in the town of Bosra in Syria during his travel with a Meccan caravan, accompanying his uncle Abu Talib ibn Abd al-Muttalib.[3] When the caravan was passing by his cell, the monk invited the merchants to a feast. Medina Farewell Pilgrimage Milestones and
What links here They accepted the invitation, leaving the boy to guard the camel. Bahira, however, insisted that everyone in the caravan should come to him.[4] Then a miraculous occurrence indicated to the monk that Muhammad was to become a prophet. records

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It was a miraculous movement of a cloud that kept shadowing Muhammad regardless of the time of the day. The monk revealed his visions of Muhammad's future to the boy's uncle (Abu Talib), warning him to preserve the child from the Jews (in Ibn
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Sa'd's version) or from the Byzantines (in al-Tabari's version). Both Ibn Sa'd and al-Tabari write that Bahira found the announcement of the coming of Muhammad in the original, unadulterated gospels, which he possessed.[3]
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In the Christian tradition Bahira became a heretical monk, whose errant views inspired the Qur'an. Bahira is at the center of the Apocalypse of Bahira, which exists in Syriac and Arabic which makes the case for an origin of the Qur'an from Christian Views
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apocrypha. Certain Arabist authors maintain that Bahira's works formed the basis of those parts of the Qur'an that conform to the principles of Christianity, while the rest was introduced either by subsequent compilers such as Uthman Ibn Affan or Jews Christians
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Download as PDF contemporary Jews and Arabs. The names and religious affiliations of the monk vary in different Christian sources. For example, John of Damascus (d.749), a Christian writer, states that Muhammad "having chanced upon the Old and New Succession
Printable version Testaments and likewise, it seems, having conversed with an Arian monk, devised his own heresy."[6] Farewell Sermon Hadith (Pen and Paper)
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Languages For Abd-al-Masih al-Kindi, who calls him Sergius and writes that he later called himself Nestorius, Bahira was a Nasorean, a group usually conflated with the Nestorians. After the 9th century, Byzantine polemicists refer to him as Baeira or Pakhyras,
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both being derivatives of the name Bahira, and describe him as an iconoclast. Sometimes Bahira is called a Jacobite or an Arian. The early Christian polemical biographies of Muhammad share in claiming that any supposed illiteracy of Muhammad
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did not imply that he received religious instruction solely from the angel Gabriel, and often identified Bahira as a secret, religious teacher to Muhammad.[5]
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In a later development of the story Muhammad and Sergius get drunk. While they are sleeping in a stupor a Jew (or in some versions a soldier) takes Muhammad's sword and kills Sergius with it. When he awakes Muhammad sees his bloody sword Islamic Muhammad in the Bible Jewish
Franais and is convinced that he killed Sergius in a drunken rage. In shame he bans the use of alcohol among his followers.[7] Medieval Christian Historicity Criticism

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Maulana Muhammad Ali (2002), The Holy Qur'an: Arabic Text with English Translation and Commentary, New Addition, Ahmadiyya Anjuman Isha at Islam Lahore Inc., Ohio, USA. Muhammad portal
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B. Roggema, The Legend of Sergius Bar. Eastern Christian Apologetics and Apocalyptic in Response to Islam (The History of Christian-Muslim Relations. Texts and Studies 9 2008) (includes editions, translations and further references). V T E

Polski K. Szilgyi, Muhammad and the Monk: The Making of the Christian Bar Legend, Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 34 (2008), in press.
Romn Abel, A. (1935) L'Apocalypse de Bahira et la notion islamique du Mahdi Annuaire de l'Institut de Philologie et d'Histoire Orientale III, 1-12. Alija Ramos, M.
Griffith, S. H. (1995). "The legend of the Monk Bahira the Cult of the Cross and lconoclasm". In P. Canivet & J-P. Rey. Muhammad and the Monk Bahr: Reflections on a Syriac and Arabic text from early Abbasid times . 79. Oriens Christianus.
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A young Mohammed being
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recognized by the monk Bahira.
1. ^ Al-Masudi, "Muruj adh-dhahab wa ma'adin al-jawhar" , 345 : Miniature illustration on vellum from the
. book Jami' al-Tawarikh (literally
"Compendium of Chronicles" but often
2. ^ John of Damascus, Des hrsies, chap. CI.
referred to as The Universal History or
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Abel, A. "Bar ". Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second edition. Brill. Brill Online, 2007 [1986]. History of the World), by Rashid al-Din
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Watt, W. Montgomery (1964). Muhammad: Prophet and Statesman , p. 1-2. Oxford University Press. Hamadani, published in Tabriz, Persia,
5. ^a b Roggema, Barbara. "Bar ." Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE. Edited by: Gudrun Krmer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, Everett Rowson. Brill Online, 2014 [2011]. Accessed July 12, 2014. 1307 A.D. Now in the collection of the
Edinburgh University Library, Scotland.
6. ^ St. John of Damascus's Critique of Islam from Writings, by St John of Damascus (De Haeresibus, chap. 101), The Fathers of the Church vol. 37 (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1958), pp. 153-160.
7. ^ Bushkovich, Paul, "Orthodoxy and Islam in Russia", Steindorff, L. (ed) Religion und Integration im Moskauer Russland: Konzepte und Praktiken, Potentiale und Grenzen 14.-17. Jahrhundert, Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010, p.128.

Muhammad and the Monk Sergius,

engraving of 1508 by Lucas van Leyden
(The soldier takes Muhammad's
sword. see text).

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