It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that there was a Jew living in Makkah who traded there. When the night came in which the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was born, he said in a gathering of Quraysh: O people of Quraysh! Has a child been born among you tonight? The people said: By Allah! We do not know. He said: Allahu Akbar! If this news has escaped you, there is no harm, but look into what I am telling you and remember it: tonight the prophet of this last nation has been born. Between his two shoulders there is a mark with continuous hairs on it, like the hairs of a horse's mane. He will not suckle for two nights, because an 'ifrit of the jinn has put his fingers into his mouth and prevented him from suckling. So the people dispersed from the gathering, wondering at his talk. When they reached their homes, each of them told his family, and the families told them that a boy had been born to Abdullah bin Abd al-Muttalib whom they had named Muhammad. Then those people met and said: Did you hear what that Jew said, and has the news of this child's birth reached you? Then they set off and came to that Jew and told him the news. He said: Come with me so that I may see him. So they went out and took him to Sayyidah Aminah. He said: Show us your son. She brought him (peace and blessings be upon him) out, and the people uncovered his back, and he saw that seal of prophethood. On seeing it, that Jew fell down unconscious. When he regained consciousness, the people said: Woe to you, what happened to you? He said: By Allah! Prophethood has departed from the Children of Israel. O people of Quraysh! You are rejoicing over him; by Allah! He will seize you with a grip the news of which will reach the east and the west. Among those people to whom the Jew said this were Hisham, al-Walid bin al-Mughirah, Musafir bin Abi Amr, Ubaydah bin al-Harith bin Abd al-Muttalib, and Utbah bin Rabi'ah, who was a young man at that time, while others of the Banu Manaf and the rest of Quraysh were also present. This hadith has an authentic chain, but the two Shaykhs did not record it. And the reports are established by tawatur (mass transmission) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was born circumcised and with his navel cord cut. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was born in the house in Makkah which is located in the lane known as Zuqaq al-Mudakkak, and I have prayed in it. This is the same house that, after the emigration of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), remained in the possession of Aqil bin Abi Talib and then, after him, with his children.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Usamah bin Zayd (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: O Messenger of Allah! Will you stay in your house in Makkah? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Has Aqil left us any house or dwelling?" Aqil had become the heir of Abu Talib, while Ali and Ja'far (may Allah be pleased with them both) did not become his heirs, because both of them had become Muslims. The two Shaykhs have used this hadith as evidence.