The celebrated traditionist ‘Ali ibn lbrahim al-Qummi (may Allah make his grave fragrant) related from his father that there was, in Mecca, a Jew called Yusuf. One night he saw stars moving and meteors falling. On that night the Prophet (Muhammad ibn ‘Abdullah) was born.
Yusuf exclaimed: “A prophet was born this night! For we find written in our books that when the last of the prophets shall be born, devils will be stoned (with meteors) and prevented from approaching heaven.”
In the morning, he went to the assembly of Quraysh and asked: “Was there a child born among you last night?” They answered: “A child was born to ‘`Abdullah ibn `Abdi ‘l-Muttaiib last night.”
“Show him to me”, he said.
Thus, they all went to the door of Aminah’s house and demanded that she bring her son out to them, and he was brought out in his swaddling clothes. Yusuf looked into his eyes and uncovered his back. He saw a black mole between his shoulders, covered with a few soft hairs. When the Jew saw him, he fell down unconscious. The people of Quraysh laughed at him. But he said: “Do you laugh, O people of Quraysh? Shall he not soon come to destroy you? Prophethood shall, moreover, now depart from the Children of Israel to the end of time.”
Everyone went his way still discussing what the Jew had told them.
From: A’lam al-Wara bi-A’lam al-Huda (Informing people of the Guides of Righteousness) by Abu Ali al-Fadl ibn al-Hasan ibn al-Fadl al-Tabarsi
