Reply to the doubt: Was the donkey Yafour the first to convert to Islam and believe in the Prophet Muhammad?!

  A missionary asked a Muslim, saying: Do you know the first person to convert to Islam and believe in the Prophet of Islam? The Muslim said: Yes; the first man to convert to Islam was Abu Bakr, and among the boys was Ali, and among the women was Khadija (may Allah be pleased with her). The missionary said sarcastically: Wrong answer, the first to convert to Islam was the donkey Ya'fur, O Muslim. And here is my evidence as follows: On the authority of Abu Manzur, he said: When Allah opened Khaybar for His Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), he took from his share four pairs of mules and four pairs of light horses, ten ounces of gold and silver, a black donkey and a basket. He said: So the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) spoke to the donkey , and the donkey spoke to him , and he said to him: What is your name? He said: Yazid bin Shihab, Allah brought forth from the lineage of my grandfather sixty donkeys, none of whom were ridden except by a prophet. There is no one left from the lineage of my grandfather except me, nor from the prophets except you, and I expected you to ride me. Before you, I belonged to a Jewish man, and I used to trip on him intentionally, and he used to starve my stomach and beat my back. So the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: I have named you Ya’fur , O Ya’fur ! He said: At your service. He said: Do you desire females? He said: No. So the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, would ride him for his needs, and when he got off him, he would send him to the man’s door. He would come to the door and knock on its head, and when the owner of the house came out to him, he would signal to him to answer the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him. So when the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, passed away, he came to a well that belonged to Abu al-Tihan and threw himself into it, and it became his grave out of his grief for the Messenger, peace and blessings be upon him. See: Al-Bidayah wa al-Nihayah by Ibn Kathir (6 vols. / p. 150), Usad al-Ghabah (4 vols. / p. 707), and Al-Sirah al-Halabiyah (The Battle of Khaybar). Is it true that the donkey Yafur was the first to convert to Islam and believe in the Prophet Muhammad?! The response to the doubt first: This story is fabricated and falsely attributed to the Prophet Muhammad, and Muslims reject it... The investigators ruled that it is fabricated and weak... I will suffice with the following: 1- Sheikh Al-Albani in the weak and fabricated chain of narrations No. 5405 said: (fabricated). 2- The book Kashf Al-La'eem Hawal Al-Islam Al-Azeem provides a chain of narration for the story and explains its weakness and rejection...: 1- Imam Ibn Kathir mentioned this story in his history (6/150) and indicated that it is weak and it has been denied by more than one of the great hadith masters. 2- Ibn Al-Atheer stated in Usd Al-Ghabah (vol. 4, p. 707) that the story is weak and not authentic, as he narrated from Abu Musa after mentioning the story: “This is a very strange hadith in terms of its chain of narration and text. I do not permit anyone to narrate it from me except with my words about it.” 3- The great scholar Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani mentioned in his book Lisan al-Mizan, in the chapter on those named Muhammad ibn Muzayd, this story as an example of the lies narrated by Muhammad ibn Muzayd, and he mentioned the words of the scholar Ibn Hibban: “ Muhammad ibn Muzayd Abu Ja`far: on the authority of Abu Hudhayfah al-Nahdi. Ibn Hibban mentioned that he narrated this false story on the authority of Abu Hudhayfah.”

Then Ibn Hajar mentioned the whole story and said: Ibn Hibban said: “This is a report that has no basis and its chain of transmission is nothing. Ibn al-Jawzi said: May Allah curse the one who fabricated it.”
4- The words of Imam al-Suyuti in al-La’ali al-Masnu’ah, Part One, (The Book of Virtues) and the full name of the book is: (al-La’ali al-Masnu’ah fi al-Ahadith al-Mawdu’ah), and it is specifically for clarifying fabricated hadiths, i.e. false. After Imam al-Suyuti cited the hadith, he said: fabricated, i.e. (the hadith).
Then he mentioned the words of Imam al-Hafiz Ibn Hibban: Ibn Hibban said: It has no basis and its chain of transmission is nothing, and it is not permissible to use Muhammad ibn Muzayd as evidence. As we have all seen, they were never trustworthy in transmitting, and they cut the words from the context and concealed from you the statements of the scholars before and after they mentioned them, for a purpose of their own. End quote, with slight modification.
I said: It is clear from what was presented that the story is not authentic; Rather, it is a fabricated story...
Accordingly, the Muslim's answer was correct when he said: The first man to convert to Islam was Abu Bakr, and the first boy was Ali, and the first woman was Khadija... We do not recognize the story of the donkey Yafur that Al-Munsir brought for what was previously stated... "If it were not for the chain of transmission, anyone would have said whatever he wanted." (Ibn Al-Mubarak). Secondly: What is truly astonishing is that Al-Munsir mocks a story that has nothing to do with Islam or the Prophet Muhammad... and he does not mock what came in his holy book that mentioned that a donkey spoke with a human voice to respond to the foolishness of the Prophet Balaam...! This came in two places: First: The Book of Numbers, Chapter 22, Verse 27: When the donkey saw the angel of the Lord, she lay down under Balaam. Then Balaam's anger was kindled, and he struck the donkey with a rod. 28Then the LORD opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you that you have struck me these three times?” 29And Balaam said to the donkey, “Because you have despised me. If I had a sword in my hand, I would have killed you by now.” 30The donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden since you were born until this day? Am I accustomed to do this to you?” “No,” he said. • The donkey: The second female donkey : 2 Peter 2:15 They have forsaken the right way and have gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bozor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness. 16 But he received a reproof for his transgression, for a dumb donkey speaking with a human voice restrained the prophet’s folly. The question that remains is: Is the donkey smarter and more knowledgeable than the prophet as mentioned in the holy texts?! Are some of God's prophets in the Holy Book so foolish that a donkey responds to the foolishness of one of them?! This is the problem that needs a detailed memo .....!! 

	Issachar is the son of Jacob and the brother of Judah. ​​Genesis 49:14 Issachar is a huge donkey, crouching among the sheepfolds . The Bible translation says: 14 Issachar is a huge donkey, crouching among the sheepfolds .