Question
Did the Prophet, peace be upon him, want to commit suicide six months before the mission after the revelation was sent down to him? And did he see our master Gabriel, peace be upon him, and then stop wanting to commit suicide, and Gabriel said to him: 'You are the Messenger of Allah?'
Answer
I say, and with God's success: Ibn Sa'd narrated in the classes that he said: "Muhammad bin Umar informed us, he said: Ibrahim bin Muhammad bin Abu Musa narrated to me from Dawood bin Al-Husayn from Abu Ghatfan bin Tarif from Ibn Abbas , that the Messenger of God : When the revelation descended upon him at Hira, he remained for days without seeing Gabriel, peace be upon him, and he was deeply saddened, to the point that he would go to Thabir once and to Hira another time; wanting to throw himself from it. While the Messenger of God was thus heading towards some of those mountains, he heard a voice from the sky, so the Messenger of God stood shocked by the voice, then raised his head: and there was Gabriel on a chair between the sky and the earth, sitting on it, saying: O Muhammad, you are truly the Messenger of God, and I am Gabriel." This hadith came through the path of Muhammad bin Umar Al-Waqidi, and it is known among the scholars of criticism and validation that Al-Waqidi is abandoned in his narration, as Imam Al-Bukhari said about him in the book of the weak: "Abandoned in narration," and this was also judged by Al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar in "Al-Tahdhib" and others. Therefore, the story of suicide about the beloved - peace be upon him - has not been established.