Allah Saves Daniel from the Lions
\nIbn Abi Al-Dunya narrated the following, based on a chain of citations. Nabuchadnezzar captured the two lions and threw them into a pit. He then brought Daniel and threw him at them; yet they did not pounce at him; rather, he remained as Allah wished. When then he desired food and drink, Allah revealed to Jeremiah, who was in Sham (Palestine\/Syria): \u201cPrepare food and drink for Daniel.\u201d He said: \u201cO Lord I am in Jerusalem while Daniel is in Babylon (Iraq).\u201d Allah revealed to him: \u201cDo what I have commanded you to do, and I shall send you one who will carry you and what you have prepared.\u201d Jeremiah did so and Allah sent him something that would carry him until he arrived at the brink of the pit.
\nThen Daniel asked: \u201cWho is this?\u201d He answered: \u201cI am Jeremiah.\u201d He asked: \u201cWhat brought you?\u201d He answered: \u201cYour Lord sent me to you.\u201d He said: \u201cAnd so my Lord has remembered me?\u201d He said: \u201cYes.\u201d Daniel said: \u201cPraise be to Allah Who never forgets those who appeal to Him! And Praise be to Him Who compensates good with good, rewards patience with safety, dispels harm after distress, assures us when we are overwhelmed, and is our hope when skill fails us.\u201d
\nDaniel After Death
\nYunus Ibn Bakeer reported that Muhammad Ibn Ishaaq reported that Abu Khalid Ibn Dinar reported that Abul Aa\u2019lia said: \u201cWhen Tastar was invaded, we found, in the treasure house of Al-Harmazan, a bed on which lay a dead man, with a holy script at his bedside. We took the scripture to Umar Ibn Al Khattab. He called Ka-b and he translated it into Arabic, and I was the first Arab to read it. I read it as I read the Qur\u2019an.\u201d Here, I (Khalid Ibn Dinar) said to Abul Aa\u2019lia: \u201cWhat was in it?\u201d He said: \u201cLife history, annals, songs, speech, and what is to come.\u201d I asked: \u201cAnd what did you do with the man?\u201d He said: \u201cWe dug in the river bank thirteen separate graves. At nightfall we buried him and leveled all the graves in order to mislead people for they would tamper with him.\u201d I asked: \u201cAnd what did they want from him?\u201d He said: \u201cWhen the sky was cloudless for them, they went out with his bed, and it rained.\u201d I asked: \u201cWho did you think the man was?\u201d He said; \u201cA man called Daniel.\u201d I asked: \u201cAnd for how long had he been dead when you found him?\u201d He said: \u201cThree hundred years.\u201d I asked: \u201cDid not anything change on him?\u201d He said: \u201cNo, except for the hairs of his face (beard, and mustache); the skin of the prophets is not harmed by the earth, nor devoured by hyenas.\u201d
\nThe chain of citation from Abul Aa\u2019lia is good, but if the date of the dead man\u2019s death was really three hundred years, then he was not a prophet but a saintly an, because there was no prophet between Isa (Jesus)(pbuh), and the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), according to the hadith in Bukhari. The span between them (the dead man and Muhammad (pbuh)) was variously reported as four hundred, six hundred, and six hundred twenty years. It could be that he had died eight
\nhundred years earlier, which would be near to Daniel\u2019s time, if his being Daniel is correct. However, he could still have been somebody else, either a prophet or a saint. Yet the truth is more likely he was Daniel, because he had been taken by the King of Persia and remained imprisoned as already mentioned.
\nIt was narrated with a correct citation that his nose as one span (nine inches) long. Anas Ibn Malik, with a good citation, said that his nose was an arm\u2019s stretch long (two feet), on which basis he is thought to be an ancient prophet from before this period. Almighty Allah knows best.
\nDaniel\u2019s Death \u2013 Hadith
\nIbn Abu Dunya reported from Abu Bilal that Abu Musa found with Daniel a holy script and a container in which were dirhams, his ring and ointment. He wrote to Umar, who replied: \u201cSend the scripture to us, send some of the ointment, tell the Muslims who are with you to use it, share the dirhams among them, and leave the ring for you.
\nAbu Bakr Ibn Abu Dunya related without citation that when Abu Musa was told that he was Daniel, he stayed with him, embraced him, and kissed him. Then he wrote to Umar that he found with him nearly ten thousand Dhirhams. It used to be that people came to borrow from it, and if they did not return it, they became sick. Umar ordered his burial in a grave to be kept secret and the money to be sent to the treasury, with the box and the ring a gift to him (Abu Musa). It is related of Abu Musa that he told four of the captives to dam the river and dig a grave in the middle, where he buried him. Then he beheaded the four captives in order for the secret to be kept from all except himself.
\nDaniel\u2019s Ring
\nIbn Abu Dunya also reported, by a chain of citations, that a ring was seen on the hand of Ibn Abu Barda Ibn Abu Musa. The gem was carved with two lions with a man between them, whom they were licking. Abu Barda said: \u201cThis is the ring of that man whom the people of this town say is Daniel. Abu Musa took it the day he was buried. The learned people of the town told Abu Musa that soothsayers and astrologers told the king in Daniel\u2019s time that a boy would be born who would destroy him and his kingdom. So the king swore to kill all the baby boys, except that they threw Daniel in the lions\u2019 den, and the lion and lioness began to lick him and did not harm him. His mother came and took him. Abu Musa said: \u201cAnd so Daniel carved his image and the image of the two lions into the gem of his ring, for him not to forget Allah\u2019s blessing upon him in this.’\u201d This has a good citation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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