The Companions of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Messenger of Allah, tell us about yourself."He replied, "I am the answer to the prayer of my father Ibrahim, the glad tiding of Isa, and my mother saw, when she was pregnant with me, a light come out from her that illuminated Busra." Busra is a place in the land of Sham.
عن أصحاب رسول الله ﷺ أنهم قالوا: يا رسول الله! أخبرني عن نفسك. قال: دعوة أبي إبراهيم، وبشرى عيسى، ورأت أمي حين حملت بي أنه خرج منها نور أضاءت له بصرى. وبصرى من أرض الشام.
Hakim narrated it (2/600) via the route of Yunus bin Bukayr, from Ibn Ishaq, who said, Thawr bin Yazid narrated to me, from Khalid bin Madan, and he related it. It is found in the Sirah of Ibn Ishaq, paragraph (33), through this same route. Hakim said, "Khalid bin Madan is among the best of the Followers. He companioned Muaz bin Jabal and other companions after him, so when he attributes the hadith to the companions, its chain is sahih." Ibn Kathir said in al-Bidayah wan-Nihayah (2/275), "This is a jayyid, strong chain."It has also been narrated with the same meaning from Abu Umama, who said, I asked, "O Prophet of Allah, what was the very beginning of your affair?" He said, "The prayer of my father Ibrahim, the glad tidings of Isa, and my mother saw that a light would emerge from her that illuminated the palaces of Syria." Ahmad narrated it (22261), as did Tabarani in al-Kabir (7729) and Bayhaqi in al-Dalail (1/84), all of them through routes going back to Faraj bin Fadala, who said, Luqman bin Amir narrated to us, I heard Abu Umama, and he related the hadith.Faraj bin Fadala al-Tanukhi al-Shami is a disputed narrator, though the prevailing view of him is weakness, and for this reason Ibn Hajar stated plainly, "Daif." As for Haythami's statement in al-Majmu (8/222), "Its chain is hasan and it has corroborating witnesses that strengthen it," the correct statement would have been to say, it is a hasan hadith with corroborating witnesses that strengthen it.As for what was narrated by Ibn Abu Dunya, Bayhaqi (1/126), Abu Naeem (1/174), and Kharaiti in Hawatif al-Jann, and from him Ibn Kathir in al-Tarikh (2/268), and others, concerning the shaking of the palace of Khosrow, the collapse of fourteen of its battlements, the drying up of the lake of Sawa, the extinguishing of the fire of Persia after a thousand years, and the dream of the Mobadhan that Arabian horses had crossed the Tigris and spread throughout its lands, in a long context, this is munkar. As Dhahabi said in al-Sirah (1/38), after relating it from Ibn Abu Dunya, "This is a munkar, gharib hadith."