روى إسحاق بن بشر، عن ابن عباس وغيره، أن عُزَيرًا كان نبيًّا وحكيمًا. خرج يومًا إلى ضيعته كعادته، فلما كان نحو الظهيرة أتى على قرية خربة خاوية، فأصابه الحر. فدخل القرية الخربة، ونزل عن حماره، وأخذ من سلَّته التين والعنب. ثم جلس في ظل شجرة الخَيْبة وأكل طعامه.

Ishaaq Ibn Bishr reported, on the authority of Ibn' Abbas and others, that Ezra was a saint and a wise man. He went out one day to his own farm, as was his custom. About noon he came to a deserted, ruined place and felt the heat. He entered the ruined town and dismounted his donkey, taking figs and grapes in his basket. He went under the shade of the khaiba tree and ate his food.

ثُمَّ قَامَ لِيَنْظُرَ إِلَى مَا بَقِيَ مِنَ الْأَطْلَالِ. كَانَ أَهْلُهَا قَدْ هَلَكُوا مُنْذُ زَمَنٍ طَوِيلٍ، فَرَأَى عِظَامًا.

Then he got up to look at what remained of the ruins. The people had long been lost, and he saw bones.

"أَنَّىٰ يُحْيِي هَٰذِهِ اللَّهُ بَعْدَ مَوْتِهَا؟" ([القرآن 2:259])

"Oh! How will Allah ever bring it to life after its death?" (Ch 2:259 Quran)

قال هذا لا شكًّا، بل تعجُّبًا وطلبًا للعلم. فأرسل الله ملَكَ الموت لقبض روحه.

He said this not out of doubt but out of curiosity. Allah sent the Angel of Death to take his life.

ولَبِثَ مَيِّتًا مِائَةَ عَامٍ

He remained dead for one hundred years.

بعد أن مضت مائة سنة وحدثت تغيّرات في أحوال بني إسرائيل، بعث الله ملكاً إلى عزير ليُحيي قلبه وعينيه، ليشعر ويرى كيف يُحيي الله الموتى. قال الملَك: «كم لبثتَ؟» قال: «يوماً أو بعضَ يوم». قال ذلك لأنه كان يعلم أنه نام في أول النهار ثم استيقظ في آخره.

After one hundred years had passed and there had been changes in Israelite affairs, Allah sent an angel upon Ezra to revive his heart and his eyes in order for him to feel and see how Allah revives the dead. The angel said: "For how long did you sleep?" He said: "A day or part of a day." He said this because he knew he had slept early in the afternoon and woke up late in the afternoon.

قال الملَك: «لبِثتَ نائماً مائةَ عامٍ». فأكلَ وشربَ من الطعام الذي كان قد أعدَّه قبل أن يغلبَه ذلك النومُ الطويل. ثم أحيا الملَكُ حمارَه.

The angel said: "You remained asleep for one hundred years." He ate and drank the food which he had prepared before he was overtaken by that long sleep. Then the angel revived his donkey.

قال الله تعالى:

Almighty Allah said:

{وَانْظُرْ إِلَى حِمَارِكَ وَلِنَجْعَلَكَ آيَةً لِلنَّاسِ وَانْظُرْ إِلَى الْعِظَامِ كَيْفَ نُنْشِزُهَا ثُمَّ نَكْسُوهَا لَحْمًا} فَلَمَّا تَبَيَّنَ لَهُ قَالَ أَعْلَمُ أَنَّ اللَّهَ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ. [سورۃ البقرۃ: ٢٥٩]

"And look at your donkey! Thus We have made of you a sign for the people. Look at the bones, how We bring them together and clothe them with flesh." When this was clearly shown to him he said: "I know now that Allah is able to do all things." (Ch 2:259)

ركب حماره ودخل بلدته، فلم يعرفه الناس، ولا أهل بيته، إلا الخادمة، وقد صارت عجوزًا. فسألها: "أهذا بيت عزير؟" قالت: "نعم، ولكن الناس نسوا عزيرًا منذ زمن طويل." قال: "أنا عزير، أماته الله مائة عام ثم أعادها إليّ." قالت: "كان عزير يُستجاب له إذا دعا الله. فادعُ لي أن يشفيني من العمى إن كنت عزيرًا." فدعا لها، ومسح على عينيها، وأخذ بيدها. قال: "قومي بإذن الله." فقامت العرجاء ومشت، وفتحت عينيها فأبصرت، وزال عماها. قالت: "أشهد أنك عزير."

He rode on his donkey and entered his native place, but the people did not recognize him, nor did his household, except the maid, now an old woman. He asked her: "Is this the house of Ezra?" She said: "Yes, but the people have long forgotten Ezra." He said: "I am Ezra, Allah had taken my life for a one hundred years and has now returned it to me." She said: "Ezra used to be answered when he prayed to Allah. Pray to cure me of blindness if you are Ezra." He prayed for her and massaged her eyes and took her by the hand. "Get up by the power of Allah," he said. The crippled woman stood up and walked; she opened her eyes and saw; her blindness was gone. She said: "I bear witness that you are Ezra."

فأسرعت إلى مجلس بني إسرائيل. وكان ابن عزير قد بلغ من العمر مئة وثمانية عشر عامًا، وكان أبناء أبنائه الآن سادة المجلس. فنادتهم قائلة: "هذا عزير قد جاءكم." فاتهموها بالكذب. فقالت: "أنا خادمتكم العجوز. لقد دعا الله لي للتو، وها أنا ذا قد عدت صحيحة، أمشي وأبصر." فقام الناس ونظروا إليه. فقال ابنه: "كان لأبي علامة بين كتفيه، شامة سوداء"، فكشفوا عنها. فقالوا: "ما حفظ التوراة أحد منا منذ أن أحرقها بختنصر، إلا عزير؛ ولم تكن هناك إلا نسخة واحدة من التوراة، أخفاها سرّوخا. دفنها في أيام بختنصر في مكان لا يعلمه أحد سوى عزير." فقاد عزير الناس إلى المكان المخفي، وأخرج تلك النسخة من التوراة. وكانت أوراقها قد تعفّنت، وقد تهرّى الكتاب نفسه.

She rushed to the assembly of the Israelites. Ezra's son was one hundred eighteen years old, and his children 's children now were lords of the assembly. She called out to them saying: "This is Ezra come to you." They accused her of lying. She said: "I am your old maid. He has just prayed to Allah for me, and here I am whole again, walking and seeing." The people stood up and looked at him. His son said: "My father had a mark between his shoulders, a black mole," and they discovered it. They said: "None among us memorized the Torah since Nabuchadnezzar burned it, except Ezra; and there was only one copy of the Torah, which was hidden by Sarukha. He buried it in the days of Nabuchadnezzar in a place none but Ezra knows." Ezra led the people to the hidden place and took out that copy of the Torah. Its leaves had rotted, and the book itself crumpled.

عزيرٌ جلس تحت ظلّ شجرة، وحوله بنو إسرائيل، فنسخ لهم التوراة من ذلك الكتاب. ومن ذلك الحين قالت اليهود إنّ عزيرًا ابن الله، لدليلين نزلا من السماء: لنسخه التوراةَ، ولدفاعه عن قضية بني إسرائيل. وكان قد نسخ التوراة لحزقيال في أرض الظلمة، في صومعة حزقيال. ويُقال إنّ القرية التي كانت خربة هي سيرابادُ.

Ezra sat under the shade of a tree surrounded by the children of Israel and copied out the Torah for them from that script. Henceforth, the Jews said that Ezra is the son of Allah, for two evidences which came down from Heaven and for his copying the torah and for his fighting the cause of the Israelites.He had been copying the Torah for Ezekial in the land of darkness in the hermitage of Ezekiel. The village which was in ruins is said to be Sayrabadh.

قال ابنُ عباس: "فالأمرُ كما قال الله"

Ibn Abbas commanded: "So it is as Allah said:

{وَجَعَلْنَاكَ آيَةً لِلنَّاسِ} (سورۃ البقرہ: ٢٥٩)

"We have made of you a sign for the people." (Ch 2:259)

أي أنّه كان للإسرائيليين، لأنه كان يجلس بين أولاده، والشيوخ، وهو شابٌّ.

That is, for the Israelites, in that he was sitting among his children, the old men, and he a youth.