PROPHECIES OF PRIESTS ABOUT THE BIRTH OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD, MAY GOD BLESS HIM AND HIS FAMILY IN THE LITERARY WORKS OF THE ABBASID ERA - AN ANALYTICAL STUDY.

Abstract

Praise be to Allah, Lord of the Worlds, and may Allah's prayers be upon our master Abu al-Qasim Muhammad, his good and pure family, and his productive companions. The Arabs have known fortune-telling since ancient times and were the mediator between God and people, because the principle of divine transcendence among them created the need to resort to intermediaries, to be a reason between the man on earth and the god of heaven, so knowing God and approaching him was one of the things that man was keen on in the past, and this indicates the lack of knowledge of the Arabs of the Creator of the universe, because they were looking for a religious refuge to believe in, and the knowledge of the Creator is not complete without the presence of an intermediary, so people resorted to soothsayers, to find out what befalls them and what the future holds for them when the Prophet sent. He announced his call, it was difficult for society at that time to understand the prophecy, so they found their way through the soothsayers, so part of the Prophet's biography is related to the soothsayers.