[Machine] Narrated by 'Imran bin Husain:

"Once, during the pre-Islamic period of ignorance, I went to Mecca and was informed there that the Prophet ﷺ had appeared. I went to him and found him to be exactly the same person who, once, came to me during the period of ignorance, before he started receiving the Divine Inspiration. I greeted him and he recognized me, but he did not speak to me."

Imran bin Husain further said:

"He stayed for some time, addressing everybody who came to visit him with such eloquence that those who listened to him believed in him. After a while, he departed. I said to my uncle, 'I li have seen him' " by Allah he is Muhammad.' My uncle said, 'Son, I would not go to him now if I were to have a mountain of gold given to me.' Afterwards, I used to see him while he was being persecuted and his followers were being harmed, but I kept myself away from him till he departed from Mecca."

After that, I could not endure any longer, and so I set out armed with my bow and arrows and went on to Al-Abwa. When I informed Allah's Messenger ﷺ of my conversion to Islam, he did not express anything of surprise, and I realized that he knew that Allah had opened my heart for Islam. -Sahih al-Bukhari  

عَنْ عِيَاضِ بْنِ حِمَارٍ الْمُجَاشِعِيِّ وَكَانَتْ بَيْنَهُ وَبَيْنَ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ مَعْرِفَةٌ قَبْلَ أَنْ يُبْعَثَ فَلَمَّا بُعِثَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ أَهْدَى لَهُ هَدِيَّةً قَالَ أَحْسَبُهَا إِبِلًا فَأَبَى أَنْ يَقْبَلَهَا وَقَالَ إِنَّا لَا نَقْبَلُ زَبْدَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ قَالَ قُلْتُ وَمَا زَبْدُ الْمُشْرِكِينَ؟ قَالَ رِفْدُهُمْ هَدِيَّتُهُمْ