Nastura the monk · Islam Museum

Depth

At a glance

Life in time

Pre-Islamic Arabia · The Prophetic Era · The Rashidun Caliphate · The Umayyad Period Contemporaries: al-Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib · Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf · Abd Yalil ibn Amr · Abdullah ibn Jahsh · Abdullah ibn Salam

In space

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Overview

Nastura the monk saw the Prophet on Khadija's trading journey to Syria with her servant Maysara, according to al-Mas'udi ².

The report

The monk was in his hermitage when he saw a cloud shading the Prophet. He said: "This is a prophet, and this is the last of the prophets." This happened between the Prophet's presence in the fourth war of al-Fijar and the building of the Ka'ba, as al-Mas'udi mentions ².

An additional source is needed for a second transmission of the report.