A Jewish man had settled in Mecca and used to trade there. On the night the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was born, he asked at a gathering of Quraysh, "People of Quraysh, has a child been born among you tonight?"They replied, "By Allah, we know of none."He said, "Allah is the Greatest! Well then, since I am giving you this for free, look and remember what I tell you. Tonight there has been born among you the prophet of this final nation. Between his shoulders is a mark with several hairs upon it like the mane of a horse. He will not nurse for two nights, because a powerful jinn placed his finger in the child's mouth and kept him from nursing."The people dispersed from the gathering, marveling at his words and his account. When they reached their homes, each man told his family, and they said, "A boy has been born to Abdullah bin Abdul-Muttalib, and they have named him Muhammad."The men met again and asked one another, "Did you hear what that Jewish man said? And has the news of this boy's birth reached you?"They set off together until they came to the Jewish man and told him the news.He said, "Come with me so I may see him."They took him along until they brought him in to Aminah, and he said, "Bring out your son to us."She brought him out, and they uncovered his back for the man, and he saw that mark. The Jewish man fell unconscious. When he came to, they asked, "Woe to you, what is the matter with you?"He said, "By Allah, prophethood has departed from the children of Israil. Are you pleased with this, people of Quraysh? By Allah, he will strike you with such a blow that news of it will travel from East to West."Among the noblemen to whom the Jewish man spoke these words were Hisham and Walid, the sons of Mughira, Musafir bin Abu Amr, Ubayda bin Harith, and Uqba bin Rabia, a youth just past the age of puberty, along with a group from Banu Abd Manaf and others of Quraysh.
كان يهودي قد سكن مكة يتجر بها، فلما كانت الليلة التي ولد فيها رسول الله ﷺ قال في مجلس من قريش: يا معشر قريش، هل ولد فيكم الليلة مولود؟ فقال القوم: والله ما نعلمه قال: الله أكبر، أما إذا أعطيتكم بلا ثمن، انظروا واحفظوا ما أقول لكم: ولد فيكم هذه الليلة نبي هذه الأمة الأخيرة، بين كتفيه علامة فيها شعرات متواترات كأنهن عرف فرس، لا يرضع ليلتين، وذلك أن عفريتا من الجن أدخل أصبعه في فمه فمنعه الرضاع، فتصدع القوم من مجلسهم وهم يتعجبون من قوله وحديثه، فلما صاروا إلى منازلهم أخبر كل إنسان منهم أهله، فقالوا: لقد ولد لعبد الله بن عبد المطلب غلام سموه محمدا. فالتقى القوم، فقالوا: هل سمعتم حديث هذا اليهودي؟ وهل بلغكم مولود هذا الغلام؟ فانطلقوا حتى جاؤوا اليهودي فأخبروه الخبر. قال: فاذهبوا معي حتى أنظر إليه، فخرجوا به حتى أدخلوه على آمنة، فقال: أخرجي إلينا ابنك، فأخرجته، وكشفوا له عن ظهره، فرأى تلك الشامة، فوقع اليهودي مغشيا عليه، فلما أفاق قالوا: ويلك مالك؟ قال: ذهبت والله النبوة من بني إسرائيل، أفرحتم به يا معشر قريش؟ أما والله ليسطون بكم سطوة يخرج خبرها من المشرق والمغرب. وكان في الشرف الذي قال لهم اليهودي ما قال: هشام، والوليد ابنا المغيرة، ومسافر بن أبي عمرو، وعبيدة بن الحارث، وعقبة بن ربيعة- شاب فوق المحتلم- في نفر من بني عبد مناف وغيرهم من قريش.
Hakim narrated it (2/601–602), and from him Bayhaqi in Dalail (2/108–109), from the hadith of Muhammad bin Ishaq, who said, Hisham bin Urwa used to narrate from his father, from Ayesha, who said, then he related it. Hakim said, "Its isnad is sahih." Dhahabi critiqued him, saying, "No."I think he denied its soundness because of Muhammad bin Ishaq, since he did not explicitly state the mode of transmission, and this is indeed the case, though he is an authority in biography and military campaigns. That is why Ibn Kathir passed over it in silence in Bidayah wal-Nihayah (2/267), while Ibn Hajar graded it hasan in Fath al-Bari (6/583), and others among the scholars before him accepted his indirect transmission in matters of biography.It also has a corroborating report which Ibn Saad recorded in his Tabaqat (1/162–163), from Ali bin Muhammad, from Abu Ubayda bin Abdullah bin Abu Ubayda bin Muhammad bin Ammar bin Yasir and others, from Hisham bin Urwa, from his father, from Ayesha, who said,A Jew lived in Makkah, selling goods there. On the night the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was born, he said, in a gathering of Quraysh, "Was a child born among you tonight?" They said, "We know of none." He said, "By Allah, you are mistaken, though I hate to say it. Look, O Quraysh, and remember what I tell you, tonight the prophet of this nation was born, Ahmad, the Last One. If you have missed him here, then he is in Palestine. He bears a birthmark between his shoulders, black tinged with yellow, containing a cluster of hairs." The people broke up from their gathering, marveling at what he had said. When they reached their homes, they mentioned it to their families, and someone said to one of them, "A boy was born tonight to Abdullah bin Abdul-Muttalib, and he named him Muhammad." They met again later that day and went to the Jew at his house and said, "Do you know that a child has been born among us?" He said, "Was this after my report or before it?" They said, "Before it, and his name is Ahmad." He said, "Then take me to him." So they went out with him until they came in to his mother, who brought the child out to them. He saw the birthmark on his back, and the Jew fainted, then recovered. They said, "Woe to you, what is wrong with you?" He said, "Prophethood has departed from Banu Israil, and the Scripture has left their hands. It is written that he will destroy them and eclipse their history. The Arabs have won prophethood. Are you pleased, O Quraysh? By Allah, they will strike you a blow whose news will spread from the East to the West."This is a strong corroborating report. Similar in meaning is what was also narrated about the Jews of Yathrib, that a Jew cried out at the top of his voice from a fortress in Yathrib, "O assembly of Jews!" until, when they gathered around him, they said to him, "Woe to you, what is wrong with you?" He said, "Tonight the star of Ahmad has risen, under which he was born."Ibn Ishaq narrated it, saying, Salih bin Ibrahim bin Abdul-Rahman bin Awf told me, from Yahya bin Abdullah bin Abdul-Rahman bin Saad bin Zurara Ansari, who said, whoever I wish among the men of my people told me, from Hassan bin Thabit, who said, "By Allah, I was a well-grown boy of seven or eight years old, understanding everything I heard, when I heard a Jew crying out," and he related it.It contains an unnamed narrator, though he is more than one person, and this is a strong supporting witness for the hadith of Ayesha, even though the first incident took place in Makkah and the second in Madinah, yet both testify to the prophethood of the Prophet ﷺ.