The connection between Mu’awiyah

and the Jews with the help of Ka’ab ul Ahbaar

It is stated in the book ‘Nihayatul Arab’ that:

“A narrative states that Mu’awiyah bin Abi Sufiyan said to Ka’ab: Guide me to the most learned person of Torah so that I can hear your teachings and his side by side.

Ka’ab named a person from the Jews of Yemen. Mu’awiyah invited him and made both of them available at once. Ka’ab asked him: Swear in the name of the One who split the sea for Moses; have you not seen this incident in the heavenly books that Moses looked at the Torah and said: My Lord! I foresee a nation that will be blessed and granted with your mercies and which is the best of all nations, which will rise for the people and amongst them. A nation which will ask others to perform good deeds and prohibit them from bad deeds and will have faith in the First Book (Torah) and the Last Book (Quran)[1]. They will fight against the devious people and also against Aa’war the Liar. O Lord! Make them my nation! Almighty God said: They are from the nation of Muhammad (p.b.u.h.).

   That scholar said: Indeed! I have seen this incident.

Ka’ab said to him: Swear in the name of the One who split the sea for Moses; have you not seen this incident in the heavenly books that Moses looked at the Torah and said: My Lord! I foresee a nation which would glorify their Lord when they ascend a highland and praise their Lord when they enter a desert or lowland. The earth’s surface will be a purifier for them and whenever they will not find water, they will purify themselves from Janaabat (the state of impurity that occurs after the ejaculation of semen or the act of copulation) by performing Tayammum (a set of acts performed when ablution with water is not possible). Wherever they go, that place becomes their mosque, their faces glow because of Ablution, O Lord! Make them my nation! Almighty God said: They are the nation of Ahmad (p.b.u.h.).’

He said: Yes, I have seen it.

Ka’ab said: Swear in the name of the One who split the sea for Moses; have you not seen this incident in the heavenly books that Moses looked at the Torah and said: My Lord! I foresee a nation in which if a person intends to perform a good deed and is not able to perform it, a reward is written for him in the books, and if he performs that good deed, his reward will be ten to seventy times more. When he will intend to commit a sin, it will not be registered for him unless he performs it and when he commits it, only one punishment will be registered for him. O Lord! Make them my nation! Almighty God said: They are the nation of Ahmad (p.b.u.h.).’

The scholar said: Yes, I have seen it.

Ka’ab said: Swear in the name of the One who split the sea for Moses; have you not seen this incident in the heavenly books that Moses looked at the Torah and said: My Lord! I foresee a nation who eat from their alms and sacrifices and give it to the poor and destitute ones and they do not perform like those nations which burn their sacrifices and alms.

It has come in another narration about this section of the conversation that: They can eat their sacrifices and it is the meat of the sacrifices made on the Eid e Qurban etc.[2]