Bihar Al-Anwaar Volume 20 Part 2

بحار الأنوار

BIHAR AL-ANWAAR

الجزء العشرون 

Volume 20

Part 2 out of 2

بحار الانوار الجامعة لدرر أخبار الائمة الاطهار

Bihar Al-Anwaar – The summary of the pearls of the Ahadeeth of the Pure Imams^-asws

تأليف العلامة فخر الامة المولى الشيخ محمد باقر المجلسيى

Author – The Allama, the pride of the community, the Mullah, the Sheikh Muhammad Baqir Al-Majlisi

باب 17 غزوة الأحزاب و بني قريظة

CHAPTER 17 – BATTLE OF Al-AHZAAB AND CLAN OF QUREYZA

الآيات البقرة أَمْ حَسِبْتُمْ أَنْ تَدْخُلُوا الْجَنَّةَ وَ لَمَّا يَأْتِكُمْ مَثَلُ الَّذِينَ خَلَوْا مِنْ قَبْلِكُمْ مَسَّتْهُمُ الْبَأْساءُ وَ الضَّرَّاءُ وَ زُلْزِلُوا حَتَّى يَقُولَ الرَّسُولُ وَ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا مَعَهُ مَتى‏ نَصْرُ اللَّهِ أَلا إِنَّ نَصْرَ اللَّهِ قَرِيبٌ‏

The Verses – (Surah) Al Baqarah: Or do you reckon that you would be entering Paradise and there has not come to you the like of (which came to) those who have passed away before you? Warfare and adversities touched them and they were shaken violently, until they were saying to the Rasool and those who were believing, ‘When will be the Help of Allah?’ Indeed! The Help of Allah is near [2:214]

آل عمران‏ قُلِ اللَّهُمَّ مالِكَ الْمُلْكِ تُؤْتِي الْمُلْكَ مَنْ تَشاءُ وَ تَنْزِعُ الْمُلْكَ مِمَّنْ تَشاءُ وَ تُعِزُّ مَنْ تَشاءُ وَ تُذِلُّ مَنْ تَشاءُ بِيَدِكَ الْخَيْرُ إِنَّكَ عَلى‏ كُلِّ شَيْ‏ءٍ قَدِيرٌ

(Surah) Aal-e-Imran: Say: ‘O Allah, Master of the Kingdom! You Give the Kingdom to whomsoever You so Desire to and Remove the Kingdom from the one You so Desire to, and You Honour the one You so Desire to and Humiliate whom You so Desire to. In Your Hand is the good; surely, You are Able upon everything [3:26]

تُولِجُ اللَّيْلَ‏ فِي النَّهارِ وَ تُولِجُ النَّهارَ فِي اللَّيْلِ وَ تُخْرِجُ الْحَيَّ مِنَ الْمَيِّتِ وَ تُخْرِجُ الْمَيِّتَ مِنَ الْحَيِّ وَ تَرْزُقُ مَنْ تَشاءُ بِغَيْرِ حِسابٍ‏

You Insert the night into the day and You Insert the day into the night, and You Extract the living from the dead and You Extract the dead from the living, and You Give sustenance to whomsoever You Desire to without measure [3:27]

الأنفال‏ الَّذِينَ عاهَدْتَ مِنْهُمْ ثُمَّ يَنْقُضُونَ عَهْدَهُمْ فِي كُلِّ مَرَّةٍ وَ هُمْ لا يَتَّقُونَ

(Surah) Al Anfaal: Those who made an agreement from them, then they were breaking their agreement every time and they were not fearing [8:56]

فَإِمَّا تَثْقَفَنَّهُمْ فِي الْحَرْبِ فَشَرِّدْ بِهِمْ مَنْ خَلْفَهُمْ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَذَّكَّرُونَ

So if you overcome them during the war, then scatter them from behind, perhaps they would be mindful [8:57]

وَ إِمَّا تَخافَنَّ مِنْ قَوْمٍ خِيانَةً فَانْبِذْ إِلَيْهِمْ عَلى‏ سَواءٍ إِنَّ اللَّهَ لا يُحِبُّ الْخائِنِينَ‏

And if you fear treachery from a people, then discard (the agreement) to them upon equality, surely Allah does not Love the treacherous [8:58]

الأحزاب‏ يا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اذْكُرُوا نِعْمَةَ اللَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ إِذْ جاءَتْكُمْ جُنُودٌ فَأَرْسَلْنا عَلَيْهِمْ رِيحاً وَ جُنُوداً لَمْ تَرَوْها وَ كانَ اللَّهُ بِما تَعْمَلُونَ بَصِيراً

(Surah) Al Ahzaab: O you those who believe! Recall the Favour of Allah upon you when the armies came towards you, so We Sent a wind against them and armies you could not see, and Allah was always Seeing what you were doing [33:9]

إِذْ جاؤُكُمْ مِنْ فَوْقِكُمْ وَ مِنْ أَسْفَلَ مِنْكُمْ وَ إِذْ زاغَتِ الْأَبْصارُ وَ بَلَغَتِ الْقُلُوبُ الْحَناجِرَ وَ تَظُنُّونَ بِاللَّهِ الظُّنُونَا

When they came to you from above you and from below you, and when the eyes stunned and the hearts reached the throats, and you were thinking the assumptions about Allah [33:10]

هُنالِكَ ابْتُلِيَ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ وَ زُلْزِلُوا زِلْزالًا شَدِيداً

At that point the Momineen were Tried and were shaken with severe shaking [33:11]

وَ إِذْ يَقُولُ الْمُنافِقُونَ وَ الَّذِينَ فِي قُلُوبِهِمْ مَرَضٌ ما وَعَدَنَا اللَّهُ وَ رَسُولُهُ إِلَّا غُرُوراً

And when the hypocrites and those who had a sickness in their hearts were saying, ‘Allah and His Rasool did not promise us except to deceive!’ [33:12]

وَ إِذْ قالَتْ طائِفَةٌ مِنْهُمْ يا أَهْلَ يَثْرِبَ لا مُقامَ لَكُمْ فَارْجِعُوا وَ يَسْتَأْذِنُ فَرِيقٌ مِنْهُمُ النَّبِيَّ يَقُولُونَ إِنَّ بُيُوتَنا عَوْرَةٌ وَ ما هِيَ بِعَوْرَةٍ إِنْ يُرِيدُونَ إِلَّا فِراراً

And when a group of them said, ‘O people of Yasrib! There is no standing place for you, therefore retreat!’ And a group from them sought permission of the Prophet saying, ‘Surely our houses are exposed!’ And these were not exposed. They were only intending to flee [33:13]

وَ لَوْ دُخِلَتْ عَلَيْهِمْ مِنْ أَقْطارِها ثُمَّ سُئِلُوا الْفِتْنَةَ لَآتَوْها وَ ما تَلَبَّثُوا بِها إِلَّا يَسِيراً

And had they (enemy) entered upon them from the sides of it, then if they had been asked to commit Fitna, they would have done so, and they would not have remained in these except for a little while [33:14]

وَ لَقَدْ كانُوا عاهَدُوا اللَّهَ مِنْ قَبْلُ لا يُوَلُّونَ الْأَدْبارَ وَ كانَ عَهْدُ اللَّهِ مَسْؤُلًا

And they had made a pact with Allah from before that they would not be turning their backs, and the Pact of Allah will always be Questioned about [33:15]

قُلْ لَنْ يَنْفَعَكُمُ الْفِرارُ إِنْ فَرَرْتُمْ مِنَ الْمَوْتِ أَوِ الْقَتْلِ وَ إِذاً لا تُمَتَّعُونَ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا

Say, ‘The fleeing will never benefit you if you were to flee from the death of the killing, and you would not be enjoying except for a little while [33:16]

قُلْ مَنْ ذَا الَّذِي يَعْصِمُكُمْ مِنَ اللَّهِ إِنْ أَرادَ بِكُمْ سُوءاً أَوْ أَرادَ بِكُمْ رَحْمَةً وَ لا يَجِدُونَ لَهُمْ مِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِ وَلِيًّا وَ لا نَصِيراً

Say, ‘Who is the one who can protect you from Allah if He Intends evil with you, or Intends Mercy with you? And they will not be finding for themselves, neither a guardian nor a helper from besides Allah [33:17]

قَدْ يَعْلَمُ اللَّهُ الْمُعَوِّقِينَ مِنْكُمْ وَ الْقائِلِينَ لِإِخْوانِهِمْ هَلُمَّ إِلَيْنا وَ لا يَأْتُونَ الْبَأْسَ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا

Allah has Known the hinderers from you and the speakers to their brethren, ‘Come to us!’ And none come to the battle except a few [33:18]

أَشِحَّةً عَلَيْكُمْ فَإِذا جاءَ الْخَوْفُ رَأَيْتَهُمْ يَنْظُرُونَ إِلَيْكَ تَدُورُ أَعْيُنُهُمْ كَالَّذِي يُغْشى‏ عَلَيْهِ مِنَ الْمَوْتِ فَإِذا ذَهَبَ الْخَوْفُ سَلَقُوكُمْ بِأَلْسِنَةٍ حِدادٍ أَشِحَّةً عَلَى الْخَيْرِ أُولئِكَ لَمْ يُؤْمِنُوا فَأَحْبَطَ اللَّهُ أَعْمالَهُمْ وَ كانَ ذلِكَ عَلَى اللَّهِ يَسِيراً

Being niggardly upon you. So when the fear comes upon them, you see them looking towards you rolling their eyes, like the one upon whom the death overwhelms. Then when the fear goes away, they jibe you with the sharp tongues, being niggardly upon the good. They are one who do not believe, therefore Allah Confiscated their deeds, and that was always easy upon Allah [33:19]

يَحْسَبُونَ الْأَحْزابَ لَمْ يَذْهَبُوا وَ إِنْ يَأْتِ الْأَحْزابُ يَوَدُّوا لَوْ أَنَّهُمْ بادُونَ فِي الْأَعْرابِ يَسْئَلُونَ عَنْ أَنْبائِكُمْ وَ لَوْ كانُوا فِيكُمْ ما قاتَلُوا إِلَّا قَلِيلًا

They were reckoning that the confederates had not gone away. And if the confederates were to come, they would wish if they could be wandering among the Bedouins asking about your news. And if they were to be among you all, none would fight except a few [33:20]

لَقَدْ كانَ لَكُمْ فِي رَسُولِ اللَّهِ أُسْوَةٌ حَسَنَةٌ لِمَنْ كانَ يَرْجُوا اللَّهَ وَ الْيَوْمَ الْآخِرَ وَ ذَكَرَ اللَّهَ كَثِيراً

There would always be for you all, in (the person of) Rasool-Allah, an excellent exemplar for one who was hoping in Allah and the Last Day, and does the Zikr of Allah, a lot [33:21]

وَ لَمَّا رَأَ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ الْأَحْزابَ قالُوا هذا ما وَعَدَنَا اللَّهُ وَ رَسُولُهُ وَ صَدَقَ اللَّهُ وَ رَسُولُهُ وَ ما زادَهُمْ إِلَّا إِيماناً وَ تَسْلِيماً

And when the Momineen saw the confederates, they said, ‘This is what Allah and His Rasool promised us, and Allah and His Rasool spoke the Truth’. And it did not increase them except in Eman and submission [33:22]

مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ رِجالٌ صَدَقُوا ما عاهَدُوا اللَّهَ عَلَيْهِ فَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ قَضى‏ نَحْبَهُ وَ مِنْهُمْ مَنْ يَنْتَظِرُ وَ ما بَدَّلُوا تَبْدِيلًا

From the Momineen there are men who ratified what they made a pact with Allah upon. So, from them is one who fulfilled his vow, and from them is one who awaits, and they did not change with any alteration [33:23]

لِيَجْزِيَ اللَّهُ الصَّادِقِينَ بِصِدْقِهِمْ وَ يُعَذِّبَ الْمُنافِقِينَ إِنْ شاءَ أَوْ يَتُوبَ عَلَيْهِمْ إِنَّ اللَّهَ كانَ غَفُوراً رَحِيماً

So, Allah would Recompense the truthful due to their truthfulness, and He would Punish the hypocrites if He so Desires to or He may Turn to them (Mercifully). Surely, Allah was always Forgiving, Merciful [33:24]

وَ رَدَّ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا بِغَيْظِهِمْ لَمْ يَنالُوا خَيْراً وَ كَفَى اللَّهُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ الْقِتالَ وَ كانَ اللَّهُ قَوِيًّا عَزِيزاً

And Allah Repulsed those who committed Kufr in their rage. They did not attain any good, and Allah Sufficed the Momineen in the battle, and Allah would always be Strong, Mighty [33:25]

وَ أَنْزَلَ الَّذِينَ ظاهَرُوهُمْ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْكِتابِ مِنْ صَياصِيهِمْ وَ قَذَفَ فِي قُلُوبِهِمُ الرُّعْبَ فَرِيقاً تَقْتُلُونَ وَ تَأْسِرُونَ فَرِيقاً

And He Brought down those backers from the people of the Book from their fortress and Cast awe into their hearts. A group you killed, and a group you made captives [33:26]

وَ أَوْرَثَكُمْ أَرْضَهُمْ وَ دِيارَهُمْ وَ أَمْوالَهُمْ وَ أَرْضاً لَمْ تَطَؤُها وَ كانَ اللَّهُ عَلى‏ كُلِّ شَيْ‏ءٍ قَدِيراً

And He Made you to inherit their land, and their houses, and their wealth, and land you had not trodden on, and Allah would always be Able upon all things [33:27]

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و قيل‏ إن النبي ص خط الخندق عام الأحزاب و قطع لكل عشرة أربعين ذراعا فاحتج المهاجرون و الأنصار في سلمان و كان رجلا قويا فقال المهاجرون سلمان منا و قالت الأنصار سلمان منا فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ص سَلْمَانُ مِنَّا أَهْلَ الْبَيْتِ

And it is said that the Prophet^-saww drew the line of the trench of the generality of the allies, and cut out for each ten (companions), forty cubits (to dig). The Emigrants and the Helpers were needy regarding Salman^-ra, and he^-ra was a strong man. The Emigrants said, ‘Salman^-ra is from us’, and the Helpers said, ‘Salman^-ra is from us’. The Prophet^-saww said: ‘Salman^-ra is from us^-asws, the People^-asws of the Household’.

قال عمرو بن عوف‏ كنت أنا و سلمان و حذيفة و النعمان بن مقرن المزني و ستة من الأنصار في أربعين ذراعا فحفرنا حتى إذا كنا بجب ذي باب‏ أخرج الله من باطن‏ الخندق صخرة مروة كسرت حديدنا و شقت علينا فقلنا يا سلمان ارق إلى رسول الله ص و أخبره خبر هذه الصخرة فإما أن نعدل عنها فإن المعدل قريب و إما أن يأمرنا فيه بأمره فإنا لا نحب أن نتجاوز خطه

Amro Bin Awf said, ‘I and Salman^-ra and Huzeyfa and Al-Numan Bin Maqran Al-Muzny, and six from the Helpers were (allocated) in (digging) forty cubits. We dug until when we were in a depth of a door, Allah^-azwj Brought out a solid rock from the interior of the trench, which broke our irons, and it was grievous upon us. We said, ‘O Salman^-ra! Go to Rasool-Allah^-azwj and inform him^-saww the news of this rock. Either we even from it, and the evenness is near, or he^-saww instructs us regarding with his^-saww instruction. We do not like to exceed his^-saww drawn line’.

قال فرقي سلمان إلى رسول الله ص و هو ضارب عليه قبة تركية فقال يا رسول الله خرجت صخرة بيضاء مروة من بطن الخندق فكسرت حديدنا و شقت علينا حتى ما يحيك‏ فيها قليل و لا كثير فمرنا فيها بأمرك فإنا لا نحب أن نتجاوز خطك

He said, ‘Salman^-ra went to Rasool-Allah^-saww and he had worn a Turkish robe upon him^-ra and he^-ra said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! A solid white rock has come out from the midst of the trench and it broke our irons, and it is grievous upon us until we can neither make any dent in it, neither little nor more, so instruct us regarding it with your^-asws instruction, for we do not like to exceed your^-saww drawn line’.

قال فهبط رسول الله ص مع سلمان الخندق و التسعة على شفة الخندق فأخذ رسول الله ص المعول من يد سلمان فضربها به ضربة صدعها و برق منها برق أضاء ما بين لابتيها حتى لكأن مصباحا في جوف بيت مظلم فكبر رسول الله ص تكبيرة فتح و كبر المسلمون

Rasool-Allah^-saww descended into the trench with Salman^-ra, and there were nine upon the edge of the trench. Rasool-Allah^-saww grabbed the pickaxed from the hand of Salman^-ra and struck a strike with it, cracking it, and there was a flash from it such a flash, it illuminated what is between the two ends until it was as if these were two lamps in the middle of the dark room. Rasool-Allah^-saww exclaimed Takbeer of victory, and the Muslims exclaimed Takbeer.

ثم ضربها رسول الله ص ثانية فبرق منها برق أضاء ما بين لابتيها حتى لكأن مصباحا في جوف بيت مظلم فكبر رسول الله ص تكبيرة فتح و كبر المسلمون‏

Then Rasool-Allah^-saww struck it secondly, and a flash flashed from it illuminating what is between the two ends until it was as if these were two lamps in the middle of the dark room. Rasool-Allah^-saww exclaimed Takbeer of victory, and the Muslims exclaimed Takbeer.

ثم ضرب بها رسول الله ص ثالثة فكسرها و برق منها برق أضاء ما بين لابتيها حتى لكأن مصباحا في جوف بيت مظلم فكبر رسول الله ص تكبيرة فتح و كبر المسلمون و أخذ بيد سلمان و رقي فقال سلمان بأبي أنت و أمي يا رسول الله لقد رأيت منك شيئا ما رأيته منك قط

Then Rasool-Allah^-saww struck it a third time and broke it, and a flash flashed from it, illuminating what was between the two ends until it was as if these were two lamps in the middle of a dark room. Rasool-Allah^-azwj exclaimed Takbeer of victory and the Muslims exclaimed Takbeer; and Rasool-Allah^-saww grabbed the hand of Salman^-ra and advanced. Salman^-ra said, ‘May my^-ra father and my^-ra mother be sacrificed for you^-saww, O Rasool-Allah^-saww! I^-ra have seen a thing from you^-saww I^-ra have not seen from you^-saww at all’.

فالتفت رسول الله ص إلى القوم وَ قَالَ رَأَيْتُمْ مَا يَقُولُ سَلْمَانُ فَقَالُوا نَعَمْ قَالَ ضَرَبْتُ ضَرْبَتِيَ الْأُولَى فَبَرَقَ الَّذِي رَأَيْتُمْ أَضَاءَتْ لِي مِنْهَا قُصُورُ الْحِيرَةِ وَ مَدَائِنُ كِسْرَى كَأَنَّهَا أَنْيَابُ الْكِلَابِ فَأَخْبَرَنِي جَبْرَئِيلُ أَنَّ أُمَّتِي ظَاهِرَةٌ عَلَيْهَا

Rasool-Allah^-saww turned around to the people and said: ‘You saw what Salman^-ra said’. They said, ‘Yes’. He^-saww said: ‘I^-saww struck my^-saww first strike, and the flash which you saw illuminating from it was the castles of Al-Hira and cities of Chosroe, and as if these were fangs of the dogs. Jibraeel^-as informed me^-saww that my^-saww community would be victorious upon these.

ثُمَّ ضَرَبْتُ ضَرْبَتِيَ الثَّانِيَةَ فَبَرَقَ الَّذِي رَأَيْتُمْ أَضَاءَتْ لِي مِنْهَا قُصُورُ الحمر مِنْ أَرْضِ الرُّومِ فَكَأَنَّهَا أَنْيَابُ الْكِلَابِ فَأَخْبَرَنِي جَبْرَئِيلُ أَنَّ أُمَّتِي ظَاهِرَةٌ عَلَيْهَا

Then I^-saww struck my^-saww second strike, and the flash, which you saw illuminating for me^-saww from it the red castles from the land of Rome, it was as if these were fangs of the dogs. Jibraeel^-as informed me^-saww that my^-saww community would be victorious upon these.

ثُمَّ ضَرَبْتُ ضَرْبَتِيَ الثَّالِثَةَ فَبَرَقَ لِي مَا رَأَيْتُمْ أَضَاءَتْ لِي مِنْهَا قُصُورُ صَنْعَاءَ كَأَنَّهَا أَنْيَابُ الْكِلَابِ وَ أَخْبَرَنِي جَبْرَئِيلُ أَنَّ أُمَّتِي ظَاهِرَةٌ عَلَيْهَا فَأَبْشِرُوا

Then I^-saww struck my^-saww third strike, and there flashed for me^-saww what you saw illuminating for me^-saww from it the castles of Sana’a, as if these were fangs of the dogs, and Jibraeel^-as informed me^-saww that my^-saww community would be victorious upon these. So, received glad tidings!’

فاستبشر المسلمون و قالوا الحمد لله موعد صدق وعدنا النصر بعد الحصر فقال المنافقون أ لا تعجبون يمنيكم و يعدكم الباطل و يعلمكم أنه يبصر من يثرب قصور الحيرة و مدائن كسرى و أنها تفتح لكم و أنتم إنما تحفرون الخندق من الفرق و لا تستطيعون أن تبرزوا

The Muslims rejoiced and said, ‘The Praise is for Allah^-azwj! True is His^-azwj Promised of the help after the anxiety’. The hypocrites said, ‘Are you not wondering he^-saww is afflicting you all and promising you the falsehood, and he^-saww lets you know that he^-saww can visualise from Yasrib the castles of Al-Hira and cities of Chosroe, and these would be conquered for you, and rather you are digging the trench from the fear and are not able to be duelling’.

فنزل القرآن‏ إِذْ يَقُولُ الْمُنافِقُونَ وَ الَّذِينَ فِي قُلُوبِهِمْ مَرَضٌ ما وَعَدَنَا اللَّهُ وَ رَسُولُهُ إِلَّا غُرُوراً و أنزل الله تعالى في هذه القصة قُلِ اللَّهُمَّ مالِكَ الْمُلْكِ‏ الآية-

The Quran was Revealed: And when the hypocrites and those who had a sickness in their hearts were saying, ‘Allah and His Rasool did not promise us except to deceive!’ [33:12]. And Allah^-azwj the Exalted Revealed regarding this story: Say: ‘O Allah, Master of the Kingdom! [3:26] – the Verse.

و قال أبو سعيد الخدري‏ قلنا يوم الخندق يا رسول الله هل من شي‏ء نقوله فقد بلغت القلوب الحناجر فقال قولوا اللهم استر عوراتنا و آمن روعاتنا قال فقلناها فضرب وجوه أعداء الله بالريح فهزموا

Abu Saeed Al-Khudry said, ‘We said on the day of Khandaq, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! Is there anything we can say, and the hearts have reached up to the throats?’ He^-saww said: ‘Say, ‘O Allah^-azwj! Cover our bareness and Secure our awe’. We said it and Allah^-azwj Struck the faces of the enemy with the wind, and they were defeated’’.

فمما ظهر من دلائل النبوة في حفر الخندق ما رَوَاهُ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ‏ الْحَافِظُ بِإِسْنَادِهِ عَنْ كَثِيرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ عَوْفٍ الْمُزَنِيِّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ: خَطَّ رَسُولُ اللَّهُ ص الْخَنْدَقَ عَامَ الْأَحْزَابِ أَرْبَعِينَ ذِرَاعاً بَيْنَ عَشَرَةٍ فَاخْتَلَفَ الْمُهَاجِرُونَ وَ الْأَنْصَارُ فِي سَلْمَانَ وَ كَانَ رَجُلًا قَوِيّاً فَقَالَتِ الْأَنْصَارُ سَلْمَانُ مِنَّا وَ قَالَتِ الْمُهَاجِرُونَ سَلْمَانُ مِنَّا فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص سَلْمَانُ مِنَّا أَهْلَ الْبَيْتِ

From what appeared from the evidence of the Prophet-hood during digging the trench is what is reported by Abu Abdullah Al Hafiz, by his chain from Kaseer Bin Abdullah Bin Amro bin Awf Al Muzny who said, ‘It is narrated to me from my father, from his father who said,

‘Rasool-Allah^-saww drew a line of the trench for the generality of the allies, forty cubits between ten (companions), and the Emigrants and the Helpers differed regarding Salman^-ra, and he^-ra was a strong man. The Helpers said, ‘Salman^-ra is from us’, and the Emigrants said, ‘Salman^-ra is from us’. Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Salman^-ra is from us^-asws, the People^-asws of the Household’’.

ثم قال و مما ظهر أيضا من آيات النبوة ما رواه أبو عبد الله الحافظ بالإسناد عن عبد الواحد بن أيمن المخزومي قال حدثني أيمن المخزومي قال سمعت جابر بن عبد الله قال‏ كنا يوم الخندق نحفر الخندق فعرضت فيه كدية و هي الجبل فقلنا يا رسول الله إن كدية عرضت فيه فقال رسول الله ص رشوا عليها ماء ثم قام فأتاها و بطنه معصوب بحجر من الجوع

Then he said, ‘And from what appeared as well from the Signs of the Prophet-hood is what is reported by Al Hafiz with the chain from Abdul Wahid Bin Ayman al Makhzumy who said, ‘It was narrated to me by Ayman Al Makhzumy who said,

‘I heard Jabir Bin Abdullah saying, ‘On the day of Khandaq we were digging the trench, and a solid rock presented in it, and it is (like a) hill. We said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! A solid rock has presented in it. Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Sprinkle water upon it’. Then he^-saww stood up and came to it and a stone was tied to his^-saww belly out of hunger.

فأخذ المعول أو المسحاة فسمى ثلاثا ثم ضرب فعادت كثيبا أهيل‏ فقلت له ائذن لي يا رسول الله إلى المنزل ففعل فقلت للمرأة هل عندك من شي‏ء فقالت عندي صاع من شعير و عناق فطحنت الشعير و عجنته و ذبحت‏ العناق و سلختها و خليت بين المرأة و بين ذلك

He^-saww grabbed the pickaxe or a spade, Named (Bismillah) thrice, then struck, and it was like a sand dune. I said to him^-saww, ‘Will you^-saww permit me, O Rasool-Allah^-saww, to go home?’ He^-saww did so, and I said to the wife, ‘Is there anything with you?’ She said, ‘There is one Sa’a (unit of measurement) of barley and a young goat’. She ground the barley and kneaded it and slaughtered the goat and skewered it, and I left the wife along with that.

ثم أتيت إلى رسول الله ص فجلست عنده ساعة ثم قلت ائذن لي يا رسول الله ففعل فأتيت المرأة فإذا العجين و اللحم قد أمكنا فرجعت إلى رسول الله ص فقلت إن عندنا طعيما لنا فقم يا رسول الله أنت و رجلان من أصحابك

Then I came to Rasool-Allah^-saww and sat in his^-saww presence for a while. Then I said, ‘Will you permit me, O Rasool-Allah^-saww?’ He^-saww did so. I went to the wife, and there was the kneaded (bread) and the meat, ready. I returned to Rasool-Allah^-saww and said, ‘There is a meal for you with us, so arise, O Rasool-Allah^-saww, you^-saww and two men from your^-saww companions’.

فقال و كم هو قلت صاع من شعير و عناق فقال للمسلمين جميعا قوموا إلى جابر فقاموا فلقيت من الحياء ما لا يعلمه إلا الله فقلت جاء بالخلق على صاع شعير و عناق فدخلت على المرأة و قلت قد افتضحت جاءك رسول الله ص بالخلق‏ فقالت هل كان سألك كم طعامك قلت نعم فقالت الله و رسوله أعلم قد أخبرناه ما عندنا

He^-saww said: ‘And how much is it?’ I said, ‘One Sa’a of barley and a young goat’. He^-saww said to the Muslims altogether: ‘Arise to Jabir (for a meal)!’ They stood up, and I faced from the embarrassment what no one knows of except Allah^-azwj. I said (to myself), ‘I am coming with the people upon one Sa’a of barley and a young goat?’ I went to the wife and said, ‘I have been exposed. Rasool-Allah^-saww has come with the people’. She said, ‘Did he^-saww ask you how much was your meal?’ I said, ‘Yes’. She said, ‘Allah^-azwj and His^-azwj Rasool^-saww are more knowing. He^-saww has been informed of what is with us’.

فكشفت عني غما شديدا فدخل رسول الله ص فقال خذي و دعيني من اللحم فجعل رسول الله ص يثرد و يفرق اللحم ثم يحم هذا و يحم هذا فما زال يقرب إلى الناس حتى شبعوا أجمعين و يعود التنور و القدر أملأ ما كانا ثم قال رسول الله ص كلي و اهدي فلم نزل نأكل و نهدي قومنا أجمع- أورده البخاري في الصحيح‏

Intense gloom was removed from me, and Rasool-Allah^-saww entered and said: ‘Take me^-saww and leave me^-saww with the meat’. Rasool-Allah^-saww went on to separate the meat, then heated this and heated this. He^-saww did not cease to draw it closer to the people until they were all satiated, and the oven and the pot returned to be full as what it had been. Then Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Eat and gift’. We did not stop eating and gifting out people altogether. Al-Bukhari has reported it in Al-Saheeh.

و ذكر ابن إسحاق‏ أن عمرو بن عبد ود كان ينادي من يبارز فقام علي عليه السلام و هو مقنع في الحديد فقال أنا له يا نبي الله فقال إنه عمرو اجلس و نادى عمرو أ لا رجل و يؤنبهم و يسبهم و يقول أين جنتكم التي تزعمون أن من قتل منكم دخلها فقام علي عليه السلام فقال أنا له يا رسول الله

And Ibn Is’haq mentioned that Amro Bin Abdi Wudd was calling out, ‘Who will duel?’ Ali^-asws stood up, and he was covered in the iron (armour). He^-asws said: ‘I^-asws am for him, O Prophet^-saww of Allah^-azwj!’ He^-saww said: ‘He is Amro, be seated’. And Amro called out, ‘Is there no man?’ And he kept teasing them and insulting them and saying, ‘Where is your Paradise which you are claiming that the one from you who is killed would enter it?’ Ali^-asws stood up and said: ‘I^-asws am for him, O Rasool-Allah^-saww!’ 

ثم نادى الثالثة فقال‏

و لقد بححت من النداء		بجمعكم هل من مبارز
و وقفت إذ جبن المشجع		موقف البطل المناجز
إن السماحة و الشجاعة		في الفتى خير الغرائز

Then he called out for a third time, saying (a poem), ‘I have searched from the call with all of you, is there one who will duel, and I have stood where the braves are cowards, a pausing of the accomplished hero. Surely the grave and the bravery in the youth is the best trait’.

فقام علي عليه السلام فقال يا رسول الله أنا فقال إنه عمرو فقال و إن كان عمرا فاستأذن رسول الله ص فأذن له

Ali^-asws stood up and said: ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww, me^-asws!’ He^-saww said: ‘He is Amro’. He^-asws said: ‘And even if he is Amro’, and sought permission of Rasool-Allah^-saww, and he^-saww permitted him^-asws’.

و فيما رواه لنا السيد أبو محمد الحسيني القائني عن الحاكم أبي القاسم الحسكاني بالإسناد عن عمرو بن ثابت عن أبيه عن جده عن حذيفة قال‏ فألبسه رسول الله ص درعه ذات الفضول و أعطاه سيفه ذا الفقار و عممه عمامة السحاب على رأسه تسعة أكوار ثم قال له تقدم فقال لما ولى اللهم احفظه من بين يديه و من خلفه و عن يمينه و عن شماله و من فوق رأسه و من تحت قدميه

And among what is reported to us by the Seyyid Abu Muhammad al Husayni Al Qainy, from Al Hakim Abu Al Qasim Al Haskani, by the chain from Amro Bin Sabit, from his father, from his grandfather, from Huzayfa who said,

Rasool-Allah^-saww put his^-saww own armour ‘Zat Al-Fuzool’ on him^-asws and gave him^-asws his^-saww sword ‘Zulfiqar’, and turbaned him^-asws with his^-saww turban ‘Al-Sahab’ upon his^-asws head, nine rotations, then said to him^-asws: ‘Advance’. He^-saww said when he^-asws turned: ‘O Allah^-azwj! Protect him^-asws from his^-asws front, and from behind him^-asws, and from his^-asws right, and from his^-asws left, and from above his^-asws head, and from under his^-asws feet’.

قال ابن إسحاق فمشى إليه و هو يقول‏

لا تعجلن فقد أتاك		مجيب صوتك غير عاجز
ذو نية و بصيرة		و الصدق‏ منجي كل فائز
إني لأرجو أن أقيمعليك نائحة الجنائ.		من ضربة نجلاء يبقى
ذكرها عند الهزاهز

Ibn Is’haq said, ‘He^-asws (Ali^-asws) walked to him (Amro Bin Abdi Wudd), and he^-asws was saying (in prose): ‘Do not be hasty, for I^-asws have come, responding to your voice, without frustration, with intention and insight, and the sincerity, saviour of every winner. I^-asws hope to stand upon your funeral. One who strikes with a piercing wound will remain, being mentioned during discussions’.

قال له عمرو من أنت قال أنا علي قال ابن عبد مناف فقال أنا علي بن أبي طالب بن عبد المطلب بن هاشم بن عبد مناف فقال غيرك‏ يا ابن أخي من أعمامك من هو أسن منك فإني أكره أن أهريق دمك

Amro said to him^-asws, ‘Who are you^-asws?’ He^-asws said: ‘I^-asws Ali^-asws’. He said, ‘Son of Abd Manaf?’ He^-asws said: ‘I^-asws am Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib bin Abdul Muttalib Bin Hashim Bin Abd Manaf^-asws’. He said, ‘Other than you^-asws, O son^-asws of my brother^-as, someone who is in front of you^-asws, one who is older than you^-asws, for I dislike to spill your^-asws blood’.

فقال‏ لكني و الله ما أكره أن أهريق دمك فغضب و نزل و سل سيفه كأنه شعلة نار ثم أقبل نحو علي مغضبا فاستقبله علي بدرقته فضربه عمرو في الدرقة فقدها و أثبت فيها السيف و أصاب رأسه فشجه و ضربه علي على حبل العاتق فسقط

He^-asws said: ‘But, by Allah^-azwj, I^-asws do not dislike spilling your blood’. He got angered and descended (from his horse), and bared his sword, as if it was a flame of fire, then came towards Ali^-asws, angry. Ali^-asws faced him with his^-asws shield, and Amro struck in the shield and cut it, and the sword stuck in it, and his^-asws head was hit and notched. And Ali^-asws struck him upon the shoulder vein and he fell down’.

و في رواية حذيفة و تسيف علي رجليه بالسيف من أسفل فوقع على قفاه و ثارت بينهما عجاجة فسمع علي يكبر فقال رسول الله ص قتله و الذي نفسي بيده فكان أول من ابتدر العجاج عمر بن الخطاب فإذا علي عليه السلام يمسح سيفه بدرع عمرو فكر عمر بن الخطاب و قال يا رسول الله قتله

And in a report of Huzeyfa – ‘And Ali^-asws struck his legs with the sword from below, and he fell upon his back and skirmish took place between the two, and Ali^-asws was heard exclaiming Takbeer. Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘He^-asws killed him, by the One^-azwj in Whose hand is my^-saww soul’. The first one to start yelling was Umar Bin Al-Khattab, and there was Ali^-asws wiping his^-asws sword with the armour of Amro, and Umar Bin Al-Khattab retreated and said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! He^-asws killed him!’

فجز علي رأسه و أقبل نحو رسول الله ص و وجهه يتهلل فقال عمر بن الخطاب هلا استلبته درعه فإنه ليس للعرب درع خيرا منها فقال ضربته فاتقاني‏ بسوأته فاستحييت من ابن عمي أن أستلبه‏

Ali^-asws clipped his head off and came around Rasool-Allah^-saww and they faced him^-saww cheering. Umar Bin Al-Khattab said, ‘Why did you^-asws not take off his armour, for there isn’t any armour of the Arabs better than it’. He^-asws said: ‘I^-asws struck him, and he missed me^-asws with his worst, and I^-asws was too embarrassed from my^-asws cousin to disarmour him’.

قال حذيفة فقال النبي ص أبشر يا علي فلو وزن اليوم عملك بعمل أمة محمد لرجح عملك بعملهم‏ و ذلك أنه لم يبق بيت من بيوت المشركين إلا و قد دخله وهن بقتل عمرو و لم يبق بيت من بيوت المسلمين إلا و قد دخله عز بقتل عمرو

Huzeyfa said, ‘The Prophet^-saww said: ‘Receive glad tidings, O Ali^-asws! If your^-asws deed of today was to be weighed with (in comparison to) the deeds of the community of Muhammad^-saww, your^-asws deed would be heavier than (all) their deeds’, and it was so that there did not remain any house from the houses of the Polytheists except and weakness entered into it due to the killing of Amro, and there did not remain any house from the houses of the Muslims except and honour entered into it due to the killing of Amro’.

وَ ذَكَرَ ابْنُ إِسْحَاقَ‏ أَنَّ عَلِيّاً طَعَنَهُ فِي تَرْقُوَتِهِ حَتَّى أَخْرَجَهَا مِنْ مَرَاقِّهِ فَمَاتَ فِي الْخَنْدَقِ وَ بَعَثَ الْمُشْرِكُونَ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص يَشْتَرُونَ جِيفَتَهُ بِعَشَرَةِ آلَافٍ فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ص هُوَ لَكُمْ لَا نَأْكُلُ ثَمَنَ الْمَوْتَى

And Ibn Is’haq mentioned that Ali^-asws stabbed him in the collar until it came out from his shoulder, and he died in the trench, and the Polytheists sent ten thousand (Dirhams) to Rasool-Allah^-azwj to buy his carcass, but the Prophet^-saww said: ‘It is for you; we do not eat the price of the dead’.

و روى عمرو بن عبيد عن الحسن البصري قال‏ إن عليا عليه السلام لما قتل عمرو بن عبد ود حمل رأسه فألقاه بين يدي رسول الله ص فقام أبو بكر و عمر فقبلا رأس علي عليه السلام

And it is reported by Amro Bin Ubeyd, from Al-Hassan Al-Basry, who said, ‘When Ali^-asws had killed Amro Bin Abdi Wudd, he^-asws carried his head and threw it in front of Rasool-Allah^-saww. Abu Bakr and Umar stood up and kissed the head of Ali^-asws’.

وَ رُوِيَ عَنْ أَبِي بَكْرِ بْنِ عَيَّاشٍ أَنَّهُ قَالَ: ضَرَبَ عَلِيٌّ ضَرْبَةً مَا كَانَ فِي الْإِسْلَامِ أَعَزُّ مِنْهَا يَعْنِي ضَرْبَةَ عَمْرِو بْنِ عَبْدِ وُدٍّ وَ ضُرِبَ عَلِيٌّ ضَرْبَةً مَا كَانَ فِي الْإِسْلَامِ أَشْأَمُ مِنْهَا يَعْنِي ضَرْبَةَ ابْنِ مُلْجَمٍ عَلَيْهِ لَعَائِنُ اللَّهِ

And it is reported from Abu Bakr Bin Ayyash having said: ‘A strike of Ali^-asws was such a strike, there was none in Islam mightier than it – meaning striking Amro Bin Abdi Wudd, and a strike on Ali^-asws was such a strike there was none in Islam more calamitous than it – meaning the strike of Ibn Muljim, may Allah^-azwj curse them both’.

قال‏ و جاء نعيم بن مسعود الأشجعي إلى رسول الله ص فقال يا رسول الله إني قد أسلمت و لم يعلم بي أحد من قومي فمرني بأمرك فقال له رسول الله ص إنما أنت فينا رجل واحد فخذل عنا ما استطعت فإنما الحرب خدعة

He said, ‘And Nueym Bin Masoud Al Ashjaie came to Rasool-Allah^-saww and said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! I have become a Muslim and have not let anyone from the people about me, so instruct me with your^-saww instructions’. Rasool-Allah^-saww said to him: ‘But rather you are one man among us. You will abandon us what you can, for rather the war is deceptive’.

فانطلق نعيم بن مسعود حتى أتى بني قريظة فقال لهم إني لكم صديق و الله ما أنتم و قريش و غطفان من محمد بمنزلة واحدة إن البلد بلدكم و به أموالكم و أبناؤكم و نساؤكم و إنما قريش و غطفان بلادهم غيرها و إنما جاءوا حتى نزلوا معكم فإن رأوا فرصة انتهزوها و إن رأوا غير ذلك رجعوا إلى بلادهم و خلوا بينكم و بين الرجل و لا طاقة لكم به فلا تقاتلوا حتى تأخذوا رهنا من أشرافهم تستوثقون به أن لا يبرحوا حتى يناجزوا محمدا

Nueym Bin Masoud went until he came to the clan of Qureyza and said to them, ‘I am a friend of yours. By Allah^-azwj! You and Quraysh and Gatfan are not of the same status from Muhammad^-saww. The city is your city and with it is your wealth and your sons and your womenfolk, and rather Quraysh and Gatfan, their city is another, and rather they will come until they descend with you. If they see an opportunity, they will take it, and if they see other than that, they will return to their cities and vacate between you and the man^-saww, and there is no strength for you with him^-saww. Do not fight until you take a security from their noblemen to be reliant on it that they will not move until they attain Muhammad^-saww’.

فقالوا له قد أشرت برأي ثم ذهب فأتى أبا سفيان و أشراف قريش فقال يا معشر قريش إنكم قد عرفتم ودي إياكم و فراقي محمدا و دينه و إني قد جئتكم بنصيحة فاكتموا علي فقالوا نفعل ما أنت عندنا بمتهم فقال تعلمون أن بني قريظة قد ندموا على ما صنعوا فيما بينهم و بين محمد فبعثوا إليه أنه لا يرضيك عنا إلا أن نأخذ من القوم رهنا من أشرافهم و ندفعهم إليك فتضرب أعناقهم ثم نكون معك عليهم حتى نخرجهم من بلادك

They said to him, ‘You have indicated an opinion’. Then he went and came to Abu Sufyan and the noblemen of Quraysh and he said, ‘O community of Quraysh! You have recognised my cordiality with you and my separation from Muhammad^-saww and his^-saww Religion, and I have come to you with advice, but conceal it on me’. They said, ‘We shall do so. You are not with accusation in our presence’. He said, ‘You know that the clan of Qureyza have regretted what they did regarding what is between them and Muhammad^-saww. They sent a message to him^-saww that he^-saww should not be pleased with us except if we take a security from the people from their noblemen and hand them over to you^-saww and hand them over to you^-saww for you^-saww to strike off their necks, then we will become with you^-saww against them until we expel them from your^-saww city’.

فقال بلى فإن بعثوا إليكم يسألونكم نفرا من رجالكم فلا تعطوهم رجلا واحدا و احذروا

He said, ‘Yes, for if they sent to you asking you for a number of your men (as security), then do not give to them even one man, and be careful’.

ثم جاء غطفان فقال يا معشر غطفان إني رجل منكم ثم‏ قال لهم ما قال لقريش فلما أصبح أبو سفيان و ذلك يوم السبت في شوال سنة خمس من الهجرة بعث إليهم أبو سفيان عكرمة بن أبي جهل في نفر من قريش إن أبا سفيان يقول لكم يا معشر اليهود إن الكراع و الخف قد هلكتا و إنا لسنا بدار مقام فاخرجوا إلى محمد حتى نناجزه

Then he came to Gatfan and said, ‘O community of Gatfan! I am a man from you’. Then he said to them what Quraysh had said. When it was morning, and that was the morning of the Sabbath during Shawwal of the year five from the Emigration, Abu Sufyan sent Ikrimah Bin Abu Jahl to them among a number of Quraysh that Abu Sufyan is saying to you, ‘O community of Jews! The legs and the slippers have both perished, and we are not with a permanent place, so come out to Muhammad^-saww until we fight him^-saww’.

فبعثوا إليه أن اليوم السبت و هو يوم لا نعمل فيه شيئا و لسنا مع ذلك بالذي‏ نقاتل معكم حتى تعطونا رهنا من رجالكم نستوثق بهم لا تذهبوا و تدعونا حتى نناجز محمدا

They sent a message to him, ‘Today is the day of Sabbat. We do not do anything during it, and we aren’t with that which we can fight with you until you give up a security from your men we can be reliant with them you will not go away and leave us until we fight Muhammad^-saww’.

‏ فقال أبو سفيان قد حذرنا و الله هذا نعيم فبعث إليهم أبو سفيان أنا لا نعطيكم رجلا واحدا فإن شئتم أن تخرجوا و تقاتلوا و إن شئتم فاقعدوا فقالت اليهود هذا و الله الذي قال لنا نعيم فبعثوا إليهم أنا و الله لا نقاتل حتى تعطونا رهنا و خذل الله بينهم و بعث‏ سبحانه عليهم الريح في ليال شاتية باردة شديدة البرد حتى انصرفوا راجعين

Abu Sufyan said, ‘We are being careful, by Allah^-azwj. This is Nueym’. Abu Sufyan sent a message to them, ‘We will not be giving you even one man. If you like you can come out and fight, and if you like then sit back’. The Jews said, ‘By Allah^-azwj! This is which Nueym had said to us’. They sent a message to them, ‘By Allah^-azwj! We will not fight until you give us a security’. And Allah^-azwj Separated between them and He^-azwj the Glorious Sent a wind upon them during a wintry chilly night of intense cold until they left returning’.

قال محمد بن كعب قال حذيفة اليماني‏ و الله لقد رأينا يوم الخندق و بنا من الجهد و الجوع و الخوف ما لا يعلمه إلا الله و قام رسول الله ص فصلى ما شاء الله من الليل ثم قال أ لا رجل يأتينا بخبر القوم يجعله الله رفيقي في الجنة

Muhammad Bin Ka’ab said, ‘Huzeyfa Al-Yamani said, ‘By Allah^-azwj! We had seen on the day of Al-Khandaq and with us what the struggle, and the hunger, and the fear, what no one knows except Allah^-azwj, and Rasool-Allah^-saww stood to pray Salat from the night for as long as Allah^-azwj so Desired, then said, ‘Is there no man who can come to us with the news of the people, Allah^-azwj Make him to be my^-saww friend in Paradise?’

قال حذيفة فو الله ما قام منا أحد مما بنا من الخوف و الجهد و الجوع فلما لم يقم أحد دعاني فلم أجد بدا من إجابته قلت لبيك قال اذهب فجئني بخبر القوم و لا تحدثن شيئا حتى ترجع

Huzeyfa said, ‘By Allah^-azwj, no one from us stood up due to what was from us of the fear, and the struggle, and the hunger. When no one stood up, he^-saww called me, but I could not find change of mind in answering him^-saww. I said, ‘At your^-saww service!’ He^-saww said: ‘Go and come to me^-saww with the news of the people and do not narrate anything until you return’.

قال و أتيت القوم فإذا ريح الله و جنوده يفعل بهم ما يفعل ما يستمسك لهم بناء و لا يثبت لهم نار و لا يطمئن لهم قدر فإني لكذلك إذ خرج أبو سفيان من رحله ثم قال يا معشر قريش لينظر أحدكم‏ من جليسه

He said, ‘And I came to the people, and the wind of Allah^-azwj and His^-azwj army had done with them what He^-azwj Did, neither a building stood with them nor did a fire affirm for them, nor could anything reassure them. While I was like that when Abu Sufyan came out from his ride, he said, ‘O community of Quraysh! Let every one of you look at his companion seated next to him’.

قال حذيفة فبدأت بالذي عن يميني فقلت من أنت قال أنا فلان قال ثم عاد أبو سفيان براحلته فقال يا معشر قريش و الله ما أنتم بدار مقام هلك الخف و الحافر و أخلفتنا بنو قريظة و هذه الريح لا يستمسك لنا معها شي‏ء

Huzeyfa said, ‘I began with the one who was on my right and I said, ‘Who are you?’ He said, ‘I am so and so’. Then Abu Sufyan returned with his ride and he said, ‘O community of Quraysh! By Allah^-azwj, you are neither with a permanent house, the leg and the slipper have perished, and the clan of Qureyza have succeeded us, and this wind has left nothing standing with us’.

ثم عجل فركب راحلته و إنها لمعقولة ما حل عقالها إلا بعد ما ركبها قال قلت في نفسي لو رميت عدو الله فقتلته كنت قد صنعت شيئا فوترت قوسي ثم وضعت السهم في كبد القوس و أنا أريد أن أرميه فأقتله فذكرت قول رسول الله ص لا تحدثن شيئا حتى ترجع

Then he hastened and rode his ride and it was reasonable; its reasonableness being released only after having ridden it. I said within myself, ‘If I were to shoot at the enemy of Allah^-azwj I can kill him, then I would have done something’. I pulled out my bow, then placed the arrow in the middle of the bow, and I wanted to shoot him and kill him. Then I remembered the words of Rasool-Allah^-saww: ‘Do not narrate anything until you return’.

قال فحططت‏ القوس ثم رجعت إلى رسول الله ص و هو يصلي فلما سمع حسي فرج بين رجليه فدخلت تحته و أرسل علي طائفة من مرطه‏ فركع و سجد ثم قال ما الخبر فأخبرته

He said, ‘I put away the bow, then returned to Rasool-Allah^-saww, and he^-saww was praying Salat. When he^-saww felt me, he^-saww spread his^-saww legs and I entered under him and he^-saww placed a corner of his^-saww clothing upon me, and performed Ruku’u and Sajdah, then said: ‘What is the news?’ I informed him^-saww’.

وَ رَوَى الْحَافِظُ بِالْإِسْنَادِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي أَوْفَى قَالَ: دَعَا رَسُولُ اللَّهُ ص عَلَى الْأَحْزَابِ فَقَالَ اللَّهُمَّ أَنْتَ مُنْزِلُ الْكِتَابِ سَرِيعُ الْحِسَابِ اهْزِمِ الْأَحْزَابَ اللَّهُمَّ اهْزِمْهُمْ وَ زَلْزِلْهُمْ

And it is reported by Al-Hafiz with the chain from Abdullah Bin Abu Awf who said, ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww supplicated against the allies. He^-saww said: ‘O Allah^-azwj! You^-azwj are the Sender of the Book, quick of the Reckoning! Defeat the allies. O Allah^-azwj! Defeat them and shake them’’.

وَ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص كَانَ يَقُولُ‏ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَحْدَهُ‏ أَعَزَّ جُنْدَهُ وَ نَصَرَ عَبْدَهُ وَ غَلَبَ‏ الْأَحْزَابَ وَحْدَهُ فَلَا شَيْ‏ءَ بَعْدَهُ

And from Abu Hureyra (famous Ahadith fabricator), ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww was saying: ‘There is no god except Allah^-azwj alone. He^-azwj Strengthens His^-azwj army and Helps His^-azwj servant, and Overcame the allies alone, so there is nothing after it’.

و عن سلمان بن صرد قال‏ قال رسول الله ص حين أجلى عنه الأحزاب الآن نغزوهم و لا يغزونا فكان كما قال ص فلم يغزهم قريش بعد ذلك و كان هو يغزوهم حتى فتح الله عليهم مكة.

And from Salman Bin Sard who said, ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww said when the allies evacuated from him^-saww: ‘Now we will battle them and they cannot battle us’. It happened just as he^-saww said. Quraysh did not battle them after that, and he^-saww was battling them until Allah^-azwj Conquered Makkah upon them’.

ثم قال في غزوة بني قريظة روى الزهري عن عبد الرحمن بن عبد الله بن كعب بن مالك عن أبيه قال‏ لما انصرف النبي ص مع المسلمين عن الخندق و وضع عنه اللأمة و اغتسل و استحم تبدى‏ له جبرئيل فقال عذيرك من محارب‏ ألا أراك قد وضعت عنك اللأمة و ما ضعناها بعد فوثب رسول الله ص فزعا فعزم على الناس أن لا يصلوا صلاة العصر حتى يأتوا قريظة

Then he said regarding the military expedition of Qureyza. It is reported by Al-Zuhry, from Abdul Rahman Bin Abdullah Bin Ka’ab Bin Malik, from his father who said, ‘When the Prophet^-saww left with the Muslims from Al-Khandaq, and placed the community away from him^-saww and washed and showered, Jibraeel^-as initiated to him^-saww and said: ‘You^-saww are excused from being a warrior. Shall I^-as show you^-saww. The community has been placed from you^-saww and what it will do afterwards?’ The Prophet^-saww leapt alarmed, and was determined upon the people that they will not pray the Asr Salat until they came to Qureyza.

فلبس الناس السلاح فلم يأتوا بني قريظة حتى غربت الشمس و اختصم الناس فقال بعضهم إن رسول الله ص عزم علينا أن لا نصلي حتى نأتي قريظة و إنما نحن في عزمة رسول الله ص فليس علينا إثم و صلى طائفة من الناس احتسابا و تركت طائفة منهم الصلاة حتى غربت الشمس فصلوها حين جاءوا من بني قريظة احتسابا فلم يعنف رسول الله ص واحدا من الفريقين

The people wore the weapons, but could not come to Qureyza until the sun had set and the people quarrelled. Some of them said, ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww is determined against us that we will not pray Salat until we come to Qureyza, and rather we are in the determination of Rasool-Allah^-saww, so there is no blame on us’. And a group from the people prayed Salat in anticipation, and a group from them left the Salat until the sun had set, and prayed when they came from the clan of Qureyza in anticipation. Rasool-Allah^-saww did not rebuke anyone from the groups.

و ذكر عروة أنه بعث علي بن أبي طالب عليه السلام على المقدم و دفع إليه اللواء و أمره أن ينطلق حتى يقف بهم على حصن بني قريظة ففعل و خرج رسول الله ص على آثارهم فمر على مجلس من أنصار في بني غنم ينتظرون رسول الله ص فزعموا أنه قال مر بكم الفارس آنفا فقالوا مر بنا دحية الكلبي على بغلة شهباء تحته قطيفة ديباج

And Urwa mentioned that he^-saww sent Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws as the frontman and handed over the flag to him^-asws and instructed him^-asws that he^-asws should go until he pauses with them at the fortress of the clan of Qureyza. He^-asws did so, and Rasool-Allah^-saww went out upon their tracks. He^-saww passed by a gathering of the Helpers among the clan of Ghanam awaiting Rasool-Allah^-saww. They claimed that he^-saww said: ‘The horseman would be passing by you just now’. They said, ‘Dahiya Al-Kalby is passing by us upon a mule ‘Shahba’a’, under him being a sheet of brocade.

فقال رسول الله ص ليس ذلك بدحية و لكنه جبرئيل عليه السلام أرسل إلى بني قريظة ليزلزلهم و يقذف في قلوبهم الرعب قالوا و سار علي عليه السلام حتى إذا دنا من الحصن سمع منهم مقالة قبيحة لرسول الله ص فرجع حتى لقي رسول الله ص بالطريق فقال يا رسول الله لا عليك أن تدنو من هؤلاء الأخابث قال أظنك سمعت لي منهم أذى فقال نعم يا رسول الله

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘That isn’t Dahiya, but it is Jibraeel^-as being Sent to the clan of Qureyza in order to shake them and cast the awe into their hearts’. They said, ‘And Ali^-asws travelled until when he^-asws was near the fortress, and heard ugly talk from them regarding Rasool-Allah^-saww. He^-asws returned until he^-asws met Rasool-Allah^-saww on the road. He^-asws said: ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! It is not upon you^-saww that you^-saww go near those wicked ones’. He^-saww said: ‘I^-saww think you^-asws have heard harmful talk from them regarding me^-saww’. He^-asws said: ‘Yes, O Rasool-Allah^-saww’.

فقال لو قد رأوني لم يقولوا من ذلك شيئا فلما دنا رسول الله ص من حصنهم قال يا إخوة القردة و الخنازير هل أخزاكم الله و أنزل بكم نقمته قالوا يا أبا القاسم ما كنت جهولا

He^-saww said: ‘Had they seen me^-saww, they would not have said anything from that’. When Rasool-Allah^-saww was near their fortress, he^-saww said: ‘O brothers of monkeys and pigs! Has Allah^-azwj Seized you and Sent down a scourge with you?’ They said, ‘O, Abu Al-Qasim^-saww! You^-saww were not ignorant’.

و حاصرهم رسول الله ص خمسا و عشرين ليلة حتى‏ أجهدهم الحصار و قذف الله في قلوبهم الرعب و كان حيي بن أخطب دخل مع بني قريظة في حصنهم حين رجعت قريش و غطفان فلما أيقنوا أن رسول الله ص غير منصرف عنهم حتى يناجز قال كعب بن أسد يا معشر اليهود قد نزل بكم من الأمر ما ترون و إني عارض عليكم خلالا ثلاثا فخيروا أيها شئتم

And Rasool-Allah^-saww besieged them for twenty-five nights until the siege strained them, and Allah^-azwj Cast the awe into their hearts; and Huyay Bin Akhtab entered with the clan of Qureyza in their fortress when Quraysh and Ghatfan returned. When they were certain that Rasool-Allah^-saww would not be leaving from them until he^-saww accomplishes, Ka’ab Bin Asad said, ‘O community of Jews! There has befallen with you of the matter what you are seeing, and I present to you three solutions, so choose whichever you like’.

قالوا ما هن قال نبايع هذا الرجل و نصدقه فو الله لقد تبين لكم أنه نبي مرسل و أنه الذي تجدونه في كتابكم فتأمنوا على دمائكم و أموالكم و نسائكم فقالوا لا نفارق حكم التوراة أبدا و لا نستبدل به غيره

They said, ‘What are these?’ He said, ‘We pledge allegiance to this man^-saww and ratify him^-saww, for by Allah^-azwj, it has become manifest to you that he^-saww is indeed a Messenger Prophet^-saww, and he^-saww is the one whom you find in your Books, and you will have safety upon your blood, and your wealth, and your women’. They said, ‘We will not separate from the Judgment of the Torah, ever, nor will we replace something else with it’.

قال فإذا أبيتم على هذا فهلموا فلنقتل أبناءنا و نساءنا ثم نخرج إلى محمد رجالا مصلتين بالسيوف لم نترك وراءنا ثقلا يهمنا حتى يحكم الله بيننا و بين محمد فإن نهلك لم نترك وراءنا نسلا يهمنا و إن نظهر لنجدن النساء و الأبناء فقالوا نقتل هؤلاء المساكين فلا خير في العيش بعدهم

He said, ‘When you are refusing this, then come, we shall transport our sons and our women, when we bring out the men to Muhammad^-saww drawing swords, not leaving behind us any sluggish one to worry us until Allah^-azwj Judges between us and Muhammad^-saww. If we are destroyed, we will not be leaving behind any lineage to worry us, and if we are victorious, we will find the women and the sons’. They said, ‘We will kill these beggars. There is no good in the life after them’.

قال فإذا أبيتم علي هذه فإن الليلة ليلة السبت و عسى أن يكون محمد و أصحابه قد أمنوا فيها فانزلوا فلعلنا نصيب منهم غرة فقالوا نفسد سبتنا و نحدث فيها ما أحدث من كان قبلنا فأصابهم ما قد علمت من المسخ فقال ما بات رجل منكم منذ ولدته أمه ليلة واحدة من الدهر حازما

He said, ‘When you are refusing this upon me, then the night is the night of the Sabbath, and perhaps Muhammad^-saww and his^-saww companion would happen to have made us secure in it. We should descend and perhaps we will attain the surprise from them’. They said, ‘You will spoil our Sabbath and we will be afflicted regarding it what happened to the ones who were before us, so they were afflicted with the morphing, what you know’. He said, ‘No one from you has spent a night steadfast since his mother gave birth to him’.

قال الزهري‏ و قال رسول الله ص حين سألوه أن يحكم فيهم رجلا اختاروا من شئتم من أصحابي فاختاروا سعد بن معاذ فرضي بذلك رسول الله ص و نزلوا على حكم سعد بن معاذ فأمر رسول الله ص بسلاحهم فجعل في قبة و أمر بهم فكتفوا و أوثقوا و جعلوا في دار أسامة

Al-Zuhry said, ‘And Rasool-Allah^-saww said when they asked him^-saww to judge between them regarding a man: ‘Choose one you like from my^-saww companions’. They chose Sa’ad Bin Muaz, and Rasool-Allah^-saww was pleased with that, and they descended upon the decision of Sa’ad bin Muaz. Rasool-Allah^-saww ordered with their weapons and they were made to be in a dome, and tied up and made to be in the house of Asama.

و بعث رسول الله ص إلى سعد بن معاذ فجي‏ء به فحكم فيهم بأن يقتل مقاتليهم و يسبي ذراريهم و نساءهم و يغنم أموالهم و أن عقارهم للمهاجرين دون الأنصار و قال للأنصار إنكم ذوو عقار و ليس للمهاجرين عقار فكبر رسول الله ص و قال لسعد لقد حكمت فيهم بحكم الله عز و جل

And Rasool-Allah^-saww sent a message to Sa’ad Bin Muaz, and he came with him and he judged regarding them that their fighters should be killed and their offspring and women to be made captives, and their wealth confiscated, and that their land should be for the Emigrants besides the Helpers, and said to the Helpers, ‘You are with lands and there isn’t any land for the Emigrants’. Rasool-Allah^-saww exclaimed Takbeer and said to Sa’ad: ‘You have judged regarding them with the Judgment of Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic’. 

فقتل رسول الله ص مقاتليهم و كانوا فيما زعموا ستمائة مقاتل و قيل قتل منهم أربعمائة و خمسين رجلا و سبى سبعمائة و خمسين

Rasool-Allah^-saww killed their fighters, and they were among what they claimed, six hundred fighters, and it is said, he^-saww killed from them, four hundred and fifty men, and captured seven hundred and fifty.

و روي‏ أنهم قالوا لكعب بن أسد و هم يذهب بهم إلى رسول الله ص أرسالا يا كعب ما ترى يصنع بنا فقال كعب أ في كل موطن تقولون‏ أ لا ترون أن الداعي لا ينزع و من يذهب منكم لا يرجع هو و الله القتل

It is reported they said to Ka’ab Bin Asad, and they were going with them to Rasool-Allah^-saww, ‘You are send us, O Ka’ab, what do you see he^-saww will do with us?’ Ka’ab said, ‘Will you be saying it in every place? Do you not see that the caller does not snatch, and the one from you who goes away and does not return, it by Allah^-azwj is the killing’.

و روي عن جابر قال‏ جاء جبرئيل إلى رسول الله ص فقال من هذا العبد الصالح الذي مات فتحت له أبواب السماء و تحرك‏ له العرش فخرج رسول الله ص فإذا سعد بن معاذ قد قبض‏

And it is reported from Jabir who said, ‘Jibraeel^-as came to Rasool-Allah^-saww and he^-saww said: ‘Who is this righteous servant who died?’ He^-as opened the gates of the sky for him^-saww and the Throne moved for him^-saww. Rasool-Allah^-saww came out and there was Sa’ad Bin Muaz who had died’’.

1 كَنْزُ الْكَرَاجُكِيِّ عَنْ أَسَدِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ السُّلَمِيِّ عَنْ عُمَرَ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ الْعَتَكِيِّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ صَفْوَةَ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ الْعَلَوِيِّ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ الْعَلَاءِ عَنْ صَبَّاحِ بْنِ يَحْيَى عَنْ خَالِدِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ الْبَاقِرِ عَنْ آبَائِهِ عَلَيْهِمُ السَّلَامُ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص يَوْمَ الْأَحْزَابِ‏ اللَّهُمَّ إِنَّكَ أَخَذْتَ مِنِّي عُبَيْدَةَ بْنَ الْحَارِثِ يَوْمَ بَدْرٍ وَ حَمْزَةَ بْنَ عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ يَوْمَ أُحُدٍ وَ هَذَا أَخِي عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ‏ رَبِّ لا تَذَرْنِي فَرْداً وَ أَنْتَ خَيْرُ الْوارِثِينَ

‘Kanz’ of Al Karajaky – from Asad Bin Ibrahim Al Sulamy, from Umar Bin Ali Al Ataky, from Muhammad Bin Safwa, from Al Hassan Bin Ali Al Alawy, from Ahmad Bin Ala’a, from Sabbah Bin Yahya, from Khalid Bin Yazeed,

‘From Abu Ja’far Al-Baqir^-asws, from his^-asws forefathers^-asws having said: ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww said on the day of Al-Ahzaab: ‘O Allah^-azwj! You^-azwj Took from me^-saww Ubeyda Bin Al-Haris on the day of Badr, and Hamza Bin Abdul Muttalib^-asws on the day of Ohad, and this is my^-saww brother  Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws: ‘Lord! Do not leave me as an individual, and you are the best of the inheritors [21:89]’’.[1]

2- أَقُولُ وَ رَوَى الْكَرَاجُكِيُّ رَحِمَهُ اللَّهُ قِصَّةَ قَتْلِ عَمْرٍو نَحْواً مِمَّا مَرَّ وَ ذَكَرَ أَنَّهُ قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ص ثَلَاثَ مَرَّاتٍ أَيُّكُمْ يَبْرُزُ إِلَى عَمْرٍو وَ أَضْمَنُ لَهُ عَلَى اللَّهِ الْجَنَّةَ وَ فِي كُلِّ مَرَّةٍ كَانَ يَقُومُ عَلِيٌّ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ وَ الْقَوْمُ نَاكِسُو رُءُوسِهِمْ فَاسْتَدْنَاهُ وَ عَمَّمَهُ بِيَدِهِ

I (Majlisi) am saying, ‘And it is reported by Al-Karajaky the story of the killing of Amro, approximately to what has passed, and he mentioned, ‘The Prophet^-saww said three times: ‘Which one of you will duel to Amro (Bin Abd Wudd), and I^-saww guarantee Paradise for him upon Allah^-azwj’, and during each time Ali^-asws was standing up and the people were lowering their heads. He^-saww drew him^-asws near and turbaned him^-asws by his^-saww hands.

فَلَمَّا بَرَزَ قَالَ ص بَرَزَ الْإِيمَانُ كُلُّهُ إِلَى الشِّرْكِ كُلِّهِ

وَ لَقَدْ بَحَحْتُ مِنَ النِّدَاءِ		بِجَمْعِهِمْ‏ هَلْ مِنْ مُبَارِزٍ
إِلَى قَوْلِهِ‏ إِنَّ الشَّجَاعَةَ فِي الْفَتَى وَ الْجُودَ		مِنْ كَرَمِ الْغَرَائِزِ

When he^-asws went for duel he^-saww said: ‘The whole Eman is going to duel to the whole of Shirk’. And Amro was saying (poem), ‘I have gone on calling to their crown, ‘Is there one for duel?’’ – up to his words, ‘The bravery and the generosity for the youth are from the benevolent traits’’.

فَمَا كَانَ أَسْرَعَ أَنْ صَرَعَهُ‏ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ وَ جَلَسَ عَلَى صَدْرِهِ فَلَمَّا هَمَّ أَنْ يَذْبَحَهُ وَ هُوَ يُكَبِّرُ اللَّهَ وَ يُمَجِّدُهُ قَالَ لَهُ عَمْرٌو يَا عَلِيُّ قَدْ جَلَسْتَ‏ مِنِّي مَجْلِساً عَظِيماً فَإِذَا قَتَلْتَنِي فَلَا تَسْلُبْنِي حُلَّتِي فَقَالَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ هِيَ أَهْوَنُ عَلَيَّ مِنْ ذَلِكَ وَ ذَبَحَهُ وَ أَتَى بِرَأْسِهِ وَ هُوَ يَخْطِرُ فِي مِشْيَتِهِ

Amir Al-Momineen^-asws was very quick in wrestling him to the ground and sitting upon his chest. When he^-asws thought of slaughtering him and was exclaiming Takbeer of Allah^-azwj and Praising Him^-azwj, Amro said to him^-asws, ‘O Ali^-asws! You^-asws have sat with me a great sitting, so when you^-asws kill me, do not take off my garments’. He^-asws said: ‘It is low upon me^-asws from (doing) that’, and he^-asws slaughtered him and came with his head and he^-asws was swaggering in his^-asws walk’.

فَقَالَ عُمَرُ أَ لَا تَرَى يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِلَى عَلِيٍّ كَيْفَ يَمْشِي‏ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص إِنَّهَا لَمِشْيَةٌ لَا يَمْقُتُهَا اللَّهُ فِي هَذَا الْمَقَامِ فَتَلَقَّاهُ وَ مَسَحَ الْغُبَارَ عَنْ عَيْنَيْهِ وَ قَالَ لَوْ وُزِنَ الْيَوْمَ عَمَلُكَ بِعَمَلِ جَمِيعِ أُمَّةِ مُحَمَّدٍ لَرَجَحَ عَمَلُكَ عَلَى عَمَلِهِمْ وَ ذَاكَ أَنَّهُ لَمْ يَبْقَ بَيْتٌ مِنَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ إِلَّا وَ قَدْ دَخَلَهُ ذُلٌّ بِقَتْلِ عَمْرٍو وَ لَمْ يَبْقَ بَيْتٌ مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ إِلَّا وَ قَدْ دَخَلَهُ عِزٌّ بِقَتْلِ عَمْرٍو

Umar said, ‘Do you^-saww see, Rasool-Allah^-saww, how he^-asws is walking?’ Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘It is a walk Allah^-azwj does not Detest in this position’. He^-saww received him^-asws and wiped the dust from his^-asws eyes and said: ‘If your^-asws deed of today is weighed with the deeds of the entirety of the community of Muhammad^-saww, your^-asws deed would outweigh their deeds’, and that is because there did not remain any house from the Polytheists except and that disgrace had entered it due to the killing of Amro, and there did not remain any house from the Muslims except and the honour had entered it due to the killing of Amro.

وَ لَمَّا قَتَلَ عَلِيٌّ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ عَمْراً سَمِعَ مُنَادِياً يُنَادِي وَ لَا يُرَى شَخْصُهُ‏

قَتَلَ عَلِيٌّ عَمْراً		قَصَمَ عَلِيٌّ ظَهْراً
أَبْرَمَ عَلِيٌّ أَمْراً

And when Ali^-asws had killed Amr-o, a caller was heard calling, and his person was not seen: “Ali^-asws killed Amro! Ali^-asws has broken the backbone! Ali^-asws has concluded the matter!”

وَ وَقَعَتِ الْجَفْلَةُ بِالْمُشْرِكِينَ فَانْهَزَمُوا أَجْمَعِينَ وَ تَفَرَّقَتِ الْأَحْزَابُ خَائِفِينَ مَرْعُوبِينَ‏

And the collapse occurred with the Polytheists and they were all defeated, and the allies dispersed fearing, awed’’.[2]

3- فس، تفسير القمي‏ يا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اذْكُرُوا نِعْمَةَ اللَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ إِذْ جاءَتْكُمْ جُنُودٌ فَأَرْسَلْنا عَلَيْهِمْ رِيحاً وَ جُنُوداً لَمْ تَرَوْها وَ كانَ اللَّهُ بِما تَعْمَلُونَ بَصِيراً إِذْ جاؤُكُمْ مِنْ فَوْقِكُمْ وَ مِنْ أَسْفَلَ مِنْكُمْ‏ الآية

Tafseer Qummi – O you those who believe! Recall the Favour of Allah upon you when the armies came towards you, so We Sent a wind against them and armies you could not see, and Allah was always Seeing what you were doing [33:9] When they came to you from above you and from below you, [33:10] – the Verse.

فإنها نزلت في قصة الأحزاب من قريش و العرب الذين تحزبوا على رسول الله ص قال و ذلك أن قريشا قد تجمعت في سنة خمس من الهجرة وساروا في العرب و جلبوا و استنفروهم‏ لحرب رسول الله ص فوافوا في عشرة آلاف و معهم كنانة و سليم و فزارة

‘It was Revealed regarding the story of the allies from Quraysh and Arabs, those who were allied against Rasool-Allah^-saww. And that is when Quraysh gathered in the year five from Al-Hijra and they came to be among the Arabs and gathered them and provoked them for war against Rasool-Allah^-saww. They raised (an army of) ten thousand, and with them were Kanana, and Saleym, and Fazara.

و كان رسول الله ص حين أجلا بني النضير و هم بطن من اليهود من المدينة و كان رئيسهم حيي بن أخطب و هم يهود من بني هارون عليه السلام فلما أجلاهم من المدينة صاروا إلى خيبر

And it so happened when Rasool-Allah^-saww expelled the clan of Al-Nazeyr from Al-Medina, and they were in the midst of the Jews, and their chief was Hayy Ibn Akhtab, and the Jews were from the family of Haroun^-as, so when he^-saww expelled them from Al-Medina, they came to Khyber.

و خرج حيي بن أخطب‏ إلى قريش بمكة و قال لهم إن محمدا قد وتركم و وترنا و أجلانا من المدينة من ديارنا و أموالنا و أجلى بني عمنا بني قينقاع فسيروا في الأرض و اجمعوا حلفاءكم و غيرهم حتى نسير إليهم فإنه قد بقي من قومي بيثرب سبعمائة مقاتل و هم بنو قريظة و بينهم و بين محمد عهد و ميثاق و أنا أحملهم على نقض العهد بينهم و بين محمد و يكونون معنا عليهم فتأتونه أنتم من فوق و هم من أسفل

And Hayy Bin Akhtab came out, and went to Quraysh at Makkah and said to them, ‘Muhammad has wronged you all and wronged us, and he^-saww expelled us from Al-Medina from our houses, and our wealth, and dislodged the clan of our uncles, clan of Qaynaqa. Travel in the land and gather your allies and others until we travel to them, for there remain at Yasrib, from my people, seven hundred fighters. And they are the clan of Qureyza, and between them and Muhammad^-saww, there is an agreement and a covenant, and I will bring them upon breaking the agreement between them and Muhammad^-saww, and they would come to be with us, against them. Thus, you can come to him, you being from the top, and they would be from below’.

و كان موضع بني قريظة من المدينة على قدر ميلين و هو الموضع الذي يسمى ببئر بني المطلب فلم يزل يسير معهم حيي بن أخطب في قبائل العرب حتى اجتمعوا قدر عشرة آلاف من قريش و كنانة و الأقرع بن حابس في قومه و عباس بن مرداس في بني سليم‏

And the place of the clan of Qureyza was upon a measurement of two miles from Al-Medina, and it is the place which is named as Baeer Al-Matlab. Hayy Bin Akhtab did not cease to travel with them among the tribes of the Arabs until they had gathered ten thousand from Quraysh. And Kanana, and Al-Aqra’a Bin Habis among his people, and Al-Abbas Bin Mardas among the clan of Saleym.

فبلغ ذلك رسول الله ص‏ و استشار أصحابه و كانوا سبعمائة رجل‏ فقال سلمان يا رسول الله إن القليل لا يقاوم الكثير في المطاولة قال فما نصنع

The (news of) that reached Rasool-Allah^-saww, and he^-saww consulted his^-saww companions, and they were seven hundred men. Salman Al-Farsy^-ra said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! The few cannot resist the more in a protracted battle’. What (do you^-ra reckon) we should do?’

قال نحفر خندقا يكون بيننا و بينهم حجابا فيمكنك منعهم‏ في المطاولة و لا يمكنهم أن يأتونا من كل وجه فإنا كنا معاشر العجم في بلاد فارس إذا دهمنا دهم‏ من عدونا نحفر الخنادق فيكون الحرب من مواضع معروفة

He^-ra said, ‘We should dig a ditch to be between us and them as a defence, enabling you^-saww to prevent them during the battle, and it would not enable them to come upon us from every direction, for I^-ra was among the community of non-Arabs (Persians) in the country of Persia, whenever we faced a multitude from our enemies, we dug the ditch. Thus, the battle would happen to be from a good standpoint’.

فنزل جبرئيل على رسول الله ص فقال أشار بصواب فأمر رسول الله ص بمسحه‏ من ناحية أحد إلى راتج و جعل على كل عشرين خطوة و ثلاثين خطوة قوم‏ من المهاجرين و الأنصار يحفرونه فأمر فحملت المساحي و المعاول و بدأ رسول الله ص و أخذ معولا فحفر في موضع المهاجرين بنفسه

Then, Jibraeel^-as descended unto Rasool-Allah^-saww and he^-as said: ‘The indication of Salman^-ra is correct’. Rasool-Allah^-saww ordered with marking the ground from one area to fortify, and made a group from the Emigrants and the Helpers to be upon every twenty and thirty steps, to dig it. He^-saww ordered, and the spades and the pickaxes were carried, and Rasool-Allah^-saww initiated by taking a pickaxe, and he^-saww dug in the place of the Emigrants, himself^-saww.

و أمير المؤمنين عليه السلام ينقل التراب من الحفرة حتى عرق رسول الله ص و عي‏ و قال لا عيش إلا عيش الآخرة اللهم اغفر للأنصار و المهاجرين

And Amir Al-Momineen^-asws transferred the soil from the ditch, to the extent that Rasool-Allah^-saww perspired and was exhausted, and he^-saww said: ‘There is no life except life of the Hereafter. O Allah^-azwj! Forgive the Helpers and the Emigrants!’

فلما نظر الناس إلى رسول الله ص يحفر اجتهدوا في الحفر و نقلوا التراب فلما كان في اليوم الثاني بكروا إلى الحفر و قعد رسول الله ص في مسجد الفتح فبينا المهاجرون‏ و الأنصار يحفرون إذ عرض لهم جبل لم تعمل المعاول فيه فبعثوا جابر بن عبد الله الأنصاري إلى رسول الله ص يعلمه ذلك

When the people looked at Rasool-Allah^-saww digging, they strived (harder) in the digging, and transferred the soil. So, when it was the second day, they came to the dugout in the morning, and Rasool-Allah^-saww sat in Masjid Al-Fatah. While the Emigrants and the Helpers were digging, there presented to them a mound they could not work the pickaxe in it. They sent Jabir Bin Abdullah Al-Ansary to Rasool-Allah^-saww, to let him^-saww know of that.

قال جابر فجئت إلى المسجد و رسول الله ص مستلقي على قفاه و رداؤه تحت رأسه و قد شد على بطنه حجرا فقلت يا رسول الله إنه قد عرض لنا جبل لا تعمل‏ المعاول فيه فقام مسرعا حتى جاءه ثم دعا بماء في إناء و غسل وجهه و ذراعيه و مسح على رأسه و رجليه ثم شرب و مج ذلك الماء في فيه ثم صبه على ذلك الحجر ثم أخذ معولا فضرب ضربة

Jabir said, ‘I went to the Masjid, and Rasool-Allah^-saww was lying on his^-saww back, and his^-saww robe was under his^-saww head, and he^-saww had tied a rock upon his^-saww belly. I said, O Rasool-Allah^-saww! A mound has presented to us, we cannot work the pickaxe in it’. He^-saww quickly got up until he^-saww came over to it. Then he^-saww called for water in a utensil, and he^-saww washed his^-saww face and his^-saww forearms, and wiped upon his^-saww head and his^-saww feet. Then he^-saww drank and rinsed that water in his^-saww mouth, then poured it upon that rock. Then he^-saww grabbed a pickaxe and struck it with a strike.

فبرقت برقة فنظرنا فيها إلى قصور الشام ثم ضرب أخرى فبرقت برقة فنظرنا فيها إلى قصور المدائن ثم ضرب أخرى فبرقت برقة فنظرنا فيها إلى قصور اليمن

There was a flash of lightning, and we looked into it at the castle of Syria. Then he^-saww struck again, and it lit up again, and we looked into it to a castle of Al-Mada’in. Then he^-saww struck again, the lightning flashed again, and we looked into it to a castle of Al-Yemen.

فقال رسول الله ص أما إنه سيفتح الله عليكم هذه المواطن التي برقت فيها البرق‏ ثم انهال علينا الجبل كما ينهال الرمل

Then Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Allah^-azwj will Open up (Conquer) for you these places which were flashed with the lightning. Then the mound collapsed towards us just as the sand collapses’’.

فَقَالَ جَابِرٌ فَعَلِمْتُ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص مقوي [مُقْوٍ] أَيْ جَائِعٌ لَمَّا رَأَيْتُ عَلَى بَطْنِهِ الْحَجَرَ فَقُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ هَلْ لَكَ فِي الْغَدَاءِ قَالَ مَا عِنْدَكَ يَا جَابِرُ فَقُلْتُ عَنَاقٌ وَ صَاعٌ مِنْ شَعِيرٍ فَقَالَ تَقَدَّمْ وَ أَصْلِحْ مَا عِنْدَكَ

Jabir said, ‘Then I came to know that Rasool-Allah^-saww was bracing himself^-saww, i.e., he^-saww was hungry, when I saw the rock upon his^-saww belly. I said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! Is there any food for you^-saww?’ He^-saww said: ‘What is there with you, O Jabir? I said, ‘A she-goat and a Sa’a of barley. He^-saww said: ‘Go ahead and prepare what is with you’.

قَالَ جَابِرٌ فَجِئْتُ إِلَى أَهْلِي فَأَمَرْتُهَا فَطَحَنَتِ الشَّعِيرَ وَ ذَبَحْتُ الْعَنْزَ وَ سَلَخْتُهَا وَ أَمَرْتُهَا أَنْ تَخْبِزَ و تَطْبِخَ وَ تَشْوِيَ

Jabir said, ‘I went to my wife, and I instructed her to grind the barley and slaughter the she-goat and skin it. And I instructed her to make bread, and cook, and grill.

فَلَمَّا فَرَغْتُ مِنْ ذَلِكَ جِئْتُ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَقُلْتُ بِأَبِي وَ أُمِّي أَنْتَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قَدْ فَرَغْنَا فَاحْضُرْ مَعَ مَنْ أَحْبَبْتَ فَقَامَ‏ ص إِلَى شَفِيرِ الْخَنْدَقِ ثُمَّ قَالَ يَا مَعْشَرَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ وَ الْأَنْصَارِ أَجِيبُوا جَابِراً

When she was free from that, I came to Rasool-Allah^-saww and I said, ‘May my father and my mother be (sacrificed for) you^-saww, O Rasool-Allah^-saww! We are free, therefore, attend (for the meal) with the ones you^-saww love. He^-saww stood up to go to the dugout of the ditch, then said: O group of the Emigrants and the Helpers! Answer (the invitation of) Jabir!’

وَ كَانَ فِي الْخَنْدَقِ سَبْعُمِائَةِ رَجُلٍ فَخَرَجُوا كُلُّهُمْ ثُمَّ لَمْ يَمُرَّ بِأَحَدٍ مِنَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ وَ الْأَنْصَارِ إِلَّا قَالَ أَجِيبُوا جَابِراً

Jabir said, ‘And it was so that there were seven hundred men in the ditch, and all of them came out. Then not one of the Emigrants and the Helpers came out except he said, ‘I answer (the invitation of) Jabir.

قَالَ جَابِرٌ فَتَقَدَّمْتُ وَ قُلْتُ لِأَهْلِي قَدْ وَ اللَّهِ أَتَاكَ‏ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص بِمَا لَا قِبَلَ لَكَ بِهِ فَقَالَتْ أَعْلَمْتَهُ أَنْتَ مَا عِنْدَنَا قَالَ نَعَمْ قَالَتْ هُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِمَا أَتَى

Jabir said, ‘I preceded and said to my wife, ‘By Allah^-azwj! Muhammad^-saww is coming to you with (a number) what is not acceptable to you’. She said, ‘Did you let him^-saww know of what is with us? I said, ‘Yes. She said, ‘Then he^-saww is more knowing with what (number) he^-saww is come with.

قَالَ جَابِرٌ فَدَخَلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَنَظَرَ فِي الْقِدْرِ ثُمَّ قَالَ اغْرِفِي وَ أَبْقِي ثُمَّ نَظَرَ فِي التَّنُّورِ ثُمَّ قَالَ أَخْرِجِي وَ أَبْقِي ثُمَّ دَعَا بِصَحْفَةٍ فَثَرَدَ فِيهَا وَ غَرَفَ فَقَالَ يَا جَابِرُ أَدْخِلْ عَلَيَّ عَشَرَةً

Jabir said, ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww entered and looked into the pot, then said: ‘You will be scooped from and shall remain!’ Then he^-saww looked into the oven, then said: ‘You shall be extracted, and shall remain!’ Then he^-saww called for the ladle, and he^-saww immersed into it and scooped, and he^-saww said: ‘O Jabir! Enter ten to come over to me^-saww’.

فَأَدْخَلْتُ عَشَرَةً فَأَكَلُوا حَتَّى نَهِلُوا وَ مَا يُرَى فِي الْقَصْعَةِ إِلَّا آثَارُ أَصَابِعِهِمْ ثُمَّ قَالَ يَا جَابِرُ عَلَيَّ بِالذِّرَاعِ فَأَتَيْتُهُ بِالذِّرَاعِ فَأَكَلُوهُ ثُمَّ قَالَ أَدْخِلْ عَلَيَّ عَشَرَةً

I let ten (people) to enter, and they ate until they were filled up, and nothing was seen in the bowl except the traces of their fingers. Then he^-saww said: ‘O Jabir! Come to me^-saww with the arm (of the goat). I went to him^-saww with the arm, and they ate. Then he^-saww said: ‘Enter ten to come over to me^-saww’.

فَدَخَلُوا فَأَكَلُوا حَتَّى نَهِلُوا وَ مَا يُرَى فِي الْقَصْعَةِ إِلَّا آثَارَ أَصَابِعِهِمْ ثُمَّ قَالَ يَا جَابِرُ عَلَيَّ بِالذِّرَاعِ فَأَتَيْتُهُ فَأَكَلُوا وَ خَرَجُوا ثُمَّ قَالَ أَدْخِلْ عَلَيَّ عَشَرَةً

I let them enter, and they ate until they were filled-up, and nothing was seen in the bowl except the traces of their fingers. Then he^-saww said: ‘To me^-saww with the arm (of the goat)!’ They ate, and (then) they went out. Then he^-saww said: ‘Enter ten to come over to me^-saww’.

فَأَدْخَلْتُهُمْ فَأَكَلُوا حَتَّى نَهِلُوا وَ مَا يُرَى‏ فِي الْقَصْعَةِ إِلَّا آثَارُ أَصَابِعِهِمْ ثُمَّ قَالَ يَا جَابِرُ عَلَيَّ بِالذِّرَاعِ فَأَتَيْتُهُ بِالذِّرَاعِ فَقُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ كَمْ لِلشَّاةِ مِنْ ذِرَاعٍ‏ قَالَ ذِرَاعَانِ فَقُلْتُ وَ الَّذِي بَعَثَكَ بِالْحَقِّ نَبِيّاً لَقَدْ أَتَيْتُكَ بِثَلَاثَةٍ فَقَالَ أَمَا لَوْ سَكَتَّ يَا جَابِرُ لَأَكَلُوا كُلُّهُمْ مِنَ الذِّرَاعِ

I let them enter, and they ate until they were filled up, and nothing was seen in the bowl except for the traces of their fingers. Then he^-saww said: O Jabir! Come to me with the arm (of the goat)!’ I came with it and said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! How many arms are there for the sheep?’ He^-saww said: ‘Two arms’. I said, ‘By the One^-azwj Who Sent you^-saww with the Truth, I have already come to you^-saww with three!’ He^-saww said: ‘But, had you been silent, O Jabir, all of the people would have eaten from the arm (of the goat)’.

قَالَ جَابِرٌ فَأَقْبَلْتُ أُدْخِلُ‏ عَشَرَةً عَشَرَةً فَيَأْكُلُونَ حَتَّى أَكَلُوا كُلُّهُمْ وَ بَقِيَ وَ اللَّهِ لَنَا مِنْ ذَلِكَ الطَّعَامِ مَا عِشْنَا بِهِ أَيَّاماً

He^-saww said: ‘O Jabir! Enter ten (more)!’ I turned around and let ten, ten, (people at a time) to enter, and they ate until all of them had eaten, and there still remained for us, by Allah^-azwj, from that meal, what we could have dinner with’.

قال‏ و حفر رسول الله ص الخندق و جعل له ثمانية أبواب و جعل على كل باب رجلا من المهاجرين و رجلا من الأنصار مع جماعة يحفظونه و قدمت قريش و كنانة و سليم و هلال فنزلوا الزغابة

He (the narrator) said, ‘And Rasool-Allah^-saww dug the ditch and made eighty entrances to be for it, and made to be upon each entrance, a man from the Emigrants and a man from the Helpers, along with a group protecting it. And Quraysh, and Kanana, and Saleym, and Hilal proceeded, and they encamped at Al-Zaghaba (a place near Al-Medina).

ففرغ رسول الله ص من حفر الخندق قبل قدوم قريش بثلاثة أيام و أقبلت قريش و معهم حيي بن أخطب فلما نزلوا العقيق جاء حيي بن أخطب إلى بني قريظة في جوف الليل و كانوا في حصنهم قد تمسكوا بعهد رسول الله ص فدق باب الحصن فسمع كعب بن أسيد قرع الباب فقال لأهله هذا أخوك قد شأم قومه و جاء الآن يشأمنا و يهلكنا و يأمرنا بنقض العهد بيننا و بين محمد و قد وفى لنا محمد و أحسن جوارنا

Rasool-Allah^-saww was free from digging the ditch before the march of Quraysh, by three days, and with them was Hayy Bin Akhtab. So, when they encamped at Al-Aqeeq, Hayy Bin Akhtab came to the clan of Qureyza in the middle of the night, and they were in their fort, having had attached with the agreement of Rasool-Allah^-saww. He knocked at the (entrance of) the fort and the knocking was heard by Ka’ab Bin Asad. He said to his wife, ‘This is your brother who has provoked his people, and now he comes to provoke us, and he gets us destroyed, and he instructs us with breaking the agreement between us and Muhammad^-saww, although Muhammad^-saww has been loyal to us, and is the best of our neighbours’.

فنزل إليه من غرفته فقال له من أنت قال حيي بن أخطب قد جئتك بعز الدهر فقال كعب بل جئتني بذل الدهر فقال يا كعب هذه قريش في قادتها و سادتها قد نزلت بالعقيق مع حلفائهم من كنانة و هذه فزارة مع قادتها و سادتها قد نزلت الزغابة و هذه سليم و غيرهم قد نزلوا حصن بني ذبيان و لا يفلت‏ محمد و أصحابه من هذا الجمع أبدا فافتح الباب و انقض العهد بينك و بين محمد

He came down from his room and said to him, ‘Who are you?’ He said, ‘Hayy Bin Akhtab. I have come to you at the honourable time’. Ka’ab said, ‘But you have come to me at the disgraceful time’. He said, ‘O Ka’ab! These here are the Quraysh among their leaders and their chiefs having encamped at Al-Aqeeq along with their allies from (the clan of) Kanana. And these here are (the clan of) Fazara along with their leaders and their chiefs, having encamped at Al-Zagaba. And these here are (the clan of) Saleym and others, having encamped at the fortress of the clan of Zabyan, and there is no escape for Muhammad^-saww and his^-saww companions from this army, ever! Therefore, open the door and break the agreement which is between you and Muhammad^-saww!’

فقال كعب لست بفاتح لك الباب ارجع من حيث جئت فقال حيي ما يمنعك من فتح الباب إلا جشيشتك‏ التي في التنور تخاف أن أشركك‏ فيها فافتح فإنك آمن من ذلك فقال له كعب لعنك الله لقد دخلت علي من باب دقيق

Ka’ab said, ‘The door isn’t going to be opened for you. Return to where you come from!’ Hayy said, ‘Nothing prevents you from opening the door except your cooked meal which is in the oven. You are fearing that I might participate in it. Open the door, for you are safe from that’. Ka’ab said to him, ‘May Allah^-azwj Curse you! You have come to me from a delicate door.

ثم قال افتحوا له الباب ففتحوا له فقال ويلك يا كعب انقض العهد بينك و بين محمد و لا ترد رأيي فإن محمدا لا يفلت من هذا الجمع أبدا فإن فاتك هذا الوقت لا تدرك‏ مثله أبدا

Then he said, ‘Open the door for him!’ They opened it for him, and he said, ‘Woe be unto you, O Ka’ab! Break the agreement, which is between you and Muhammad^-saww, and do not reject my opinion, for Muhammad^-saww cannot escape from this army, ever! If this time (opportunity) is lost by you, you will not come across the like of it ever!’’

قال و اجتمع كل من كان في الحصن من رؤساء اليهود مثل‏ غزال بن شمول‏ و ياسر بن قيس‏ و رفاعة بن زيد و الزبير بن باطا فقال لهم كعب ما ترون قالوا أنت سيدنا و المطاع فينا و صاحب عهدنا و عقدنا فإن نقضت نقضنا معك و إن أقمت أقمنا معك و إن خرجت خرجنا معك

He (the narrator) said, ‘Everyone who was in the fortress from the chiefs of the Jews, gathered around, like Gazal Bin Shamoul, and Yasir Bin Qays, and Rafa’at Bin Zayd, and Al Zubeyr Bin Bata’a. Ka’ab said to them, ‘What are your views?’ They said, ‘You are our chief, and the obeyed one among us, and the master of our agreement and our pact. If you want to break, we will break, and if you stand by it, we shall stand along with you, and if you go out (to war), we will go out (to war) along with you’.

قال الزبير بن باطا و كان شيخا كبيرا مجربا قد ذهب بصره قد قرأت التوراة التي أنزلها الله في سفرنا بأنه يبعث نبيا في آخر الزمان يكون مخرجه بمكة و مهاجره‏ في هذه البحيرة يركب الحمار العري و يلبس الشملة و يجتزئ بالكسيرات‏ و التميرات و هو الضحوك القتال في عينيه الحمرة و بين كتفيه خاتم النبوة

Zubeyr Bin Bata said, and he was an old man, experienced, his eyesight had gone, ‘I have read the Torah which Allah Revealed, during our journey, and He^-azwj would be Sending a Prophet^-saww at the end of times. He^-saww would come out at Makkah, and would emigrate to Al-Medina, in this city. He^-saww would ride the unsaddled donkey, and wear the cloak, he^-saww would suffice with the broken (items) and the dates, and he^-saww would be cheerful of the fighting. There would be redness in his^-saww eyes, and between his^-saww shoulders would be a seal of the Prophet-hood.

يضع سيفه على عاتقه لا يبالي من لاقى يبلغ سلطانه منقطع الخف و الحافر فإن كان هذا هو فلا يهولنه هؤلاء و جمعهم و لو نأوي‏ على هذه الجبال الرواسي لغلبها

He^-saww would place his^-saww sword upon his^-saww shoulder, not caring who he^-saww faces. His^-saww authority would reach the shoes (infantry) and the hooves (cavalry). If this was him^-saww, then these ones and their armies will not (be able to) humiliate him^-saww, and even if these mountains and hills were to come to him^-saww, he^-saww would overcome them’.

فقال حيي ليس هذا ذاك ذلك النبي من بني إسرائيل و هذا من العرب من ولد إسماعيل و لا يكونوا بني إسرائيل‏ أتباعا لولد إسماعيل أبدا لأن الله قد فضلهم على الناس جميعا و جعل منهم‏ النبوة و الملك و قد عهد إلينا موسى‏ أَلَّا نُؤْمِنَ لِرَسُولٍ حَتَّى يَأْتِيَنا بِقُرْبانٍ تَأْكُلُهُ النَّارُ و ليس مع محمد آية و إنما جمعهم جمعا و سحرهم و يريد أن يغلبهم بذلك

Hayy said, ‘He^-saww isn’t that one! That would be the Prophet^-as from the Children of Israel, and this one^-saww is from the Arabs, from the sons^-as of Ismail^-as, and the Children cannot happen to be the followers of the sons^-as of Ismail^-as, ever, because Allah^-azwj has Merited them over the people in their entirety, and Made the Prophet-hood and the kingdom to be among them, and Musa^-as has pacted to us we should not believe in any Rasool until he brings us an offering which the Fire consumes’. [3:183], and there isn’t any Sign with Muhammad^-saww, and rather he^-saww has gathered them together and enchanted them (by sorcery), and he^-saww is intending to overcome them with that’.

فلم يزل يقلبهم عن رأيهم حتى أجابوه فقال لهم أخرجوا الكتاب الذي بينكم و بين محمد فأخرجوه فأخذه حيي بن أخطب و مزقه و قال قد وقع الأمر فتجهزوا و تهيئوا للقتال

He did not cease to turn them from their views until they responded to him. Then he said to them, ‘Bring out the letter which is between you and Muhammad^-saww! They brought it out, and Hayy Bin Akhtab grabbed it and tore it, and said, ‘The matter has occurred, therefore prepare yourselves and be ready for the fight’.

و بلغ رسول الله ص ذلك فغمه غما شديدا و فزع أصحابه فقال رسول الله ص لسعد بن معاذ و أسيد بن حصين‏ و كانا من الأوس و كانت بنو قريظة حلفاء الأوس ائتيا بني قريظة فانظرا ما صنعوا فإن كانوا نقضوا العهد فلا تعلما أحدا إذا رجعتما إلي و قولا عضل و القارة

And (the news of) that reached Rasool-Allah^-saww, and he^-saww was gloomy with intense gloom, and his^-saww companions panicked. Rasool-Allah^-saww said to Sa’ad Bin Muaz, and Aseyd Bin Hazeyr, and he was from the chief of (the tribe of) Al-Aws, and the clan of Qareyza were allies of (the clan of) Al-Aws, and said to both of them: ‘Go to the clan of Qareyza and look at what they are doing. If they have broken the agreement, then do not let anyone know of it when you return to me^-saww, and say, ‘Azal and Al-Qara’ (two treacherous tribes from the Arabs who had betrayed before).

فجاء سعد بن معاذ و أسيد بن حصين إلى باب الحصن فأشرف عليهما كعب من الحصن فشتم سعدا و شتم رسول الله ص فقال له سعد إنما أنت ثعلب في حجر لتولين قريش و ليحاصرنك رسول الله ص و لينزلنك‏ على الصغر و القمأ و ليضربن عنقك

Sa’ad Bin Muaz and Aseyd Bin Hazeyr came to the door of the fortress, and Ka’ab overlooked upon them from the fortress, and insulted Sa’ad and insulted Rasool-Allah^-saww. Sa’ad said to him, ‘But rather, you are a fox in a hole. Quraysh will turn on you and Rasool-Allah^-saww will besiege you, and you would be brought down to the smallness and the disgrace, and you neck would be struck’.

ثم رجعا إلى رسول الله ص فقالا له عضل و القارة فقال رسول الله ص لُعِنَا نحن أمرناهم بذلك و ذلك أنه كان على عهد رسول الله ص عيون لقريش يتجسسون خبره و كانت عضل و القارة قبيلتان من العرب دخلا في الإسلام ثم غدرا و كان إذا غدر أحد ضرب بهما المثل فيقال عضل و القارة

Then they returned to Rasool-Allah^-saww and said to him^-saww, ‘Azal and Al Qara’. Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘For our sake we instructed them with that’. And that is because they were spies for Quraysh upon the agreement of Rasool-Allah^-saww, spying on his^-saww news. And Azal and Al-Qara were two tribes from the Arabs, having entered into Al-Islam, then betrayed. Whenever anyone betrayed, the example was struck with these two, and it would be said, ‘Azal and Al-Qara’.

و رجع حيي بن أخطب إلى أبي سفيان و قريش فأخبرهم بنقض بني قريظة العهد بينهم و بين رسول الله ص ففرحت قريش بذلك

And Hayy Bin Akhtab returned to Abu Sufyan and Quraysh, and informed them of the breaking by the clan of Qareyza of the agreement between them and Rasool-Allah^-saww. Quraysh were joyful at that.

فلما كان في جوف الليل جاء نعيم بن مسعود الأشجعي إلى رسول الله ص و قد كان أسلم قبل قدوم قريش بثلاثة أيام فقال يا رسول الله قد آمنت بالله و صدقتك و كتمت إيماني عن الكفرة فإن أمرتني أن آتيك بنفسي و أنصرك بنفسي فعلت و إن أمرت أن أخذل بين‏ اليهود و بين قريش فعلت حتى لا يخرجوا من حصنهم

When it was the middle of the night, Naeem Bin Masoud Al-Ashjai’e came to Rasool-Allah^-saww, and he had already become a Muslim before the advent of Quraysh by three days, and he said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! I have believed in Allah^-azwj, and ratified you^-saww, and concealed my Eman from the Kafirs. If you^-saww were to order me to come to you^-saww by myself and help you, I shall do so, and if you^-saww were to order me to betray between the Jews and Quraysh, I shall do so, until they do not come out from their fortress’.

فقال رسول الله ص خذل‏ بين اليهود و بين قريش فإنه أوقع عندي قال فتأذن لي أن أقول فيك ما أريد قال قل ما بدا لك

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Betray between the Jews and Quraysh, but it is more painful with me^-saww’. He said, ‘Then, do you permit me that I say regarding you^-saww whatever I want?’ He^-saww said: Say, whatever comes to you’.

فجاء إلى أبي سفيان فقال له تعرف مودتي لكم و نصحي و محبتي أن ينصركم الله على عدوكم و قد بلغني أن محمدا قد وافق اليهود أن يدخلوا بين عسكركم و يميلوا عليكم و وعدهم إذا فعلوا ذلك أن يرد عليهم جناحهم الذي قطعه بني النضير و قينقاع فلا أرى أن تدعوهم يدخلوا عسكركم‏ حتى تأخذوا منهم رهنا تبعثوا بهم إلى مكة فتأمنوا مكرهم و غدرهم

He went to Abu Sufyan and said to him, ‘You do recognise my cordiality to you all, and my sincere advice, and my love. May Allah^-azwj Help you over your enemies. And it has reached me that Muhammad^-saww has agreed to let the Jews enter among your soldiers, and they should lean against you, and he^-saww promised them, when they did that, that he^-saww would return their wings to them which the clan of Nazeyr and Al-Qaynaqa had cut off. Therefore, I do not view that you should invite them to enter to be among your soldiers until a security deposit is taken from them (captives) and send them to Makkah. Thus, you would be safe from their plots and their treachery.

فقال له أبو سفيان وفقك الله و أحسن جزاءك مثلك أهدى‏ النصائح و لم يعلم أبو سفيان بإسلام نعيم و لا أحد من اليهود

Abu Sufyan said to him, ‘May Allah^-azwj Grant you success, and excellent Recompense, like the advice you have gifted’. And Abu Sufyan did not know of the Islam of Naeem, nor did anyone from the Jews.

ثم جاء من فوره ذلك إلى بني قريظة فقال له يا كعب تعلم مودتي لكم و قد بلغني أن أبا سفيان قال نخرج هؤلاء اليهود فنضعهم في نحر محمد فإن ظفروا كان الذكر لنا و إن كانت علينا كانوا هؤلاء مقاديم الحرب

Then he immediately from that to the clan of Qareyza and he said, ‘O Ka’ab! You know of my cordiality to you all, and it reached me that Abu Sufyan said, ‘We will go out with these Jews and put them in (the way) of the slaughter of Muhammad^-saww. If they are victorious, that would be the mention for us, besides them, and if it goes against us, they would be at the forefront of the battle’.

فلا أرى لكم أن تدعوهم يدخلوا عسكركم حتى تأخذوا منهم عشرة من أشرافهم يكونون في حصنكم أنهم إن لم يظفروا بمحمد لم يبرحوا حتى يردوا عليكم عهدكم و عقدكم بين محمد و بينكم لأنه إن ولت قريش و لم يظفروا بمحمد غزاكم محمد فيقتلكم‏

Thus, I do not view for you that you should let them enter among your soldiers until you take ten of their noblemen to happen to be in your fortress. If they are not victorious against Muhammad^-saww, they would not depart until he^-saww returns your agreement returns to you all, and the pact between Muhammad^-saww and you, because, if Quraysh were to turn around and are not victorious with Muhammad^-saww, Muhammad^-saww will come with a military expedition against you and kill you all’.

فقالوا أحسنت و أبلغت في النصيحة لا نخرج من حصننا حتى نأخذ منهم رهنا يكونون في حصننا

They said, ‘Excellent advice, and well-informed is the advice. We will not come out from our fortress until we take a security deposit from them (captives) who would happen to be in our fortress’.

و أقبلت قريش فلما نظروا إلى الخندق قالوا هذه مكيدة ما كانت العرب تعرفها قبل ذلك فقيل لهم هذا من تدبير الفارسي الذي معه‏ فوافى عمرو بن‏ عبد ود و هبيرة بن وهب‏ و ضرار بن الخطاب إلى الخندق و كان رسول الله ص قد صف أصحابه بين يديه

And Quraysh came (for battle), but when they looked at the ditch, they said, ‘This is a strategy what the Arabs have not known before’. It was said to them, ‘This is from the mastermind of the Persians who is with him^-saww’. Amro Bin Abdi Wudd and Habeyra Bin Wahab, and Zarar Bin Al-Khattab, came over to the ditch, and Rasool-Allah^-saww had arranged his^-saww companions in rows in front of him^-saww.

فصاحوا بخيلهم حتى طفروا الخندق إلى جانب رسول الله ص فصاروا أصحاب رسول الله ص كلهم خلف رسول الله ص و قدموا رسول الله ص بين أيديهم و قال رجل من المهاجرين و هو فلان لرجل بجنبه من إخوانه أ ما ترى هذا الشيطان عمرا لا و الله‏ ما يفلت من يديه أحد فهلموا ندفع إليه محمدا ليقتله و نلحق نحن بقومنا

They shouted (spurred on) their horses until they had crossed the ditch to be at the side of Rasool-Allah^-saww. And his^-saww companions, all of them, came to be behind Rasool-Allah^-saww, and Rasool-Allah^-saww went ahead in front of them. And a man from the Emigrants said, and he was so and so (Umar), to a man by his side from these brethren, ‘But, do you not see this Satan^-la, Amro? No, by Allah^-azwj! No one can escape from in front of him. Therefore, come, we will hand over Muhammad^-saww to him, for him to kill him^-saww, and we shall join up with our people’.

فأنزل الله على نبيه في ذلك الوقت‏ قَدْ يَعْلَمُ اللَّهُ الْمُعَوِّقِينَ مِنْكُمْ وَ الْقائِلِينَ لِإِخْوانِهِمْ هَلُمَّ إِلَيْنا وَ لا يَأْتُونَ الْبَأْسَ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا إلى قوله‏ أَشِحَّةً عَلَى الْخَيْرِ أُولئِكَ لَمْ يُؤْمِنُوا فَأَحْبَطَ اللَّهُ أَعْمالَهُمْ وَ كانَ ذلِكَ عَلَى اللَّهِ يَسِيراً

Allah^-azwj Revealed unto Rasool-Allah^-saww during that time, His^-azwj Words: Allah has Known the hinderers from you and the speakers to their brethren, ‘Come to us!’ And none come to the battle except a few [33:18] Being niggardly upon you. [33:19] – up to His^-azwj Words: and that was always easy upon Allah [33:19].

و ركز عمرو بن عبد ود رمحه في الأرض و أقبل يجول جولة و يرتجز و يقول‏

و لقد بَحِحْتُ من النداء		بجمعكم هل من مبارز
و وقفت إذ جبن الشجاع		مواقف القرن المناجز
إني كذلك لم أزل		متسرعا نحو الهزاهز
إن الشجاعة في الفتى		و الجود من خير الغرائز

Amro Bin Abdi Wudd inserted his spear into the ground, and went on circling around it, and he was reciting a war poem, and he was saying (a poem) ‘And I have kept on calling to your crowd, ‘Is there anyone for duel?’ And I have stood where the brave is a coward, a pausing of the accomplished generation. I am like that, I do not cease to be quick to the hesitant ones, The bravery and the generosity among the youth are from the best traits’.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص مَنْ لِهَذَا الْكَلْبِ فَلَمْ يُجِبْهُ أَحَدٌ فَوَثَبَ‏ إِلَيْهِ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ فَقَالَ أَنَا لَهُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ فَقَالَ يَا عَلِيُّ هَذَا عَمْرُو بْنُ عَبْدِ وُدٍّ فَارِسَ يَلْيَلَ قَالَ أَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Who is for this dog?’ But no one answered him^-saww. Then, Amir Al-Momineen^-asws stood up and he^-asws said: ‘I^-asws am for him, O Rasool-Allah^-saww’. He^-saww said: ‘O Ali^-asws! This is Amro Bin Abdi Wudd, a horseman of Yaleyl (a valley)’. He^-asws said: ‘I^-asws am Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws’.

فَقَالَ لَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص ادْنُ مِنِّي فَدَنَا مِنْهُ فَعَمَّمَهُ بِيَدِهِ وَ دَفَعَ إِلَيْهِ سَيْفَهُ ذَا الْفَقَارِ وَ قَالَ لَهُ اذْهَبْ وَ قَاتِلَ بِهَذَا اللَّهُمَّ احْفَظْهُ مِنْ بَيْنِ يَدَيْهِ وَ مِنْ خَلْفِهِ وَ عَنْ يَمِينِهِ وَ عَنْ شِمَالِهِ وَ مِنْ فَوْقِهِ وَ مِنْ تَحْتِهِ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said to him: ‘Come near me^-saww’. He^-asws went near him^-saww, and he^-saww turbaned him^-asws by his^-saww own hand, and handed over his^-saww sword, Zulfaqar, to him^-asws, and said to him^-asws: ‘Go, and fight with this!’ And he^-saww said: ‘O Allah^-azwj! Protect him^-asws from in front of him^-asws, and from behind him^-asws, and from his^-asws right, and from his^-asws left, and from above him^-asws, and from below him^-asws’.

فَمَرَّ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ يُهَرْوِلُ فِي مِشْيَتِهِ وَ هُوَ يَقُولُ‏

لَا تَعْجَلَنَّ فَقَدْ أَتَاكَ		مُجِيبُ صَوْتِكَ غَيْرَ عَاجِزٍ
ذُو نِيَّةٍ وَ بَصِيرَةٍ		وَ الصِّدْقُ مُنْجِي كُلِّ فَائِزٍ
إِنِّي لَأَرْجُو أَنْ أُقِيمَ		عَلَيْكَ نَائِحَةَ الْجَنَائِزِ
مِنْ ضَرْبَةٍ نَجْلَاءَ يَبْقَى‏		صَوْتُهَا بَعْدَ الْهَزَاهِزِ

Amir Al-Momineen^-asws went and he^-asws was sprinting in his^-asws walk, and he^-asws was saying (a poem): ‘Do not be hasty for I^-asws have come, responding to your voice, without frustration, with intention and insight, and the sincerity, saviour of every winner. I^-asws hope to stand upon your funeral. One who strikes with a piercing wound will remain, being mentioned during discussions’.

فَقَالَ لَهُ عَمْرٌو مَنْ أَنْتَ قَالَ أَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ابْنُ عَمِّ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ وَ خَتَنُهُ

Amro said to him^-asws, ‘Who are you^-asws?’ He^-asws said: ‘I^-asws am Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws, cousin of Rasool-Allah^-saww, and his^-saww son-in-law’.

فَقَالَ وَ اللَّهِ إِنَّ أَبَاكَ كَانَ لِي صَدِيقاً وَ نَدِيماً وَ إِنِّي أَكْرَهُ أَنْ أَقْتُلَكَ مَا أَمِنَ ابْنُ عَمِّكَ حِينَ بَعَثَكَ إِلَيَّ أَنْ أَخْتَطِفَكَ بِرُمْحِي هَذَا فَأَتْرُكَكَ شَائِلًا بَيْنَ السَّمَاءِ وَ الْأَرْضِ لَا حَيٌّ وَ لَا مَيِّتٌ

He said, ‘By Allah^-azwj! Your^-asws father^-asws was a friend of mine and a companion, and I dislike killing you^-asws. your^-asws cousin^-saww is not safe when he^-saww sent you^-asws to me, and I would kidnap you^-asws with this spear of mine, and I would leave you hanging between the sky and the earth, neither alive nor dead!’

فَقَالَ لَهُ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ قَدْ عَلِمَ ابْنُ عَمِّي أَنَّكَ إِنْ قَتَلْتَنِي دَخَلْتُ الْجَنَّةَ وَ أَنْتَ فِي النَّارِ وَ إِنْ قَتَلْتُكَ فَأَنْتَ فِي النَّارِ وَ أَنَا فِي الْجَنَّةِ

Amir Al-Momineen^-asws said to him: ‘My^-asws cousin^-saww knows that if you were to kill me^-asws, I^-asws would enter Paradise, and you would be in the Fire, and if I^-asws  were to kill you, then you would be in the Fire, and I^-asws  would be in Paradise’.

فَقَالَ عَمْرٌو كِلْتَاهُمَا لَكَ يَا عَلِيُ‏ تِلْكَ إِذاً قِسْمَةٌ ضِيزى‏

Amro said, ‘Both of these are in your^-asws favour, O Ali^-asws, that is then an unfair distribution’.

فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ دَعْ هَذَا يَا عَمْرُو إِنِّي سَمِعْتُ مِنْكَ وَ أَنْتَ مُتَعَلِّقٌ بِأَسْتَارِ الْكَعْبَةِ تَقُولُ لَا يَعْرِضُ عَلَيَّ أَحَدٌ فِي الْحَرْبِ ثَلَاثَ خِصَالٍ إِلَّا أَجَبْتُهُ إِلَى وَاحِدَةٍ مِنْهَا وَ أَنَا أَعْرِضَ عَلَيْكَ ثَلَاثَ خِصَالٍ فَأَجِبْنِي إِلَى وَاحِدَةٍ

Ali^-asws said: ‘Leave this, O Amro! I^-asws heard from you, and you were hanging with the curtain of the Kabah, saying, ‘No one has ever presented to me three characteristics during the battle except I have answered to him to one of these’, and I^-asws hereby present three characteristics to you, therefore answer me to one’.

قَالَ هَاتِ يَا عَلِيُّ قَالَ تَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَ أَنَّ مُحَمَّداً رَسُولُ اللَّهِ قَالَ نَحِّ عَنِّي هَذَا

He said, ‘Give, O Ali^-asws!’ He^-asws said: ‘One of these is that you testify that there is no god except Allah^-azwj, and that Muhammad^-saww is Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj’. He said, ‘Remove this from me’.

قَالَ فَالثَّانِيَةُ أَنْ تَرْجِعَ وَ تَرُدَّ هَذَا الْجَيْشَ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ فَإِنْ يَكُ صَادِقاً فَأَنْتُمْ أَعْلَى بِهِ عَيْناً وَ إِنْ يَكُ كَاذِباً كَفَتْكُمْ ذُؤْبَانُ‏ الْعَرَبِ أَمْرَهُ

He^-asws said secondly: ‘Than you should return, and return this army from Rasool-Allah^-saww. If you were truthful, then you all would be higher in the eyes (of the people), and if you were liars, then you would have restrained the wolves of the Arabs, of its command’.

فَقَالَ إِذاً تَتَحَدَّثَ‏ نِسَاءُ قُرَيْشٍ بِذَلِكَ وَ يُنْشِدُ الشُّعَرَاءُ فِي أَشْعَارِهَا أَنِّي جَبَنْتُ وَ رَجَعْتُ عَلَى عَقِبِي مِنَ الْحَرْبِ وَ خَذَلْتُ قَوْماً رَأَسُونِي عَلَيْهِمْ

He said, ‘Then wouldn’t the women of Quraysh would be narrating with that, and wouldn’t the poets would be composing in their poems that I was a coward and turned back upon my heels from the battle, and I abandoned a people who had made me their chief upon them?’

فَقَالَ لَهُ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ فَالثَّالِثَةَ أَنْ تَنْزِلَ إِلَيَّ فَإِنَّكَ رَاكِبٌ وَ أَنَا رَاجِلٌ حَتَّى أُنَابِذَكَ فَوَثَبَ عَنْ فَرَسِهِ وَ عَرْقَبَهُ‏ وَ قَالَ هَذِهِ خَصْلَةٌ مَا ظَنَنْتُ أَنَّ أَحَداً مِنَ الْعَرَبِ يَسُومُنِي عَلَيْهَا

Amir Al-Momineen^-asws said: ‘Then the third is that you descend (from your horse) to me^-asws, for you are riding and I^-asws am on foot, until I^-asws oppose you’. He leapt from his horse and grabbed its neck and said, ‘This is a characteristic, I did not think anyone from the Arabs would equate me upon’.

ثُمَّ بَدَأَ فَضَرَبَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ بِالسَّيْفِ عَلَى رَأْسِهِ فَاتَّقَاهُ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ بِالدُّرْقَةِ فَقَطَعَهَا وَ ثَبَتَ السَّيْفُ عَلَى رَأْسِهِ فَقَالَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ يَا عَمْرُو أَ مَا كَفَاكَ أَنِّي بَارَزْتُكَ وَ أَنْتَ فَارِسُ الْعَرَبِ حَتَّى اسْتَعَنْتَ عَلَيَّ بِظَهِيرٍ

Then he began, so he struck Amir Al-Momineen^-asws with the sword upon his^-asws head. Amir Al-Momineen^-asws defended it with the shield, but it was cut and the sword hit upon his^-asws head. Ali^-asws said to him: ‘O Amro! Does it not suffice you that I^-asws am duelling you, and you are the horseman of the Arabs, until you are (now) asking for assistance against me^-asws?’

فَالْتَفَتَ عَمْرٌو إِلَى خَلْفِهِ فَضَرَبَهُ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ مُسْرِعاً عَلَى سَاقَيْهِ فَأَطَنَّهُمَا جَمِيعاً وَ ارْتَفَعَتْ بَيْنَهُمَا عَجَاجَةٌ فَقَالَ الْمُنَافِقُونَ قُتِلَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ثُمَّ انْكَشَفَتِ الْعَجَاجَةُ وَ نَظَرُوا فَإِذَا أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ عَلَى صَدْرِهِ قَدْ أَخَذَ بِلِحْيَتِهِ يُرِيدُ أَنْ يَذْبَحَهُ

Amro turned around to (look) at his behind, and Amir Al-Momineen^-asws struck him quickly upon his legs and cut them both off together, and a cloud of dust was raised between them. The hypocrites said, ‘Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws has been killed’. Then the dust settles, and they look, and there was Amir Al-Momineen^-asws upon his chest, having had grabbed his beard, intending to slaughter him.

ثُمَّ أَخَذَ رَأْسَهُ وَ أَقْبَلَ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ الدِّمَاءُ تَسِيلُ عَلَى رَأْسِهِ مِنْ ضَرْبَةِ عَمْرٍو وَ سَيْفُهُ يَقْطُرُ مِنْهُ الدَّمُ وَ هُوَ يَقُولُ وَ الرَّأْسُ بِيَدِهِ‏

أَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ. الْمَوْتُ خَيْرٌ لِلْفَتَى مِنَ الْهَرَبِ

He^-asws slaughtered him, then took his head and returned to Rasool-Allah^-azwj, and the blood was dripping upon his^-asws head from the strike of Amro, and his^-asws sword was dripping from the blood, and he^-asws was saying, while the head was in his^-asws hand: ‘I^-asws am Ali, and a son^-asws of Abdul Muttalib^-asws. The death is better for the youth than the fleeing’.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ يَا عَلِيُّ مَاكَرْتَهُ قَالَ نَعَمْ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ الْحَرْبُ خَدِيعَةٌ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘O Ali^-asws! You^-asws tricked him?’ He^-asws said: ‘Yes, O Rasool-Allah^-saww! The war is deception’.

و بعث رسول الله ص الزبير إلى هبيرة فضربه على رأسه ضربة فلق هامته و أمر رسول الله ص عمر بن الخطاب أن يبارز ضرار بن الخطاب فلما برز إليه ضرار انتزع له عمر سهما فقال ضرار ويلك يا ابن صُهاك أ رمي‏ في مبارزة و الله لئن رميتني لا تركت عدويا بمكة إلا قتلته

And Rasool-Allah^-saww send Al-Zubeyr to (duel) Habeyra Bin Wahab, and he struck upon his head with a strike, splitting his head. And Rasool-Allah^-saww ordered Umar Bin Al-Khattab that to duel against Zarar Bin Al-Khatab. When Zarar came to duel him, Umar took out two arrows, and Zarar said to him, ‘Woe be unto you, O son of Zahak! Are you going to fire arrows at me during a duel? By Allah^-azwj. If you were to fire arrows at me, I will not leave any enemy in Makkah except I would kill him’.

فانهزم عنه‏ عمر و مر نحوه ضرار و ضرب بالقناة على رأسه ثم قال احفظها يا عمر فإني آليت أن لا أقتل قرشيا ما قدرت عليه فكان عمر يحفظ له ذلك بعد ما ولي و ولاه

Umar was defeated during that, and Zarar passed by near him and tapped him upon his head with a rod, then said, ‘Remember it, O Umar, for I have decided that I will not kill a Quraysh was much as I am able upon. Umar memorised that for him afterwards, when he became ruler, so he made him a governor.

فبقي رسول الله يحاربهم في الخندق خمسة عشر يوما فقال أبو سفيان لحيي بن أخطب ويلك يا يهودي أين قومك فصار حيي بن أخطب إليهم فقال ويلكم اخرجوا فقد نابذتم محمدا الحرب فلا أنتم مع محمد و لا أنتم مع قريش

Rasool-Allah^-saww remained battling them in the ditch for fifteen days. Then Abu Sufyan said to Hayy Bin Akhtab, ‘Woe be unto you, O Jew, where are your people?’ Hayy Bin Akhtab came to them, and he said, ‘Woe be unto you all! Come out, for Muhammad^-saww has opposed you with the war. You are neither with Muhammad^-saww nor with Quraysh?’

فقال كعب لسنا خارجين حتى يعطينا قريش عشرة من أشرافهم رهنا يكونون في حصننا أنهم إن لم يظفروا بمحمد لم يبرحوا حتى يرد علينا محمد عهدنا و عقدنا فإنا لا نأمن أن تمر قريش و نبقى نحن في عقر دارنا و يغزونا محمد فيقتل رجالنا و يسبي نساءنا و ذرارينا و إن لم نخرج لعله يرد علينا عهدنا

Ka’ab said, ‘We won’t be coming out until Quraysh give us ten of their noblemen as a security, to happen to be in our fortress. If they are not victorious with Muhammad^-saww, they will not be allowed to depart until Muhammad^-saww returns to us our agreement and our pact, for we are not safe from Quraysh fleeing, and we remain slaughtered in our houses. Thus, he^-saww would kill our men, and make captives of our women and our offspring. And if we do not come out, perhaps he^-saww would return our agreement to us’.

فقال له حيي بن أخطب تطمع في غير مطمع فقد نابذت محمدا الحرب فلا أنتم مع محمد و لا أنتم مع قريش

Hayy Bin Akhtab said to him, ‘You are being covetous in another greed. The Arabs have established the war against Muhammad^-saww, so you are (now) neither with Muhammad^-saww, nor are you with Quraysh’.

فقال‏كعب هذا من شؤمك إنما أنت طائر تطير مع قريش غدا و تتركنا في عقر دارنا و يغزونا محمد

Ka’ab said, ‘This is from your inauspiciousness. But rather, you are a bird who would be flying with Quraysh tomorrow, and we will be left to be slaughtered in our houses, and Muhammad^-saww will unleash a military expedition against us’.

فقال له لك‏ الله علي و عهد موسى أنه إن لم تظفر قريش بمحمد أني أرجع معك إلى حصنك يصيبني ما يصيبك

Hayy said to him, ‘For you is a pact of Allah^-azwj against me, and pact of Musa^-as, if Quraysh are not victorious with Muhammad^-saww, I shall return to be with you in your fortress, whatever hits me, hits me’.

فقال كعب هو الذي قد قلته لك إن أعطتنا قريش رهنا يكونون عندنا و إلا لم نخرج فرجع حيي بن أخطب إلى قريش فأخبرهم فلما قال يسألون الرهن فقال أبو سفيان هذا و الله أول الغدر قد صدق نعيم بن مسعود لا حاجة لنا في إخوان القردة و الخنازير

Ka’ab said, ‘He is the one who said to you, ‘Either Quraysh gives us security (captives) to be with us, or else we will not come out’. Hayy Bin Akhtab returned to Quraysh and informed them. When he said, ‘They (Jews) are asking for the security’, Abu Sufyan said, ‘This, by Allah^-azwj, is the first treachery. Naeem Bin Masoud spoke the truth. There is no need for us with regards to the brothers of the monkeys and the pigs’.

فلما طال على أصحاب رسول الله ص الأمر و اشتد عليهم الحصار و كانوا في وقت برد شديد و أصابتهم مجاعة و خافوا من اليهود خوفا شديدا و تكلم المنافقون بما حكى الله عنهم و لم يبق أحد من أصحاب رسول الله ص إلا نافق إلا القليل

When the matter was prolonged upon the companions of Rasool-Allah^-saww, the siege tightened upon the, and they were in a time of intense cold, and they were hit by hunger, and they feared from the Jews with an intense fear. And the hypocrites spoke with what Allah^-azwj has Related about them, and there did not remain anyone from the companions of Rasool-Allah^-saww except he became a hypocrite, except for the few.

و قد كان رسول الله ص أخبر أصحابه أن العرب تتحزب علي و يجيئونا من فوق تغدر اليهود و نخافهم من أسفل و أنه يصيبهم جهد شديد و لكن تكون العاقبة لي عليهم

And Rasool-Allah^-saww had informed his^-saww companions: ‘The Arabs would be forming an alliance, and they would be coming from above, and the Jews would betray, and we fear them from below, and that severe stress would be hitting them, but the end result would happen to be for me^-saww, against them’.

فلما جاءت قريش و غدرت اليهود قال المنافقون‏ ما وَعَدَنَا اللَّهُ وَ رَسُولُهُ إِلَّا غُرُوراً

When Quraysh came, and the Jews betrayed, the hypocrites said, ‘‘Allah and His Rasool did not promise us except to deceive!’ [33:12].

و كان قوم‏ لهم دور في أطراف المدينة فقالوا يا رسول الله تأذن لنا أن نرجع إلى دورنا فإنها في أطراف المدينة و هي عورة و نخاف اليهود أن يغيروا عليها

And there was a group from them who had houses for them in the outskirts of Al-Medina, so they said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! Will you^-saww permit us to return to our house, for these are in the outskirts of Al-Medina, and these are exposed, and we fear the Jews would be overrunning upon these?’

و قال قوم هلموا فنهرب و نصير في البادية و نستجير بالأعراب فإن الذي كان يعدنا محمد كان باطلا كله

And another group said, ‘Come, we shall flee and come to be in the wilderness, and we shall dwell with the Bedouins, for that which Muhammad^-saww promised us, was false, all of it!’

و كان رسول الله ص أمر أصحابه أن يحرسوا المدينة بالليل و كان أمير المؤمنين عليه السلام على العسكر كله بالليل يحرسهم فإن تحرك أحد من قريش نابذهم

And Rasool-Allah^-saww had already ordered his^-saww companions that they should be guarding Al-Medina at night, and Amir Al-Momineen^-asws was in charge of the soldiers, guarding them all at night, so if anyone from Quraysh were to move, they should duel them.

و كان أمير المؤمنين عليه السلام يجوز الخندق و يصير إلى قرب قريش حيث يراهم فلا يزال الليل كله قائم وحده يصلي فإذا أصبح رجع إلى مركزه و مسجد أمير المؤمنين عليه السلام هناك معروف يأتيه من يعرفه فيصلي فيه و هو من مسجد الفتح إلى العقيق أكثر من غلوة نشاب

And Amir Al-Momineen^-asws would cross over the ditch, and come to be near Quraysh where he^-asws could see them. He^-asws would not cease standing alone during the night, all of it, praying Salat. When it was morning, he^-asws would return to his^-asws post. And the Masjid of Amir Al-Momineen^-asws over there is well-known. One who comes to it, would recognise it, so he would pray Salat in it, and it is from the Masjid Al-Fatah to Al-Aqeeq at a distance of more than the throw of the arrow.

فلما رأى رسول الله ص من أصحابه الجزع لطول الحصار صعد إلى مسجد الفتح و هو الجبل الذي عليه مسجد الفتح اليوم فدعا الله و ناجاه فيما وعده

When Rasool-Allah^-saww saw the panic from his^-saww companions, due to the prolongation of the siege, ascended to Masjid Al Fatah, and it is the hill upon which Masjid Al fatah is located today. He^-saww supplicated to Allah^-azwj, and whispered to Him^-azwj regarding what He^-azwj had Promised him^-saww.

و قال‏ يا صريخ المكروبين و يا مجيب المضطرين‏ و يا كاشف الكرب العظيم أنت مولاي و وليي و ولي آبائي الأولين اكشف عنا غمنا و همنا و كربنا و اكشف عنا كرب‏ هؤلاء القوم بقوتك و حولك و قدرتك

And it was from what he^-saww supplicated that he^-saww said: ‘O Responder to the screams of the oppressed! And O Answerer of the supplication of the distressed! And O Remover of the great distress! You^-azwj are my^-saww Master^-azwj, and my^-saww Guardian, and Guardian of my^-saww forefathers^-asws, the former ones. Remove our gloom, and our worries, and our distress, and Remove from us the evil these people by Your^-azwj Strength and Your^-azwj Power’.

فنزل‏ جبرئيل عليه السلام فقال يا محمد إن الله قد سمع مقالتك و أجاب دعوتك و أمر الدبور مع الملائكة أن تهزم قريشا و الأحزاب

Jibraeel^-as descended unto him^-saww and he^-as said: ‘O Muhammad^-saww! Allah^-azwj has Heard your^-saww speech, and Answered your^-saww supplication, and has Commanded Al Dabour – and it is the wind, along with the Angels that they defeat Quraysh and the allies’.

و بعث الله على قريش الدبور فانهزموا و قلعت أخبيتهم و نزل جبرئيل فأخبره بذلك فنادى رسول الله ص حذيفة بن اليمان و كان قريبا منه فلم يجبه ثم ناداه ثانيا فلم يجبه ثم ناداه ثالثا فقال لبيك يا رسول الله

And Allah^-azwj Send Al-Dabour upon Quraysh, and they were defeated, and their allies were uprooted. Then Jibraeel^-as descended and informed him^-saww of that. So Rasool-Allah^-saww called Huzeyfa Bin Al Yaman, and he^-saww was nearby him^-saww. But he did not answer him^-saww. Then he^-saww called out for a second time, but he did not answer him^-saww. Then he^-saww called for the third time, so he said, ‘At your^-saww service, O Rasool-Allah^-saww!’

فقال أدعوك فلا تجيبني قال يا رسول الله بأبي أنت و أمي من الخوف و البرد و الجوع

He^-saww said: ‘I^-saww called you, but you did not answer me^-saww?’ He said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! May my father and my mother be (sacrificed) for you^-saww! (It was) from the fear, and the cold, and the hunger’.

فقال‏ ادخل في القوم و آتني بأخبارهم و لا تحدثن حدثا حتى ترجع إلي فإن الله قد أخبرني أنه قد أرسل الرياح على قريش و هزمهم

He^-saww said: ‘Enter to be among the people (allies) and come to me^-saww with their news, and do not narrate any discussion until you return to me^-saww, for Allah^-azwj has Informed me^-saww that He^-azwj has Sent the winds upon Quraysh and defeated them’.

قال حذيفة فمضيت و أنا أنتفض من البرد فو الله ما كان إلا بقدر ما جزت الخندق حتى كأني في حمام فقصدت خباء عظيما فإذا نار تخبو و توقد و إذا خيمة فيها أبو سفيان قد دلا خصيتيه على النار و هو ينتفض‏ من شدة البرد و يقول يا معشر قريش إن كنا نقاتل أهل السماء بزعم محمد فلا طاقة لنا بأهل السماء و إن كنا نقاتل أهل الأرض فنقدر عليهم

Huzeyfa said, ‘I went, and I was shivering from the cold, for by Allah^-azwj, it was not except I had crossed the ditch, as if I was in the bath. I aimed for a big tent, and there was a fire which had been hidden and ignited. And in the tent was Abu Sufyan who had dangled himself upon the fire, and he was shivering from the intensity of the cold, and he was saying, ‘O community of Quraysh! If we were fighting the inhabitants of the sky, by the allegation of Muhammad^-saww, then there is no strength for us against the inhabitants of the sky. And if we were fighting the inhabitants of the earth, then we are able upon them’.

ثم قال لينظر كل رجل منكم إلى جليسه لا يكون لمحمد عين فيما بيننا

Then he said, ‘Let each man from you look at one seated next to him, that there does not happen to be a spy for Muhammad^-saww in what is between us’’.

قال حذيفة فبادرت أنا فقلت للذي عن يميني من أنت قال أنا عمرو بن العاص ثم قلت للذي عن يساري من أنت قال أنا معاوية و إنما بادرت إلى ذلك لئلا يسألني أحد من أنت

Huzeyfa said, ‘I hastily said to the one on my right, ‘Who are you? He said, ‘I am Amro Bin Al-Aas’. Then I said to the one on my left, ‘Who are you?’ He said, ‘I am Muawiya’. And rather, I hastened to that, lest one of them ask me who I am.

ثم ركب أبو سفيان راحلته و هي معقولة و لو لا أن رسول الله ص قال لا تحدث حدثا حتى ترجع إلي لقدرت أن أقتله

Then Abu Sufyan rode upon his ride, and he was at a reasonable distance from me, and if Rasool-Allah^-saww had not said, ‘Do not narrate any discussion until you return to me^-saww’, I would have been able upon killing him.

ثم قال أبو سفيان لخالد بن الوليد يا أبا سليمان لا بد من أن أقيم أنا و أنت على ضعفاء الناس ثم قال ارتحلوا إنا مرتحلون ففروا منهزمين‏

Then Abu Sufyan said to Khalid Bin Al-Waleed, ‘O Abu Suleyman! It is a must that I should arise and you be in charge upon the people’. Then he said to his companions, ‘Depart! I am departing’. They fled, defeated.

فلما أصبح رسول الله ص قال لأصحابه لا تبرحوا فلما طلعت الشمس دخلوا المدينة و بقي رسول الله ص في نفر يسير

When it was morning, Rasool-Allah^-saww said to his^-saww companions: ‘Do not give up!’ So when the sun emerged, they entered Al-Medina, and Rasool-Allah^-saww remained among a small number.

و كان ابن عرقة الكناني رمى سعد بن معاذ رحمه الله بسهم في الخندق فقطع أكحله فنزفه الدم فقبض سعد على أكحله بيده ثم قال اللهم إن كنت أبقيت من حرب‏ قريش شيئا فأبقني‏ لها فلا أحد أحب إلي محاربتهم من قوم‏ حاربوا الله و رسوله و إن كانت الحرب قد وضعت أوزارها بين رسول الله ص و بين قريش فاجعلها لي شهادة و لا تمتني حتى تقر عيني من بني قريظة

And Abu Farqad Al-Kanany had stabbed Sa’ad Bin Muaz with an arrow in the ditch, so his hand vein had been cut, and the blood flowed. Sa’ad grabbed upon his vein by his (other) hand, then said, ‘O Allah^-azwj! If there is anything to remain from the battle of Quraysh, then Cause me to remain for it. There is nothing more beloved for me than to battle a people who turned against Allah^-azwj and His^-azwj Rasool^-saww, and if the battle had placed its burdens between Rasool-Allah^-saww and Quraysh. Therefore, Make it to be a martyrdom for me, and do not Cause me to die until my eyes are delighted from the clan of Qureyza’.

فأمسك الدم و تورمت يده فضرب له رسول الله ص في المسجد خيمة و كان يتعاهده بنفسه فأنزل الله‏ يا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اذْكُرُوا نِعْمَةَ اللَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ إِذْ جاءَتْكُمْ جُنُودٌ فَأَرْسَلْنا عَلَيْهِمْ رِيحاً وَ جُنُوداً لَمْ تَرَوْها وَ كانَ اللَّهُ بِما تَعْمَلُونَ بَصِيراً

The blood stopped, and his hand swelled up, and Rasool-Allah^-saww struck a tent for him in the Masjid, and he^-saww had prepared it himself^-saww. Allah^-azwj Revealed: O you those who believe! Recall the Favour of Allah upon you when the armies came towards you, so We Sent a wind against them and armies you could not see, and Allah was always Seeing what you were doing [33:9].

إلى قوله‏ إِذْ جاؤُكُمْ مِنْ فَوْقِكُمْ وَ مِنْ أَسْفَلَ مِنْكُمْ‏ بني قريظة حين غدروا و خافوهم أصحاب رسول الله ص‏ وَ إِذْ زاغَتِ الْأَبْصارُ وَ بَلَغَتِ الْقُلُوبُ الْحَناجِرَ إلى قوله‏ إِنْ يُرِيدُونَ إِلَّا فِراراً

Up to His^-azwj Words: When they came to you from above you and from below you – meaning the clan of Qareyza when they betrayed, and the companions of Rasool-Allah^-saww were frightened, and when the eyes stunned and the hearts reached the throats, and you were thinking the assumptions about Allah [33:10] – up to His^-azwj Words: They were only intending to flee [33:13].

و هم الذين قالوا لرسول الله ص تأذن لنا نرجع إلى منازلنا فإنها في أطراف المدينة و نخاف اليهود عليها فأنزل الله فيهم‏ إِنَّ بُيُوتَنا عَوْرَةٌ وَ ما هِيَ بِعَوْرَةٍ إِنْ يُرِيدُونَ إِلَّا فِراراً

And they are the one who said to Rasool-Allah^-saww, ‘Will you^-saww permit us to return to our houses, for these are in the outskirts of Al-Medina, and these are exposed, and we fear the Jews would be overrunning upon these?’ Allah^-azwj Revealed regarding them: ‘Surely our houses are exposed!’ And these were not exposed. They were only intending to flee [33:13].

إلى قوله‏ وَ كانَ ذلِكَ عَلَى اللَّهِ يَسِيراً و نزلت هذه الآية في الثاني لما قال لعبد الرحمن بن عوف هلم ندفع محمدا إلى قريش و نلحق نحن بقومنا يَحْسَبُونَ الْأَحْزابَ لَمْ يَذْهَبُوا إلى قوله‏ وَ ذَكَرَ اللَّهَ كَثِيراً

Up to His^-azwj Words: and that was always easy upon Allah [33:19]. And this Verse was Revealed regarding the second one (Umar) when he said to Abdul Rahman bin Awf, ‘Come, we shall hand over Muhammad^-saww to Quraysh and we shall adhere to our people: They were reckoning that the confederates had not gone away. [33:20] – up to His^-azwj Words: and does the Zikr of Allah, a lot [33:21].

ثم وصف الله المؤمنين المصدقين بما أخبرهم رسول الله ما يصيبهم في الخندق من الجهد فقال‏ وَ لَمَّا رَأَ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ الْأَحْزابَ‏ إلى قوله‏ وَ ما زادَهُمْ إِلَّا إِيماناً يعني ذلك البلاء و الجهد و الخوف إلا إيمانا وَ تَسْلِيماً

Then Allah^-azwj Described the Momineen, the ratifiers of what Rasool-Allah^-saww informed them about what afflicted them in the trench from the Jihad, He^-azwj Said: And when the Momineen saw the confederates, [33:22] – up to His^-azwj Words: And it did not increase them except in Eman – meaning the calamity, and the Jihad and the fear, except in Eman, and submission [33:22]’’.

وَ فِي رِوَايَةِ أَبِي الْجَارُودِ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ‏ فِي قَوْلِهِ‏ مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ رِجالٌ صَدَقُوا ما عاهَدُوا اللَّهَ عَلَيْهِ‏ أَلَّا يَفِرُّوا أَبَداً فَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ قَضى‏ نَحْبَهُ‏ أَيْ أَجَلَهُ وَ هُوَ حَمْزَةُ وَ جَعْفَرُ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ‏ وَ مِنْهُمْ مَنْ يَنْتَظِرُ أَجَلَهُ‏ يَعْنِي عَلِيّاً عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ يَقُولُ اللَّهُ‏ وَ ما بَدَّلُوا تَبْدِيلًا لِيَجْزِيَ اللَّهُ الصَّادِقِينَ بِصِدْقِهِمْ وَ يُعَذِّبَ الْمُنافِقِينَ إِنْ شاءَ الْآيَةَ

And in a report of Abu Al-Jaroud,

‘From Abu Ja’far^-asws regarding His^-azwj Words: From the Momineen there are men who ratified what they made a pact with Allah upon. – that they will not flee, ever, So, from them is one who fulfilled his vow, – i.e. hastened for it, and he is Hamza^-asws and Ja’far Bin Abu Talib^-asws and from them is one who awaits, – i.e. his^-asws term, meaning Ali^-asws. Allah^-azwj Says:  and they did not change with any alteration [33:23] For Allah to Recompense the truthful due to their truthfulness, and He would Punish the hypocrites if He so Desires to [33:24] – the Verse’’.

وَ قَالَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ‏ فِي قَوْلِهِ‏ وَ رَدَّ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا بِغَيْظِهِمْ لَمْ يَنالُوا خَيْراً وَ كَفَى اللَّهُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ الْقِتالَ‏ بِعَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ‏ وَ كانَ اللَّهُ قَوِيًّا عَزِيزاً وَ نَزَلَ فِي بَنِي قُرَيْظَةَ وَ أَنْزَلَ‏ الَّذِينَ ظاهَرُوهُمْ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْكِتابِ‏ إِلَى قَوْلِهِ‏ وَ كانَ اللَّهُ عَلى‏ كُلِّ شَيْ‏ءٍ قَدِيراً

And Ali Bin Ibrahim said regarding His^-azwj Words: And Allah Repulsed those who committed Kufr in their rage. They did not attain any good, and Allah Sufficed the Momineen in the battle, [33:25] – with Ali Bin Abu Talib^-asws: and Allah would always be Strong, Mighty [33:25].

وَ نَزَلَ فِي بَنِي قُرَيْظَةَ وَ أَنْزَلَ‏ الَّذِينَ ظاهَرُوهُمْ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْكِتابِ‏ إِلَى قَوْلِهِ‏ وَ كانَ اللَّهُ عَلى‏ كُلِّ شَيْ‏ءٍ قَدِيراً

And it was Revealed regarding the clan of Qureyza: And He Brought down those backers from the people of the Book [33:26] – up to His^-azwj Words: and Allah would always be Able upon all things [33:27].

فلما دخل رسول الله ص المدينة و اللواء معقود أراد أن يغتسل من الغبار فناداه جبرائيل عذيرك من محارب و الله ما وضعت الملائكة لأمتها كيف‏ تضع لأمتك إن الله يأمرك أن لا تصلي العصر إلا ببني قريظة فإني متقدمك و مزلزل بهم حصنهم إنا كنا في آثار القوم نزجرهم زجرا حتى بلغوا حمراء الأسد

When Rasool-Allah^-saww entered Al-Medina, and the flag was tied up, he^-saww intended to wash from the dust. Jibraeel^-as called out to him^-saww: ‘Your^-saww nobility is from a warrior, and Allah^-azwj did not Place the Angels for its community, so how would He^-azwj Place it for your^-saww community? Allah^-azwj Commands you^-saww that you^-saww should not pray Al-Asr Salat except by the Clan of Qureyza. I^-as am preceding you^-saww, and will shake them in their fortresses. We are in the footsteps of the people. We will restrain them with a restrainment until you^-saww reach Hamraa Al-Asad’.

فخرج رسول الله ص فاستقبله حارثة بن نعمان فقال له ما الخبر يا حارثة فقال بأبي و أمي‏ يا رسول الله هذا دحية الكلبي ينادي في الناس ألا لا يصلين العصر أحد إلا في بني قريظة فقال ذاك جبرئيل ادعوا عليا

Rasool-Allah^-saww went out, and Haaris Bin Al-No’man met him^-as. He^-saww said to him; ‘What is the news, O Haaris?’ He said, ‘May my father and my mother be sacrificed for you^-saww – O Rasool-Allah^-saww – Dahiyat Al-Kalby is calling out among the people, ‘No one should pray Al-Asr except by the Clan of Qureyza!’ He^-saww said: ‘That is Jibraeel^-as. Call Ali^-asws’.

فجاء علي عليه السلام فقال له ناد في الناس أن لا يصلين أحد العصر إلا في بني قريظة فجاء أمير المؤمنين عليه السلام فنادى فيهم فخرج الناس فبادروا إلى بني قريظة

Ali^-asws came, and he^-saww said to him^-asws: ‘Call out among the people: ‘No one should pray Al-Asr Salat except by the Clan of Qureyza’. Amir-Al-Momineen^-asws went and called out among the people, and took them to the Clan of Qureyza.

و خرج رسول الله ص و علي عليه السلام بين يديه مع الراية العظمى‏ و كان حيي بن أخطب لما انهزمت قريش جاء فدخل حصن بني قريظة فجاء أمير المؤمنين عليه السلام فأحاط بحصنهم فأشرف عليهم كعب بن أسيد من الحصن يشتمهم و يشتم رسول الله ص

And Rasool-Allah^-saww went out, and Amir-al-Momineen^-asws was in front of him^-saww, with the great Flag. And when Quraysh were defeated, Hayy Bin Akhtab went and entered the fortress of the Clan of Qureyza. Amir-al-Momineen^-asws came and surrounded their fortress. Then Ka’ab Bin Asad came out from the fortress and insulted them, and insulted Rasool-Allah^-saww.

فأقبل رسول الله ص‏على حمار فاستقبله أمير المؤمنين عليه السلام فقال بأبي و أمي‏ يا رسول الله لا تدنو من الحصن‏ فقال رسول الله ص يا علي لعلهم شتموني‏ إنهم لو رأوني‏ لأذلهم الله

Rasool-Allah^-saww came over riding upon a donkey, but Amir-Al-Momineen^-asws faced him^-saww and said: ‘May my^-asws father^-asws and my^-asws mother^-asws be sacrificed for you^-saww – O Rasool-Allah^-saww – Do not approach the fortress’. Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘O Ali^-asws! Is it because they are insulting me^-saww? If they were to see me^-saww, Allah^-azwj would Humiliate them!’

ثم دنا رسول الله ص من حصنهم فقال يا إخوة القردة و الخنازير و عبدة الطاغوت أ تشتموني إنا إذا نزلنا بساحة قوم فساء صباحهم فأشرف عليهم كعب بن أسيد من الحصن فقال و الله يا أبا القاسم ما كنت جهولا فاستحيا رسول الله ص حتى سقط الرداء من ظهره حياء مما قاله

Then Rasool-Allah^-saww went near their fortress and said: ‘O brothers of the monkeys and pigs and worshippers of the tyrants! Are you insulting me^-saww? We, when we descend in the courtyard of a people, their morning is evil’. Ka’ab Bin Aseyd emerged to them from the fortress and said, ‘By Allah^-azwj, O Abu Al Qasim^-saww! You^-saww were not foolish’. Rasool-Allah^-saww was embarrassed until the robe fell down from his^-saww back out of embarrassment from what he said.

و كان حول الحصن نخل كثير فأشار إليه رسول الله ص بيده فتباعد عنه و تفرق في المفازة و أنزل رسول الله ص العسكر حول حصنهم فحاصرهم‏ ثلاثة أيام فلم يطلع أحد منهم رأسه فلما كان بعد ثلاثة أيام نزل إليه غزال بن شمول‏ فقال يا محمد تعطينا ما أعطيت إخواننا من بني النضير احقن دماءنا و نخلي لك البلاد و ما فيها و لا نكتمك شيئا فقال لا أو تنزلون على حكمي

And around the fortress there was a huge palm tree. Rasool-Allah^-saww gestured towards it with his^-saww hand, so it distanced itself from it, and separated to be in the wasteland. And Rasool-Allah^-saww encamped the soldiers around the fortress. They besieged them for three days. Not one of them stuck their heads out from it. After the three days, Gazaal Bin Shamoul came down to them, and he said, ‘O Muhammad^-saww! Give us what was given to our brother from the Clan of Nuzeyr. Spare our blood, and we shall leave for you^-saww the town and whatever is in it, and we shall not conceal anything’. He^-saww said: ‘No, or you yield to two of my^-saww judgements’.

فرجع و بقوا أياما فبكى النساء و الصبيان إليهم و جزعوا جزعا شديدا فلما اشتد عليهم الحصار نزلوا على حكم رسول الله ص فأمر رسول الله ص بالرجال فكتفوا و كانوا سبعمائة و أمر بالنساء فعزلوا

He returned, and remained for a day. The women and children among them cried, and they grieve with a severe grievance. When the siege became difficult upon them, they yielded to the judgement of Rasool-Allah^-saww. Then Rasool-Allah^-saww ordered for the men to be bound, and there were seven hundreds of them, and ordered for the women to be dismissed.

و قامت الأوس إلى رسول الله ص فقالوا يا رسول الله حلفاؤنا و موالينا من دون الناس نصرونا على الخزرج في المواطن كلها و قد وهبت لعبد الله بن أبي سبعمائة دراع و ثلاثمائة حاسر في صبيحة واحدة و ليس نحن بأقل من عبد الله بن أبي

And Al Aws stood up to Rasool-Allah^-saww and they said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! Our allies and our friends from besides the people help us against Al-Khazraj in all the places, and Abdullah Bin Abay has been gifted seven hundred armoured ones and three hundred unarmoured in one company, and we aren’t any less that Abdullah Bin Abayy’.

فلما أكثروا على رسول الله ص قال لهم أ ما ترضون أن يكون الحكم فيهم إلى رجل منكم فقالوا بلى فمن هو قال سعد بن معاذ قالوا قد رضينا بحكمه فأتوا به في محفة و اجتمعت الأوس حوله يقولون له يا أبا عمرو اتق الله و أحسن في حلفائك و مواليك فقد نصرونا ببغاث‏ و الحدائق و المواطن كلها

Whey they (insisted) a lot upon Rasool-Allah^-saww, he^-saww said to them: ‘Are you not pleased that the decision regarding them should be to a man from you?’ They said, ‘Yes, so who is he?’ He^-saww said: ‘Sa’ad Bin Muaz’. They said, ‘We are pleased with his decision’. They came with him in a carrier, and Al Aws gathered around him saying to him, ‘O Abu Amro! Fear Allah^-azwj and be good regarding your allies and your friends, for they have helped us with birds, and gardens, and places, all of them’.

فلما أكثروا عليه قال قد آن‏ لسعد أن لا تأخذه في الله لومة لائم فقالت‏ الأوس وا قوماه ذهب و الله بنو قريظة و بكى‏ النساء و الصبيان إلى سعد فلما سكتوا قال لهم سعد يا معشر اليهود أ رضيتم بحكمي فيكم قالوا بلى قد رضينا بحكمك و الله قد رجونا نصفك و معروفك و حسن نظرك

When they insisted upon him, he said, ‘I had approached Sa’ad that he should not take any blame from any accuser for the Sake of Allah^-azwj’. Al Aws said, ‘O his people! By Allah^-azwj the clan of Qureyza have gone!’ And the women and the children cried to Sa’ad. Whey they quietened, Sa’ad said to them, ‘O community of Jews! Are you pleased with my judgment regarding you?’ They said, ‘Yes, we are pleased with your judgment. By Allah^-azwj, we are hopeful for your fairness and your kindness and the goodness of your vision’.

فأعاد عليهم القوم فقالوا بلى يا أبا عمرو فالتفت إلى رسول الله ص إجلالا له فقال ما ترى بأبي أنت و أمي‏ فقال احكم فيهم يا سعد فقد رضيت بحكمك فيهم فقال قد حكمت يا رسول الله أن تقتل رجالهم و تسبي نساءهم و ذراريهم و تقسم غنائمهم و أموالهم بين المهاجرين و الأنصار

The people reiterated upon them and they said, ‘Yes Abu Amro!’ He turned towards Rasool-Allah^-saww in respect to him^-saww and said, ‘What is your^-saww view, may my father and my mother be sacrificed for you^-saww!’ He^-saww said: ‘Decide regarding them, O Sa’ad, and I^-saww will be pleased with your decision regarding them’. He said, ‘I have decided, O Rasool-Allah^-saww, that their men be killed and their women and children be made captives, and their booty and their wealth be distributed between the Emigrants and the Helpers’.

فقام رسول الله ص فقال حكمت‏ بحكم الله من فوق سبعة أرقعة ثم انفجر جرح سعد بن معاذ فما زال ينزفه الدم حتى مضى‏ رحمه الله و ساقوا الأسارى إلى المدينة و أمر رسول الله ص بأخدود فحفرت بالبقيع فلما أمسى أمر بإخراج رجل رجل و كان يضرب عنقه

Rasool-Allah^-saww stood up and said: ‘You judged with the Judgment of Allah^-azwj from above the seven skies’. Then the wound of Sa’ad Bin Muaz burst out. He did not stop bleeding until he passed away, may Allah^-azwj have Mercy on him; and they ushered the captives to Al-Medina, and Rasool-Allah^-saww ordered with pits to be dug out, and these were dug out at Al Baqie. When it was evening, he^-saww ordered with bringing man after man, and his neck was struck off.

فقال حيي بن أخطب لكعب بن أسيد ما ترى يصنع‏ بهم فقال له ما يسوؤك أ ما ترى الداعي لا يقلع و الذي يذهب لا يرجع فعليكم بالصبر و الثبات على دينكم

Huyay Bin Akhtab said to Ka’ab Bin Aseyd, ‘What did you view he^-saww is going to do with them?’ He said to him, ‘He^-azwj will not hurt you. Do you not see that the caller does not uproot, and the one who goes away and does not return. Upon you is to be with the patience, and the steadfastness upon your religion’.

فأخرج كعب بن أسيد مجموعة يديه إلى عنقه و كان جميلا وسيما فلما نظر إليه رسول الله ص قال‏ له يا كعب أ ما نفعك وصية ابن الحواس‏ الحبر الذكي‏ الذي قدم عليكم من الشام فقال تركت الخمر و الحمير و جئت إلى البؤس و التمور لنبي يبعث مخرجه بمكة و مهاجره في هذه البحيرة يجتزئ بالكسر و التميرات و يركب الحمار العري في عينيه حمرة و بين كتفيه خاتم النبوة يضع سيفه على عاتقه لا يبالي من لاقى‏ يبلغ سلطانه منقطع الخف و الحافر

Ka’ab Bin Sa’ad came out, with his hands bound to his neck, and he was a handsome man, so when Rasool-Allah^-saww looked towards him, he^-saww said to him: ‘O Ka’ab, did the will of Ibn Al-Hawaas not benefit you? The intelligent Rabbi who came to you from Syria, said, ‘Avoid the intoxicants, and the pigs. And I have come to the evil and the dates, for a Prophet^-saww would be Sent, coming out at Makkah, and would emigrate in this area, and cutting off the disappointment, and would be riding a bareback donkey, with redness in its eyes, in between his^-saww shoulders would be the seal of the Prophet-hood, and would place his^-saww sword upon his^-saww shoulder, and would not care which one of you he^-saww meets, his^-saww authority would cut-off the slipper and the hoof’.

فقال قد كان ذلك يا محمد و لو لا أن اليهود يعيروني أني جزعت عند القتل لآمنت بك و صدقتك و لكني على دين اليهود عليه أحيا و عليه أموت فقال رسول الله ص قدموه و اضربوا عنقه فضربت

He said, ‘Such is the case, O Muhammad^-saww! And had the Jews supported me, I would have grieved at the fighting in believing in you^-saww, and would have ratified you^-saww, but I am upon the religion of the Jews. Upon it I live, and upon it I shall die’. Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Go ahead and strike his neck!’ His neck was struck off.

ثم قدم حيي بن أخطب فقال رسول الله ص يا فاسق كيف رأيت الله صنع بك فقال و الله يا محمد ما ألوم نفسي في عداوتك و لقد قلقلت كل مقلقل و جهدت كل الجهد و لكن من يخذل الله يخذل‏ ثم قال حين قدم للقتل‏

The Hayy Bin Akhtab came, so Rasool-Allah^-saww said to him: ‘O Mischievous one! How did you see what Allah^-azwj has Done with you?’ He said, ‘By Allah^-azwj – O Muhammad^-saww – I do not blame myself regarding enmity towards you^-saww, and would have shaken with every shaking, and would have fought with every fight, but the one whom Allah^-azwj Abandons, is abandoned’.

فقدم و ضرب عنقه فقتلهم رسول الله ص في البردين بالغداة و العشي في‏ ثلاثة أيام و كان يقول اسقوهم العذب و أطعموهم الطيب و أحسنوا إسارهم‏ حتى قتلهم كلهم و أنزل الله على رسوله فيهم‏ وَ أَنْزَلَ الَّذِينَ ظاهَرُوهُمْ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْكِتابِ مِنْ صَياصِيهِمْ‏ أي من حصونهم‏ وَ قَذَفَ فِي قُلُوبِهِمُ الرُّعْبَ‏ إلى قوله‏ وَ كانَ اللَّهُ عَلى‏ كُلِّ شَيْ‏ءٍ قَدِيراً

And Rasool-Allah^-saww had his neck to be struck, and he^-saww killed them in two cold spells of the mornings and evenings over three days. And he^-saww was saying: ‘Give them sweet water, and give them good food, and make good their bondage’, until he^-saww had killed all of them and Allah^-azwj Revealed upon His^-azwj Rasool^-saww with regards to them: And He Brought down those backers from the people of the Book from their fortress and Cast awe into their hearts [33:26] – up to His^-azwj Words: and Allah would always be Able upon all things [33:27]’’. [3]

4- ل، الخصال لي، الأمالي للصدوق مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ الْمُعَاذِيُّ وَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ أَحْمَدَ اللَّيْثِيُ‏ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الْفَرَجِ الشُّرُوطِيِّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ بْنِ الْمُهَلَّبِ عَنْ أَبِي أُسَامَةَ عَنْ عَوْفٍ عَنْ مَيْمُونٍ عَنِ الْبَرَاءِ بْنِ عَازِبٍ قَالَ: لَمَّا أَمَرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص بِحَفْرِ الْخَنْدَقِ عَرَضَتْ لَهُ صَخْرَةٌ عَظِيمَةٌ شَدِيدَةٌ فِي عَرْضِ الْخَنْدَقِ لَا تَأْخُذُ مِنْهَا الْمَعَاوِلُ

‘Al Khisaal’ of Al Sadouq – Muhammad Bin Ahmad Al Muazy, and Muhammad Bin Ibrahim Bin Ahmad al Layti, from Muhammad Bin Abdullah Bin Al Faraj Al Shuruty, from Muhammad Bin Yazeed Bin Al Muhallib, from Abu Asama, from Awf, from Maymoun, from Al Bara’a Bin Aazib who said,

‘When Rasool-Allah^-saww ordered with the digging of the trench, a solid large rock presented to him^-saww in the width of the trench, no pickaxe could chip away anything from it.

فَجَاءَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَلَمَّا رَآهَا وَضَعَ ثَوْبَهُ وَ أَخَذَ الْمِعْوَلَ وَ قَالَ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ وَ ضَرَبَ ضَرْبَةً فَكَسَرَ ثُلُثَهَا وَ قَالَ اللَّهُ أَكْبَرُ أُعْطِيتُ مَفَاتِيحَ الشَّامِ وَ اللَّهِ إِنِّي لَأُبْصِرُ قُصُورَهَا الْحَمْرَاءَ السَّاعَةَ

Rasool-Allah^-saww came, and when he^-saww saw it, he^-saww placed down his^-saww cloak and grabbed the pickaxe and said: ‘In the Name of Allah^-azwj!’, and he^-saww struck a strike, and broke a third of it, and he^-saww said: ‘Allah^-azwj is the Greatest! I^-saww have been Given the keys of Syria. By Allah^-azwj! I^-saww can visualise its red castles at the moment’.

ثُمَّ ضَرَبَ الثَّانِيَةَ فَقَالَ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ فَفَلَقَ ثُلُثاً آخَرَ فَقَالَ اللَّهُ أَكْبَرُ أُعْطِيتُ مَفَاتِيحَ فَارِسَ وَ اللَّهِ إِنِّي لَأُبْصِرُ قَصْرَ الْمَدَائِنِ الْأَبْيَضَ

Then he^-saww struck it secondly and said: ‘In the Name of Allah^-azwj!’ Another third of it split up, and he^-saww said: ‘Allah^-azwj is the Greatest! I^-saww have been Given the keys of Persia. By Allah^-azwj! I^-saww can visualise the white castles of the cities’.

ثُمَّ ضَرَبَ الثَّالِثَةَ فَفَلَقَ بَقِيَّةَ الْحَجَرِ وَ قَالَ اللَّهُ أَكْبَرُ أُعْطِيتُ مَفَاتِيحَ الْيَمَنِ وَ اللَّهِ إِنِّي لِأُبْصِرُ أَبْوَابَ الصَّنْعَاءِ مَكَانِي هَذَا

Then he^-saww struck the third, and the rest of the rock split up, and he^-saww said: ‘Allah^-azwj is the Greatest! I^-saww have been Given the keys of Al Yemen. By Allah^-azwj! I^-saww can visualise the gates of Sana’a in this place’’.[4]

5- فس، تفسير القمي أَبِي رَفَعَهُ قَالَ قَالَ الصَّادِقُ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ‏ كَانَ النِّكَاحُ وَ الْأَكْلُ مُحَرَّمَيْنِ فِي شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ بِاللَّيْلِ بَعْدَ النَّوْمِ يَعْنِي كُلُّ مَنْ صَلَّى الْعِشَاءَ وَ نَامَ وَ لَمْ يُفْطِرْ ثُمَّ انْتَبَهَ حُرِّمَ‏ عَلَيْهِ الْإِفْطَارُ وَ كَانَ النِّكَاحُ حَرَاماً بِاللَّيْلِ‏ وَ النَّهَارِ فِي شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ

‘Tafseer Al Qummi’ – Abu Rafie said,

‘Al-Sadiq^-asws said: ‘The marital relationship and the eating were both Prohibited during a Month of Ramazan at night after the sleep, meaning every one who prayed Salat Al-Isha and slept and did not break Fast, then woke up, the breaking of the Fast would be Prohibited unto him; and the marital relationship was Prohibited at night and day during a Month of Ramazan.

وَ كَانَ رَجُلٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ النَّبِيِّ ص يُقَالُ لَهُ خَوَّاتُ بْنُ جُبَيْرٍ أَخُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ الَّذِي كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَكَّلَهُ بِفَمِ الشِّعْبِ فِي يَوْمِ أُحُدٍ فِي خَمْسِينَ مِنَ الرُّمَاةِ فَفَارَقَهُ أَصْحَابُهُ وَ بَقِيَ فِي اثْنَيْ عَشَرَ رَجُلًا فَقُتِلَ عَلَى بَابِ الشِّعْبِ وَ كَانَ أَخُوهُ هَذَا خَوَّاتُ‏ بْنُ جُبَيْرٍ شَيْخاً ضَعِيفاً وَ كَانَ صَائِماً فَأَبْطَأَتْ‏ عَلَيْهِ أَهْلُهُ بِالطَّعَامِ فَنَامَ قَبْلَ أَنْ يُفْطِرَ

And a man from the companions of the Prophet^-saww called Khawwas bin Jubeyr, brother of Abdullah Bin Jubeyr whom Rasool-Allah^-saww had with being at the entrance of the mountain pass during the day of Ohad among fifty from the archers, so his companions separated and he remain among twelve men, and he was killed at the entrance of the mountain pass; and this brother of his Khawwas Bin Jubeyr was an old man, weak, and he was Fasting. His wife delayed the meal to him, so he fell asleep before he broke the Fast.

فَلَمَّا انْتَبَهَ قَالَ لِأَهْلِهِ قَدْ حُرِّمَ‏ عَلَيَّ الْأَكْلُ فِي هَذِهِ اللَّيْلَةِ فَلَمَّا أَصْبَحَ حَضَرَ حَفْرَ الْخَنْدَقِ فَأُغْمِيَ عَلَيْهِ فَرَآهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَرَقَّ لَهُ وَ كَانَ قَوْمٌ مِنَ الشَّبَابِ يَنْكِحُونَ بِاللَّيْلِ سِرّاً فِي شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ

When he woke up, he said to his wife, ‘The eating is Prohibited unto me during this night’. When it was morning, he attended the digging of the trench and he fainted. Rasool-Allah^-saww saw him and felt pity for him, and there were a group of youngsters who were having marital relationship at night secretly during the Month of Ramazan.

فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ‏ أُحِلَّ لَكُمْ لَيْلَةَ الصِّيامِ الرَّفَثُ إِلى‏ نِسائِكُمْ هُنَّ لِباسٌ لَكُمْ وَ أَنْتُمْ لِباسٌ لَهُنَّ عَلِمَ اللَّهُ أَنَّكُمْ كُنْتُمْ تَخْتانُونَ أَنْفُسَكُمْ فَتابَ عَلَيْكُمْ وَ عَفا عَنْكُمْ فَالْآنَ بَاشِرُوهُنَّ وَ ابْتَغُوا ما كَتَبَ اللَّهُ لَكُمْ وَ كُلُوا وَ اشْرَبُوا حَتَّى يَتَبَيَّنَ لَكُمُ الْخَيْطُ الْأَبْيَضُ مِنَ الْخَيْطِ الْأَسْوَدِ مِنَ الْفَجْرِ ثُمَّ أَتِمُّوا الصِّيامَ إِلَى اللَّيْلِ‏

Allah^-azwj Revealed: Permissible for you during the night of the Fast, is the going to your wives; they are an apparel for you and you are an apparel for them. Allah knows you were deceiving yourselves, but He still Turned towards you and Excused you. As for now, sleep with them and seek what Allah has Ordained for you; and eat and drink until it is clear for you, the white thread from the black thread at dawn, then complete the Fast up to the night; [2:187].

فَأَحَلَّ اللَّهُ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى النِّكَاحَ بِاللَّيْلِ فِي شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ وَ الْأَكْلَ بَعْدَ النَّوْمِ إِلَى طُلُوعِ الْفَجْرِ لِقَوْلِهِ‏ حَتَّى يَتَبَيَّنَ لَكُمُ الْخَيْطُ الْأَبْيَضُ مِنَ الْخَيْطِ الْأَسْوَدِ مِنَ الْفَجْرِ قَالَ هُوَ بَيَاضُ النَّهَارِ مِنْ سَوَادِ اللَّيْلِ‏

Allah^-azwj Blessed and Exalted Permitted the marital relationship at night during a Month of Ramazan and the eating after the sleep, up to the emergence of the dawn due to His^-azwj Words: until it is clear for you, the white thread from the black thread at dawn [2:187]. He^-asws said: ‘It is the whiteness of the day from the blackness of the night’’.[5]

6- فس، تفسير القمي فِي رِوَايَةِ أَبِي الْجَارُودِ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ‏ فِي قَوْلِهِ‏ يَقُولُ أَهْلَكْتُ مالًا لُبَداً قَالَ هُوَ عَمْرُو بْنُ عَبْدِ وُدٍّ حِينَ عَرَضَ عَلَيْهِ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ الْإِسْلَامَ يَوْمَ الْخَنْدَقِ وَ قَالَ فَأَيْنَ مَا أَنْفَقْتُ فِيكُمْ مَالًا لُبَداً وَ كَانَ أَنْفَقَ مَالًا فِي الصَّدِّ عَنْ‏ سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ فَقَتَلَهُ عَلِيٌّ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ‏

Tafseer Qummi – In a report of Abu Al-Jaroud,

‘From Abu Ja’far^-asws regarding His^-azwj Words: He is saying, ‘I have destroyed abundant wealth’ [90:6]. He^-asws said: ‘He is Amro Bin Abdi Wudd when Ali^-asws presented Al-Islam to him on the day of Al-Khandaq and said: ‘Where the wealth you had spent among you?’, and he had spent wealth in blocking from the Way of Allah^-azwj. Ali^-asws killed him’’.[6]

7- فس، تفسير القمي‏ يَمُنُّونَ عَلَيْكَ أَنْ أَسْلَمُوا نَزَلَتْ فِي عثكن‏ يَوْمَ الْخَنْدَقِ وَ ذَلِكَ أَنَّهُ مَرَّ بِعَمَّارِ بْنِ يَاسِرٍ وَ هُوَ يَحْفِرُ الْخَنْدَقَ وَ قَدِ ارْتَفَعَ الْغُبَارُ مِنَ الْحَفْرِ فَوَضَعَ عثكن كُمَّهُ عَلَى أَنْفِهِ وَ مَرَّ فَقَالَ عَمَّارٌ

لَا يَسْتَوِي مَنْ يَبْتَنِي‏ الْمَسَاجِدَا		يَظَلُ‏ فِيهَا رَاكِعاً وَ سَاجِداً
كَمَنْ يَمُرُّ بِالْغُبَارِ حَائِداً		يُعْرِضُ عَنْهُ جَاحِداً مُعَانِداً

Tafseer Al-Qummi – They think they are conferring a favour upon you if they become Muslims [49:17] – It was Revealed regarding Askan on the day of Al-Khandaq, and that is because he passed by Ammar Bin Yasser^-ra and he^-ra was digging the trench and the dust had raised from the digging. Askan placed his sleeve upon his nose and passed on. Ammar^-ra said (a poem), ‘They are not the same, one who builds the Masjids to shade therein the performers of Rukuu and Sajdah, like the one who passes by the dust defiantly, turning away from it fighting, obstinately’.

فَالْتَفَتَ إِلَيْهِ عثكن فَقَالَ يَا ابْنَ السَّوْدَاءِ إِيَّايَ تَعْنِي ثُمَّ أَتَى رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص فَقَالَ لَهُ لَمْ نَدْخُلْ مَعَكَ‏ لِتُسَبَّ أَعْرَاضُنَا فَقَالَ لَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص قَدْ أَقَلْتُكَ إِسْلَامَكَ فَاذْهَبْ

Askan turned towards him and said, ‘O Ibn Al-Sowda! Is it me you mean?’ Then he came to Rasool-Allah^-saww and said, ‘We did not enter (into Al-Islam) to be with you^-saww for our honour to be insulted’. Rasool-Allah^-saww said to him: ‘You Islam has killed you’. He went away.

فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَ‏ يَمُنُّونَ عَلَيْكَ أَنْ أَسْلَمُوا قُلْ لا تَمُنُّوا عَلَيَّ إِسْلامَكُمْ بَلِ اللَّهُ يَمُنُّ عَلَيْكُمْ أَنْ هَداكُمْ لِلْإِيمانِ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ صادِقِينَ‏ أَيْ لَيْسَ هُمْ صَادِقِينَ‏ إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَعْلَمُ غَيْبَ السَّماواتِ وَ الْأَرْضِ وَ اللَّهُ بَصِيرٌ بِما تَعْمَلُونَ

Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Revealed: They think they are conferring a favour upon you if they become Muslims. Say, ‘You professing Islam does not confer a favour upon me, but Allah Confers a Favour upon you if He Guides you to the Eman, if you were truthful [49:17] – i.e., they were not truthful, Surely, Allah knows the unseen matters of the skies and the earth; and Allah Sees what you do [49:18]’’.[7]

8- ل، الخصال‏ فِي خَبَرِ الْيَهُودِيِّ الَّذِي سَأَلَ أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ عَنْ خِصَالِ الْأَوْصِيَاءِ فَقَالَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ فِيمَا قَالَ وَ أَمَّا الْخَامِسَةُ يَا أَخَا الْيَهُودِ فَإِنَّ قُرَيْشاً وَ الْعَرَبَ تَجَمَّعَتْ وَ عَقَدَتْ بَيْنَهَا عَقْداً وَ مِيثَاقاً لَا تَرْجِعُ مِنْ وَجْهِهَا حَتَّى تَقْتُلَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص وَ تَقْتُلَنَا مَعَهُ مَعَاشِرَ بَنِي عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ

‘Al-Khisaal’, in a Hadeeth of the Jew who asked Amir Al-Momineen^-asws about the characteristics of the successors^-as. He^-asws said among what he^-asws said: ‘And as for the fifth, O Jewish brother! Quraysh and Arabs had gathered and made a pact between them and a covenant that, ‘You will not return from four directions until Rasool-Allah^-saww is killed, and we kill the community of the clan of Abdul Muttalib^-asws along with him^-saww’.

ثُمَّ أَقْبَلَتْ بِحَدِّهَا وَ حَدِيدِهَا حَتَّى أَنَاخَتْ عَلَيْنَا بِالْمَدِينَةِ وَاثِقَةً بِأَنْفُسِهَا فِيمَا تَوَجَّهَتْ لَهُ فَهَبَطَ جَبْرَئِيلُ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ عَلَى النَّبِيِّ ص فَأَنْبَأَهُ بِذَلِكَ فَخَنْدَقَ عَلَى نَفْسِهِ وَ مَنْ مَعَهُ مِنَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ وَ الْأَنْصَارِ فَقَدِمَتْ قُرَيْشٌ فَأَقَامَتْ عَلَى الْخَنْدَقِ مُحَاصِرَةً لَنَا تَرَى فِي أَنْفُسِهَا الْقُوَّةَ وَ فِينَا الضَّعْفَ تُرْعِدُ وَ تُبْرِقُ

Then they came with their numbers and their iron (weapons) until they overlooked upon us at Al-Medina, confident with themselves regarding what they were headed to. Jibraeel^-as descended unto the Prophet^-saww and informed him^-saww with that. He^-saww and the ones with him^-saww from the Emigrants and the Helpers dug a trench to defend. Quraysh advanced and stood at the trench around us to see for themselves the strength and the weakness in us, (like) thunder and lightning.

وَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص يَدْعُوهَا إِلَى اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ وَ يُنَاشِدُهَا بِالْقَرَابَةِ وَ الرَّحِمِ فَتَأْبَى وَ لَا يَزِيدُهَا ذَلِكَ إِلَّا عُتُوّاً وَ فَارِسُهَا وَ فَارِسُ الْعَرَبِ يَوْمَئِذٍ عَمْرُو بْنُ عَبْدِ وُدٍّ يَهْدِرُ كَالْبَعِيرِ الْمُغْتَلِمِ يَدْعُو إِلَى الْبِرَازِ وَ يَرْتَجِزُ وَ يَخْطِرُ بِرُمْحِهِ مَرَّةً وَ بِسَيْفِهِ مَرَّةً لَا يُقْدِمُ عَلَيْهِ مُقْدِمٌ وَ لَا يَطْمَعُ فِيهِ طَامِعٌ لَا حَمِيَّةٌ تُهَيِّجُهُ وَ لَا بَصِيرَةٌ تُشَجِّعُهُ

And Rasool-Allah^-saww invited them to Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic, and adjured them with the kinship and the womb relationships. But they refused, and that did not increase them except in insolence, and their horseman and horseman of the Arabs on that day was Amro Bin Abdi Wudd, rolling down like the large camel, calling to the duel and reciting war rhetoric and threatening with his spear at times and with his sword at times. No frontman advanced to him, nor did any coveting ones coveted in duelling him, no enthusiast was enthusiastic to him, nor was anyone seen to be brave (enough) to (confront) him.

فَأَنْهَضَنِي إِلَيْهِ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ عَمَّمَنِي بِيَدِهِ وَ أَعْطَانِي سَيْفَهُ هَذَا وَ ضَرَبَ بِيَدِهِ إِلَى ذِي الْفَقَارِ فَخَرَجْتُ إِلَيْهِ وَ نِسَاءُ أَهْلِ الْمَدِينَةِ بَوَاكِي إِشْفَاقاً عَلَيَّ مِنِ ابْنِ عَبْدِ وُدٍّ فَقَتَلَهُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ بِيَدِي وَ الْعَرَبُ لَا تَعُدُّ لَهَا فَارِساً غَيْرَهُ وَ ضَرَبَنِي هَذِهِ الضَّرْبَةَ وَ أَوْمَأَ بِيَدِهِ إِلَى هَامَتِهِ

Rasool-Allah^-saww got me^-asws up to him, and turbaned me^-asws with his^-saww own hand and gave me^-asws this sword of his^-saww’, and he^-asws struck his^-asws hand towards Zulfiqar. ‘So, I^-asws went out to him and the women of the people of Al-Medina were crying fearing upon me^-asws from Ibn Abd Wudd. But Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Killed him by my^-asws hand, and the Arabs did not prepare any horseman for it other than him, and he hit me^-asws with this strike’, and he^-asws gestured by his^-asws hand to his^-asws head.

فَهَزَمَ اللَّهُ قُرَيْشاً وَ الْعَرَبَ بِذَلِكَ وَ بِمَا كَانَ مِنِّي فِيهِمْ مِنَ النِّكَايَةِ ثُمَّ الْتَفَتَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ إِلَى أَصْحَابِهِ فَقَالَ أَ لَيْسَ كَذَلِكَ قَالُوا بَلَى يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ‏

Allah^-azwj Defeated Quraysh and the Arabs with that and with what was from me^-asws among them from the crushing defeat’. Then he^-asws turned towards his^-asws companions and said: ‘Isn’t it like that?’ They said, ‘Yes, O Amir Al-Momineen^-asws![8]

9- ما، الأمالي للشيخ الطوسي أَبُو عَمْرٍو عَنِ ابْنِ عُقْدَةَ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ يَحْيَى عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ‏ عَنْ‏ أَبِيهِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَ‏ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ عَبَّادٍ عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ صَفِيَّةَ بِنْتِ عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ أَنَّهَا قَالَتْ كُنَّا مَعَ حَسَّانَ بْنِ ثَابِتٍ فِي حِصْنٍ فَارِعٍ وَ النَّبِيُّ ص بِالْخَنْدَقِ فَإِذَا يَهُودِيٌّ يَطُوفُ بِالْحِصْنِ فَخِفْنَا أَنْ يَدُلَّ عَلَى عَوْرَتِنَا فَقُلْتُ لِحَسَّانَ لَوْ نَزَلْتَ إِلَى هَذَا الْيَهُودِيِّ فَإِنِّي أَخَافُ أَنْ يَدُلَّ عَلَى عَوْرَتِنَا قَالَ يَا بِنْتَ عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ لَقَدْ عَلِمْتَ مَا أَنَا بِصَاحِبِ هَذَا قَالَتْ فَتَحَزَّمْتُ‏ ثُمَّ نَزَلْتُ وَ أَخَذْتُ عَمُوداً وَ قَتَلْتُهُ‏ بِهِ ثُمَّ قُلْتُ لِحَسَّانَ اخْرُجْ فَاسْلُبْهُ قَالَ لَا حَاجَةَ لِي فِي سَلْبِهِ‏

‘Al Amaali’ of the Sheykh Al Tusi – Abu Amro, from Ibn Aqada, from Ahmad Bin Yahya, from Abdul Rahman, from his father, from Muhammad Bin Is’haq, from Yahya Bin Abbad, from Abu Al Zubeyr, from his father, from Safiya Bint Abdul Muttalib who said,

‘We were with Hasan Bin Sabit in a strong fortress, and the Prophet^-saww was at Al-Khandaq. So, when the Jews circled around the fortress, we feared that they would point to our honour. I said to Al-Hasan, ‘If you could descend to this Jew, for I fear that he might point to our honour’. He said, ‘O daughter of Abdul Muttalib^-asws! You know that I am not for this guy’. She said, ‘You tighten your belt’. Then she descended and grabbed an iron rod and killed him with it. Then she said to Hasan, ‘Come out and plunder him’. He said, ‘There is no need for me in plundering him’’.[9]

10- ن، عيون أخبار الرضا عليه السلام بِالْأَسَانِيدِ الثَّلَاثَةِ عَنِ الرِّضَا عَنْ آبَائِهِ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ عَلَيْهِمُ السَّلَامُ قَالَ: كُنَّا مَعَ النَّبِيِّ ص فِي حَفْرِ الْخَنْدَقِ إِذْ جَاءَتْهُ فَاطِمَةُ وَ مَعَهَا كَسِيرَةٌ مِنْ خُبْزٍ فَدَفَعَتْهَا إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ص فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ص مَا هَذِهِ الْكَسِيرَةُ قَالَتْ قُرْصاً خَبَزْتُهُ لِلْحَسَنِ وَ الْحُسَيْنِ جِئْتُكَ مِنْهُ بِهَذِهِ الْكَسِيرَةِ فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ص أَمَا إِنَّهُ أَوَّلُ طَعَامٍ دَخَلَ فَمَ أَبِيكَ مُنْذُ ثَلَاثٍ‏

‘Uyoon Al Akhbar Al-Reza^-asws’, by the three chains,

‘From Al-Reza^-asws from Ali^-asws having said: ‘We were with the Prophet^-saww in digging the trench when (Syeda) Fatima^-asws came to him^-saww and with her^-asws was a piece of bread, and she^-asws handed it over to the Prophet^-saww. The Prophet^-saww said: ‘What is this piece?’ She said, ‘A disc (of bread), I^-asws had baked for Al-Hassan^-asws and Al-Husayn^-asws. I^-asws came to you^-saww with this piece from it’. The Prophet^-saww said: ‘But it is the first meal to enter into the mouth of your^-asws father^-saww since three (days)’’.[10]

11- ب، قرب الإسناد أَبُو الْبَخْتَرِيِّ عَنْ جَعْفَرٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ عَلَيْهِمُ السَّلَامُ أَنَّهُ قَالَ: الْحَرْبُ خُدْعَةٌ إِذَا حَدَّثْتُكُمْ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص حَدِيثاً فَوَ اللَّهِ لَأَنْ أَخِرَّ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ أَوْ يَخْطَفَنِي الطَّيْرُ أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِنْ أَنْ أَكْذِبَ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ إِذَا حَدَّثْتُكُمْ عَنِّي فَإِنَّمَا الْحَرْبُ خُدْعَةٌ

‘Qurb Al Asnaad’ – Abu Al Bakhtari,

‘From Ja’far^-asws, from his^-asws father^-asws, from Ali^-asws having said: ‘The war is deceptive. Whenever I^-asws narrate a Hadeeth to you all from Rasool-Allah^-saww, by Allah^-azwj, if I^-asws were to fall from the sky or a bird snatches me^-asws away would be more beloved to me^-asws than if I^-asws were to lie upon Rasool-Allah^-saww, and then I^-asws narrate to you that rather the war is a deception.

فَإِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص بَلَغَهُ أَنَّ بَنِي قُرَيْظَةَ بَعَثُوا إِلَى أَبِي سُفْيَانَ أَنَّكُمْ إِذَا الْتَقَيْتُمْ أَنْتُمْ وَ مُحَمَّدٌ أَمْدَدْنَاكُمْ وَ أَعَنَّاكُمْ فَقَامَ النَّبِيُّ ص فَخَطَبَنَا فَقَالَ إِنَّ بَنِي قُرَيْظَةَ بَعَثُوا إِلَيْنَا أَنَّا إِذَا الْتَقَيْنَا نَحْنُ وَ أَبُو سُفْيَانَ أَمْدَدُونَا وَ أَعَانُونَا فَبَلَغَ ذَلِكَ أَبَا سُفْيَانَ فَقَالَ غَدَرَتْ يَهُودُ فَارْتَحَلَ عَنْهُمْ‏

It reached Rasool-Allah^-saww that the clan of Qureyza sent a message to Abu Sufyan, ‘When you meet (in battle), you and Muhammad^-saww, we shall help you and assist you’. The Prophet^-saww stood up and addressed us saying: ‘The clan of Qureyza sent to us that when we meet (in battle), us and Abu Sufyan, they would help us and assist us’. That reached Abu Sufyan, and he said, ‘The Jews have deceived us, so depart from them’’.[11]

12- ب، قرب الإسناد أَبُو الْبَخْتَرِيِّ عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَلَيْهِمُ السَّلَامُ‏ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص بَعَثَ عَلِيّاً عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ يَوْمَ بَنِي قُرَيْظَةَ بِالرَّايَةِ وَ كَانَتْ سَوْدَاءَ تُدْعَى الْعُقَابَ وَ كَانَ لِوَاؤُهُ أَبْيَضَ‏

‘Qurb Al Asnaad’ – Abu Al Bakhtari,

‘From Ja’far^-asws Bin Muhammad^-asws, from his^-asws father^-asws: ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww sent Ali^-asws on the day of the (battle of) clan of Qureyza with the flag, and it was black calling for the retaliation, and his^-saww banner was white’’.[12]

13- ب، قرب الإسناد عَنْهُ عَنْ جَعْفَرٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَلَيْهِمُ السَّلَامُ أَنَّهُ قَالَ: عَرَضَهُمْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص يَوْمَئِذٍ يَعْنِي بَنِي قُرَيْظَةَ عَلَى الْعَانَاتِ فَمَنْ وَجَدَهُ أَنْبَتَ قَتَلَهُ وَ مَنْ لَمْ يَجِدْهُ أَنْبَتَ أَلْحَقَهُ بِالذَّرَارِيِ

‘Qurb Al Asnaad’, from him,

‘From Ja’far^-asws Bin Muhammad^-asws, from his^-asws father^-asws having said: ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww, on the day of (battle of) the clan of Qureyza, told them to present the armpits: ‘One who is found to have grown (pubic hair), kill him, and one who is not found to have grown (pubic hair), is to be kept with the offspring’’.[13]

14- ما، الأمالي للشيخ الطوسي ابْنُ مَخْلَدٍ عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ نُصَيْرٍ عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ كُمَيْتٍ عَنِ الْمُعَلَّى بْنِ مَهْدِيٍّ عَنْ أَبِي شِهَابٍ عَنِ الْحَجَّاجِ بْنِ أَرْطَأَةَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ عُمَرَ عَنْ عَطِيَّةَ رَجُلٍ مِنْ بَنِي قُرَيْظَةَ قَالَ: عُرِضْنَا عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَمَنْ كَانَتْ لَهُ عَانَةٌ قَتَلَهُ وَ مَنْ لَمْ تَكُنْ لَهُ عَانَةٌ تَرَكَهُ فَلَمْ تَكُنْ لِي عَانَةٌ فَتَرَكَنِي‏

‘Al Amaali’ of the Sheykh Al Tusi – Ibn Makhlad, from Ja’far Bin Muhammad Bin Nusayr, from Al Husayn Bin Kumeyt, from Al Moalla Bin Mahdi, from Abu Shihad, from Al Hajjaj Bin Artat, from Abdul Malik Bin Umar, from Atiya a man from the clan of Qureyza who said,

‘We exposed (armpits) to Rasool-Allah^-saww, so the one who had pubic hair for him, he^-saww killed him, and one who did not happen to have pubic hair for him, left him. There did not happen to be any pubic hair for me, so he^-saww left me (to live)’’.[14]

15- ك، إكمال الدين أَبِي عَنْ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ وَ الْبَزَنْطِيِّ مَعاً عَنْ أَبَانِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ عَنْ أَبَانِ بْنِ تَغْلِبَ عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ: لَمَّا دَعَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص بِكَعْبِ بْنِ أَسَدٍ لِيَضْرِبَ عُنُقَهُ فَأُخْرِجَ‏ وَ ذَلِكَ فِي غَزْوَةِ بَنِي قُرَيْظَةَ نَظَرَ إِلَيْهِ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَقَالَ لَهُ يَا كَعْبُ أَ مَا نَفَعَكَ وَصِيَّةُ ابْنِ حَوَّاشٍ الْحَبْرِ الْمُقْبِلِ مِنَ الشَّامِ‏ فَقَالَ تَرَكْتُ الْخَمْرَ وَ الْحَمِيرَ وَ جِئْتُ إِلَى الْبُؤْسِ وَ التَّمَوُّرِ لِنَبِيٍّ يُبْعَثُ هَذَا أَوَانُ خُرُوجِهِ يَكُونُ مَخْرَجُهُ بِمَكَّةَ وَ هَذِهِ دَارُ هِجْرَتِهِ وَ هُوَ الضَّحُوكُ الْقَتَّالُ يَجْتَزِئُ بِالْكِسْرَةِ وَ التُّمَيْرَاتِ وَ يَرْكَبُ الْحِمَارَ الْعَارِي فِي عَيْنَيْهِ حُمْرَةٌ وَ بَيْنَ كَتِفَيْهِ خَاتَمُ النُّبُوَّةِ يَضَعُ سَيْفَهُ عَلَى عَاتِقِهِ لَا يُبَالِي بِمَنْ لَاقَى يَبْلُغُ سُلْطَانُهُ مُنْقَطَعَ الْخُفِّ وَ الْحَافِرِ

‘Ikmal Al Deen’ – My father, from Ali, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr and Al Bazanty both together, from Aban Bin Usman, from Aban Bin Taghlib, from Ikrimah, from Ibn Abbas who said,

‘When Rasool-Allah^-saww called for Ka’ab Bin Asad in order to strike off his neck, he was brought, and that was during the military expedition of the clan of Qureyza. Rasool-Allah^-saww looked at him and said to him: ‘O Ka’ab! Didn’t the advice of Ibn Hawash the Rabbi from Syria benefit you? He said, ‘You should leave the wine and the donkeys and come to the misery and the dates for a Sent Prophet^-saww, his^-saww coming would be in this year, coming out at Makkah, and this is the house of his^-saww emigration, and he^-saww will be frequently cheerful, fighting with the fragments (of bread) and the dates, and riding the bare donkey, there being redness in his^-saww eyes, and a seal of the Prophet-hood between his^-saww shoulder. He^-saww will place his^-saww sword upon his^-saww shoulder, not minding with whom he^-saww has to fight. His^-saww authority will reach the reaching of the feet and the hooves.

قَالَ كَعْبٌ قَدْ كَانَ ذَلِكَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ وَ لَوْ لَا أَنَّ الْيَهُودَ تُعَيِّرُنِي أَنِّي جَبُنْتُ‏ عِنْدَ الْقَتْلِ لَآمَنْتُ بِكَ وَ صَدَّقْتُكَ وَ لَكِنِّي عَلَى دِينِ الْيَهُودِيَّةِ عَلَيْهِ أَحْيَا وَ عَلَيْهِ أَمُوتُ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص قَدِّمُوهُ فَاضْرِبُوا عُنُقَهُ فَقُدِّمَ وَ ضُرِبَتْ عُنُقُهُ‏

Ka’ab said, ‘That has happened, O Muhammad^-saww, and if the Jews had not faulted me that I am a coward during the fighting, I would have believed in you^-saww and ratified you^-saww, but I am living upon the religion of the Jews and upon it I shall die’. Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Bring him forward and strike off his neck!’ They brought him forward and struck off his neck.[15]

16- يج، الخرائج و الجرائح رُوِيَ‏ أَنَّ عَامَ الْخَنْدَقِ أَصَابَ أَصْحَابَ النَّبِيِّ ص مَجَاعَةٌ لِمَا حَاصَرَهُمُ الْمُشْرِكُونَ فَدَعَا بِكَفٍّ مِنْ تَمْرٍ وَ أَمَرَ بِثَوْبٍ فَبُسِطَ وَ أَلْقَى ذَلِكَ التَّمْرَ عَلَيْهِ وَ أَمَرَ مُنَادِياً يُنَادِي فِي النَّاسِ هَلُمُّوا إِلَى الْغَدَاءِ فَاجْتَمَعَ أَهْلُ الْمَدِينَةِ فَأَكَلُوا وَ صَدَرُوا وَ التَّمْرُ تَبِضُّ مِنْ أَطْرَافِ الثَّوْبِ

‘Al-Kharaij Wa Al-Jaraih’ – In the year of Al-Khandaq the companions of Muhammad^-saww were afflicted with hunger when the Polytheists had besieged them. He^-saww called for a handful of dates and instructed that a cloth be spread out; and he^-saww threw those dates upon it, and instructed a caller to call out among the people, ‘Come to the lunch!’ The people of Al-Medina gathered and they ate and were satiated, and the dates multiplied from the edges of the cloth’’.[16]

17- يج، الخرائج و الجرائح رُوِيَ أَنَّ الْحِصَارَ لَمَّا اشْتَدَّ عَلَى الْمُسْلِمِينَ فِي حَرْبِ الْخَنْدَقِ وَ رَأَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص مِنْهُمُ الضَّجَرَ لِمَا كَانَ فِيهِ مِنَ الضُّرِّ صَعِدَ عَلَى مَسْجِدِ الْفَتْحِ فَصَلَّى رَكْعَتَيْنِ ثُمَّ قَالَ اللَّهُمَّ إِنْ تُهْلِكْ هَذِهِ الْعِصَابَةَ لَمْ تُعْبَدْ بَعْدَهَا فِي الْأَرْضِ

‘Al-Kharaij Wa Al-Jaraih’ – It is reported that when the siege was severe upon the Muslims during the war of Al-Khandaq and Rasool-Allah^-saww saw the discontent from them due to what was in it of the harm, ascended to Masjid Al-Fatah and prayed two units Salat, then said: ‘O Allah^-azwj! If You^-azwj Let this group to be destroyed, You^-azwj will not be worshipped after it on the earth’.

فَبَعَثَ اللَّهُ رِيحاً قَلَعَتْ خِيَمَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ وَ بَدَّدَتْ رَوَاحِلَهُمْ وَ أَجْهَدَتْهُمْ بِالْبَرْدِ وَ سَفَتِ الرِّمَالَ وَ التُّرَابَ عَلَيْهِمْ وَ جَاءَتْهُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ فَقَالَتْ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّ اللَّهَ قَدْ أَمَرَنَا بِالطَّاعَةِ لَكَ فَمُرْنَا بِمَا شِئْتَ

Allah^-azwj Sent a wind and it uprooted the tents of the Polytheists and scattered their rides and fatigued them with the cold, and shoved the sand and the dust upon them, and the Angels came to him^-saww and said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! Allah^-azwj has Commanded us to be with the obedience to you^-saww, so order us with whatever you^-saww desire’.

قَالَ‏ زَعْزِعِي الْمُشْرِكِينَ وَ أَرْعِبِيهِمْ وَ كُونُوا مِنْ وَرَائِهِمْ‏ فَفَعَلَتْ بِهِمْ ذَلِكَ وَ أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى‏ يا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اذْكُرُوا نِعْمَةَ اللَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ إِذْ جاءَتْكُمْ جُنُودٌ يَعْنِي أَحْزَابَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ‏ فَأَرْسَلْنا عَلَيْهِمْ رِيحاً وَ جُنُوداً لَمْ تَرَوْها وَ كانَ اللَّهُ بِما تَعْمَلُونَ بَصِيراً إِذْ جاؤُكُمْ مِنْ فَوْقِكُمْ‏ أَيْ أَحْزَابُ الْعَرَبِ‏ وَ مِنْ أَسْفَلَ مِنْكُمْ‏ يَعْنِي بَنِي قُرَيْظَةَ حِينَ نَقَضُوا عَهْدَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ صَارُوا مَعَ الْأَحْزَابِ عَلَى الْمُسْلِمِينَ

He^-saww said: ‘Shake the Polytheists and frighten them and come to be from behind them’. They did that with them, and Allah^-azwj the Exalted Revealed: O you those who believe! Recall the Favour of Allah upon you when the armies came towards you, – meaning the allies of the Polytheists, so We Sent a wind against them and armies you could not see, and Allah was always Seeing what you were doing [33:9] When they came to you from above you – meaning allies of the Arabs, and from below you, [33:10] – meaning the clan of Qureyza, when they broke the pact of Rasool-Allah^-saww and came to be with the allies against the Muslims.

ثُمَّ رَجَعَ مِنْ مَسْجِدِ الْفَتْحِ إِلَى مُعَسْكَرِهِ فَصَاحَ بِحُذَيْفَةَ بْنِ الْيَمَانِ وَ كَانَ قَدْ نَادَاهُ‏ ثَلَاثاً فَقَالَ فِي الثَّالِثَةِ لَبَّيْكَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قَالَ تَسْمَعُ صَوْتِي وَ لَا تُجِيبُنِي فَقَالَ مَنَعَنِي شِدَّةُ الْبَرْدِ فَقَالَ اعْبُرِ الْخَنْدَقَ فَاعْرِفْ خَبَرَ قُرَيْشٍ وَ الْأَحْزَابِ وَ ارْجِعْ وَ لَا تُحْدِثْ حَدَثاً حَتَّى تَرْجِعَ إِلَيَّ

Then he^-saww returned from Masjid Al-Fatah to his^-saww soldiers, and shouted for Huzeyfa Bin Al-Yamani, and he^-saww had called him thrice, and he said during the third, ‘At your service, O Rasool-Allah^-saww!’ He^-saww said: ‘You heard my^-saww voice and did not answer me^-saww?’ He said, ‘The severe cold prevented me’. He^-saww said: ‘Cross over the trench and find out the news of Quraysh and the allies, and return and do not do not do any event until you return to me^-saww’.

قَالَ فَقُمْتُ وَ أَنَا أَنْتَفِضُ مِنَ الْبَرْدِ فَعَبَرْتُ الْخَنْدَقَ وَ كَأَنِّي فِي الْحَمَّامِ فَصِرْتُ إِلَى مُعَسْكَرِهِمْ فَلَمْ أَجِدْ هُنَاكَ إِلَّا خَيْمَةَ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ وَ عِنْدَهُ جَمَاعَةٌ مِنْ وُجُوهِ قُرَيْشٍ وَ بَيْنَ أَيْدِيهِمْ نَارٌ تَشْتَعِلُ مَرَّةً وَ تَخْبُو أُخْرَى فَانْسَلَلْتُ فَجَلَسْتُ‏ بَيْنَهُمْ

He said, ‘I stood up and I was shivering from the cold, and I crossed the trench, and it was as if I was in the bath house, and went to their soldiers, but I did not find over there except the tent of Abu Sufyan, and there was a group in his presence from the faces of Quraysh and in front of them was a fire, flaming at times and going out at other. I went over and sat down between them.

فَقَالَ أَبُو سُفْيَانَ إِنْ كُنَّا نُقَاتِلُ أَهْلَ الْأَرْضِ فَنَحْنُ بِالْقُدْرَةِ عَلَيْهِ وَ إِنْ كُنَّا نُقَاتِلُ أَهْلَ السَّمَاءِ كَمَا يَقُولُ مُحَمَّدٌ فَلَا طَاقَةَ لَنَا بِأَهْلِ السَّمَاءِ انْظُرُوا بَيْنَكُمْ لَا يَكُونُ لِمُحَمَّدٍ عَيْنٌ بَيْنَنَا فَلْيَسْأَلْ بَعْضُكُمْ بَعْضاً

Abu Sufyan said, ‘We have been fighting the people of the earth, so we are with the power upon him^-saww, and if we have to fight the people of the sky just as Muhammad^-saww is saying, then there is no strength for us with the people of the sky. Look between you; there is no spy for Muhammad^-saww between us, and let one of you ask the other.

قَالَ حُذَيْفَةُ فَبَادَرْتُ إِلَى الَّذِي عَنْ يَمِينِي فَقُلْتُ مَنْ أَنْتَ قَالَ خَالِدُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ وَ قُلْتُ لِلَّذِي عَنْ يَسَارِي مَنْ أَنْتَ قَالَ فُلَانٌ فَلَمْ يَسْأَلْنِي أَحَدٌ مِنْهُمْ ثُمَّ قَالَ أَبُو سُفْيَانَ لِخَالِدٍ إِمَّا أَنْ تَتَقَدَّمَ أَنْتَ فَتَجْمَعَ‏ النَّاسَ لِيَلْحَقَ بَعْضُهُمْ بَعْضاً فَأَكُونَ عَلَى السَّاقَةِ وَ إِمَّا أَنْ أَتَقَدَّمَ أَنَا وَ تَكُونَ عَلَى السَّاقَةِ قَالَ بَلْ أَتَقَدَّمُ أَنَا وَ تَتَأَخَّرُ أَنْتَ

Huzeyfa said, ‘I turned towards the one on my right and said, ‘Who are you?’ He said, ‘Khalid Bin Al-Waleed’, and I said to the one on my left, ‘Who are you?’ He said, ‘So and so’, but not one of them asked me. Then Abu Sufyan said to Khalid, ‘Either you go forwards and gather the people to be with each other and I will come to be upon the rear guard, or I go at the front and you be upon the rear guard’. He said, ‘But I shall be at the front, and you be at the back’.

فَقَامُوا جَمِيعاً فَتَقَدَّمُوا وَ تَأَخَّرَ أَبُو سُفْيَانَ فَخَرَجَ مِنَ الْخَيْمَةِ وَ اخْتَفَيْتُ فِي ظِلِّهَا فَرَكِبَ رَاحِلَتَهُ وَ هِيَ مَعْقُولَةٌ مِنَ الدَّهَشِ الَّذِي كَانَ بِهِ فَنَزَلَ يَحِلُّ الْعِقَالَ فَأَمْكَنَنِي قَتْلَهُ فَلَمَّا هَمَمْتُ بِذَلِكَ تَذَكَّرْتُ قَوْلَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص لَا تُحْدِثَنَّ حَدَثاً حَتَّى تَرْجِعَ إِلَيَّ فَكَفَفْتُ وَ رَجَعْتُ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ قَدْ طَلَعَ الْفَجْرُ

They all stood up together, and they went forward, and Abu Sufyan stayed back, and I went out from the tent and hid in its shade. He rode his ride, and he was reasonably astonished by what was with him. He loosened the reins and it was possible for me to kill him. When I thought of that, I remembered the words of Rasool-Allah^-saww, ‘Do not do any deed until you return to me^-saww’. I refrained and returned to Rasool-Allah^-saww, and the dawn had emerged.

فَحَمِدَ اللَّهَ ثُمَّ صَلَّى بِالنَّاسِ الْفَجْرَ وَ نَادَى مُنَادِيهِ لَا يَبْرَحَنَّ أَحَدٌ مَكَانَهُ إِلَى أَنْ تَطْلُعَ الشَّمْسُ فَمَا أَصْبَحَ إِلَّا وَ قَدْ تَفَرَّقَ عَنْهُ الْجَمَاعَةُ إِلَّا نَفَراً يَسِيراً فَلَمَّا طَلَعَتِ الشَّمْسُ انْصَرَفَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ مَنْ كَانَ مَعَهُ فَلَمَّا دَخَلَ مَنْزِلَهُ أَمَرَ فَنُودِيَ أَلَا لَا يُصَلِّي أَحَدٌ إِلَّا فِي بَنِي قُرَيْظَةَ

He^-saww praised Allah^-azwj, then prayed with the people the Fajr Salat and called out to his^-saww caller: ‘No one should move from his position until the sun emerges!’ I did not go until the group had dispersed from him^-saww except for a small number. When the sun emerged, Rasool-Allah^-saww and the ones who were with him^-saww left. When he^-saww entered his^-saww house he^-saww ordered, and there was a call, ‘No one should pray Salat except among the clan of Qureyza!’

فَسَارَ الْمُسْلِمُونَ إِلَيْهِمْ فَوَجَدُوا النَّخْلَ مُحْدِقاً بِقَصْرِهِمْ وَ لَمْ يَكُنْ لِلْمُسْلِمِينَ مُعَسْكَرٌ يَنْزِلُونَ فِيهِ وَ وَافَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَقَالَ مَا لَكُمْ لَا تَنْزِلُونَ فَقَالُوا مَا لَنَا مَكَانٌ فَنَزَلَ مِنِ اشْتِبَاكِ النَّخْلِ فَدَخَلَ فِي طَرِيقٍ بَيْنَ النَّخْلِ فَأَشَارَ بِيَدِهِ يَمْنَةً فَانْضَمَّ النَّخْلُ بَعْضُهُ إِلَى بَعْضٍ وَ أَشَارَ بِيَدِهِ يَسْرَةً فَانْضَمَّ النَّخْلُ كَذَلِكَ وَ اتَّسَعَ لَهُمُ الْمَوْضِعُ فَنَزَلُوا

The Muslims went to them, and found the palm trees by their castle, and there did not happen to be any soldiers for the Muslims to be descending in it, and Rasool-Allah^-saww came over and said: ‘What is the matter with you not descending?’ They said, ‘There is no place for us’. He^-saww descended by the palm trees, and he^-saww entered the path between the palm trees and gestured by his^-saww right hand, and the palm trees pressed against each other, and he^-saww gestured by his^-saww left hand and the palm trees pressed like that, and there place was capacious for them, and they descended’’.[17]

18- يج، الخرائج و الجرائح رُوِيَ عَنِ الصَّادِقِ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ أَنَّهُ قَالَ: لَمَّا قَتَلَ عَلِيٌّ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ عَمْرَو بْنَ عَبْدِ وُدٍّ أَعْطَى سَيْفَهُ الْحَسَنَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ وَ قَالَ قُلْ لِأُمِّكَ تَغْسِلُ هَذَا الصَّيْقَلَ فَرَدَّهُ وَ عَلِيٌّ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ عِنْدَ النَّبِيِّ ص وَ فِي وَسَطِهِ نُقْطَةٌ لَمْ تُنَقَّ قَالَ أَ لَيْسَ قَدْ غَسَلَتْهُ الزَّهْرَاءُ قَالَ نَعَمْ قَالَ فَمَا هَذِهِ النُّقْطَةُ

‘Al-Kharaih Wa Al-Jaraih’ – It is reported from Al-Sadiq^-asws having said: ‘When Ali^-asws killed Amro Bin Abdi Wudd, he^-asws gave his^-asws sword to Al-Hassan^-asws and said: ‘Tell your^-asws mother to wash this, and return it’; and Ali^-asws was in the presence of the Prophet^-saww, and in the middle of it there was a spot not come out. He^-asws said: ‘Didn’t Al-Zahra^-asws wash it?’ He^-asws said: ‘Yes’. He^-asws said: ‘What is this spot?’

قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ص يَا عَلِيُّ سَلْ ذَا الْفَقَارِ يُخْبِرْكَ فَهَزَّهُ وَ قَالَ أَ لَيْسَ قَدْ غَسَلَتْكَ الطَّاهِرَةُ مِنْ دَمِ الرِّجْسِ النِّجْسِ فَأَنْطَقَ اللَّهُ السَّيْفَ فَقَالَ بَلَى‏ وَ لَكِنَّكَ مَا قَتَلْتَ بِي أَبْغَضَ إِلَى الْمَلَائِكَةِ مِنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ عَبْدِ وُدٍّ فَأَمَرَنِي رَبِّي فَشَرِبْتُ هَذِهِ النُّقْطَةَ مِنْ دَمِهِ وَ هُوَ حَظِّي مِنْهُ فَلَا تَنْتَضِينِي يَوْماً إِلَّا وَ رَأَتْهُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ وَ صَلَّتْ عَلَيْكَ‏

The Prophet^-saww said: ‘O Ali^-asws! Ask Zulfiqar (the sword) to inform you^-asws’. He^-asws shook it and said: ‘Hasn’t Al-Tahira^-asws washed you from the unclean blood, the filthy?’ Allah^-azwj Caused the sword to speak and it said, ‘Yes, but you^-asws have not killed with me anyone more hateful to the Angels than Amro Bin Abdi Wudd, so my Lord^-azwj Commanded me and I drank this pot from his blood, and it is my share from him. You^-asws do not take me any day except the Angels see it and send Salawat upon you^-asws.[18]

19- شا، الإرشاد كانت غزاة الأحزاب بعد بني النضير و ذلك أن جماعة من اليهود منهم سلام بن أبي الحقيق النضيري و حيي بن أخطب و كنانة بن الربيع و هوذة بن قيس الوالبي و أبو عمارة الوالبي في نفر من بني والبة خرجوا حتى قدموا مكة فصاروا إلى أبي سفيان صخر بن حرب لعلمهم بعداوته لرسول الله ص و تسرعه إلى قتاله

‘Al-Irshad’ – The battle of Al-Ahzaab was after the clan of Al-Nazeer, and that is that a group of the Jews, from them being Salam Bin Abu Al-Haqeeq Al-Nusayri and Huyay Bin Akhtab and Kanana Bin Al-Tabie, and Howza Bin Qays Al-Waily, and Abu Amara Al-Waily among a number of the clan of Wailya, went out until they arrived at Makkah. They came to Abu Sufyan Sakhar Bin Harb due to their knowledge of his enmity to Rasool-Allah^-saww and his quickness to fight him^-saww.

فذكروا له ما نالهم منه و سألوه المعونة لهم على قتاله فقال لهم أبو سفيان أنا لكم حيث تحبون فاخرجوا إلى قريش فادعوهم إلى حربه و اضمنوا النصرة لهم و الثبوت معهم حتى تستأصلوه فطافوا على وجوه قريش و دعوهم إلى حرب النبي ص و قالوا لهم أيدينا مع أيديكم و نحن معكم حتى نستأصله

They mentioned to him what they had faced from him^-saww and asked him of the assistance for them upon fighting him^-saww. Abu Sufyan said to them, ‘I am for you where you like’. They went out to Quraysh and called them to battle him^-saww and they guaranteed their help for them and the affirmation with them until they eradicate him^-saww. They went around the faces of Quraysh and called them to battle the Prophet^-saww, and they said to them, ‘Our hands are with your hands until you eradicate him^-saww’.

فقالت لهم قريش يا معشر اليهود أنتم أهل الكتاب الأول و العلم السابق و قد عرفتم الدين الذي جاء به محمد و ما نحن عليه من الدين فديننا خير من دينه أم هو أولى بالحق منا فقالوا لهم بل دينكم خير من دينه‏

Quraysh said to them, ‘O community of Jews! You are the first people of the Book, and the knowledge is precedent and you know the religion, which Muhammad^-saww has come with, and we are not upon it from the religion. Is our religion better than his^-saww Religion or is he^-saww foremost with the truth than we are?’ They said to them, ‘But your religion is better than his^-saww Religion’.

فنشطت قريش لما دعوهم إليه من حرب رسول الله ص و جاءهم أبو سفيان فقال لهم قد مكنكم الله من عدوكم و هذه اليهود تقاتله معكم و لن تنفك‏ عنكم حتى يؤتى على جميعها أو نستأصله‏ و من اتبعه فقويت عزائمهم إذ ذاك في حرب النبي ص

Quraysh were stimulated when they called them to it from battling Rasool-Allah^-saww; and Abu Sufyan came to them and said to them, ‘Allah^-azwj has Enabled you all from your enemies, and these Jews will fight him^-saww along with you, and will never turn away from you until they come upon their entirety or eradicate him^-saww and the ones who follow him^-saww’. Their determination was strengthened in battling the Prophet^-saww.

ثم خرج اليهود حتى جاءوا غطفان و قيس غيلان‏ فدعوهم إلى حرب رسول الله ص و ضمنوا لهم النصرة و المعونة و أخبروهم باتباع قريش لهم على ذلك فاجتمعوا معهم و خرجت قريش و قائدها إذ ذاك أبو سفيان صخر بن حرب و خرجت غطفان و قائدها عيينة بن حصن في بني فزارة و الحارث بن عوف في بني مرة و وبرة بن طريف في قومه من أشجع‏ و اجتمعت قريش معهم

Then the Jews went out until they came to Ghatfan and Qays Gaylan and called them to battle Rasool-Allah^-saww, and they guaranteed the help to them and the assistance and informed them of the following of Quraysh for them upon that. They gathered with them. And Quraysh went out, and they were guided when that happened, by Abu Sufyan Sakhar Bin Harb; and Ghatfan went out and its guide was Uyayna Bin Hasan among the clan of Fazara and Al-Haris Bin Awf among the clan of Marah and Wabrah Bin Tareyf among his people from the braves, and Quraysh gathered with them.

‏ فلما سمع رسول الله ص اجتماع الأحزاب‏ عليه و قوة عزيمتهم في حربه استشار أصحابه فأجمع‏ رأيهم على المقام بالمدينة و حرب القوم إن جاءوا إليهم على أنقابها فأشار سلمان الفارسي رحمه الله على رسول الله ص بالخندق فأمر بحفره و عمل فيه بنفسه و عمل فيه المسلمون

When Rasool-Allah^-saww heard the gathering of the allies against him^-asws and the strength of their determination in battling him^-saww, he^-saww consulted his^-saww companions and gathered their views upon the staying at Al-Medina and battling the people if they come to them on their streets. Salman Al-Farsy^-ra advised Rasool-Allah^-azwj with the trench and he^-saww ordered digging it, and he^-saww worked in it himself^-saww and the Muslims worked in it.

و أقبلت الأحزاب إلى رسول الله ص‏ فهال المسلمين أمرهم و ارتاعوا من كثرتهم و جمعهم فنزلوا ناحية من الخندق و أقاموا بمكانهم بضعا و عشرين‏ ليلة لم يكن بينهم حرب إلا الرمي بالنبل و الحصى

And the allies came to Rasool-Allah^-saww and their matter horrified the Muslims and they were frightened from their large number and their gathering. They descended nearby from the trench and stayed in their placed for twenty nights, no battle taking place between them except the shooting with the arrows and the gravel.

فلما رأى رسول الله ص ضعف قلوب أكثر المسلمين‏ من حصارهم لهم و وهنهم في حربهم بعث إلى عيينة بن حصن و الحارث بن عوف و هما قائدا غطفان يدعوهما إلى صلحه و الكف عنه و الرجوع بقومهما عن حربه على أن يعطيهما ثلث ثمار المدينة

When Rasool-Allah^-saww saw the weakness of the hearts in most of the Muslim due to their besieging them, and their weakness in battling them, sent a message Uyayna Bin Hasan and Al-Haris Bin Awf, and they were both guides of Ghatfan, calling them upon to reconciling with him^-saww, and the refraining from him^-saww, and the returning with their people from battling him^-saww, upon a stipulation that he^-saww will give them a third of the fruits of Al-Medina.

و استشار سعد بن عبادة فيما بعث به إلى عيينة و الحارث فقال‏ يا رسول الله إن كان هذا الأمر لا بد لنا من العمل به لأن الله أمرك فيه بما صنعت و الوحي جاءك به فافعل ما بدا لك و إن كنت تختار أن تصنعه لنا كان لنا فيه رأي

And Sa’ad Bin Ubada consulted regarding what he had been sent with to Uyayna and Al-Haris, and he said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! If this matter was such that there is no escape for us from doing it because Allah^-azwj has Commanded you^-saww regarding it with what you^-saww have done and the Revelation has come to you^-saww with it, then do whatever comes to you^-saww; and if this matter was such that you^-saww chose to do it to us, there would be a view for us regarding it’.

فقال ص لم يأتني وحي به و لكني رأيت‏ العرب قد رمتكم عن قوس واحدة و جاءوكم‏ من كل جانب فأردت أن أكسر عنكم من شوكتهم إلى أمر ما

He^-saww said: ‘Revelation did not come to me^-saww with it, but I^-saww saw the Arabs to have shot at you from one bow and they have come to you from every side, and I^-saww wanted to break from you from their arrows up to the matter what happened’.

فقال سعد بن معاذ قد كنا نحن و هؤلاء القوم على الشرك بالله و عبادة الأوثان لا نعرف الله و لا نعبده و نحن لا نطعمهم من ثمرنا إلا قرى أو بيعا و الآن حين أكرمنا الله بالإسلام و هدانا به‏ و أعزنا بك نعطيهم أموالنا ما بنا إلى هذا من حاجة و الله لا نعطيهم إلا السيف حتى يحكم الله بيننا و بينهم

Sa’ad Bin Muaz said, ‘We and these people used to be upon association with Allah^-azwj and worship of the idols, neither recognising Allah^-azwj not did we worship Him^-azwj, and we did not feed them from its fruits except a town or sell, and now when Allah^-azwj has Honoured us with Al-Islam and Guided us with it and Honoured us with you^-saww, we should feed them our wealth? There is no need with us to this. By Allah^-azwj, we will not feed them except the swords until Allah^-azwj Judges between them and us.

فقال رسول الله ص الآن قد عرفت ما عندكم فكونوا على ما أنتم عليه فإن الله تعالى لن يخذل نبيه و لن يسلمه حتى ينجز له ما وعده

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Now I^-saww have recognised what is with you, so become upon what you are upon, for Allah^-azwj the Exalted will never Abandon His^-azwj Prophet^-saww and will never Submit him^-saww until He^-azwj Fulfils for him^-saww what He^-azwj Promised him^-saww’.

ثم قام رسول الله ص في المسلمين‏ يدعوهم إلى جهاد العدو و يشجعهم و يعدهم النصر من الله فانتدبت فوارس من قريش للبراز منهم عمرو بن عبد ود بن أبي قيس بن عامر بن لؤي بن غالب و عكرمة بن أبي جهل و هبيرة بن أبي وهب المخزوميان و ضرار بن الخطاب و مرداس الفهري‏ فلبسوا للقتال

Then Rasool-Allah^-saww stood among the Muslims calling them to Jihad the enemies and emboldening them and promising them the Help from Allah^-azwj. There was a delegate from Quraysh for the duel, from them being Amro Bin Abd Qudd Abu Qays Bin Aamir Bin Lawy Bin Ghalib, and Ikrima Bin Abu Jahl, and Hubeyra Bin Abu Wahab Al Makhzumy, and Zarar bin Al Khatab, and Mardaas Al Fahry, and they were equipped for the fighting.

ثم خرجوا على خيلهم حتى مروا بمنازل بني كنانة فقالوا تهيئوا يا بني كنانة للحرب ثم أقبلوا تعنق بهم خيلهم حتى وقفوا على الخندق فلما تأملوه قالوا و الله إن هذه مكيدة ما كانت العرب تكيدها ثم تيمموا مكانا من الخندق فيه ضيق فضربوا خيلهم فاقتحمته و جاءت بهم في السبخة بين الخندق و سلع و خرج أمير المؤمنين علي ع‏ في نفر معه من المسلمين حتى أخذوا عليهم الثغرة التي اقتحموها

Then they came out upon their horses until they passed by the houses of the clan of Kanana and they said, ‘Prepare O clan of Kanana for the war!’ Then they came hugging their horses with them until they stopped at the trench. When they contemplated it, they said, ‘By Allah^-azwj! This is a scheme the Arabs have not schemed it’. Then they went to a place of the trench wherein was narrowness and they struck their horses and stormed into it.

فتقدم عمرو بن عبد ود الجماعة الذين خرجوا معه و قد أعلم ليرى مكانه فلما رأى المسلمين وقف هو و الخيل التي معه و قال هل من مبارز فبرز له‏ أمير المؤمنين ع فقال له عمرو ارجع يا ابن الأخ فما أحب أن أقتلك فقال له أمير المؤمنين ع قد كنت يا عمرو عاهدت الله أن لا يدعوك رجل من قريش إلى إحدى خصلتين إلا اخترتها منه قال‏ أجل فما ذاك

Amro Bin Abdi Wudd preceded those who had come out with him and wanted to show his place. When the Muslims saw him he and the horse, which was with him stopped and he said, ‘Is there anyone for a duel?’ Amir Al-Momineen^-asws went out to duel with him. Amro said to him^-asws, ‘Return, O cousin^-asws, for I do not like to kill you^-asws’. Amir Al-Momineen^-asws said to him: ‘O Amro, I^-asws have made a pact with Allah^-azwj that no man of Quraysh will call you to two qualities except I^-asws choose from it’. He said, ‘Yes, so what is that?’

قال إني أدعوك إلى الله و رسوله و الإسلام قال لا حاجة لي إلى ذلك‏ قال فإني أدعوك إلى النزال فقال ارجع فقد كان بيني و بين أبيك خلة و ما أحب أن أقتلك فقال له أمير المؤمنين ع لكنني و الله أحب أن أقتلك ما دمت آبيا للحق

He^-asws said: ‘I^-asws call you to Allah^-azwj and His^-azwj Rasool^-saww and Al-Islam’. He said, ‘There is no need for me to that’. He^-asws said: ‘Then I^-asws call you to the fighting’. He said, ‘Return, for there was friendship between me and your^-asws father^-asws, and I do not like to kill you’. Amir Al-Momineen^-asws said to him: ‘But by Allah^-azwj, I^-asws would love to kill you for as long as you are refusing the truth’.

فحمي‏ عمرو عند ذلك‏ و قال أ تقتلني و نزل عن فرسه فعقره و ضرب وجهه حتى نفر و أقبل على علي عليه السلام‏ مصلتا بسيفه‏ و بدره بالسيف فنشب سيفه في ترس علي عليه السلام فضربه‏ أمير المؤمنين ضربة فقتله فلما رأى عكرمة بن أبي جهل و هبيرة بن أبي وهب و ضرار بن الخطاب عمرا صريعا ولوا بخيلهم منهزمين حتى اقتحموا الخندق لا يلوون إلى شي‏ء

Amro was intensely angered at that and said, ‘You^-asws will kill me?’ And he descended from his horse and hamstrung it and struck its face until it fled, and he faced towards Ali^-asws unsheathing his sword and rushed with the sword. His sword got stuck in the shield of Ali^-asws, and Amir Al-Momineen^-asws struck him with a strike and killed him. When Ikrimah Bin Abu Jahl, and Hubeyra Bin Abu Wahab and Zarara Bin Al-Khatab saw Amro dying, they turned their horses around in defeat until they stormed the trench, not turning around to anything.

و انصرف أمير المؤمنين عليه السلام إلى مقامه الأول و قد كادت نفوس القوم الذين خرجوا معه إلى الخندق تطير جزعا وَ هُوَ يَقُولُ‏

نَصَرَ الْحِجَارَةَ مِنْ سَفَاهَةِ رَأْيِهِ		وَ نَصَرْتُ رَبَّ مُحَمَّدٍ بِصَوَابٍ
فَضَرَبْتُهُ وَ تَرَكْتُهُ مُتَجَدِّلًا		كَالْجِذْعِ بَيْنَ دَكَادِكَ وَ رَوَابِيَ
وَ عَفَفْتُ عَنْ أَثْوَابِهِ وَ لَوْ أَنَّنِي		كُنْتُ الْمُقَطَّرَ بَزَّنِي أَثْوَابِي
لَا تَحْسَبُنَّ اللَّهَ خَاذِلَ دِينِهِ		وَ نَبِيِّهِ يَا مَعْشَرَ الْأَحْزَابِ

And Amir Al-Momineen^-asws left to go to his^-asws former place, and the souls of the people, those who had come out with him to the trench, almost flew away out of panic, and he^-asws was saying: ‘The stones achieved victory from the foolish opinion, and the Lord^-azwj of Muhammad^-saww Helped with the correctness, so I^-asws struck him and left him stranded, like the trunk between the sand and the dune, and I^-asws excused from (taking off) his clothes and turned around and he was groaning. I^-asws was dripping in my^-asws clothes had outshined. Do not reckon that Allah^-azwj will Abandon His^-azwj Religion and His^-azwj Prophet^-saww, O community of allies!’

و قد روى محمد بن عمر الواقدي قال حدثني عبد الله بن جعفر عن أبي عون عن الزهري قال‏ جاء عمرو بن عبد ود و عكرمة بن أبي جهل و هبيرة بن أبي وهب و نوفل بن عبد الله بن المغيرة و ضرار بن الخطاب في يوم الأحزاب إلى الخندق فجعلوا يطوفون به يطلبون مضيقا منه فيعبرون حتى انتهوا إلى مكان أكرهوا خيولهم فيه فعبرت و جعلوا يجيلون خيلهم‏ فيما بين الخندق و سلع

And it has been reported by Muhammad Bin Umar Al-Waqidy (wahabi imam) who said, ‘It is narrated to me by Abdullah Bin Ja’far from Abu Awn, from Al-Zuhry who said, ‘Amro Bin Abdi Wudd, and Ikrimah Bin Abu Jahl, and Hubeyra Bin Abu Wahab, and Nowfal Bin Abdullah Bin Al-Mugheira, and Zarar Bin Al-Khatab came to the trench during the day of Al-Ahzaab. They went on to circle around it seeking a narrowness from it so they could cross over, until they ended up to a place their horses could make it and they crossed over and went on to roaming with their horses in what is between the trench and the crack.

و المسلمون وقوف لا يقدم منهم أحد عليهم و جعل عمرو بن عبد ود يدعو إلى البراز و يعرض للمسلمين‏ و يقول‏

و لقد بححت من النداء		بجمعهم هل من مبارز

And the Muslims were standing, not one of them going forward to them, and Amro Bin Abdi Wudd went on to call to the duel, and the Muslims turned away, and he was saying, ‘And I have been repeating the call with all of them, ‘Is there anyone to duel’?’

و في كل ذلك يقوم عليُّ بن أبي طالب عليه السلام‏ ليبارزه فيأمره رسول الله ص بالجلوس انتظاراً منه ليتحرك غيره و المسلمون كأن على رءوسهم الطير لمكان عمرو بن عبد ودّ و الخوف منه و ممن معه و وراءه‏

And during each of that Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws stood up to duel him, but Rasool-Allah^-saww instructed him^-asws to be seated awaiting from it the movement of others, and the Muslims were as if the birds were upon their heads to the position of Amro Bin Abdi Wudd, and the fear from him and from the ones with him and behind him.

فلما طال نداء عمرو بالبراز و تتابع قيام أمير المؤمنين عليه السلام قَالَ لَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص ادْنُ مِنِّي يَا عَلِيُّ فَدَنَا مِنْهُ فَنَزَعَ عِمَامَتَهُ مِنْ رَأْسِهِ وَ عَمَّمَهُ بِهَا وَ أَعْطَاهُ سَيْفَهُ وَ قَالَ لَهُ امْضِ لِشَأْنِكَ ثُمَّ قَالَ اللَّهُمَّ أَعِنْهُ

When the call of Amro for the duel was prolonged, and the consecutive standing by Amir Al-Momineen^-asws, Rasool-Allah^-saww said to him^-asws: ‘Come near me^-saww, O Ali^-asws!’ He^-asws went near him^-saww. He^-saww took off his^-saww own turban from his^-saww head and turbaned him^-asws with it, and gave him^-asws his^-saww sword and said to him^-asws: ‘Go to your^-asws glory!’ Then he^-saww said: ‘O Allah^-azwj! Assist him^-asws’.

فسعى نحو عمرو و معه جابر بن عبد الله الأنصاري رحمه الله لينظر ما يكون منه و من عمرو فلما انتهى أمير المؤمنين عليه السلام إليه قال له يا عمرو إنك كنت في الجاهلية تقول لا يدعوني أحد إلى ثلاث و اللات و العزى إلا قبلتها أو واحدة منها قال أجل قال فإني أدعوك إلى شهادة أن لا إله إلا الله و أن محمدا رسول الله و أن تسلم لرب العالمين

He^-asws sprinted towards Amro and with him^-asws was Jabir Bin Abdullah Al-Ansary to look what happens from him^-asws and from Amro. When Amir Al-Momineen^-asws ended up to him, said to him: ‘O Amro! You used to say during the pre-Islamic period, ‘No one will call me to three, by Al Laat and Al Uzza (two idols), except I will accept these or one of these’. He said, ‘Yes’. He^-asws said: ‘I^-asws hereby call you to the testimony that there is no god except Allah^-azwj and that Muhammad^-saww is Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj, and that you should submit to Lord^-azwj of the worlds’.

قال يا ابن أخ‏ أخر هذه عني فقال له أمير المؤمنين عليه السلام أما إنها خير لك لو أخذتها ثم قال فهاهنا أخرى قال و ما هي قال ترجع من حيث جئت قال لا تحدث نساء قريش بهذا أبدا

He said, ‘O cousin^-asws! Set this back from me’. Amir Al-Momineen^-asws said to him: ‘But it is better for you if you were to take it’. Then he^-asws said: ‘So here is another’. He said, ‘And what is it?’ He^-asws said: ‘You return to where you came from’. He said, ‘The women of Quraysh will not narrate with this, ever!’

قال فهاهنا أخرى قال و ما هي قال تنزل فتقاتلني فضحك عمرو و قال إن هذه الخصلة ما كنت أظن أن أحدا من العرب يرومني عليها إني لأكره أن أقتل الرجل الكريم مثلك و قد كان أبوك لي نديما قال علي عليه السلام لكني أحب أن أقتلك فانزل إن شئت

He^-asws said: ‘Here is another’. He said, ‘And what is it?’ He^-asws said: ‘Come down (from your horse) and fight me^-asws’. Amro laughed and said: ‘This is the quality I did not think anyone from the Arabs would hit at me upon it. I dislike it to kill the benevolent man like you^-asws, and your^-asws father^-as would be regretful to me’. Ali^-asws said: ‘But I^-asws would love to kill you, so descend if you like’.

فأسف عمرو و نزل و ضرب وجه فرسه حتى رجع فقال جابر رحمه الله فثارت بينهما قترة فما رأيتهما فسمعت‏ التكبير تحتها فعلمت أن عليا قد قتله فانكشف أصحابه حتى طفرت خيولهم الخندق و تبادروا أصحاب النبي ص حين سمعوا التكبير ينظرون ما صنع القوم فوجدوا نوفل بن عبد الله في جوف الخندق لم ينهض به فرسه فجعلوا يرمونه بالحجارة

Amro felt sorry and descended and struck the face of his horse until it returned. Jabir said, ‘And dust flew between them and I could not see them, then I heard the exclamation of Takbeer under it and I knew that Ali^-asws had killed him’. His companions returned until their horses crossed over the trench, and the companions of the Prophet^-saww rushed when they heard the exclamation of Takbeer looking at what the group had done, and they found Nowfal Bin Abdullah inside the trench, his force could not stand with him. They went on to pelt him with stones.

فقال لهم قتلة أجمل من هذه ينزل إلي بعضكم أقاتله فنزل إليه أمير المؤمنين عليه السلام فضربه حتى قتله و لحق هبيرة فأعجزه و ضرب‏ قربوس سرجه و سقطت درع كانت عليه‏ و فر عكرمة و هرب ضرار بن الخطاب فقال جابر فما شبهت قتل علي عمرا إلا بما قص الله من قصة داود و جالوت حيث يقول جل شأنه‏ فَهَزَمُوهُمْ بِإِذْنِ اللَّهِ وَ قَتَلَ داوُدُ جالُوتَ‏

He said to them, ‘The fighting is better than this. Send down one of you so I can fight him’. Amir Al-Momineen^-asws went down to him and struck him until he^-asws killed him; and Hubeyra went back and escaped him^-asws, and he^-asws struck the saddlebow of his saddle and his armour which was upon him fell down; and Ikrimah fled, and Zurara Bin Al-Khatab got away. Jabir said, ‘The killing by Ali^-asws of Amro did not resemble except the story by Allah^-azwj of the story of Dawood^-as and Goliath where He^-azwj, Majestic is His^-azwj Glory Said: So, they defeated them by the Permission of Allah. And Dawood killed Goliath [2:251]’’.

و قد روى قيس بن الربيع قال حدثنا أبو هارون العبدي عن ربيعة السعدي قال‏ أتيت حذيفة بن اليمان فقلت له يا أبا عبد الله إنا لنتحدث عن علي و مناقبه فيقول لنا أهل البصرة إنكم تفرطون في علي فهل أنت محدثي بحديث فيه

And it is reported by Qays Bin Al-Rabie who said, ‘It is narrated to us by Abu Haroun Al-Abady, from Rabie Al Sa’ady who said, ‘I came to Huzeyfa Bin Al-Yaman and said to him, ‘O Abu Abdullah! We tend to narrate from Ali^-asws and his^-asws virtues, and the people of Al-Basra are saying, ‘You are overdoing regarding Ali^-asws’. Are you narrating any Hadeeth regarding him^-asws?’

فقال حذيفة يا ربيعة و ما تسألني عن علي فو الذي نفسي بيده لو وضع جميع أعمال أصحاب محمد في كفة الميزان منذ بعث الله محمدا إلى يوم القيامة و وضع عمل علي عليه السلام في الكفة الأخرى لرجح عمل علي عليه السلام على جميع أعمالهم

Huzeyfa said, ‘O Rabie! And what are you asking me about Ali^-asws? By the One in Whose Hand is my soul! If the deeds of the entirety of the companions of Muhammad^-saww were to be placed in the hand of the scale, since Allah^-azwj Sent Muhammad^-saww up to the Day of Judgment, and a deed of Ali^-asws is placed in the other hand, the deed of Ali^-asws would be heavier upon the entirety of their deeds’.

فقال ربيعة هذا الذي لا يقام له و لا يقعد و لا يحمل فقال حذيفة يا لكع و كيف لا يحمل‏ و أين كان أبو بكر و عمر و حذيفة و جميع أصحاب محمد ص يوم عمرو بن عبد ود و قد دعا إلى المبارزة فأحجم الناس كلهم ما خلا عليا عليه السلام فإنه برز إليه و قتله الله على يده‏ و الذي نفس حذيفة بيده لعمله ذلك اليوم أعظم أجرا من عمل‏ أصحاب محمد ص إلى يوم القيامة.

Rabie said, ‘This is which none can stand for it, nor sit, nor bear’. Huzeyfa said, ‘O Lak’a! And how can you not bear it, and where were Abu Bakr and Umar and Huzeyfa and the entirety of the companions of Muhammad^-saww on the day of Amro Bin Abdi Wudd, and he had been calling to the duel? The people, all of them, abstained from it apart from Ali^-asws, for he^-asws duelled to him, and Allah^-azwj Killed him upon his^-asws hands. By the One^-azwj in Whose Hand is the soul of Huzeyfa! His^-asws deed on that day was of greater Recompense than the deeds of the companions of Muhammad^-saww up to the Day of Qiyamah’’.

وَ قَدْ رَوَى‏ هِشَامُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مَعْرُوفِ بْنِ خَرَّبُوذٍ قَالَ قَالَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ فِي يَوْمِ الْخَنْدَقِ‏

أَ عَلَيَّ تَقْتَحِمُ الْفَوَارِسُ هَكَذَا		عَنِّي وَ عَنْهَا خَبَّرُوا أَصْحَابِي
الْيَوْمَ يَمْنَعُنِي‏ الْفِرَارُ حَفِيظَتِي		وَ مُصَمِّمٌ فِي الرَّأْسِ لَيْسَ بِنَابِي أَرْدَيْتُ عَمْراً إِذْ طَغَى بِمُهَنَّدٍ
صَافِي الْحَدِيدِ مُجَرَّبٍ قَضَّابٍ. فَصَدَدْتُ‏ حِينَ تَرَكْتُهُ مُتَجَدِّلًا		كَالْجِذْعِ بَيْنَ دَكَادِكَ وَ رَوَابِيَ
وَ عَفَفْتُ عَنْ أَثْوَابِهِ وَ لَوْ أَنَّنِي		كُنْتُ الْمُقَطَّرَ بَزَّنِي أَثْوَابِي‏

And it has been reported by Hisham Bin Muhammad, from Marouf bin Kharbouz who said, ‘Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws said during the day of Al-Khandaq (a poem): ‘Can the horsemen break into me^-asws in this way? From me^-asws and from them, my^-asws companions are informed. Today the fleeing prevents me^-asws from protecting me^-asws; and the determination in me^-asws isn’t improper; I^-asws wanted a lifetime when overwhelmed with a sharp sword of pure iron, tried and tested, judgmental. I^-asws walked away when I^-asws left him (dying) like the trunk between the sand and the dune, and I excused myself^-asws from (taking) his clothes, and even though he was groaning. My^-asws clothes were dripping, outshining’.

وَ رَوَى يُونُسُ بْنُ بُكَيْرٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَ قَالَ: لَمَّا قَتَلَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ عَمْراً أَقْبَلَ نَحْوَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص وَ وَجْهُهُ يَتَهَلَّلُ فَقَالَ لَهُ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ هَلَّا سَلَبْتَ يَا عَلِيُّ دِرْعَهُ فَإِنَّهَا لَيْسَ‏ فِي الْعَرَبِ دِرْعٌ مِثْلُهَا فَقَالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ‏ إِنِّي اسْتَحْيَيْتُ‏ أَنْ أَكْشِفَ سَوْءَةَ ابْنِ عَمِّي‏

And it is reported by Yunus Bin Bukeyr, from Muhammad Bin Is’haq, who said, ‘When Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws killed Amro, he^-asws came towards Rasool-Allah^-saww and his^-asws face was radiating like the moon. Umar Bin Al-Khattab said to him^-asws, ‘Why didn’t you remove his armour, O Ali^-asws, for there isn’t anyone among the Arabs with armour like his’. Amir Al-Momineen^-asws said: ‘I^-asws was embarrassed from uncovering the evil of a son of my^-asws uncle’’.

و روى عمر بن‏ الأزهر عن عمرو بن عبيد عن الحسن‏ أن عليا عليه السلام لما قتل عمرو بن عبد ود اجتز رأسه و حمله فألقاه بين يدي النبي ص فقام أبو بكر و عمر فقبلا رأس علي عليه السلام

And it is reported by Umar Bin Al-Azhar, from Amro Bin Ubeyd, from Al-Hassan, that when Ali^-asws killed Amro Bin Abdi Wudd, struck off his head, and carried it and threw it in front of Rasool-Allah^-saww. Abu Bakr and Umar stood up, kissing the head of Ali^-asws’.

و روى علي بن الحكيم الأودي قال سمعت أبا بكر بن عياش يقول‏ لقد ضرب علي ضربة ما كان في الإسلام‏ أعز منها يعني ضربة عمرو بن عبد ود و لقد ضرب عليه السلام ضربة ما ضرب‏ في الإسلام أشأم منها يعني ضربة ابن ملجم لعنه الله

And it is reported by Ali Bin Al-Hakam Al-Awdy who said, ‘I heard Abu Bakr Bin Ayyash saying, ‘Ali^-asws had struck such a strike, there is none mightier than it in Al-Islam, meaning striking Amro Bin Abdi Wudd, and Ali^-asws was struck by such a strike, no strike has been more calamitous in Al-Islam than it, meaning the strike by Ibn Muljim, may Allah^-azwj Curse him^-la’.

و لما انهزم الأحزاب و ولوا عن المسلمين الدبر عمل رسول الله على قصد بني قريظة و أنفذ أمير المؤمنين‏ عليه السلام إليهم في ثلاثين من الخزرج و قال له انظر بني قريظة هل نزلوا حصونهم فلما شارف سورهم سمع منهم الهجر فرجع إلى النبي ص فأخبره

When the allies were defeated and turned back from the Muslims, Rasool-Allah^-saww worked upon aiming for the clan of Qureyza and enforced Amir Al-Momineen^-asws to them among thirty from Al-Khazraj and said to him^-asws: ‘Look at the clan of Qureyza, are they coming down from their fortress?’ When he^-asws approached their wall, he^-asws heard their obscene language from them, so he^-asws returned to the Prophet^-saww and informed him^-saww.

فقال دعهم فإن الله سيمكن منهم إن الذي أمكنك من عمرو بن عبد ود لا يخذلك فقف حتى يجتمع الناس إليك و أبشر بنصر من عند الله فإن الله تعالى قد نصرني بالرعب من بين يدي مسيرة شهر

He^-saww said: ‘Leave them, for Allah^-azwj will Enable us from them. The One^-azwj Who Enabled you^-asws from Amro Bin Abdi Wudd will not abandon you, so pause until the people gather to you^-asws, and receive glad tidings of the Help from the Presence of Allah^-azwj, for Allah^-azwj the Exalted has Helped me^-asws with the awe from in front of me^-asws to a travel distance of a month’.

قال علي عليه السلام فاجتمع الناس إلي و سرت حتى دنوت من سورهم فأشرفوا علي فلما رأوني‏ صاح صائح منهم قد جاءكم قاتل عمرو و قال آخر قد أقبل إليكم قاتل عمرو و جعل بعضهم يصيح ببعض و يقولون ذلك و ألقى الله في قلوبهم الرعب و سمعت راجزا يرتجز

قتل علي عمرا		صاد علي صقرا
قصم علي ظهرا		أبرم علي أمرا
هتك علي سترا

Ali^-asws said: ‘Then the people gathered to me^-asws, and I^-asws went until I^-asws was near to their wall, and they overlooked upon me^-asws. When they saw me, a shouter from them shouted, ‘The killer of Amro has come!’ And another one said, ‘The killer of Amro is coming towards you!’, and they went on shouting to each other and saying that, and Allah^-azwj Cast the awe into their hearts, and I^-asws heard a war poet saying a poem, ‘Ali^-asws killed Amro, Ali^-asws repelled the hawk, Ali^-asws broke the backbone, Ali^-asws concluded the matter, Ali^-asws tore the curtain’ (of Kufr).

فقلت الحمد لله الذي أظهر الإسلام و قمع الشرك و كان النبي ص قال لي حين توجهت إلى بني قريظة سر على بركة الله تعالى فإن الله قد وعدكم أرضهم و ديارهم فسرت متيقنا لنصر الله‏ عز و جل حتى ركزت الراية في أصل الحصن فاستقبلوني‏ في صياصيهم يسبون رسول الله ص

I^-asws said, ‘The praise is for Allah^-azwj Who Manifested Al-Islam and Suppressed the Shirk’; and the Prophet^-saww had said to me^-asws when I^-asws headed towards the clan of Qureyza: ‘Travel upon the Blessings of Allah^-azwj the Exalted, for Allah^-azwj has Promised you their land and their houses’. I travelled certain of the Help of Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic until I^-asws installed the flag at the base of the fortress, and they faced me^-asws in their fortresses reviling Rasool-Allah^-saww.

فلما سمعت سبهم له كرهت أن يسمع رسول الله ص ذلك فعملت على الرجوع إليه فإذا به ص قد طلع و سمع سبهم له فناداهم يا إخوة القردة و الخنازير إنا إذا حللنا بساحة قوم فساء صباح المنذرين فقالوا له يا أبا القاسم ما كنت جهولا و لا سبابا

When I^-asws heard them reviling him^-saww I^-asws disliked Rasool-Allah^-saww to hear that, and I^-asws went upon returning to him^-saww, and there he^-saww was having emerged and heard them reviling him^-saww, so he^-saww called out to them: ‘O brothers of the monkeys and the pigs! Whenever we descend in the arena of a people, it bodes warning of misfortunes for them’. They said to him^-saww, ‘O Abu Al-Qasim^-saww! You^-saww were not ignorant nor an insulting one’.

فاستحيا رسول الله ص و رجع القهقرى قليلا ثم أمر فضربت‏ خيمته بإزاء حصونهم فأقام‏ النبي ص حاصرا لبني قريظة خمسا و عشرين ليلة حتى سألوه النزول على حكم سعد بن معاذ فحكم فيهم سعد بقتل الرجال و سبي الذراري و النساء و قسمة الأموال

Rasool-Allah^-saww was embarrassed and returned back on his^-saww heels a little. Then he^-saww ordered and his^-saww tent was struck in the face of their fortress. The Prophet^-saww stayed besieging the clan of Qureyza for twenty-five nights until they asked him^-saww of the descending upon the decision of Sa’ad Bin Muaz. Sa’ad Bin Muaz decided regarding them with killing the men, and capturing the offspring and the women, and distribution of the wealth.

فقال النبي ص يا سعد لقد حكمت فيهم بحكم الله‏ من فوق سبعة أرقعة و أمر النبي ص بإنزال الرجال منهم و كانوا تسعمائة رجل فجي‏ء بهم إلى المدينة و قسم الأموال و استرق الذراري و النسوان و لما جي‏ء بالأسارى إلى المدينة حبسوا في دار من دور بني النجار

The Prophet^-saww said: ‘O Sa’ad! You have judged regarding them with the Judgment of Allah^-azwj from above seven skies’. And the Prophet^-saww, with the descent of the ment from them, and they were nine hundred men. He^-saww came with them to Al-Medina and distributed the wealth and the slavery of the offspring and the women; and when he^-saww came with the captives to Al-Medina, they were withheld in a house from the houses of the clan of Najjar.

و خرج رسول‏ الله ص إلى موضع السوق اليوم فخندق فيه خنادق‏ و حضر أمير المؤمنين عليه السلام و معه المسلمون و أمر بهم أن يخرجوا و تقدم إلى أمير المؤمنين عليه السلام أن يضرب أعناقهم في الخندق فأخرجوا أرسالا و فيهم حيي بن أخطب و كعب بن أسد و هما إذ ذاك رئيسا القوم

And Rasool-Allah^-saww went out to the place of the market today and dug out ditches in it, and Amir Al-Momineen^-asws was present and with him^-asws were the Muslims, and he^-saww ordered with them that they be brought out and forwarded to Amir Al-Momineen^-asws and he^-asws would strike off their necks in the ditches. They came out few at a time, and among them was Huyay Bin Akhtab, and Ka’ab Bin Asad, and they were both chiefs of the people when that happened.

فقالوا لكعب بن أسد و هم يذهب بهم إلى رسول الله ص يا كعب ما تراه يصنع بنا فقال في كل موطن لا تعقلون أ لا ترون الداعي لا ينزع و من ذهب منكم لا يرجع هو و الله القتل و جي‏ء بحيي بن أخطب مجموعة يداه إلى عنقه فلما نظر إلى رسول الله ص قال أما و الله ما لمت نفسي على عداوتك و لكن من يخذل الله يخذل

They said to Ka’ab Bin Asad, and they were going with them to Rasool-Allah^-saww, ‘O Ka’ab! What do you see him^-saww doing with us?’ He said, ‘In every place you don’t use your intellects. Do you not see that the caller does no snatch, and the one from you who goes away and does not return, it is by Allah^-azwj the killing’. And they came with Huyay Bin Akhtab, hands tied up to his neck. When he looked at Rasool-Allah^-saww, he said, ‘By Allah^-azwj, I do not blame my self upon having your^-saww enmity, but the one whom Allah^-azwj Abandons, he is abandoned’.

ثم أقبل على الناس فقال أيها الناس إنه لا بد من أمر الله كتاب و قدر و ملحمة كتبت على بني إسرائيل ثم أقيم بين يدي أمير المؤمنين عليه السلام و هو يقول قتلة شريفة بيد شريف فقال له أمير المؤمنين عليه السلام إن خيار الناس يقتلون شرارهم و شرارهم‏ يقتلون خيارهم فالويل لمن قتله الأخيار الأشراف و السعادة لمن قتله الأرذال الكفار

Then he turned towards and people and said, ‘O you people! There is no escape from the Command of Allah^-azwj, a Book, and Power, and an epic Decreed upon the children of Israel’. Then he was stood in front of Amir Al-Momineen^-asws and he said, ‘I am being killed by a nobleman by the hand of a nobleman’. Amir Al-Momineen^-asws said to him: ‘The best of the people are being killed by their evil ones, killing their good ones. Woe be unto the one whom the good, and the noble and the fortunate kill the ones their kill from the wretched, the Kafir’.

فقال صدقت لا تسلبني حلتي فقال هي أهون علي من ذاك فقال سترتني سترك الله و مد عنقه فضربها علي عليه السلام و لم يسلبه من بينهم ثم قال أمير المؤمنين عليه السلام لمن جاء به ما كان يقول حيي و هو يقاد إلى الموت قال‏ كان يقول‏

لعمرك ما لام ابن أخطب نفسه‏		و لكنه من يخذل الله يخذل‏
فجاهد حتى بلغ النفس جهدها		و حاول يبقى العز كل مقلقل

He said, ‘You^-asws speak the truth. Do not take off my clothes’. He^-asws said: ‘It is below me^-asws to do that’. He said, ‘Veil me, may Allah^-azwj Veil you^-asws’, and he extended his neck, and Ali^-asws struck it off and did not take off (his clothes) from between them. Then Amir Al-Momineen^-asws said to the one who had come with him, ‘What was Huyay saying and he was almost to the death?’ He said, ‘He was saying (a poem), ‘By your life! The son of Akhtab does not blame himself, but the one who Allah^-azwj Abandons, is abandoned. He struggled until the soul reached its effort, and tried to stay good in every trouble’.

فَقَالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلِيٌّ عَلَيْهِ الصَّلَاةُ وَ السَّلَامُ‏

لَقَدْ كَانَ ذَا جِدٍّ وَ جَدَّ بِكُفْرِهِ		فَقِيدَ إِلَيْنَا فِي الْمَجَامِعِ‏ يُعْتَلُ فَقَلَّدْتُهُ بِالسَّيْفِ ضَرْبَةَ مُحْفِظٍ
فَصَارَ إِلَى قَعْرِ الْجَحِيمِ يُكَبَّلُ. فَذَاكَ مَآبُ الْكَافِرِينَ وَ مَنْ يُطِعْ		لِأَمْرِ إِلَهِ الْخَلْقِ فِي الْخُلْدِ يَنْزِلُ

Amir Al-Momineen Ali^-asws said (in prose): ‘He was with seriousness and serious in his Kufr. He was brought to us among the suspended gathering, so I^-asws collared him with the sword by a strike and he came to the bottom of the Blazing Fire in shackles, so that is the destination of the Kafirs, and the one from the people who follows the matter to him would descend in the eternal (Fire)’.

و اصطفى رسول الله ص من نسائهم بنت عمرة خناقة و قتل من نسائهم امرأة واحدة كانت أرسلت عليه حجرا و قد جاء باليهود يناظرهم قبل مباينتهم له فسلمه الله تعالى من ذلك الحجر و كان الظفر ببني قريظة و فتح الله على النبي ص بأمير المؤمنين عليه السلام و ما كان من قتله من قتل منهم و ما ألقاه الله عز و جل في قلوبهم من الرعب فيه‏

And Rasool-Allah^-saww chose from their women, (Rayhana) Bint Amara Khanaqa, and killed from their womenfolk one woman who had sent a rock upon him^-saww, and she had come with the Jews to agitate them before their confrontation to him^-saww. Allah^-azwj Exalted Saved him^-saww from that rock, and he won against the clan of Qureyza and Allah^-azwj Granted victory unto the Prophet^-saww through Amir Al-Momineen^-asws, and the ones he^-asws killed from them, and the awe which Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Cast into their hearts’’.[19]

20- فر، تفسير فرات بن إبراهيم جَعْفَرُ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ مُعَنْعَناً عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ كَعْبٍ‏ قَالَ: لَمَّا رَجَعَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص مِنَ الْأَحْزَابِ قَالَ لَهُ جَبْرَئِيلُ عَفَا اللَّهُ عَنْكَ وَضَعْتَ السِّلَاحَ مَا زِلْتُ بِمَنْ مَعِي مِنَ الْمَلَائِكَةِ نَسُوقُ الْمُشْرِكِينَ حَتَّى نَزَلْنَا بِهِمْ حَمْرَاءَ الْأَسَدِ اخْرُجْ وَ قَدْ أُمِرْتَ بِقِتَالِهِمْ وَ إِنِّي غَادٍ بِمَنْ مَعِي فَنُزَلْزِلُ بِهِمْ حُصُونَهُمْ حَتَّى تَلْحَقُونَا

‘Tafseer Furat Bin Ibrahim’ – Ja’far Bin Ahmad, transmitting from Muhammad Bin Ka’ab who said, ‘When Rasool-Allah^-saww returned from Al-Ahzaab, Jibraeel^-as said to him^-saww: ‘Allah^-azwj has Excused from you^-saww and place down the weapons. I^-saww and the ones with me^-as from the Angels will not cease to usher the Polytheists until we descend with them at Hamra Al-Asad. Come out, and you^-saww have been Commanded with fighting them. I^-as will go with the ones with me and shake their fortress with them until they join us’.

فَأَعْطَى أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلِيَّ بْنَ أَبِي طَالِبٍ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ الرَّايَةَ وَ خَرَجَ فِي أَثَرِ جَبْرَئِيلَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ وَ تَخَلَّفَ النَّبِيُّ ص ثُمَّ لَحِقَهُمْ فَجَعَلَ كُلَّمَا مَرَّ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص بِأَحَدٍ فَقَالَ مَرَّ بِكُمُ الْفَارِسُ فَقَالُوا مَرَّ بِنَا دِحْيَةُ بْنُ خَلِيفَةَ وَ كَانَ جَبْرَئِيلُ يُشْبِهُ بِهِ

He^-saww gave the flag to Amir Al-Momineen Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws and he^-asws went in the tracks of Jibraeel^-as and left the Prophet^-saww behind. Then he^-saww joined up with them. Every time Rasool-Allah^-saww passed by anyone, he^-saww went on to say: ‘Has the horseman passed by you?’ They said, ‘Dahiya Bin Khalifa passed by us’, and Jibraeel^-as had resembled himself^-as with him.

قَالَ فَخَرَجَ يَوْمَئِذٍ عَلَى فَرَسٍ وُكِفَ‏ بِقَطِيفَةِ أُرْجُوَانٍ أَحْمَرَ فَلَمَّا نَزَلَتْ بِهِمْ جُنُودُ اللَّهِ نَادَى مُنَادِيهِمْ‏ يَا أَبَا لُبَابَةَ بْنَ عَبْدِ الْمُنْذِرِ مَا لَكَ قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ص هَذَا يَدْعُونَ فَأْتِهِمْ وَ قُلْ مَعْرُوفاً فَلَمَّا اطَّلَعَ عَلَيْهِمْ انْتَحَبُوا فِي وَجْهِهِ يَبْكُونَ وَ قَالُوا يَا أَبَا لُبَابَةَ لَا طَاقَةَ لَنَا الْيَوْمَ بِقِتَالِ مَنْ وَرَاءَكَ‏

He said, ‘He^-saww went out on that day upon a horse and had placed a velvet, purple, red cloth upon it. When the army of Allah^-azwj descended with them, their caller called out, ‘O Abu Lubaba Bin Abdul Munzar! What is the matter with you?’ The Prophet^-saww said: ‘This one is calling, so go to them and say kind words’. When he^-saww emerged to them, they wailed in his face, crying and saying, ‘O Abu Lubaba! There is no strength for us today with fighting the ones behind you’’.[20]

20- مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ عَنِ الْفَضْلِ بْنِ شَاذَانَ وَ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ إِدْرِيسَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْجَبَّارِ جَمِيعاً عَنْ صَفْوَانَ بْنِ يَحْيَى عَنِ ابْنِ مُسْكَانَ عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ عَنْ أَحَدِهِمَا عَلَيْهِمَا السَّلَامُ‏ فِي قَوْلِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَ‏ أُحِلَّ لَكُمْ لَيْلَةَ الصِّيامِ الرَّفَثُ إِلى‏ نِسائِكُمْ‏ الْآيَةَ فَقَالَ نَزَلَتْ فِي خَوَّاتِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ الْأَنْصَارِيِّ وَ كَانَ مَعَ النَّبِيِّ ص فِي الْخَنْدَقِ وَ هُوَ صَائِمٌ فَأَمْسَى وَ هُوَ عَلَى تِلْكَ الْحَالِ وَ كَانُوا قَبْلَ أَنْ تَنْزِلَ هَذِهِ الْآيَةُ إِذَا نَامَ أَحَدُهُمْ حُرِّمَ عَلَيْهِ الطَّعَامُ وَ الشَّرَابُ

Muhammad Bin Ismail, from Al Fazl Bin Shazan, and Ahmad Bin Idrees, from Muhammad bin Abdul Jabbar, altogether from Safwan Bin Yahya, from Ibn Muskan, from Abu Baseer,

‘From one of the two (5^th or 6^th Imam^-asws) regarding the Words of Allah^-azwj: Permissible for you during the night of the Fast, is the going to your wives; [2:187]. He^-asws said: ‘It was Revealed regarding Khawaat Bin Jubeyr Al-Ansary, and he was with the Prophet^-saww during the (battle of) Khandaq, and they were Fasting. Evening came and he was in that condition. And it was so before the Revelation of this Verse, that when one of them goes to sleep then the food and drink was Forbidden unto him.

فَجَاءَ خَوَّاتٌ إِلَى أَهْلِهِ حِينَ أَمْسَى فَقَالَ هَلْ عِنْدَكُمْ طَعَامٌ فَقَالُوا لَا تَنَمْ‏ حَتَّى نُصْلِحَ لَكَ طَعَاماً فَاتَّكَأَ فَنَامَ فَقَالُوا لَهُ قَدْ فَعَلْتَ قَالَ نَعَمْ فَبَاتَ عَلَى تِلْكَ الْحَالِ فَأَصْبَحَ ثُمَّ غَدَا إِلَى الْخَنْدَقِ فَجَعَلَ يُغْشَى عَلَيْهِ فَمَرَّ بِهِ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَلَمَّا رَأَى الَّذِي بِهِ أَخْبَرَهُ كَيْفَ كَانَ أَمْرُهُ فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ فِيهِ الْآيَةَ وَ كُلُوا وَ اشْرَبُوا حَتَّى يَتَبَيَّنَ لَكُمُ الْخَيْطُ الْأَبْيَضُ مِنَ الْخَيْطِ الْأَسْوَدِ مِنَ الْفَجْرِ

Khawaat came to his wife in the evening and said, ‘Is there anything (to eat) with you?’ She said, ‘No. Do not go to sleep until I sort out the food for you’. But he leant back, and fell asleep. They said, ‘You have done that’. He said, ‘Yes’. He spent the entire night in that condition until the morning. Then he went to the (battle of) Khandaq, and was overcome with unconsciousness. Rasool-Allah^-saww passed by him, so when he^-saww saw what happened to him, he informed him^-saww of what his matter was. Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Revealed regarding it, the Verse and eat and drink until it is clear for you, the white thread from the black thread at dawn [2:187]’’.[21]

22- كا، الكافي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ هِلَالٍ عَنْ عُقْبَةَ بْنِ خَالِدٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ قَالَ: تَأْتِي مَسْجِدَ الْأَحْزَابِ فَتُصَلِّي فِيهِ وَ تَدْعُو اللَّهَ فِيهِ فَإِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص دَعَا فِيهِ يَوْمَ الْأَحْزَابِ وَ قَالَ يَا صَرِيخَ الْمَكْرُوبِينَ وَ يَا مُجِيبَ‏ الْمُضْطَرِّينَ وَ يَا مُغِيثَ الْمَهْمُومِينَ اكْشِفْ هَمِّي وَ كَرْبِي‏ فَقَدْ تَرَى‏ حَالِي وَ حَالَ أَصْحَابِي‏.

‘Al Kafi’ – Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Muhammad Bin Al Husayn, from Muhammad bin Abdullah Bin Hilal, from Uqba Bin Khalid,

‘From Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘Go to Masjid Al-Ahzaab and pray Salat in it and supplicate to Allah^-azwj in it, for Rasool-Allah^-saww had supplicated in it on the day of Al-Ahzaab and said: ‘O cry of the distressed and O Answerer of the restless, and O Helper of the worried ones! Remove my^-saww worries and my stress, for You^-saww have Seen my^-saww state and the state of my^-saww companions’’.[22]

23- كا، الكافي عَلِيٌّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ الْبَزَنْطِيِّ عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ سَالِمٍ عَنْ أَبَانِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ عَمَّنْ حَدَّثَهُ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ قَالَ: قَامَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص عَلَى التَّلِّ الَّذِي عَلَيْهِ مَسْجِدُ الْفَتْحِ فِي غَزْوَةِ الْأَحْزَابِ فِي لَيْلَةٍ ظَلْمَاءَ قَرَّةٍ فَقَالَ مَنْ يَذْهَبُ فَيَأْتِيَنَا بِخَبَرِهِمْ وَ لَهُ الْجَنَّةُ فَلَمْ يَقُمْ أَحَدٌ ثُمَّ أَعَادَهَا فَلَمْ يَقُمْ أَحَدٌ فَقَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ بِيَدِهِ وَ مَا أَرَادَ الْقَوْمُ أَرَادُوا أَفْضَلَ مِنَ الْجَنَّةِ

‘Al Kafi’ – Ali, from his father, from Al Bazanty, from Hisham Bin Salim, from Aban Bin Usman, from the one who narrated it,

‘From Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww stood upon the mound on which is the Masjid Al-Fatah during the military expedition of Al-Ahzaab is (built), on a dark, cold night. He^-saww said: ‘Who will go and bring their news to us, and the Paradise will be for him’. No one stood up. He^-saww then repeated it. Still, no one stood up’. Abu Abdullah^-asws said, with a hand gesture: ‘What the people wanted was something higher than the Paradise’.

ثُمَّ قَالَ مَنْ هَذَا فَقَالَ حُذَيْفَةُ فَقَالَ أَ مَا تَسْمَعُ كَلَامِي مُنْذُ اللَّيْلَةِ وَ لَا تَكَلَّمُ اقْتَرِبْ فَقَامَ حُذَيْفَةُ وَ هُوَ يَقُولُ الْقُرُّ وَ الضُّرُّ جَعَلَنِيَ اللَّهُ فِدَاكَ مَنَعَنِي أَنْ أُجِيبَكَ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص انْطَلِقْ حَتَّى تَسْمَعَ كَلَامَهُمْ وَ تَأْتِيَنِي بِخَبَرِهِمْ فَلَمَّا ذَهَبَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص اللَّهُمَّ احْفَظْهُ مِنْ بَيْنِ يَدَيْهِ وَ مِنْ خَلْفِهِ وَ عَنْ يَمِينِهِ وَ عَنْ شِمَالِهِ حَتَّى تَرُدَّهُ

Then he^-saww said; ‘Who is this?’ He said, ‘Huzeyfa’. He^-saww said; ‘Did you not hear my^-saww words since the night and I^-saww have been speaking? Come closer’. Huzeyfa stood up and he was saying, ‘It was neither the cold nor the harm which prevented me, may I be sacrificed for you^-saww’. Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Go to them until you can hear their speech, and come to me^-saww with their news’. When he went, Rasool-Allah^-saww said; ‘O Allah^-azwj! Protect him from his front, and from his back, and from his right, and from his left, until he returns’.

وَ قَالَ لَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص يَا حُذَيْفَةُ لَا تُحْدِثْ شَيْئاً حَتَّى تَأْتِيَنِي فَأَخَذَ سَيْفَهُ وَ قَوْسَهُ وَ حَجَفَتَهُ‏ قَالَ حُذَيْفَةُ فَخَرَجْتُ وَ مَا لِي‏ مِنْ ضُرٍّ وَ لَا قُرٍّ فَمَرَرْتُ عَلَى بَابِ الْخَنْدَقِ وَ قَدِ اعْتَرَاهُ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ وَ الْكُفَّارُ

And Rasool-Allah^-saww said to him; ‘O Huzeyfa, do not do any event until you come to me^-saww. He took his sword, and his bow, and his shield. Huzeyfa said, ‘I went out and I was not affected by the cold weather; I passed by the Door of the Ditch (Baab Al-Khandaq) which had been overcome by the Momineen from the Kafirs’.

فَلَمَّا تَوَجَّهَ حُذَيْفَةُ قَامَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ نَادَى يَا صَرِيخَ الْمَكْرُوبِينَ وَ يَا مُجِيبَ الْمُضْطَرِّينَ اكْشِفْ هَمِّي وَ غَمِّي وَ كَرْبِي فَقَدْ تَرَى حَالِي وَ حَالَ أَصْحَابِي

When Huzayfa left, the Rasool-Allah^-saww arose and called out: ‘O Helper of the afflicted, and O Responder to the distressed, Uproot my^-saww stress, and my^-saww grief, and my^-saww affliction, for You^-azwj can See my^-saww condition, and the condition of my^-saww companions!’

فَنَزَلَ عَلَيْهِ جَبْرَئِيلُ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ فَقَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ ذِكْرُهُ قَدْ سَمِعَ مَقَالَتَكَ وَ دُعَاءَكَ وَ قَدْ أَجَابَكَ وَ كَفَاكَ هَوْلَ عَدُوِّكَ فَجَثَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص عَلَى رُكْبَتَيْهِ وَ بَسَطَ يَدَيْهِ وَ أَرْسَلَ عَيْنَيْهِ ثُمَّ قَالَ شُكْراً شُكْراً كَمَا رَحِمْتَنِي وَ رَحِمْتَ أَصْحَابِي

Jibraeel^-as descended unto him^-saww and said; ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! Verily Allah^-azwj has Heard your^-saww speech, and your^-saww supplication, and has Answered you^-saww, and Suffices for you^-saww against your^-saww enemies’. Rasool-Allah^-saww went down on his^-saww knees, and extended his^-saww hands, and shed tears from his^-saww eyes, then said: ‘Thank You^-azwj, thank You^-azwj for being Merciful to me^-saww and to my^-saww companions’.

ثُمَّ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص قَدْ بَعَثَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ عَلَيْهِمْ رِيحاً مِنْ سَمَاءِ الدُّنْيَا فِيهَا حَصًى وَ رِيحاً مِنَ السَّمَاءِ الرَّابِعَةِ فِيهَا جَنْدَلٌ قَالَ حُذَيْفَةُ فَخَرَجْتُ فَإِذَا أَنَا بِنِيرَانِ الْقَوْمِ وَ أَقْبَلَ جُنْدُ اللَّهِ الْأَوَّلُ‏ رِيحٌ فِيهَا حَصًى فَمَا تَرَكْتُ لَهُمْ نَاراً إِلَّا أَذْرَتْهَا وَ لَا خِبَاءً إِلَّا طَرَحَتْهُ وَ لَا رُمْحاً إِلَّا أَلْقَتْهُ حَتَّى جَعَلُوا يَتَتَرَّسُونَ مِنَ الْحَصَى فَجَعَلْنَا نَسْمَعُ وَقْعَ الْحَصَى فِي الْأَتْرِسَةِ

Then Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Allah^-azwj has Sent upon them a wind from the sky to the world in which was gravel, and a wind from the fourth sky in which was a rock’. Huzeyfa said, ‘I went out and I saw that the people had lit many fires. And the first soldier of Allah^-azwj, a wind in which was gravel, struck them. It did not leave any of their fires except that it extinguished it, no tent except that it uprooted it, and no spear except that it flung it away, to the extent that they were defending themselves against the gravel with their shields and we could hear the sound of the gravel striking the shields’.

فَجَلَسَ حُذَيْفَةُ بَيْنَ رَجُلَيْنِ مِنَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ فَقَامَ إِبْلِيسُ فِي صُورَةِ رَجُلٍ مُطَاعٍ‏ فِي الْمُشْرِكِينَ فَقَالَ أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ إِنَّكُمْ قَدْ نَزَلْتُمْ بِسَاحَةِ هَذَا السَّاحِرِ الْكَذَّابِ أَلَا وَ إِنَّهُ لَنْ يَفُوتَكُمْ مِنْ أَمْرِهِ شَيْ‏ءٌ فَإِنَّهُ لَيْسَ سَنَةَ مُقَامٍ قَدْ هَلَكَ الْخُفُّ وَ الْحَافِرُ فَارْجِعُوا فَلْيَنْظُرْ كُلُّ رَجُلٍ مِنْكُمْ مَنْ جَلِيسُهُ قَالَ حُذَيْفَةُ فَنَظَرْتُ عَنْ يَمِينِي فَضَرَبْتُ بِيَدِي فَقُلْتُ مَنْ أَنْتَ فَقَالَ مُعَاوِيَةُ فَقُلْتُ لِلَّذِي عَنْ يَسَارِي مَنْ أَنْتَ فَقَالَ سُهَيْلُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو

Huzayfa sat down between two men from the Polytheists. Iblees^-la stood up in the form of an obedient man among the Polytheists. He^-la said, ‘O you people! You all have encamped in an area beside this sorcerer and the liar. Indeed! Nothing from his^-saww matters has been forgotten. It has not been a good year. The shoes and the hooves have been destroyed. So return, and every man from among you should look at the one who is seated next to him’. Huzayfa said, ‘I looked on my right and tapped on his shoulder and said, ‘Who are you?’ He said, ‘Muawiya’. I said to the one who was on my left, ‘Who are you?’ He said, ‘Suhayl Bin Amro’.

قَالَ حُذَيْفَةُ وَ أَقْبَلَ جُنْدُ اللَّهِ الْأَعْظَمُ فَقَامَ أَبُو سُفْيَانَ إِلَى رَاحِلَتِهِ ثُمَّ صَاحَ فِي قُرَيْشٍ النَّجَاءَ النَّجَاءَ وَ قَالَ طَلْحَةُ الْأَزْدِيُّ لَقَدْ رَادَّكُمْ‏ مُحَمَّدٌ بِشَرٍّ ثُمَّ قَامَ إِلَى رَاحِلَتِهِ وَ صَاحَ فِي بَنِي أَشْجَعَ النَّجَاءَ النَّجَاءَ وَ فَعَلَ عُيَيْنَةُ بْنُ حِصْنٍ مِثْلَهَا ثُمَّ فَعَلَ الْحَارِثُ بْنُ عَوْفٍ الْمُزَنِيُّ مِثْلَهَا ثُمَّ فَعَلَ الْأَقْرَعُ بْنُ حَابِسٍ مِثْلَهَا وَ ذَهَبَ الْأَحْزَابُ وَ رَجَعَ حُذَيْفَةُ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَأَخْبَرَهُ الْخَبَرَ وَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ إِنَّهُ كَانَ لَيُشْبِهُ‏ بِيَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ

Huzayfa said, ‘And the greater soldier of Allah^-azwj arrived. Abu Sufyan arose to be on his camel, then shouted among the Quraysh, ‘The safety, the safety!’ And Talha Al-Azdy said, ‘Muhammad^-saww has increased your injuries!’ Then he climbed upon his camel and shouted among the Clan of Ashja’a, ‘The safety, the safety!’ And Uyayna Bin Hasan acted similarly. Then Al-Haris Bin Awf Al-Muzny acted similarly. Then Al-Aqra’a Bin Habis acted similarly. And the confederated tribes (Al-Ahzaab) went away’. And Huzayfa returned to the Rasool-Allah^-saww and informed him^-saww of the news. And Abu Abdullah^-asws said: ‘It had resembled the Day of Qiyamah for them’’.[23]

24- كا، الكافي الْعِدَّةُ عَنْ سَهْلٍ عَنِ الْبَزَنْطِيِّ عَنْ أَبَانِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ عَنْ بَعْضِ رِجَالِهِ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ قَالَ: لَمَّا حَفَرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص الْخَنْدَقَ مَرُّوا بِكُدْيَةٍ فَتَنَاوَلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص الْمِعْوَلَ مِنْ يَدِ أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ أَوْ مِنْ يَدِ سَلْمَانَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ فَضَرَبَ بِهَا ضَرْبَةً فَتَفَرَّقَ بِثَلَاثِ فِرْقٍ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لَقَدْ فُتِحَ عَلَيَّ فِي ضَرْبَتِي هَذِهِ‏ كُنُوزُ كِسْرَى وَ قَيْصَرَ فَقَالَ أَحَدُهُمَا لِصَاحِبِهِ يَعِدُنَا كُنُوزَ كِسْرَى وَ قَيْصَرَ وَ مَا يَقْدِرُ أَحَدُنَا يَخْرُجُ يَتَخَلَّى

‘Al Kafi’ – The number, from Sahl, from Al Bazanty, from Aban Bin Usman, from one of his men,

‘From Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘When Rasool-Allah^-saww dug the trench (Al-Khandaq), he^-saww came across a rock. Rasool-Allah^-saww took a pickaxe from the hand of Amir-ul-Momineen^-asws, or from the hand of Salman^-ra. He^-saww struck by it at the rock and it split into three pieces. Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘With this strike the treasures of Chosroe and Caesar have opened up for me^-saww. One of them (Abu Bakr or Umar) said to his companion, ‘He^-saww promises us with the treasures of Chosroe and Caesar whilst no one of us has the control to go out for the toilet’’.[24]

25- وَ قَالَ ابْنُ شَهْرَآشُوبَ‏ كَانَ الْمُشْرِكُونَ ثَمَانِيَةَ عَشَرَ أَلْفَ رَجُلٍ وَ الْمُسْلِمُونَ ثَلَاثَةَ آلَافٍ وَ كَانَ الْمُشْرِكُونَ عَلَى الْخَمْرِ وَ الْغِنَاءِ وَ الْمَدَدِ وَ الشَّوْكَةِ وَ الْمُسْلِمُونَ كَأَنَّ عَلَى رُءُوسِهِمُ الطَّيْرَ لِمَكَانِ عَمْرٍو وَ النَّبِيُّ ص جَاثٍ عَلَى رُكْبَتَيْهِ بَاسِطٌ يَدَيْهِ بَاكٍ عينيه [عَيْنَاهُ‏] يُنَادِي بِأَشْجَى صَوْتٍ يَا صَرِيخَ الْمَكْرُوبِينَ يَا مُجِيبَ دَعْوَةِ الْمُضْطَرِّينَ اكْشِفْ هَمِّي وَ كَرْبِي فَقَدْ تَرَى حَالِي

And Ubn Shehr Ashub said, ‘The Polytheist were eighteen thousand men and the Muslims were three thousand, and the Polytheists were upon the wine and the music and the help and the strength, and the Muslims were as if there were birds upon their heads (inactive) due to the position of Amro, and the Prophet^-saww kneeled on his^-saww knees spreading out his^-saww hand crying his^-saww eyes calling out in a strong voice: ‘O cry of the distressed, O Answered of the supplications of the restless! Remove (from) me^-saww (worries) and my^-saww stress, so You^-saww have Seen my^-saww state’.

وَ دَعَا عَلَيْهِمْ فَقَالَ اللَّهُمَّ مُنْزِلَ الْكِتَابِ سَرِيعَ الْحِسَابِ اهْزِمِ الْأَحْزَابَ وَ كَانَتْ غَزْوَةُ بَنِي قُرَيْظَةَ فِي ذِي الْقَعْدَةِ

And he^-saww supplicated against them, he^-saww said: ‘O Allah^-azwj, Revealer of the Book, quick of the Reckoning, defeat the allies’. And the military expedition of the clan of Qureyza was in Zil Qadah’’.[25]

26- وَ قَالَ الطَّبْرِسِيُ‏ لَمَّا رَجَعَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص مِنْ غَزْوَةِ الْأَحْزَابِ وَ دَخَلَ الْمَدِينَةَ ضَرَبَتْ لَهُ ابْنَتُهُ فَاطِمَةُ غَسُولًا فَهِيَ تَغْسِلُ رَأْسَهُ إِذْ أَتَاهُ جَبْرَئِيلُ عَلَى بَغْلَةٍ مُعْتَجِراً بِعِمَامَةٍ بَيْضَاءَ عَلَيْهِ قَطِيفَةٌ مِنْ إِسْتَبْرَقٍ مُعَلَّقٌ عَلَيْهَا الدُّرُّ وَ الْيَاقُوتُ عَلَيْهِ الْغُبَارُ فَقَامَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَمَسَحَ الْغُبَارَ عَنْ وَجْهِهِ

And Al-Tabarsy said, ‘When Rasool-Allah^-saww returned from the battle of Al-Ahzaab and entered Al-Medina, his^-saww daughter^-asws (Syeda) Fatima^-asws presented a washbasin and she^-asws washed his^-saww head, when Jibraeel^-as came upon his^-saww mule turbaned with a white turban, upon him^-as being a velvet cloth of brocade. The gems and the sapphire were fastened upon it, having dust upon him^-as. Rasool-Allah^-saww stood up and wiped the dust from his^-as face.

فَقَالَ لَهُ جَبْرَئِيلُ رَحِمَكَ رَبُّكَ وَضَعْتَ السِّلَاحَ وَ لَمْ يَضَعْهُ أَهْلُ السَّمَاءِ مَا زِلْتُ أَتَّبِعُهُمْ حَتَّى بَلَغْتُ الرَّوْحَاءَ ثُمَّ قَالَ جَبْرَئِيلُ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ انْهَضْ إِلَى إِخْوَانِهِمْ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْكِتَابِ فَوَ اللَّهِ لَأُدِقَّنَّهُمْ دَقَّ الْبَيْضَةِ عَلَى الصَّخْرَةِ

Jibraeel^-as said to him^-saww: ‘Your^-saww Lord^-azwj has Mercied you^-saww and you^-saww placed down the weapons, and the people of the sky have not placed it. I^-as will not cease to pursue them until I^-as reach Al-Rawha’. Then Jibraeel^-as said: ‘Stand up to the brothers from the People of the Book, for by Allah^-azwj I^-as shall make them taste the sound of the egg upon the rock’.

فَدَعَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص عَلِيّاً فَقَالَ قَدِّمْ رَايَةَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ إِلَى بَنِي قُرَيْظَةَ وَ قَالَ عَزَمْتُ عَلَيْكُمْ أَنْ لَا تُصَلُّوا الْعَصْرَ إِلَّا فِي بَنِي قُرَيْظَةَ فَأَقْبَلَ عَلِيٌّ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ وَ مَعَهُ الْمُهَاجِرُونَ وَ بَنُو عَبْدِ الْأَشْهَلِ وَ بَنُو النَّجَّارِ كُلُّهَا لَمْ يَتَخَلَّفْ عَنْهُ مِنْهُمْ أَحَدٌ وَ جَعَلَ النَّبِيُّ ص يُسَرِّبُ‏ إِلَيْهِ الرِّجَالَ

Rasool-Allah^-saww called Ali^-asws and said: ‘Advance the flag of the Emigrants to the clan of Qureyza’. And he^-saww said: I^-saww have determined upon you that you will not pray Al-Asr Salat except among the clan of Qureyza’. Ali^-asws came and with him^-asws were the Emigrants and the clan of Abd Al-Ashal and the clan of Al-Najjar, all of them, not one of them stayed behind from him^-asws, and the Prophet^-saww kept on returning to him^-asws.

فَمَا صَلَّى بَعْضُهُمُ الْعَصْرَ إِلَّا بَعْدَ الْعِشَاءِ فَأَشْرَفُوا عَلَيْهِ وَ سَبُّوهُ وَ قَالُوا فَعَلَ اللَّهُ بِكَ وَ بِابْنِ عَمِّكَ وَ هُوَ وَاقِفٌ لَا يُجِيبُهُمْ فَلَمَّا أَقْبَلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ الْمُسْلِمُونَ حَوْلَهُ تَلَقَّاهُ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ وَ قَالَ لَا تَأْتِهِمْ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص جَعَلَنِيَ اللَّهُ فِدَاكَ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ سَيَجْزِيهِمْ‏

Some of them did not pray Al-Asr Salat except after Al-Isha and honoured upon it, and they insulted him^-asws and said, ‘Allah^-azwj Did with you^-asws and your cousin^-saww, and he^-asws was standing, not answering them. When Rasool-Allah^-saww came and the Muslims were around him^-saww, Amir Al-Momineen^-asws met him^-saww and said: ‘Do not go to them, O Rasool-Allah^-saww, may Allah^-azwj Make me^-asws to be sacrificed for you^-saww! Allah^-azwj will be Disgracing them’.

فَعَرَفَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص‏ أَنَّهُمْ قَدْ شَتَمُوهُ فَقَالَ أَمَا إِنَّهُمْ لَوْ رَأَوْنِي مَا قَالُوا شَيْئاً مِمَّا سَمِعْتَ وَ أَقْبَلَ ثُمَّ قَالَ يَا إِخْوَةَ الْقِرَدَةِ إِنَّا إِذَا نَزَلْنَا بِسَاحَةِ قَوْمٍ فَسَاءَ صَبَاحُ الْمُنْذَرِينَ يَا عِبَادَ الطَّوَاغِيتِ اخْسَئُوا أَخْسَأَكُمُ اللَّهُ

Rasool-Allah^-saww realised that they had reviled him^-saww, so he^-saww said: ‘But if they had seen me^-saww, they would not have said anything from what you^-asws heard and faced’. Then he^-saww said: ‘O brothers of the monkeys! We, whenever we descend by an arsenal of a people, then it bodes a warning of evil for them. O servants of the tyrants! Remain despised, may Allah^-azwj Despise you!’

فَصَاحُوا يَمِيناً وَ شِمَالًا يَا أَبَا الْقَاسِمِ مَا كُنْتَ فَحَّاشاً فَمَا بَدَا لَكَ قَالَ الصَّادِقُ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ فَسَقَطَتِ الْعَنَزَةُ مِنْ يَدِهِ وَ سَقَطَ رِدَاؤُهُ مِنْ خَلْفِهِ وَ رَجَعَ يَمْشِي إِلَى وَرَائِهِ حَيَاءً مِمَّا قَالَ لَهُمْ‏

They shouted right and left, O Abu Al-Qasim^-saww! You^-saww were never immoral, so what has changed for you^-saww?’ Al-Sadiq^-asws said: ‘The walking stick fell down from his^-saww hand and his^-saww cloak fell from behind him^-saww, and he^-saww returned walking towards behind him^-saww in embarrassment from what he said to him^-saww.[26]

27- أَقُولُ قَالَ عَبْدُ الْحَمِيدِ بْنُ أَبِي الْحَدِيدِ فِي شَرْحِ نَهْجِ الْبَلَاغَةِ، فَأَمَّا الْجِرَاحَةُ الَّتِي جَرَحَهَا يَوْمَ الْخَنْدَقِ إِلَى عَمْرِو بْنِ عَبْدٍ فَإِنَّهَا أَجَلُّ مِنْ أَنْ يُقَالَ جَلِيلَةٌ وَ أَعْظَمُ مِنْ أَنْ يُقَالَ عَظِيمَةٌ وَ مَا هِيَ إِلَّا كَمَا قَالَ شَيْخُنَا أَبُو الْهُذَيْلِ وَ قَدْ سَأَلَهُ سَائِلٌ أَيُّمَا أَعْظَمُ مَنْزِلَةً عِنْدَ اللَّهِ عَلِيٌّ أَمْ أَبُو بَكْرٍ

I (Majlisi) am saying, ‘Abdul Hameed Bin Abu Al-Hadeed said in the commentary of Nahj Al-Balagah, ‘As for the injury which he^-asws injured Amro Bin Abdi Wudd on the day of Al-Khandaq, so it is more majestic than can be said to be majestic, and greater than it can be said to be great, and it is not except just as out sheykh Abu Al-Huzeyl has said and a questioner had asked him, ‘Which of the two is of a greater status in the Presence of Allah^-azwj, Ali^-asws or Abu Bakr?’

فَقَالَ يَا ابْنَ أَخِي وَ اللَّهِ لَمُبَارَزَةُ عَلِيٍّ عَمْراً يَوْمَ الْخَنْدَقِ تَعْدِلُ أَعْمَالَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ وَ الْأَنْصَارِ وَ طَاعَاتِهِمْ كُلَّهَا فَضْلًا عَنْ أَبِي بَكْرٍ وَحْدَهُ

He said, ‘O son of my brother! By Allah^-azwj, the duel of Ali^-asws against Amro on the day of Al-Khandaq equates to the deeds of the Emigrants and the Helpers and their acts of obedience, all of them, all surpass from Abu Bakr alone’.

وَ قَالَ وَ جَاءَ فِي الْحَدِيثِ الْمَرْفُوعِ‏ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص قَالَ ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمُ حِينَ بَرَزَ إِلَيْهِ بَرَزَ الْإِيمَانُ كُلُّهُ إِلَى الشِّرْكِ كُلِّهِ

And he said, ‘And there has come in the well-known Hadeeth that Rasool-Allah^-saww said on the day when he^-asws duelled to him: ‘The whole of Eman is going for duel to the whole of Shirk.

وَ فِي الْحَدِيثِ الْمَرْفُوعِ‏ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص قَالَ عِنْدَ قَتْلِ عَمْرٍو ذَهَبَ رِيحُهُمْ وَ لَا يَغْزُونَنَا بَعْدَ الْيَوْمِ وَ نَحْنُ نَغْزُوهُمْ إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ‏ ثُمَّ سَاقَ الْقِصَّةَ إِلَى أَنْ قَالَ فَقَالَ عَمْرٌو مَنْ أَنْتَ وَ كَانَ شَيْخاً كَبِيراً قَدْ جَاوَزَ الثَّمَانِينَ وَ كَانَ نَدِيمَ أَبِي طَالِبٍ فِي الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ فَانْتَسَبَ عَلِيٌّ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ لَهُ وَ قَالَ أَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ

And in the well-known Hadeeth – ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww said during the killing of Amro: ‘Their wind has gone and they will not be battling us after today, and we shall battle them, if Allah^-azwj so Desires’, then he continued the story up to he said, ‘Amro said, ‘Who are you^-asws?’, and he was an old man having exceeded eighty years, and was a friend of Abu Talib^-asws during the pre-Islamic period. Ali^-asws lineaged to him and said: ‘I^-asws am a son of Abu Talib^-asws.

فَقَالَ أَجَلْ لَقَدْ كَانَ أَبُوكَ نَدِيماً لِي وَ صَدِيقاً فَارْجِعْ فَإِنِّي لَا أُحِبُّ أَنْ أَقْتُلَكَ وَ كَانَ شَيْخُنَا أَبُو الْخَيْرِ مُصَدِّقُ بْنُ شَبِيبٍ النَّحْوِيُّ يَقُولُ إِذَا مَرَرْنَا فِي الْقِرَاءَةِ عَلَيْهِ بِهَذَا الْمَوْضِعِ وَ اللَّهِ مَا أَمَرَهُ بِالرُّجُوعِ إِبْقَاءً عَلَيْهِ بَلْ خَوْفاً مِنْهُ فَقَدْ عَرَفَ قَتْلَاهُ بِبَدْرٍ وَ أُحُدٍ وَ عَلِمَ أَنَّهُ إِنْ نَاهَضَهُ قَتَلَهُ فَاسْتَحْيَا أَنْ يُظْهِرَ الْفَشَلَ فَأَظْهَرَ الْإِبْقَاءَ وَ إِنَّهُ لَكَاذِبٌ فِيهَا

He said, ‘Yes, your^-asws father was a friend of mine, so return for I would not like to kill you’. And our sheykh Abu Al-Khayr Musaddiq Bin Shabeeb Al-Nahwy said, ‘When we passed by in the recitation to him with this subject, ‘By Allah^-azwj, he did not instruct him with the return as a ‘Letting him^-asws live’, but out of fear from him^-asws, for he had recognised his^-asws fighting at Badr and Ohad and knew that if he were to oppose him^-asws, he^-asws will kill him, so he was embarrassed from manifesting the failure. He manifested the ‘letting him^-asws live’, and he was a liar regarding it’.

ثُمَّ سَاقَ الْقِصَّةَ إِلَى أَنْ قَالَ لَمَّا قُتِلَ عَمْرٌو فَرَّ أَصْحَابُهُ لِيَعْبُرُوا الْخَنْدَقَ فَطَفَرَتْ بِهِمْ خَيْلُهُمْ إِلَّا نَوْفَلُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ فَإِنَّهُ قَصَرَ فَرَسُهُ فَوَقَعَ فِي الْخَنْدَقِ فَنَزَلَ إِلَيْهِ عَلِيٌّ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ فَقَتَلَهُ وَ نَاوَشَ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ ضِرَارَ بْنَ عَمْرٍو فَحَمَلَ عَلَيْهِ ضِرَارٌ حَتَّى إِذَا وَجَدَ عُمَرُ مَسَّ الرُّمْحِ رَفَعَهُ عَنْهُ وَ قَالَ إِنَّهَا لَنِعْمَةٌ مَشْكُورَةٌ فَاحْفَظْهَا يَا ابْنَ الْخَطَّابِ إِنِّي كُنْتُ آلَيْتُ أَنْ لَا يُمْكِنَنِي يَدَايَ مِنْ قَتْلِ قُرَشِيٍّ فَأَقْتُلَهُ وَ انْصَرَفَ ضِرَارٌ رَاجِعاً إِلَى أَصْحَابِهِ وَ قَدْ كَانَ جَرَى لَهُ مَعَهُ مِثْلُ هَذِهِ فِي يَوْمِ أُحُدٍ- ذَكَرَهُمَا الْوَاقِدِيُّ فِي كِتَابِ الْمَغَازِي‏

Then he continued the story until he said, ‘When Amro was killed, his companions fled to cross over the trench, and their horses jumped with them except for Nowfal Bin Abdullah, for his horse was short and he fell in the trench. Ali^-asws descended to him and killed him, and there was a skirmish between Umar Bin Al-Khattab and Zirar Bin Amro, and Zirar attacked upon him until when Umar found the touch of the speak, he (Zirar) raised it from him and said, ‘It is a favour of gratitude so preserve it, O son of Al-Khattab! I have sworn that my hands will not be enabled from killing a Qurayshite, so I would kill him’. And Zirar left returning to his companions, and the like of this had flowed for him with during the day of Ohad, Al-Waqidy (wahabi imam) mentioned it in the book ‘Al-Maghazy’’.[27]

28- أقول و قال الكازروني‏ إن بني قريظة لما حوصروا بعثوا إلى رسول الله ص أن ابعث إلينا أبا لبابة عبد المنذر أخا بني عمرو بن عوف و كانوا حلفاء الأوس نستشيره في أمورنا فأرسله ص إليهم فلما رأوه قام إليه الرجال و جهش إليه الصبيان‏ و النساء يبكون في وجهه فَرَقَّ لهم

I (Majlisi) am saying, ‘When the clan of Qureyza were besieged, they sent a message to Rasool-Allah^-azwj, ‘If you could send to us Abu Lababa Abdul Munzar, brother of the clan of Amro Bin Awf, and they were allies of Al-Aws, we can consult with him regarding our matter’. He^-saww sent him to them. When they saw him, the men stood up to him, and the children wailed to him, and the women cried in his face. He felt pity for them.

فقالوا يا با لبابة أ ترى أن ننزل على حكم محمد قال نعم و أشار بيده إلى حلقه أنه الذبح قال أبو لبابة فو الله ما زالت قدماي حتى عرفت أني قد خنت الله و رسوله ثم انطلق أبو لبابة على وجهه و لم يأت رسول الله ص حتى ارتبط في المسجد إلى عمود من عمده قال لا أبرح مكاني حتى يتوب الله علي مما صنعت و عاهد الله لا يطأ بني قريظة أبدا و لا يراني‏ الله في بلد خنت الله و رسوله فيه أبدا

They said, ‘O Abu Lubaba! What do you see if we were to descend to be upon the judgment of Muhammad^-saww?’ He said, ‘Yes’, and he gestured towards his throat, ‘It will be the slaughter’. Abu Lubaba said, ‘By Allah^-azwj, my feet did not waver until I recognised I have betrayed Allah^-azwj and His^-azwj Rasool^-saww’. Then Abu Lababa went on his direction and did not come to Rasool-Allah^-azwj until he tied himself up to a pillar in the Masjid, saying, ‘I will not move from my position until Allah^-azwj Turns (with Forgiveness) to me from what I have done’, and he made a pact with Allah^-azwj that he will not set in the clan of Qureyza, ever, ‘And Allah^-azwj will not See me in any city betraying Allah^-azwj and His^-azwj Rasool^-saww in it, ever!’

فلما بلغ رسول الله ص خبره و أبطأ عليه‏ قال أما إنه لو جاءني لاستغفرت له فأما إذا فعل‏ ما فعل ما أنا بالذي أطلقه عن مكانه حتى يتوب الله عليه

When his news reached Rasool-Allah^-azwj and he was delayed to come to him^-saww, he^-saww said: ‘But, if he were to come to me^-saww, I^-saww shall forgive him, and as for when he has done what he has done, I^-saww will not be the one who will free him from his place until Allah^-azwj Turn to him’.

ثم إن الله أنزل توبة أبي لبابة على رسول الله ص‏ و هو في بيت أم سلمة قالت أم سلمة فسمعت رسول الله ص يضحك فقلت مم تضحك يا رسول الله أضحك الله سنك قال تيب على أبي لبابة فقلت أ لا أبشره بذلك يا رسول الله قال بلى إن شئت

Then Allah^-azwj Sent down the repentance of Abu Lubaba unto Rasool-Allah^-saww, and he^-saww was in the room of Umm Salma^-ra. Umm Salma^-ra said, ‘I^-ra heard Rasool-Allah^-saww chuckling. I^-ra said, ‘Why are you^-saww chuckling, O Rasool-Allah^-saww? May Allah^-azwj Keep you smiling’. He^-saww said: ‘There is repentance to Abu Lubaba’. I^-ra said, ‘Shall I^-ra give him the good news of that, O Rasool-Allah^-saww?’ He^-saww said: ‘Yes, if you^-ra like’.

قال فقامت على باب حجرتها و ذلك قبل أن يضرب عليهن الحجاب فقالت يا با لبابة أبشر فقد تاب الله عليك قال فثار الناس عليه ليطلقوه قال لا و الله حتى يكون رسول الله ص هو الذي يطلقني بيده فلما مر عليه رسول الله ص خارجا إلى الصبح أطلقه‏

He said, ‘She^-ra stood at the door of her^-ra room, and that was before the veils were struck upon them, and she^-ra said, ‘O Abu Lubaba! Receive good news, for Allah^-azwj has Turned to you!’ The people came to him in order to free him. He said, ‘No, by Allah^-azwj, until Rasool-Allah^-saww happens to be the one to free me’. When Rasool-Allah^-saww passed by him, going out to the morning (Salat), freed him’.

قال‏ ثم إن ثعلبة بن سعية و أسيد بن سعية و أسيد بن عبيد و هم نفر من بني هذيل‏ ليسوا من بني قريظة و لا النضير نسبهم فوق ذلك هم بنو عم القوم أسلموا تلك الليلة التي نزلت فيها بنو قريظة على حكم رسول الله ص

He said, ‘Then Sa’alba Bin Saie, and Aseyd Bin Saie, and Aseyd Bin Ubeyd, and they were number from the clan of Hazeyl not being from the clan of Qureyza nor Al-Nazeer, lineaged above that, they were the clan of generality of the people who had become Muslims during that night in which the clan of Qureyza descended to the judgment of Rasool-Allah^-saww.

و خرج في تلك الليلة عمرو بن سعدي القرظي فمر بحرس رسول الله ص و عليها محمد بن مسلمة الأنصاري تلك الليلة فلما رآه قال من هذا قال عمرو بن سعدي و كان عمرو قد أبى أن يدخل مع بني قريظة في غدرهم برسول الله ص و قال لا أغدر بمحمد أبدا فقال محمد بن مسلمة حين عرفه اللهم لا تحرمني عثرات الكرام‏ ثم خلى سبيله

And Amro Bin Sadi Al-Qazi came out during that night and passed by a guard post of Rasool-Allah^-azwj, and upon it was Muhammad Bin Maslama the Helper that night. When he saw him, said, ‘Who is this?’ Amro Bin Sadi said, and Amro had refused to enter with the clan of Qureyza in their betrayal of Rasool-Allah^-saww, and said, ‘I will not betray Muhammad^-saww, ever!’ Muhammad Bin Maslama said when he recognised him, ‘O Allah^-azwj! Do not deprive the traces of the benevolent’, then freed his way.

فخرج على وجهه حتى بات في مسجد رسول الله ص بالمدينة تلك الليلة ثم ذهب فلا يدرى أين ذهب من أرض الله‏ فذكر لرسول الله ص شأنه فقال ذاك رجل قد نجاه الله بوفائه و بعض الناس يزعم أنه كان قد أوثق برمته‏ فيمن أوثق من بني قريظة حين نزلوا فأصبحت رمته ملقاة لا يدرى أين ذهب فقال رسول الله ص تلك المقالة

He went out on his way until he spent the night in Masjid of Rasool-Allah^-saww at Al-Medina that night, then went away, and it is not known where he went from the earth of Allah^-azwj. His situation was mentioned to Rasool-Allah^-saww and he^-saww said: ‘That is a man whom Allah^-azwj had Rescued him due to his loyalty’, and some of the people claim that he had been tied with a worn rope among the ones who were bound from the clan of Qureyza when they descended, and in the morning and he was dumped whole, not know where he went, and Rasool-Allah^-saww said those words’.

و روى محمد بن إسحاق عن الزهري‏ أن الزبير بن باطا كان قد مر على ثابت‏ بن قيس بن شماس في الجاهلية يوم بغاث‏ فأخذه فجز ناصيته ثم خلى سبيله فجاء يوم قريظة و هو شيخ كبير فقال يا با عبد الرحمن هل تعرفني قال و هل يجهل مثلي مثلك قال إني أريد أن أجزيك بيدك عندي قال إن الكريم يجزي بجزاء الكريم

And it is reported by Muhammad Bin Is’haq, from Al-Zuhry – ‘Al-Zubeyr Bin Bata had passed by Sabit Bin Qays Bin Shamas during the pre-Islamic period on the day of ‘Al-Bagas’. He had seized him and cut his forelocks then freed his way. He came on the day of Qureyza and he was an old man, and he said, ‘O Abdul Rahman! Do you recognise me?’ He said, ‘And can the like of me be ignorant with the like of you?’ He said, ‘I want to recompense you due to your hand (favour) with me’. He said, ‘The benevolent recompenses with a benevolent recompense’.

قال ثم أتى ثابت رسول الله ص فقال يا رسول الله قد كان للزبير عندي يد و له علي منة و قد أحببت أن أجزيه بها فهب لي دمه فقال رسول الله ص هو لك فأتاه فقال له إن رسول الله قد وهب لي دمك‏ فقال شيخ كبير لا أهل له و لا ولد فما يصنع بالحياة

Then Sabit came to Rasool-Allah^-saww and said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! There has been a hand (favour) for Al-Zubeyr with him, and for him upon me is a conferment, and I would love it if I could recompense him with it, so gift me his blood’. Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘It is for you’. He came to him and said to him, ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww has gifted your blood to me’. He said, ‘An old man having neither any wife for him nor any children, so what would he do with the life?’

فأتى ثابت رسول الله ص فقال يا رسول الله أهله و ولده قال هم لك فأتاه فقال إن رسول الله ص أعطاني امرأتك و ولدك‏ قال أهل بيت بالحجاز لا مال لهم فما بقاؤهم على ذلك فأتى ثابت رسول الله ص فقال ماله يا رسول الله ص قال هو لك فأتاه فقال إن رسول الله ص قد أعطاني مالك فهو لك وفاء

Sabit came to Rasool-Allah^-saww and said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! His wife and his children?’ He^-saww said: ‘They are for you’. He said, ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww has granted me your wife and your children’. He said, ‘The family in Al-Hejaz having not wealth for them, so what would be their remaining upon that?’ Sabit came to Rasool-Allah^-saww and said, ‘His wealth, O Rasool-Allah^-saww?’ He^-saww said: ‘It is for you’. He came to him and said, ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww has granted me your wealth, so it is for you, for loyalty’.

فقال أي ثابت ما فعل الذي كان وجهه مرآة حسنة تتراءى فيه عذارى الحي كعب بن أسد قال قتل قال فما فعل سيد الحاضر و البادي حيي بن أخطب قال قتل قال فما فعل مقدمتنا إذا شددنا و حسامنا إذا كررنا غزال بن شمول قال قتل‏ قال فإني أسألك بيدي عندك يا ثابت إلا ما ألحقتني بالقوم فو الله ما في العيش بعد هؤلاء من خير فما أنا بصابر حتى ألقى الأحبة فقدمه ثابت فضرب عنقه‏

He said, ‘Yes, Sabit! What happened to the one whose face was a mirror of beauty, showing off among the virgins, Al-Huyay Ka’ab Bin Asad?’ He said, ‘Killed’. He said, ‘What happened with the chief of the ones present and the remote ones, Huyay Bin Akhtab?’ He said, ‘Killed’. He said, ‘What happened with our frontman, when we had difficulties and repeated upon it, Ghazal Bin Shamoun?’ He said, ‘Killed’. He said, ‘Then I ask you, by my hand (favour) with you O Sabit, if you could join me with the group, for by Allah^-azwj there is no goodness in the life after them, and I cannot be patient until I join with the beloved ones’. Sabit brought him forward and struck off his neck’.

ثم قسم النبي ص أموال بني قريظة و نساءهم‏ على المسلمين ثم بعث رسول الله ص سعد بن زيد الأنصاري بسبايا بني قريظة إلى نجد فابتاع له بهم خيلا و سلاحا

Then the Prophet^-saww distributed the wealth of the clan of Qureyza and their women upon the Muslims. Then Rasool-Allah^-saww sent Sa’ad Bin Zayd the Helper with the captives of the clan of Qureyza to Najd, and bought for him^-saww with them some horses and weapons.

و كان رسول الله ص قد اصطفى لنفسه من نسائهم ريحانة بنت عمرو بن خناقة إحدى نساء بني عمرو بن قريظة فكانت عند رسول الله ص حتى توفي عنها و هي في ملكه و قد كان رسول الله ص يحرص‏ عليها أن يتزوجها و يضرب عليها الحجاب

And Rasool-Allah^-saww had chosen for himself^-saww from their women, Rayhana Bint Amro bin Khanaqa, one of the women of the clan of Amro Bin Qureyza. She was with Rasool-Allah^-saww until he^-saww passed away from her and she was in his^-saww possession, and Rasool-Allah^-saww had been keen to marry her and wear the veil over her.

فقالت يا رسول الله بل تتركني في ملكك فهو أخف علي و عليك فتركها و قد كانت حين سباها كرهت الإسلام‏ و أبت إلا اليهودية فعزلها رسول الله ص و وجد في نفسه بذلك‏ من أمرها فبينا هو مع أصحابه إذ سمع وقع نعلين خلفه فقال إن هذا لثعلبة بن سعية يبشرني بإسلام ريحانة فجاءه فقال يا رسول الله قد أسلمت ريحانة فبشر بذلك رسول الله ص‏

She said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! But, leave me to be in your^-saww possession, for it is lighter upon me and upon you^-saww’. He^-saww left her, and it had been such when she had been captured, she disliked Al-Islam and refused except Judaism. Rasool-Allah^-saww isolated her and kept distance from her due to that. While he^-saww was with his^-saww companions when he^-saww heard the occurrence of the slippers behind him^-saww. He^-saww said: ‘This is Sa’albat Bin Saie giving me^-saww glad tidings with the Islam of Rayhana’. He came to him^-saww and said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! Rayhana has become a Muslim’, and Rasool-Allah^-saww was cheered with that’’.

29- وَ فِي الدِّيوَانِ، فِي وَصْفِ الظَّفَرِ فِي الْخَنْدَقِ‏

وَ كَانُوا عَلَى الْإِسْلَامِ أَلْباً ثَلَاثَةً		فَقَدْ خَرَّ مِنْ تِلْكَ الثَّلَاثَةِ وَاحِدٌ
وَ فَرَّ أَبُو عَمْرٍو هُبَيْرَةُ لَمْ يَعُدْ		وَ لَكِنْ أَخُو الْحَرْبِ الْمُجَرَّبِ عَائِدٌ
نَهَتْهُمْ سُيُوفُ الْهِنْدِ أَنْ يَقِفُوا لَنَا		غَدَاةَ الْتَقَيْنَا وَ الرِّمَاحُ مَصَائِدُ

And in the register (of Amir Al-Momineen^-asws) in description of the victory in Al-Khandaq (a poem): ‘There were three against Islam, and one of those three had fallen, and Abu Amro Hubeyra fled afterwards, but the brother of the war experience returned. The swords of Hinda prevented them to stand to us, we faced the spears and traps’’.[28]

باب 18 غزوة بني المصطلق في المريسيع‏ و سائر الغزوات و الحوادث إلى غزوة الحديبية

CHAPTER 18 – MILITARY EXPEDITIONS OF THE CLAN OF AL-MUSTALIQ IN AL-MURAYSIE, AND THE REST OF THE MILITARY EXPEDITIONS AND THE EVENTS UP TO THE MILITARY EXPEDITION OF Al-HUDAYBIYA

الآيات سورة المنافقين‏ إلى آخرها

The Verses – (Surah) Al Munafiqeen up to its end.

تفسير قال الطبرسي رحمه الله‏ في قوله تعالى‏ وَ إِذا قِيلَ لَهُمْ‏ الآيات في عبد الله بن أبي المنافق و أصحابه و ذلك أن رسول الله ص بلغه أن بني المصطلق يجمعون لحربه و قائدهم الحارث بن أبي ضرار أبو جويرية

Al-Tabarsi said regarding the Words of the Exalted: And when it is said to them [63:5] – ‘The Verses were Revealed regarding Abdullah Bin Abayy the hypocrite and his companions, and that is that Rasool-Allah^-saww, it reached him^-saww that the clan of Al-Mustaliq were gathering to battle him^-saww, and their guide was Al-Haris Bin Abu Zirar Abu Juweyriya.

فلما سمع بهم رسول الله ص خرج إليهم‏ حتى لقيهم على ماء من مياههم يقال له المريسيع من ناحية قديد إلى الساحل فتزاحف الناس و اقتتلوا فهزم الله بني المصطلق و قتل منهم من قتل و نفل رسول الله ص أبناءهم و نساءهم و أموالهم‏

When Rasool-Allah^-saww heard of them, he^-saww went out to them until he^-saww met them upon a spring from their springs called Al-Muraysie from the area around Qadeed up to the coast. The people had armies, and they killed, and Allah^-azwj Defeated the clan of Al-Mustaliq, and there were killed from them the ones who were killed, and Rasool-Allah^-saww considered their sons and their women and their wealth as spoils of war.

فبينا الناس على ذلك الماء إذ وردت واردة الناس و مع عمر بن الخطاب أجير له من بني غفار يقال له جهجاه بن سعيد يقود له فرسه فازدحم جهجاه و سنان الجهني من بني عوف‏ بن الخزرج على الماء فاقتتلا فصرخ الجهني يا معشر الأنصار و صرخ الغفاري يا معشر المهاجرين فأعان الغفاري رجل من المهاجرين يقال له جعال و كان فقيرا

While the people were upon that spring when the incoming people came, and with Umar Bin Al-Khatab was an employee of his from the clan of Ghafar called Jahjah Bin Saeed, guiding his horse for him. Jahjah and Sinan Al-Jahny from the clan of Awf Bin Al-Khazraj accorded upon the spring and they fought. Al-Jahny shouted, ‘O community of the Helpers!’ And Al-Ghafari shouted, ‘O community of Emigrants!’ Al-Ghafari was aided by a man from the Emigrants called Jual, and he was poor.

فقال عبد الله بن أبي لجعال و إنك لهناك‏ فقال و ما يمنعني أن أفعل ذلك و اشتد لسان جعال على عبد الله فقال عبد الله و الذي يحلف به لأذرنك‏ و يهمك‏ غير هذا

Abdullah Bin Abay said to Jual, ‘And you are over here?’ He said, ‘And what prevents me from doing that?’ And the talk of Jual was severe upon Abdullah. Abdullah said, ‘By the one you swear by, I shall shoot arrows at you and expel you’, and other than this.

و غضب ابن أبي و عنده رهط من قومه فيهم زيد بن أرقم حديث السن فقال ابن أبي قد نافرونا و كاثرونا في بلادنا و الله‏ ما مثلنا و مثلهم إلا كما قال القائل سمن كلبك يأكلك أما و الله‏ لَئِنْ رَجَعْنا إِلَى الْمَدِينَةِ لَيُخْرِجَنَّ الْأَعَزُّ مِنْهَا الْأَذَلَ‏ يعني بالأعز نفسه و بالأذل رسول الله ص

And Abu Abbay was angered, and with him was a group of his people among them being Zayd Bin Arqam, a young adolescent. Ibn Abay said, ‘You have repelled us and become a majority upon us in our city. By Allah^-azwj, our example and their example is not except as the speaker said, ‘Fatten your dog until he eats you’. By Allah^-azwj ‘When we return to Al-Medina, the honourable ones will expel the humble from it’ [63:8] – meaning himself by the honourable, and Rasool-Allah^-saww by the humble.

ثم أقبل على من حضره من قومه فقال هذا ما فعلتم بأنفسكم أحللتموهم بلادكم و قاسمتموهم أموالكم أما و الله لو أمسكتم عن جعال و ذويه فضل الطعام لم يركبوا رقابكم و لأوشكوا أن يتحولوا من بلادكم و يلحقوا بعشائرهم و مواليهم

Then he faced towards the ones who were present from his people and said, ‘This is what you have done with yourselves. You have permitted them in your city and distributed to them your wealth. But, by Allah^-azwj, if I were to withhold from Jual and impede him the extra food they will not ride upon your necks, and they will soon transfer away from your cities and join up with their own clans and wealth’.

فقال زيد بن أرقم أنت و الله الذليل القليل المبغض في قومك و محمد في عز من الرحمن و مودة من المسلمين و الله لا أحبك بعد كلامك هذا فقال عبد الله اسكت فإنما كنت ألعب فمشى زيد بن أرقم إلى رسول الله ص و ذلك بعد فراغه من الغزو فأخبره الخبر فأمر رسول الله ص بالرحيل و أرسل إلى عبد الله

Zayd Bin Arqam said, ‘By Allah^-azwj! You are the lowly, the little, the hated one among your people, and Muhammad^-saww is in honour from the beneficent and cordiality from the Muslims. By Allah^-azwj! I do not like you anymore after this talk of yours’. Abdullah said, ‘Be quiet, for rather I was only joking’. Zayd Bin Arqam walked to Rasool-Allah^-saww after his being free from the encroachment and informed him^-saww with the news, so Rasool-Allah^-saww ordered with the departure and sent for Abdullah.

فأتاه فقال ما هذا الذي بلغني عنك فقال عبد الله و الذي أنزل عليك الكتاب ما قلت شيئا من ذلك قط و إن زيدا لكاذب‏ و قال من حضر من الأنصار يا رسول الله شيخنا و كبيرنا لا تصدق عليه كلام غلام من غلمان الأنصار عسى أن يكون هذا الغلام وهم في حديثه فعذره ص و فشت الملامة من الأنصار لزيد

He came to him^-saww, and he^-saww said: ‘What is this which has reached me^-saww from you?’ Abdullah said, ‘By the One^-azwj Who Sent the Book upon you^-saww, I did not say anything from that at all, and that Zayd is a liar’, and the ones from the Helpers who were present said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! (He is) our sheykh and our elder, do not ratify the speech of a boy from the boys of the Helpers, perhaps there has happened to be imagination of this boy in his narration’. He^-saww excused him and placed the blame from the Helpers to Zayd.

و لما استقل رسول الله فسار لقيه أسيد بن حضير فحياه بتحية النبوة ثم قال يا رسول الله لقد رحت في ساعة منكرة ما كنت تروح فيها فقال له رسول الله ص أ و ما بلغك ما قال صاحبكم زعم أنه إن رجع إلى المدينة أخرج الأعز منها الأذل

And when Rasool-Allah^-saww deemed it light and Aseyd Bin Hazeyr met him and welcomed him^-saww with the welcoming of the Prophet-hood, then said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! I am departing this moment, denying what direction you^-saww are going in’. Rasool-Allah^-saww said to him: ‘Or has it not reached you what your companion has said? He claims that if he returns to Al-Medina, the honourable ones will expel the humble ones from it’.

فقال أسيد فأنت و الله يا رسول الله تخرجه إن شئت هو و الله الذليل و أنت العزيز ثم قال يا رسول الله ارفق به فو الله لقد جاء الله بك‏ و إن قومه لينظمون له الخرز ليتوجوه و إنه ليرى أنك قد استلبته ملكا

Aseyd said, ‘By Allah^-azwj, O Rasool-Allah^-saww! You^-saww go out if you^-saww like. By Allah^-azwj he is the humble and you are the honourable’. Then he said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! Be kind with him, for by Allah^-azwj, Allah^-azwj has come with you and that his people are waiting for him with beady eyes, and he is of the view that you^-saww have taken away his kingdom’.

و بلغ عبد الله بن عبد الله بن أبي ما كان من أمر أبيه فأتى رسول الله ص فقال يا رسول الله إنه قد بلغني أنك تريد قتل أبي فإن كنت لا بد فاعلا فمرني به فأنا أحمل إليك رأسه فو الله لقد علمت الخزرج ما كان بها رجل أبر بوالديه مني و إني أخشى أن تأمر به غيري فيقتله فلا تدعني نفسي أن أنظر إلى قاتل عبد الله بن أبي‏ أن يمشي في الناس فأقتله فأقتل مؤمنا بكافر فأدخل النار

And it reached Abdullah Bin Abdullah Bin Abay what had happened from the matter of his father, so he came to Rasool-Allah^-saww and said: ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! It has reached me that you^-saww want to kill Abay, so if it happens to be inevitable to do, then order me with it, and I shall carry his head to you^-saww. By Allah^-azwj Al-Khazraj have known that there is no man with it more righteous with his parents than me, and I fear that you^-saww will order someone else with it, so he will kill him. My soul does not call me to look at the killer of Abdullah Bin Abay walking among the people, so I will kill him; I would have killed a Momin for a Kafir and entered the Fire’.

فقال ص بل ترفق به و تحسن صحبته ما بقي معنا

He^-saww said: ‘But, I^-saww shall be kind with him and be a good companion to him for as long as he remains with us’.

قالوا و سار رسول الله ص بالناس يومهم ذلك حتى أمسى و ليلتهم حتى أصبح و صدر يومهم ذلك حتى آذتهم الشمس ثم نزل بالناس فلم يكن إلا أن‏ وجدوا مس الأرض وقعوا نياما و إنما فعل ذلك ليشتغل الناس عن الحديث الذي خرج من ابن أبي ثم راح بالناس حتى نزل على ماء بالحجاز فويق البقيع يقال له بقعاء فهاجت ريح شديدة آذتهم و تخوفوها و ضلت ناقة رسول الله و ذلك ليلا

They said, ‘And Rasool-Allah^-saww travelled with the people during that day of theirs until evening, and their night until morning, and most of that morning until the sun hurt them. Then he^-saww descended with the people, and did not become except that he^-saww found the touch of the earth and fell asleep, and rather he^-saww did that in order to preoccupy the people from the narration which had come out from Ibn Abay. Then the people rested until they descended at a spring at Al-Hijaz, and they were at a spot called Baq’a, and a severe wind blew, hurting them and frightening them, and the camel of Rasool-Allah^-saww was lost, and that was at night.

فقال ص مات اليوم منافق عظيم النفاق بالمدينة قيل من هو قال رفاعة فقال رجل من المنافقين كيف يزعم أنه يعلم الغيب و لا يعلم مكان ناقته أ لا يخبره الذي يأتيه بالوحي

He^-saww said: ‘Today the hypocrite has died at Al-Medina’. It was said, ‘Who is he?’ He^-saww said: ‘Rafa’at’. A man from the hypocrites said, ‘How can he^-saww claim that he^-saww knows the hidden matters and he^-saww does not know the place of his^-saww own camel? Does he^-as not inform him^-saww, the one who comes with the Revelation?’

فأتاه جبرئيل فأخبره بقول المنافق و بمكان الناقة و أخبر رسول الله بذلك أصحابه و قال ما أزعم أني أعلم الغيب و ما أعلمه و لكن الله تعالى أخبرني بقول المنافق و بمكان ناقتي هي في الشعب

Jibraeel^-as came to him^-saww and informed him^-saww with the words of the hypocrite and the place of his^-saww camel, and Rasool-Allah^-saww informed his^-saww companions with that and said: ‘I^-saww do not claim that I^-saww know the hidden matters, and I^-saww do not know it, but Allah^-azwj the Exalted Informed me^-saww with the words of the hypocrite and the place of my^-saww camel. It is in the mountain pass.

فإذا هي كما قال فجاءوا بها و آمن ذلك المنافق فلما قدموا المدينة وجدوا رفاعة بن زيد في التابوت‏ أحد بني قينقاع و كان من عظماء اليهود قد مات ذلك‏ اليوم

There it was just as he^-saww had said. They came to it, and that hypocrite was granted safety. When they arrived at Al-Medina, they found Rafa’at Bin Zayd in a coffin of one of the clan of Qaynaqa, and he was from the great ones of the Jews, who had died that day’.

قال زيد بن أرقم فلما وافى رسول الله ص المدينة جلست في البيت لما بي من الهم و الحياء فنزلت سورة المنافقين في تصديق زيد و تكذيب عبد الله ثم أخذ رسول الله ص بأذن زيد فرفعه عن الرحل ثم قال يا غلام صدق فوك و وعت أذناك و وعى قلبك‏ و قد أنزل الله فيما قلت قرآنا

Zayd Bin Arqam said, ‘When Rasool-Allah^-saww came to Al-Medina, I sat in the house due to what was with me from the worry and the shame’. Surah Al-Munafiqeen was revealed in ratification of Zayd and belying Abdullah. Then Rasool-Allah^-azwj grabbed an ear of Zayd and raised him from the ride, then said: ‘O boy! Your tongue is truthful, and your ears retain, and your hear retains, and Allah^-azwj has Revealed Quran regarding what I^-saww say’’.

1- فس، تفسير القمي‏ إِذا جاءَكَ الْمُنافِقُونَ قالُوا نَشْهَدُ إِنَّكَ لَرَسُولُ اللَّهِ وَ اللَّهُ يَعْلَمُ إِنَّكَ لَرَسُولُهُ وَ اللَّهُ يَشْهَدُ إِنَّ الْمُنافِقِينَ لَكاذِبُونَ

Tafseer Al-Qummi – When the hypocrites come to you, they say, ‘We testify that you are a Rasool of Allah’. And Allah Knows that you are indeed His Rasool, and Allah Testifies that the hypocrites are lying [63:1].

‏ قَالَ نَزَلَتْ فِي غَزْوَةِ الْمُرَيْسِيعِ وَ هِيَ غَزْوَةُ بَنِي الْمُصْطَلِقِ فِي سَنَةِ خَمْسٍ مِنَ الْهِجْرَةِ

He (Ali Bin Ibrahim) said, ‘It (Surah Al-Munafiqoun) was Revealed during the military expedition of Al-Muraysi’e, and it is the military expedition against the clan of Mustaleeq during the year five from the Hijra.

وَ كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص خَرَجَ إِلَيْهَا فَلَمَّا رَجَعَ مِنْهَا نَزَلَ عَلَى بِئْرٍ وَ كَانَ الْمَاءُ قَلِيلًا فِيهَا وَ كَانَ أَنَسُ بْنُ سَيَّارٍ حَلِيفَ الْأَنْصَارِ وَ كَانَ جَهْجَاهُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الْغِفَارِيُّ أَجِيراً لِعُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِ

And it so happened that Rassol-Allah^-saww went out to it. When he^-saww was returning, he^-saww encamped at a well, and there was little water in it. And Anas Bin Sayyar was an ally of the Helpers, and Jahjah Bin Saeed Al-Ghafari was an employee of Umar Bin Al-Khattab.

فَاجْتَمَعُوا عَلَى الْبِئْرِ فَتَعَلَّقَ دَلْوُ سَيَّارٍ بِدَلْوِ جَهْجَاهٍ فَقَالَ سَيَّارٌ دَلْوِي وَ قَالَ جَهْجَاهٌ دَلْوِي فَضَرَبَ جَهْجَاهٌ يَدَهُ عَلَى وَجْهِ سَيَّارٍ فَسَالَ مِنْهُ الدَّمُ فَنَادَى سَيَّارٌ بِالْخَزْرَجِ وَ نَادَى جَهْجَاهٌ بِالْقُرَيْشِ وَ أَخَذَ النَّاسُ السِّلَاحَ وَ كَادَ أَنْ تَقَعَ الْفِتْنَةُ

They gathered at the well, and the bucket of Ibn Sayar met the bucket of Jahjah. Ibn Sayar said, ‘My bucket (was first)’, and Jahjah said, ‘My bucket (was)’. Jahjah struck his hand upon the face of Ibn Sayar. So he asked for the blood (money) from him. Ibn Sayar called for the (clan of) Al-Khazraj, and Jahjah called for Quraysh, and the people grabbed the weapons, and strife almost occurred.

فَسَمِعَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ أُبَيٍّ النِّدَاءَ فَقَالَ مَا هَذَا فَأَخْبَرُوهُ الْخَبَرَ فَغَضِبَ غَضَباً شَدِيداً ثُمَّ قَالَ قَدْ كُنْتُ كَارِهاً لِهَذَا الْمَسِيرِ إِنِّي لَأُذِلُّ الْعَرَبَ مَا ظَنَنْتُ أَنِّي‏ أَبْقَى إِلَى أَنْ أَسْمَعَ مِثْلَ هَذَا فَلَا يَكُونُ‏ عِنْدِي تَغْيِيرٌ

Abdullah Bin Abayy (also) heard the call, so he said, ‘What is this?’ They informed him, and he was angered with intense anger, then said, ‘I had disliked this journey. I am the most humble of the Arabs. I did not think that I would remain (alive) until I heard the like of this, and I would not happen to be in the presence of reproach’.

ثُمَّ أَقْبَلَ عَلَى أَصْحَابِهِ فَقَالَ هَذَا عَمَلُكُمْ أَنْزَلْتُمُوهُمْ مَنَازِلَكُمْ وَ وَاسَيْتُمُوهُمْ بِأَمْوَالِكُمْ وَ وَقَيْتُمُوهُمْ بِأَنْفُسِكُمْ وَ أَبْرَزْتُمْ نُحُورَكُمْ لِلْقَتْلِ فَأَرْمَلَ نِسَاءَكُمْ وَ أَيْتَمَ صِبْيَانَكُمْ وَ لَوْ أَخْرَجْتُمُوهُمْ لَكَانُوا عِيَالًا عَلَى غَيْرِكُمْ‏

Then he turned towards his companions and he said, ‘This is your doing. You have encamped them at your houses, and assisted them with your wealth, and exerted yourselves for them, and exposed your necks for the killing, and would widow your women, and orphan your children. And if you had expelled them, they would have been dependants upon others’.

ثُمَّ قَالَ‏ لَئِنْ رَجَعْنا إِلَى الْمَدِينَةِ لَيُخْرِجَنَّ الْأَعَزُّ مِنْهَا الْأَذَلَ‏ وَ كَانَ فِي الْقَوْمِ زَيْدُ بْنُ أَرْقَمَ وَ كَانَ غُلَامٌ قَدْ رَاهَقَ وَ كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فِي ظِلِّ شَجَرَةٍ فِي وَقْتِ الْهَاجِرَةِ وَ عِنْدَهُ قَوْمٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِهِ مِنَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ وَ الْأَنْصَارِ

Then he said, ‘When we return to Al-Medina, the honourable ones will expel the humble from it’ [63:8]. And Zayd Bin Arqan was among the group, and he was a young boy having reached adolescence. And Rasool-Allah^-saww was in the shade of a tree during the time of intense midday heat, and in his^-saww presence was a group of his^-saww companions from the Emigrants and the Helpers.

فَجَاءَ زَيْدٌ فَأَخْبَرَهُ بِمَا قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ أُبَيٍّ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لَعَلَّكَ وَهَمْتَ يَا غُلَامُ قَالَ لَا وَ اللَّهِ مَا وَهَمْتُ فَقَالَ فَلَعَلَّكَ غَضِبْتَ عَلَيْهِ قَالَ لَا وَ اللَّهِ مَا غَضِبْتُ عَلَيْهِ قَالَ فَلَعَلَّهُ سَفِهَ عَلَيْكَ قَالَ‏ لَا وَ اللَّهِ

Zayb Bin Arqan came over and informed him^-saww of what Abdullah Bin Abayy had said, and Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Perhaps you are mistaken, O boy?’ He said, ‘No, by Allah^-azwj! I am not mistaken’. He^-saww said: ‘Perhaps you are angered upon him?’ He said, ‘No, by Allah^-azwj! I am not angry upon him’. He^-saww said: ‘Perhaps they fooled you?’ He said, ‘No, by Allah^-azwj!’

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص‏ لِشُقْرَانَ مَوْلَاهُ احْدِجْ فَحَدَجَ رَاحِلَتَهُ وَ رَكِبَ وَ تَسَامَعَ النَّاسُ بِذَلِكَ فَقَالُوا مَا كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لِيَرْحَلَ فِي مِثْلِ هَذَا الْوَقْتِ فَرَحَلَ النَّاسُ وَ لَحِقَهُ سَعْدُ بْنُ عُبَادَةَ فَقَالَ السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ وَ رَحْمَةُ اللَّهِ وَ بَرَكَاتُهُ فَقَالَ وَ عَلَيْكُمُ السَّلَامُ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said to Shaqran, his^-saww slave: ‘Prepare (the camel)!’ So he prepared his^-saww ride, and he^-saww rode, and the people had heard that, and they said, ‘(Normally) Rasool-Allah^-saww does not tend to ride during this time!’ The people departed, and he^-saww met Saeed Bin Abada. He said, ‘The greetings be unto you, O Rasool-Allah^-saww, and Mercy of Allah^-azwj and His^-azwj Blessings’. He^-saww said: ‘And upon you be the greetings’.

فَقَالَ مَا كُنْتَ لِتَرْحَلَ فِي مِثْلِ هَذَا الْوَقْتِ فَقَالَ أَ وَ مَا سَمِعْتَ قَوْلًا قَالَ صَاحِبُكُمْ قَالَ وَ أَيُّ صَاحِبٍ لَنَا غَيْرُكَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ أُبَيٍّ زَعَمَ أَنَّهُ إِنْ رَجَعَ إِلَى الْمَدِينَةِ لَيُخْرِجَنَّ الْأَعَزُّ مِنْهَا الْأَذَلَ‏ فَقَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ فَأَنْتَ وَ أَصْحَابُكَ الْأَعَزُّ وَ هُوَ وَ أَصْحَابُهُ الْأَذَلُّ

He said, ‘(Normally) you^-saww do not tend to depart in the likes of this time?’ He^-saww said: ‘O have you not heard the words your companions spoke?’ He said, ‘And which companion is there for us apart from you^-saww, O Rasool-Allah^-saww?’ He^-saww said: ‘Abdullah Bin Abayy. He alleged that on return to Al-Medina, the honourable ones will expel the humble from it’. He said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! You^-saww and your^-saww companions are the honourable, and he and his companions are the humble’.

فَسَارَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ يَوْمَهُ كُلَّهُ لَا يُكَلِّمُهُ أَحَدٌ فَأَقْبَلَتِ الْخَزْرَجُ عَلَى عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أُبَيٍّ يَعْذِلُونَهُ فَحَلَفَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ أَنَّهُ لَمْ يَقُلْ شَيْئاً مِنْ ذَلِكَ فَقَالُوا فَقُمْ بِنَا إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص حَتَّى تَعْتَذِرَ إِلَيْهِ فَلَوَّى عُنُقَهُ

Rasool-Allah^-saww travelled all of his^-saww day not speaking to anyone. The (clan) of Al-Khazraj faced towards Abdullah Bin Abayy, insulting him, but Abdullah Bin Abayy swore an oath that he did not say anything from that. They said, ‘Then arise with us to go to Rasool-Allah^-azwj until we apologise to him^-saww. But he turned back his neck’.

فَلَمَّا جَنَّ اللَّيْلُ سَارَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لَيْلَهُ كُلَّهُ وَ النَّهَارَ فَلَمْ يَنْزِلُوا إِلَّا لِلصَّلَاةِ فَلَمَّا كَانَ مِنَ الْغَدِ نَزَلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ نَزَلَ أَصْحَابُهُ وَ قَدْ أَمْهَدَهُمُ الْأَرْضُ مِنَ السَّهَرِ الَّذِي أَصَابَهُمْ

When it was the night, Rasool-Allah^-saww travelled his^-saww night, all of it, and the day, and he^-saww did not encamp except for the Salat. When it was the morning, Rasool-Allah^-saww encamped, and his^-saww companions (also) encamped, and the land had tested them from the vigilance (staying awake all night) which had hit them.

فَجَاءَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ أُبَيٍّ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَحَلَفَ لَهُ‏ أَنَّهُ لَمْ يَقُلْ ذَلِكَ وَ إِنَّهُ لَيَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَ إِنَّكَ لَرَسُولُ اللَّهِ‏ وَ إِنَّ زَيْداً قَدْ كَذَبَ عَلَيَّ فَقَبِلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ مِنْهُ وَ أَقْبَلَتِ الْخَزْرَجُ عَلَى زَيْدِ بْنِ أَرْقَمَ يَشْتِمُونَهُ وَ يَقُولُونَ لَهُ كَذَبْتَ عَلَى عَبْدِ اللَّهِ سَيِّدِنَا

Then Abdullah Bin Abayy came to Rasool-Allah^-saww, and Abdullah swore on oath that he had not said that, and testified, ‘There is no god except Allah^-azwj and you^-saww are a Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj, and Zayd has lied upon me’. But Rasool-Allah^-saww turned away from him, and (the clan of) Al-Khazraj faced towards Zayd Bin Arqam, insulting him and saying to him, ‘You lied upon Abdullah, our chief!’

فَلَمَّا رَحَلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص كَانَ زَيْدٌ مَعَهُ يَقُولُ اللَّهُمَّ إِنَّكَ لَتَعْلَمُ أَنِّي لَمْ أَكْذِبْ عَلَى عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أُبَيٍّ فَمَا سَارَ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا حَتَّى أَخَذَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص مَا كَانَ يَأْخُذُهُ مِنَ الْبُرَحَاءِ عِنْدَ نُزُولِ الْوَحْيِ عَلَيْهِ فَثَقُلَ حَتَّى كَادَتْ نَاقَتُهُ تَبَرَّكَ مِنْ ثِقَلِ الْوَحْيِ

When Rasool-Allah^-saww departed, Zayd was with him^-saww, and he was saying, ‘O Allah^-azwj! You certainly know that I did not lie upon Abdullah Bin Abayy’. He had not travelled except a little until Rasool-Allah^-saww was seized by what used to seize him^-saww from the difficulties during the descent of the Revelation unto him^-saww. He^-saww felt heavy to the extent that his^-saww she-camel knelt from the heaviness of the Revelation.

فَسُرِّيَ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ هُوَ يَسْلِتُ‏ الْعَرَقَ عَنْ جَبْهَتِهِ‏ ثُمَّ أَخَذَ بِأُذُنِ زَيْدٍ فَرَفَعَهُ مِنَ الرَّحْلِ ثُمَّ قَالَ يَا غُلَامُ صَدَقَ قَوْلُكَ وَ وَعَى قَلْبُكَ وَ أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ فِيمَا قُلْتَ قُرْآناً

Then there was cheerfulness from Rasool-Allah^-saww, and he^-saww was such that perspiration was pouring from his^-saww face. Then he^-saww grabbed an ear of Zayd Bin Arqam and raised him from the saddle, then said: ‘O boy! Your words are true, and your heart grasped, and Allah^-azwj Revealed Quran (Verses) regarding what you said’.

فَلَمَّا نَزَلَ جَمَعَ أَصْحَابَهُ وَ قَرَأَ عَلَيْهِمْ سُورَةَ الْمُنَافِقِينَ‏ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ إِذا جاءَكَ الْمُنافِقُونَ قالُوا نَشْهَدُ إِنَّكَ لَرَسُولُ اللَّهِ وَ اللَّهُ يَعْلَمُ إِنَّكَ لَرَسُولُهُ وَ اللَّهُ يَشْهَدُ إِنَّ الْمُنافِقِينَ لَكاذِبُونَ اتَّخَذُوا أَيْمانَهُمْ جُنَّةً فَصَدُّوا عَنْ سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ إِنَّهُمْ ساءَ ما كانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ‏ إِلَى قَوْلِهِ‏ وَ لكِنَّ الْمُنافِقِينَ لا يَعْلَمُونَ‏

When he^-saww encamped, he^-saww gathered his^-saww companions and read out to them Surah Al Munafiqeen: When the hypocrites come to you, they say, ‘We testify that you are a Rasool of Allah’. And Allah Knows that you are indeed His Rasool, and Allah Testifies that the hypocrites are lying [63:1] They are taking their oaths as a shield, so they are blocking from the Way of Allah. It is evil what they have been doing [63:2] – up to His^-azwj Words: but the hypocrites do not know [63:8].

فَفَضَحَ اللَّهُ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ أُبَيٍّ

Thus, Abdullah Bin Abayy was exposed.

حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ ثَابِتٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مِيثَمٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي حَمْزَةَ عَنْ أَبَانِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ قَالَ: سَارَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص يَوْماً وَ لَيْلَةً وَ مِنَ الْغَدِ حَتَّى ارْتَفَعَ الضُّحَى فَنَزَلَ وَ نَزَلَ النَّاسُ فَرَمَوْا بِأَنْفُسِهِمْ نِيَاماً وَ إِنَّمَا أَرَادَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص أَنْ يَكُفَّ النَّاسَ عَنِ الْكَلَامِ

It was narrated to us by Muhammad Bin Ahmad Bin Sabit who said, ‘It was narrated to us by Ahmad Bin Maysam, from Al Hassan Bin Ali Bin Abu Hamza, from Aban Bin Usman who said, ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww travelled day and night, and from the morning until the sun rose. Then he^-saww descended, and the people descended, and they threw themselves to sleep, and rather Rasool-Allah^-saww wanted to refrain the people from the talk.

وَ إِنَّ وَلَدَ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ‏ بْنِ أُبَيٍّ أَتَى رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص فَقَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنْ كُنْتَ عَزَمْتَ عَلَى قَتْلِهِ فَمُرْنِي أَنْ أَكُونَ أَنَا الَّذِي أَحْمِلُ إِلَيْكَ رَأْسَهُ فَوَ اللَّهِ لَقَدْ عَلِمَتِ الْأَوْسُ وَ الْخَزْرَجُ أَنِّي أَبَرُّهُمْ وَلَداً بِوَالِدٍ فَإِنِّي أَخَافُ‏ أَنْ تَأْمُرَ غَيْرِي فَيَقْتُلَهُ فَلَا تَطِيبَ نَفْسِي أَنْ أَنْظُرَ إِلَى قَاتِلِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ‏ فَأَقْتُلَ مُؤْمِناً بِكَافِرٍ فَأَدْخُلَ النَّارَ

And a son of Abdullah Bin Abay came to Rasool-Allah^-saww and said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! If you^-saww have determined upon killing him, then order me that I should be the one who carries his head to you, for by Allah^-azwj, Al-Aws and Al-Khazraj know that I am the kindest of their sons to his parents. I fear that if you^-saww were to order someone else other than me, and he kills him, then my soul will not feel good that I should look at the killer of Abdullah (my father), I would end up killing a Momin for a Kafir and enter the Fire’.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص بَلْ نَحْنُ لَكَ صَاحِبُهُ‏ مَا دَامَ مَعَنَا-

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘But we would his good companions for you for as long as he is with us’.

وَ فِي رِوَايَةِ أَبِي الْجَارُودِ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ‏ فِي قَوْلِهِ‏ كَأَنَّهُمْ خُشُبٌ مُسَنَّدَةٌ يَقُولُ لَا يَسْمَعُونَ وَ لَا يَعْقِلُونَ

And in a report of Abu Al-Jaroud, from Abu Ja’far^-asws regarding His^-azwj Words: It is as if they are planks propped up [63:4]: ‘Allah^-azwj is Saying: “They are neither hearing nor are they using their intellects”.

قَوْلُهُ‏ يَحْسَبُونَ كُلَّ صَيْحَةٍ عَلَيْهِمْ‏ يَعْنِي كُلَّ صَوْتٍ‏ هُمُ الْعَدُوُّ فَاحْذَرْهُمْ قاتَلَهُمُ اللَّهُ أَنَّى يُؤْفَكُونَ‏ فَلَمَّا نَعَتَهُمُ اللَّهُ لِرَسُولِهِ وَ عَرَفَهُ مَشَى إِلَيْهِمْ عَشَائِرُهُمْ‏ فَقَالُوا لَهُمْ قَدِ افْتَضَحْتُمْ وَيْلَكُمْ

His^-azwj Words: They reckon every cry as being against them – Meaning every voice. They are the enemy, therefore beware of them. Allah will Kill them. How deluded they are! [63:4]. When Allah^-azwj Described their intentions to His^-azwj Rasool^-saww, and Made him^-saww to understand their plans against him^-saww, and of their families, so (some of) them said to (some of) them, ‘You have been exposed, woe be unto you!’

فَأْتُوا نَبِيَّ اللَّهِ يَسْتَغْفِرْ لَكُمْ فَلَوَّوْا رُءُوسَهُمْ وَ زَهِدُوا فِي الِاسْتِغْفَارِ يَقُولُ اللَّهُ‏ وَ إِذا قِيلَ لَهُمْ تَعالَوْا يَسْتَغْفِرْ لَكُمْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ لَوَّوْا رُؤُسَهُمْ‏

They came to the Prophet^-saww of Allah^-azwj that he^-saww should forgive them, but (then) they turned back their head and abstained from seeking the forgiveness. Allah^-azwj Said: ‘Come! Rasool-Allah will seek Forgiveness for you’, they turn back they heads [63:5]’’.[29]

2- شا، الإرشاد ثُمَّ كَانَ مِنْ بَلَائِهِ ص بِبَنِي الْمُصْطَلِقِ مَا اشْتَهَرَ عِنْدَ الْعُلَمَاءِ وَ كَانَ الْفَتْحُ لَهُ فِي هَذِهِ الْغَزَاةِ بَعْدَ أَنْ أُصِيبَ يَوْمَئِذٍ نَاسٌ مِنْ بَنِي عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ فَقَتَلَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ رَجُلَيْنِ مِنَ الْقَوْمِ وَ هُمَا مَالِكٌ وَ ابْنُهُ وَ أَصَابَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص مِنْهُمْ سَبْياً كَثِيراً وَ قَسَمَهُ‏ فِي الْمُسْلِمِينَ وَ كَانَ مِمَّنْ أُصِيبَ يَوْمَئِذٍ مِنَ السَّبَايَا جُوَيْرِيَةُ بِنْتُ الْحَارِثِ أَبِي ضِرَارٍ وَ كَانَ شِعَارُ الْمُسْلِمِينَ يَوْمَ بَنِي الْمُصْطَلِقِ يَا مَنْصُورُ أَمِتْ

‘Al-Irshad’ – ‘Then there was from his^-saww calamities with the clan of Al-Mustaliq what is well known among the scholars, and the victory for him^-saww in this military expedition was after the affliction of lethargy on that day from the clan of Abdul Muttalib^-asws. Amir Al-Momineen^-asws killed two men from the people and they were Malik and his son, and Rasool-Allah^-saww attained many captives from them, and distributed them among the Muslims, and from the ones who were captured on that day from the captives was Juweyriya Bint Al-Haris Abu Zirar, and the slogan of the Muslims on the day of the clan of Al-Mustaliq was, ‘O Helped community!’

وَ كَانَ الَّذِي سَبَى جُوَيْرِيَةَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ فَجَاءَ بِهَا إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ص فَاصْطَفَاهَا النَّبِيُ‏ ص فَجَاءَ أَبُوهَا إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ص بَعْدَ إِسْلَامِ بَقِيَّةِ الْقَوْمِ فَقَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّ ابْنَتِي لَا تُسْبَى لِأَنَّهَا امْرَأَةٌ كَرِيمَةٌ فَقَالَ لَهُ اذْهَبْ فَخَيِّرْهَا قَالَ أَحْسَنْتَ‏ وَ أَجْمَلْتَ

And the one who captured Juweyriya was Amir Al-Momineen^-asws. He^-asws came with her to the Prophet^-saww and the Prophet^-saww selected her. Her father came to the Prophet^-saww after Islam with the rest of the people and he said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! My daughter, do not keep her as a captive for she is an honourable woman’. He^-saww said to him: ‘Go and give her a choice’. He said, ‘You^-saww have been good and majestic’.

وَ جَاءَ إِلَيْهَا أَبُوهَا فَقَالَ لَهَا يَا بُنَيَّةِ لَا تَفْضَحِي قَوْمَكِ فَقَالَتْ‏ قَدِ اخْتَرْتُ اللَّهَ وَ رَسُولَهُ فَقَالَ لَهَا أَبُوهَا فَعَلَ اللَّهُ بِكِ وَ فَعَلَ فَأَعْتَقَهَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ جَعَلَهَا فِي جُمْلَةِ أَزْوَاجِهِ‏

And he came to her and said to her, ‘O daughter! Do not shame your people’. She said, ‘I have chosen Allah^-azwj and His^-azwj Rasool^-saww’. Her father said to her, ‘Allah^-azwj has Done with you, and has Done’. Rasool-Allah^-saww freed her and made her to be among the total of his^-saww wives.[30]

3 عم، إعلام الورى كانت بعد غزوة بني قريظة غزوة بني المصطلق من خزاعة و رأسهم الحارث بن أبي ضرار و قد تهيأ للمسير إلى رسول الله ص و هي غزوة المريسيع و هو ماء وقعت في شعبان سنة خمس و قيل في شعبان سنة ست و الله أعلم

(The book) ‘Alam Al Wara’ – ‘There happened after the military expedition of the clan of Qureyza, the military expedition of the clan of Al Mustaliq from Khuza’a, and their chief was Al-Haris Bin Abu Zirar and he had prepared for the journey to Rasool-Allah^-saww, and it is the military expedition of Al Mraysie, and it is a spring. It occurred during Shaban of the year five, and it is said during the year six, and Allah^-azwj is more Knowing.

قالت جويرية بنت الحارث زوجة الرسول أتانا رسول الله ص و نحن على المريسيع فأسمع أبي و هو يقول أتانا ما لا قبل لنا به قالت و كنت أرى من الناس و الخيل و السلاح ما لا أصف من الكثرة فلما أن أسلمت و تزوجني رسول الله ص و رجعنا جعلت أنظر إلى المسلمين فليسوا كما كنت أراه فعرفت أنه رعب من الله عز و جل يلقيه في قلوب المشركين

Juweyriya Bint Al-Haris, wife of Rasool-Allah^-saww said, ‘We came to Rasool-Allah^-saww and we were at Al-Muraysie and I heard my father and he was saying, ‘We were brought and there were none before us’. She said, ‘And I was seeing from the people, and the horses, and the weapons what I cannot describe, from the numbers. When I became a Muslims and Rasool-Allah^-saww married me and we returned, I went on to look at the Muslims, and they weren’t as what I had seen it. I recognised that it is the Awe from Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic being Cast into the hearts of the Polytheists.

قالت و رأيت قبل قدوم النبي ص بثلاث ليال كأن القمر يسير من يثرب حتى وقع في حجري فكرهت أن أخبر بها أحدا من الناس فلما سبينا رجوت الرؤيا فأعتقني رسول الله ص و تزوجني و أمر رسول الله ص أصحابه أن يحملوا عليهم حملة رجل واحد فما أفلت منهم إنسان و قتل عشرة منهم و أسر سائرهم

She said, ‘And I saw before the advent of the Prophet^-saww by three nights, as if the moon had travelled from Yasrib until it fell in my lap. I disliked informing anyone from the people about it. When we were made captives, the dream returned, and Rasool-Allah^-saww liberated me and married me, and Rasool-Allah^-saww ordered his^-saww companions that they attack them with the attack of one man, so no person from them fled, and ten of them were killed, and the rest of them were captured.

و كان شعار المسلمين يومئذ يا منصور أمت‏ و سبى رسول الله ص الرجال و النساء و الذراري و النعم و الشاء فلما بلغ الناس أن رسول الله ص تزوج جويرية بنت الحارث قالوا أصهار رسول الله ص فأرسلوا ما كان في أيديهم من بني المصطلق فما علم‏ امرأة أعظم بركة على قومها منها.

And the slogan of the Muslims on that day was, ‘O Helped community!’ And Rasool-Allah^-saww captured the men, and the women, and the offspring, and the livestock and the wealth. When it reached the people that Rasool-Allah^-saww had married Juweyriya Bint Al-Haris, they said, ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww has an in-law, and they sent whatever was in their hands from the clan of Al-Mustaliq. No woman was known to be of greater Blessings upon her people than her’.

و في هذه الغزوة قال عبد الله بن أبي‏ لَئِنْ رَجَعْنا إِلَى الْمَدِينَةِ لَيُخْرِجَنَّ الْأَعَزُّ مِنْهَا الْأَذَلَ‏ و أنزلت الآيات

And during this military expedition Abdullah Bin Abay said, ‘When we return to Al-Medina, the honourable ones will expel the humble from it’. [63:8].

و فيها كانت قصة إفك عائشة

And during it was the obvious lie of Ayesha.

و بعث رسول الله ص في سنة ست في شهر ربيع الأول عكاشة بن محصن في أربعين رجلا إلى الغمرة و بكر القوم فهربوا و أصاب مائتي بعير لهم فساقها إلى المدينة

And Rasool-Allah^-saww, in year six during the month of Rabbi Al-Awwal, sent Akasha Bin Mahsan among forty men to Al-Ghamra (spring), and the people battled early in the morning and attained two hundred camels of theirs and ushered them to Al-Medina.

و فيها بعث أبا عبيدة بن الجراح إلى القصة في أربعين رجلا فأغار عليهم و أعجزهم هربا في الجبال و أصابوا رجلا واحدا فأسلم‏.

And during it he^-saww sent Abu Ubeyda Bin Al-Jarah to Al-Qasah among forty men. They attacked upon them and war frustrated them in the mountain, and they attained one man, and he became a Muslim.

و فيها كانت سرية زيد بن حارثة إلى الجموم من أرض بني سليم فأصابوا نعما و شاء و أسرى.

And during it was the battalion of Zayd Bin Haris to Al-Jamoum from the land of the clan of Suleym, and they attained bounties, and livestock and prisoners.

و فيها كانت سرية زيد بن حارثة إلى العيص‏ في جمادى الأولى.

And during it was the battalion of Zayd Bin Haris to Al Ays during Jumadi Al-Awwal.

و فيها سرية زيد بن حارثة إلى الطرف‏ إلى بني ثعلبة في خمسة عشر رجلا فهربوا و أصاب منهم عشرين بعيرا.

And during it was the battalion of Zayd Bin Haris to Al Tarf to the clan of Sa’alba among fifteen men, and they battled and attained from them twenty camels.

و فيها كانت غزوة علي بن أبي طالب عليه السلام إلى بني عبد الله بن سعد من أهل فدك و ذلك أنه بلغ رسول الله ص أن لهم جمعا يريدون أن يمدوا يهود خيبر.

And during it was the military expedition of Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws to the clan of Abdullah Bin Sa’ad from the people of Fadak. It reached Rasool-Allah^-saww for them was a community wanting to aid the Jews of Khyber.

و فيها سرية عبد الرحمن بن عوف إلى دومة الجندل في شعبان‏ و قال له رسول الله ص إن أطاعوا فتزوج ابنة ملكهم فأسلم القوم و تزوج عبد الرحمن‏ تماضر بنت الأصبغ و كان أبوها رأسهم و ملكهم.

And during it was the battalion of Abdul Rahman Bin Awf to Dowmat Al-Jandal during Shaban, and Rasool-Allah^-saww said to him: ‘If they comply, then marry the daughter of their king. The people became Muslim, and Abdul Rahman married Tamazir Bint Al-Asbagh, and her father was their chief and their king.

و فيها بعث رسول الله ص في قول الواقدي إلى العرينين الذين قتلوا راعي رسول الله ص و استاقوا الإبل عشرين فارسا فأتي بهم فأمر بقطع أيديهم و أرجلهم و سمل أعينهم‏ و تركوا بالحرة حتى ماتوا.

And during it Rasool-Allah^-saww sent, in the words of Al-Waqidy (wahabi imam), to Al-Arineyn who had killed the shepherd of Rasool-Allah^-saww, and they missed the camel. He^-saww sent twenty horsemen who came with them, and he^-saww ordered with cutting their hands and their legs, and gouged out their eyes, and they were left at Al-hira until they died.

و عن جابر بن عبد الله أن رسول الله ص دعا عليهم فقال اللهم أعم عليهم الطريق قال فعمي عليهم الطريق.

And from Jabir Bin Abdullah that Rasool-Allah^-saww supplicated against them saying: ‘O Allah^-azwj! Blind the path upon them’. The path was blinded upon them.

و فيها أخذت أموال أبي العاص بن الربيع و قد خرج تاجرا إلى الشام و معه بضائع قريش‏ فلقيته سرية لرسول الله و استاقوا عيره و أفلت و قدموا على رسول الله ص فقسمه بينهم

And during it the wealth of Abu Al-Aas Bin Al-Rabie was seized, and he had gone out trading to Syria and with him was merchandise of Quraysh. A battalion of Rasool-Allah^-saww came across him and they took his caravan and he escaped, and they arrived to Rasool-Allah^-saww, and he^-saww distributed it between them.

و أتى أبو العاص فاستجار بزينب بنت رسول الله ص و سألها أن تطلب من رسول الله ص رد ماله عليه و ما كان معه من أموال الناس فدعا رسول الله ص السرية و قال إن هذا الرجل منا بحيث قد علمتم فإن رأيتم تردوا عليه فافعلوا فردوا عليه ما أصابوا

And Abu Al-Aas came to seek assistance with Zainab Bint Rasool-Allah^-saww, and asked her to seek from Rasool-Allah^-saww the return of his wealth back to him, and whatever was with him from the wealth of the people. Rasool-Allah^-saww called the battalion and said: ‘This man is from us where you have known. If you see fit, return it to him’. They did so and returned to him whatever they had attained.

ثم خرج و قدم مكة و رد على الناس بضائعهم ثم قال أما و الله ما منعني أن أسلم قبل أن أقدم عليكم إلا توقيا أن تظنوا أني أسلمت لأذهب بأموالكم و إني أشهد أن لا إله إلا الله و أن محمدا عبده و رسوله‏

Then he went out and arrived at Makkah and returned to the people their merchandise, then said, ‘But by Allah^-azwj, nothing prevented me from becoming a Muslim before I arrived to you except fear they you might thing I have become a Muslim in order to go away with your wealth; and I hereby testify that there is no god except Allah^-azwj and that Muhammad^-saww is His^-azwj servant and His^-azwj Rasool^-saww.[31] (Not a Hadeeth)

4 أقول قال الكازروني في حوادث السنة الخامسة في هذه السنة كانت غزاة المريسيع و ذلك أن بني المصطلق كانوا ينزلون على بئر يقال لها المريسيع و كان سيدهم الحارث بن أبي ضرار فسار في قومه و من قدر عليه فدعاهم إلى حرب رسول الله ص فأجابوه و تهيئوا للمسير معه

I (Majlisi) am saying, ‘Al-Kazruny said regarding the events of the fifth year, ‘During this year was the military expedition of Al Mureysie, and that is that the clan of Al Mustaliq were descended upon a well call Al Mureysie, and their chief was Al Haris Bin Abu Zirar. He travelled among his people and the ones he was able upon and called them to battle Rasool-Allah^-saww. They answered him and they prepeated for the journey with him.

فبلغ ذلك رسول الله ص فأرسل بريدة بن الحصيب ليعلم علم ذلك فأتاهم و لقي الحارث بن أبي ضرار و كلمه و رجع إلى رسول الله ص فأخبره فندب رسول الله ص الناس إليهم فأسرعوا الخروج و معهم ثلاثون فرسا و خرج معهم جماعة من المنافقين و استخلف رسول الله ص على المدينة زيد بن حارثة و خرج يوم الإثنين لليلتين خلتا من شعبان

That reached Rasool-Allah^-saww, and he^-saww sent Bureyda Bin Al Haseeb to learn the knowledge of that. He came to them and met Al Haris Bin Abu Zirar and spoke to him and returned to Rasool-Allah^-saww and informed him^-saww. Rasool-Allah^-saww delegated the people to them. They hastened the going out and with them were thirty horsemen, and a group from the hypocrites went out with them, and Rasool-Allah^-saww left Zayd Bin Haris in charge upon Al Medina, and he^-saww went out on the day of Monday, two nights vacant from Shaban.

و بلغ الحارث بن أبي ضرار و من معه مسير رسول الله ص و أنه قتل عينه الذي كان يأتيه بخبر رسول الله ص فسي‏ء بذلك و خاف و تفرق من معه من العرب و انتهى رسول الله ص إلى المريسيع و ضرب عليه قبته و معه عائشة و أم سلمة

And it reached Al Haris Bin Abu Zirar and the ones with him, the journey of Rasool-Allah^-azwj and that he^-saww has killed his spy, the one who used to come to him with the news of Rasool-Allah^-saww. He sprinted with that and feared, and the ones from the Arabs who were with him dispersed, and Rasool-Allah^-saww ended up to Al Mareysie and struck a dome at it, and with him^-saww was Ayesha and Umm Salma^-ra.

فتهيئوا للقتال و صف رسول الله ص و أصحابه فتراموا بالنبل ساعة ثم أمر رسول الله ص أصحابه فحملوا حملة رجل واحد فقتل عشرة من العدو و أسر الباقون و سبى رسول الله ص الرجال و النساء و الذرية و النعم و الشاء و كانت الإبل ألفي بعير و الشاء خمسة آلاف و السبي مائتي أهل بيت سوى رجل واحد

They prepared for the fighting and Rasool-Allah^-saww and his^-saww companions formed rows and they shot with the arrows for a while. Then Rasool-Allah^-saww ordered his^-saww companions and they attacked with an attack of one man, and killed ten from the enemies and captured the rest, and Rasool-Allah^-saww made captives of the men, and the women, and the offspring, and the bounties, and the livestock, and the camels were a thousand camels, and the sheep were a thousand, and the prisoners were two hundred households, besides one man.

و لما رجع‏ المسلمون بالسبي قدم أهاليهم فافتدوهم و خلصت جويرة بنت الحارث في سهم ثابت بن قيس و ابن عم له فكاتباها فسألت رسول الله ص في كتابتها فأدى عنها و تزوجها و سماها برة و قيل إنه جعل صداقها عتق أربعين من قومها و بعث رسول الله ص أبا نضلة الطائي بشيرا إلى المدينة بفتح المريسيع.

And when the Muslims returned with the captives, their families came forward and ransomed them and Juweyriya Bint Al Haris ended up in the share of Sabit Bin Qays and a cousin of his. They both contracted her. She asked Rasool-Allah^-saww about her contract. He^-saww paid off from it and married her and named her as Burrah; and it is said, he^-saww made it to be her dower, the liberating forty from her people. And Rasool-Allah^-saww sent Abu Nazla Al Taie Bashir to Al Medina with the message of the victory of Al Mureysie’.

و روي عن عائشة أنها قالت‏ أصاب رسول الله ص نساء بني المصطلق فأخرج الخمس منه ثم قسمه بين الناس فأعطى الفارس سهمين فوقعت جويرية بنت الحارث في سهم ثابت بن قيس و كانت تحت ابن عم لها يقال له صفوان بن مالك فقتل عنها و كاتبها ثابت بن قيس على تسع أواق و كانت امرأة حلوة لا يكاد يراها أحد إلا أخذت بنفسه

And it is reported from Ayesha that she said, ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww attained the women of the clan of Al-Mustaliq. He^-saww brought out the fifth from it, then distributed it between the people. He^-saww gave the horsemen two shares, and Juweyriya Bint Al-Haris came to be in the share of Sabit Bin Qays, and she was under (married to) a cousin of hers called Safwan Bin Malik. He was killed from her, and Sabit Bin Qays contracted her upon nine ounces (of gold), and she was a sweet woman. No one looked at her except and his soul was almost seized.

فبينا النبي ص عندي إذ دخلت عليه جويرية تسأله في كتابتها فو الله ما هو إلا أن رأيتها فكرهت دخولها على النبي ص و عرفت أنه سيرى منها مثل الذي رأيت فقالت يا رسول الله أنا جويرية بنت الحارث سيد قومه و قد أصابني من الأمر ما قد علمت فوقعت في سهم ثابت بن قيس و كاتبني على تسع أواق فأعني في فكاكي

While the Prophet^-saww was with me when Juweyriya entered to ask him^-saww regarding her contract. By Allah^-azwj! It was not except that I saw her and I disliked her entering to see the Prophet^-saww, and I realised that he^-saww would see from her like that which I saw. She said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! I am Juweyriya Bint Al-Haris, chief of his people, and there has hit me from the matter what you^-saww have known. I have fallen to be in the share of Sabit Bin Qays and he contract upon me nine ounces (gold), so help me in freeing me’.

فقال أ و خير من ذلك‏ فقالت و ما هو فقال أؤدي عنك‏ كتابتك و أتزوجك فقالت نعم يا رسول الله

He^-saww said: ‘Or better than that?’ She said, ‘And what is it?’ He^-saww said: ‘I^-saww shall pay off your contract on your behalf and marry you’. She said, ‘Yes, O Rasool-Allah^-saww!’

فقال قد فعلت و خرج الخبر إلى الناس فقالوا أصهار رسول الله ص يسترقون فأعتقوا ما كان في أيديهم من نساء بني المصطلق فبلغ عتقهم مائة أهل بيت بتزويجه إياها و لا أعلم امرأة أعظم بركة على قومها منها

He^-saww said: ‘I^-saww have done so’. And the news came out to the people and they said, ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww’s in-law have been stolen from’. They took whatever was in their hand from the women of the clan of Mustaliq, and their liberation reached one hundred households due to his^-saww marrying her, and no woman was known to be of greater Blessings upon her people, than she was’.

و في هذه الغزاة نزلت آية التيمم

And during these military expeditions was the Verse of Al-Tayammum.

و فيها كان حديث الإفك

And during it was the Hadeeth of the obvious lie (by Ayesha).

و فيها تزوج رسول الله ص زينب بنت جحش بن رباب و أمها أميمة بنت عبد المطلب و كانت ممن هاجر مع رسول الله ص فخطبها رسول الله ص لزيد فقالت لا أرضاه لنفسي قال فإني قد رضيته لك فتزوجها زيد بن حارثة ثم تزوجها رسول الله ص لهلال ذي القعدة سنة خمس‏ من الهجرة و هي يومئذ بنت خمس و ثلاثين سنة

And during it Rasool-Allah^-saww married Zainab Bint Jahash Bin Rabab and her mother was Amiya Bint Abdul Muttalib^-asws, and she was from the ones who had emigrated with Rasool-Allah^-saww. Rasool-Allah^-saww proposed her for Zayd and she said, ‘I am not pleased with him for myself’. He^-saww said: ‘I have agreed him for you’. He married her to Zayd Bin Haris, then Rasool-Allah^-saww married her at the crescent of Zil Qadah of the year five from the Emigration, and on that day, she was thirty-five years old’.

أقول ستأتي قصتها في أبواب أحوال أزواجه ص

I (Majlisi) am saying, ‘I shall come with her story in the chapters of the situations of his^-saww wives’.

ثم قال و في هذه السنة في ذي الحجة ركب رسول الله ص فرسا إلى الغابة فسقط عنه فجحش فخذه الأيمن فأقام في البيت خمسا يصلي قاعدا

Then he said, ‘And during this year in Zil Hijjah, Rasool-Allah^-saww rode a horse to Al-Ghaba, and he^-as fell down from it and injured his^-saww right thigh, and he^-saww stayed in the house for five (days) praying Salat seated’.

و في هذه السنة نزلت فريضة الحج و أخره رسول الله ص من غير مانع فإنه خرج إلى مكة سنة سبع لقضاء العمرة و لم يحج و فتح مكة سنة ثمان و بعث أبا بكر على الحاج سنة تسع و حج رسول الله سنة عشر

And during this year was Revealed the Obligation of the Hajj and Rasool-Allah^-saww delayed it from without forbiddance, for he^-saww went out to Makkah in the year seven to fulfil his^-saww Umrah and did not perform Hajj; and he^-saww conquered Makkah in the year eight and sent Abu Bakr upon the pilgrims in the year nine, and Rasool-Allah^-saww performed Hajj in the year ten.

و قال عند ذكر حوادث السنة السادسة فيها زار رسول الله ص أمه‏ مرجعه من غزاة بني لحيان و كانوا بناحية عسفان و كانت في ربيع الأول سنة ست فسمعت بنو لحيان فهربوا في رءوس الجبال فلم يقدروا على أحد منهم فجاز على قبر أمه

And he said during the mention of the events of the year six – ‘During it Rasool-Allah^-saww visited (the grave of) his^-saww mother while returning from the military expedition of Lahyan, and they were near Asfan, and it happened during Rabbi Al Awwal of the year six. The clan of Lahyan hear and they fled to the top of the mountain and he^-saww was not able upon anyone of them, and he^-saww passed by his^-saww mother^-as’s grave’.

و في هذه السنة صلى رسول الله ص صلاة الاستسقاء

And during this year Rasool-Allah^-saww prayed the Salat Al-Istisqa.

بالإسناد عن الزهري عن أنس قال‏ قحل الناس على عهد رسول الله ص فأتاه المسلمون فقالوا يا رسول الله قحط المطر و يبس الشجر و هلكت المواشي و أسنت الناس فاستسق لنا ربك عز و جل فقال إذا كان يوم كذا و كذا فاخرجوا و أخرجوا معكم بصدقات

By the chain from Al-Zuhry, from Anas (well-known fabricator) who said, ‘The people were dry (drought) in the era of Rasool-Allah^-saww, so the Muslims came to him^-saww and said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! The rains have stopped, and the trees dried up, and the livestock is dead, and people have despaired, so seek water for us from your^-saww Lord^-azwj Mighty and Majestic’. He^-saww said: ‘When it will be such and such day, then come out, and I^-saww shall come out with you with the charities’.

قال فلما كان ذلك اليوم خرج رسول الله ص و الناس معه يمشي و يمشون عليهم السكينة و الوقار حتى أتوا المصلى فتقدم النبي ص فصلى بهم ركعتين يجهر فيهما بالقراءة و كان ص يقرأ في العيدين و الاستسقاء في الأولى بفاتحة الكتاب و الأعلى و في الثانية بفاتحة الكتاب و الغاشية

He said, ‘When it was that day, Rasool-Allah^-saww came out and the people were with him^-saww. He^-saww walked and they walked, and upon them was the tranquillity and the dignity until they came to the praying place. The Prophet^-saww went ahead and prayed with them two Units Salat being loud in them with the recitation, and he^-saww was reciting during the two Eids and Al-Istiqsa (invoking Allah^-azwj for rain), in the first Cycle with (Surah) Al Fatiha and (Surah) Al A’ala, and in the second with (Surah) Al Fatiha and (Surah) Al-Ghashiya.

فلما قضى صلاته استقبل القوم بوجهه و قلب رداءه لكي ينقلب القحط إلى الخصب ثم جثا على ركبتيه و رفع يديه و كبر تكبيرة قبل أن يستسقي ثم قال اللهم اسقنا و أغثنا غيثا مغيثا و حيا ربيعا و جدا طبقا غدقا مغدقا عاما هنيئا مريئا مريعا وابلا شاملا مسبلا مجلجلا دائما دررا نافعا غير ضار عاجلا غير رائث غيثا

When he^-saww finished his^-saww Salat he^-saww faced the people with his^-saww face and overturned his^-saww cloak inside out to overturn the drought to the greenery. Then he^-saww knelt upon his^-saww keen and raised his^-saww hands and exclaimed Takbeer before he^-saww invoked for the rain. Then he^-saww said: ‘O Allah^-azwj! Quench us and rain upon us sufficient rain, reviving the spring, and renewed layers, lavishly lavished, generally welcoming, plentiful, and a full barrage, downcast, reverberant, constant without harm, sooner without delay, rain.

اللهم تحيي به البلاد و تغيث به العباد و تجعله بلاغا للحاضر منا و الباد اللهم أنزل في أرضنا زينتها و أنزل عليها سكنها اللهم أنزل علينا من السماء ماء طهورا تحيي به بلدة ميتا و اسقه مما خلقت‏ أَنْعاماً وَ أَناسِيَّ كَثِيراً

O Allah^-azwj! Revive the city by it and help the servants with it, and Make it reaching to the near ones from us and the distant ones. O Allah^-azwj! Send down in our land, its adornment, and Send it upon its dwellers. O Allah^-azwj! Send down upon us from the sky, clean water reviving the dead city with it, and Quench it from what You^-azwj Created cattle and a lot of people [25:49]’.

قال فما برحنا حتى أقبل قزع من السحاب فالتأم بعضه إلى بعض ثم مطرت عليهم سبعة أيام و لياليهن لا تقلع عن المدينة فأتاه‏ المسلمون فقالوا يا رسول الله قد غرقت الأرض و تهدمت البيوت و انقطعت السبل فادع الله تعالى أن يصرفها عنها

He said, ‘We had not moved until pieces of the clouds came and joined up to each other, then it rained upon them for seven days and nights, not moving off from the city. The Muslims came to him^-saww and they said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! The land has drowned and the houses are demolished and the ways have been cut off, so supplicate to Allah^-azwj the Exalted to turn it away from us’.

فضحك رسول الله ص و هو على المنبر حتى بدت نواجذه تعجبا لسرعة ملالة ابن آدم ثم رفع يديه ثم قال حوالينا و لا علينا اللهم على رءوس الظراب و منابت الشجر و بطون الأودية و ظهور الآكام

Rasool-Allah^-saww chuckled and he^-saww was upon the pulpit until his^-saww teeth were seen, in wonderment at the quickness of the clamour of the sons of Adam^-as. Then he^-saww raised his^-saww hands, then said: ‘Around us and not upon us, O Allah^-azwj, upon the heads of the animals and the roots of the trees, and interior of the valleys, and backs of the dunes’.

فتصدعت عن المدينة حتى كانت في مثل الترس عليها كالفسطاط تمطر مراعيها و لا تمطر فيها قطرة

It drifted away from Al-Medina until it was like the disc with tents upon it, raining on the pastures and not raining in it a drop’.

و في بعض الروايات أنه لما صارت المدينة كالفسطاط ضحك رسول الله ص حتى بدت نواجذه ثم قال لله أبي طالب لو كان حيا قرت عيناه من الذي ينشدنا قوله فقام علي بن أبي طالب عليه السلام فقال يا رسول الله كأنك أردت‏

And in one of the reports, ‘When Al-Medina became like the tents, Rasool-Allah^-saww chuckled until his^-saww teeth were seen, then said: ‘Allah^-azwj! If Abu Talib^-asws had been alive, his^-as eyes would have been delighted. Who is the one who can prose his^-as words for us?’ Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws stood up and said; ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! It is as if you^-saww intend: – (a poem)

و أبيض يستسقى الغمام بوجهه		ثمال اليتامى عصمة للأرامل
يلوذ به الهلاك من آل هاشم		فهم عنده في نعمة و فواضل
كذبتم و بيت الله يبزى محمد		و لما نقاتل دونه و نناضل و نسلمه حتى نصرع حوله
و نذهل عن أبنائنا و الحلائل

‘And a white cloud quenched in its direction, sheltering the orphans and protecting the widows, sheltering by it from the destruction, the ones of the family of Hashim^-as, for they, in his^-as presence, have grace and virtue. You are lying and the House of Allah^-azwj attributes Muhammad^-saww, and when we fight besides him^-saww and deliver him^-saww, and submit to him^-saww until we rally around him^-saww, and we are amazed at our sons and the barriers’.

فقال رسول الله ص أجل فقام رجل من كنانة فقال‏

لك الحمد و الشكر ممن شكر		سقينا بوجه النبي المطر
دعا الله خالقه دعوة		إليه و أشخص منه البصر
فلم يك إلا كإلقا الردا		و أسرع حتى رأينا المطر.
دفاق العزائل جم البعاق		أغاث به الله عليا مضر
و كان كما قاله عمه		أبو طالب أبيض ذو غرر
به الله يسقي صوب الغمام.		و هذا العيان لذاك الخبر
فمن يشكر الله يلقى المزيد		و من يكفر الله يلقى الغير

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Yes’. A man from Kanana stood up and said (a poem), ‘To You^-azwj belong praise and thanks from everyone who gives thanks. We were given rain through the countenance of the Prophet^-saww. He called upon Allah^-azwj, his^-saww Creator, with a supplication, turning to Him^-azwj and raising his gaze towards Him^-azwj. It was no longer than the casting off of a cloak before, swiftly, we saw the rain. It poured forth abundantly, with mighty torrents and copious showers; through it, Allah^-azwj Brought relief to the tribes of Muzar. And he^-saww was just as his^-saww uncle Abu Talib^-as had described him: ‘A radiant one, possessing signs of nobility; through him^-saww Allah^-azwj Sends down the pouring rain from the clouds!’ And what we have witnessed with our own eyes confirms that report. Whoever gives thanks to Allah^-azwj will receive increase, while whoever is ungrateful to Allah^-azwj will encounter adversity’.

فقال رسول الله ص إن يك شاعر أحسن فقد أحسنت

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘With you is excellent poetry, and you have excelled’’.

قال و في هذه السنة كانت سرية عبد الله بن عتيك لقتل أبي رافع عبد الله بن أبي الحقيق و قيل سلام بن أبي الحقيق‏

And during this year was the battalion of Abdullah bin Ateek to kill Abu Rafie Abdullah Bin Abay Al-Haqeeq, and it is said, Salam Bin Abu Al-Haqeeq.

بإسنادي في سماع البخاري إليه بإسناده عن البراء قال‏ بعث رسول الله ص إلى أبي رافع اليهودي جماعة من الأنصار و أمر عليهم عبد الله و كان أبو رافع يؤذي رسول الله ص و يعين عليه و كان في حصن له بأرض الحجاز

By the chain from Sama’a Al Bukhari to him, by his chain from Al Bara’a who said, ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww a group from the Helpers to Abu Rafie the Jew and made Abdullah a commander upon them, and Abu Rafie used to hurt Rasool-Allah^-saww and assist against him^-saww, and he was in a fortress of his in the land of Al-Hijaz.

فلما دنوا منه و قد غربت الشمس و راح الناس بسرحهم قال عبد الله لأصحابه اجلسوا مكانكم فإني منطلق و متلطف للبواب لعلي أدخل فأقبل حتى دنا من الباب ثم تقنع بثوبه كأنه يقضي حاجته و قد دخل الناس فهتف به البواب‏ يا عبد الله إن كنت تريد أن تدخل فادخل فإني أريد أن أغلق الباب فدخلت فكمنت فلما دخل الناس أغلق الباب ثم علق الأغاليق على ود

When they came near him, and the sun had set and the people were resting, Abdullah said to his companions, ‘Be seated in your placed and I will go and be gentle with the doorman, perhaps I can enter’. He came until he was near from the door, then covered his face and as if he was fulfilling his need, and the people had entered (the fortress). He was notified at the door, ‘O servant of Allah^-azwj! If you want to enter, then enter, for I want to lock the door!’ He entered and lay in wait. When the people had entered, the door was locked, then the lock was hung upon a nail.

قال فقمت على الأقاليد فأخذتها ففتحت الباب و كان أبو رافع يسمر عنده و كان في علالي‏ فلما ذهب عنه أهل سمره صعدت إليه فجعلت كلما فتحت بابا أغلق‏ علي من داخل فقلت إن القوم نذروا بي لم يخلصوا إلي حتى أقتله فانتهيت إليه فإذا هو في بيت مظلم وسط عياله لا أدري أين هو من البيت

He said, ‘I stood by the keys and took these and I opened the door; and Abu Rafie was chatting with the ones with him, and he was in a high place. When the people of his chatting went away from him, I ascended to him. He went on closing a door from inside every time I opened a door. I said, ‘The people vowed with me not to finish until I kill him’. I ended up to him, and there he was in a dark room in the midst of his dependents, not knowing where he was from the room.

قلت أبا رافع‏ قال من هذا فأهويت نحو الصوت فأضربه ضربة بالسيف و أنا دهش فما أغنيت شيئا و صاح فخرجت من البيت فأمكث غير بعيد ثم دخلت إليه فقلت ما هذا الصوت يا با رافع فقال لأمك الويل إن معي رجلا في البيت ضربني قبل بالسيف

I said, ‘Abu Rafie!’ He said, ‘Who is this?’ I went towards the voice and struck him a strike with the sword, and I was startled, as it did not avail me anything, and he shouted. So, I went out from the room and waited not far away, then entered to him and I said, ‘What is this sound, O Abu Rafie?’ He said, ‘Woe be to your mother! There is a man with me in the house. He struck me before with the sword’.

قال فأضربه ضربة أثخنته و لم أقتله ثم وضعت ظبة السيف في بطنه حتى أخذ في ظهره فعرفت أني قتلته فجعلت أفتح الأبواب بابا بابا حتى انتهيت إلى درجة له فوضعت رجلي و أنا أرى أني قد انتهيت إلى الأرض فوقعت في ليلة مقمرة فانكسرت ساقي فعصبتها بعمامتي ثم انطلقت حتى جلست على الباب فقلت لا أخرج الليلة حتى أعلم أ قتلته

He said, ‘I struck him a strike weakening him, and did not kill him. Then I immersed the sword in his belly until it took to his back, and I realised that I had killed him. I went on to open the doors, door after door, until I ended up to a staircase of his and I place my legs, and I was that I had ended up to the ground, and I fell in the dark night and broke my leg. I bandaged it with my turban, then went until I sat down at the door and I said, ‘I will not go out at night until I know that I have killed him’.

فلما صاح الديك قام الناعي على السور فقال أنعى أبا رافع تاجر أهل الحجاز فانطلقت إلى أصحابي فقلت النجاء فقد قتل الله أبا رافع فانتهيت إلى النبي ص فحدثته فقال ابسط رجلك فبسطت رجلي فمسحها و كأنما لم أشتكها قط

When the rooster shouted, the (announcer of the) obituary was upon the bridge. He said, ‘This is the obituary of Abu Rafie, a trader of the people of Al-Hijaz!’ So, I went to my companion and said, ‘The survival, for Allah^-azwj has Killed Abu Rafie’. Then I ended up to the Prophet^-saww and narrated it to him^-saww. He^-saww said: ‘Spread your leg’. I spread out my leg. He^-saww wiped it, and it was as if I had no complaints at all’.

و في هذه السنة كان قصة العرنيين‏ في شوالها قالوا قدم نفر من عرنية ثمانية على رسول الله ص فأسلموا و اجتووا المدينة فأمر بهم رسول الله ص إلى لقاحه و قال لو خرجتم إلى ذود لنا فشربتم من ألبانها فقتلوا الراعي و قطعوا يده و رجله و غرسوا الشوك في لسانه و عينيه حتى مات و بلغ رسول الله ص الخبر فبعث في أثرهم عشرين فارسا و استعمل عليهم كرز بن جابر الفهري

And during this year was the story of Al-Areyna during its Shawwal. They said, ‘Eight persons from Areyna went to Rasool-Allah^-saww and became Muslims, and they were in Al-Medina. Rasool-Allah^-saww ordered them to his^-saww flock, and said, ‘If you could go out a provision of ours and you drink from its milk’. But they killed the shepherd and cut off his hands and his legs and inserted a thorn in his tongue and his eyes until he died; and the news reached Rasool-Allah^-saww, so he^-saww sent twenty horsemen in their tracks, and utilised Karz Bin Jabir Al-Fahry upon them.

فأدركهم فأحاطوا بهم‏ و أسروهم و ربطوهم حتى قدموا بهم المدينة و كان رسول الله ص بالغابة فخرجوا بهم نحوه فأمرهم فقطعت أيديهم و أرجلهم و سمل أعينهم‏ و صلبوا هناك و كانت اللقاح خمس عشرة لقحة فردوها إلا واحدة نحروها

He caught up with them and surrounded them and captured them and bound them until they arrived with them to Al-Medina; and Rasool-Allah^-saww was at Al-Ghaba. They came out with them to near him^-saww, and he^-saww ordered them to cut off their hands, and their legs, and gouge out their eyes, and they were crucified over there, and the sheep were fifteen sheep, and they returned these except for one they had slaughtered.[32]

5- أَقُولُ وَ قَالَ ابْنُ الْأَثِيرِ فِي الْكَامِلِ فِي حَوَادِثِ السَّنَةِ السَّادِسَةِ كَانَتْ غَزْوَةُ بَنِي لِحْيَانَ فِي جُمَادَى الْأُولَى مِنْهَا خَرَجَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص إِلَى بَنِي لِحْيَانَ يَطْلُبُ بِأَصْحَابِ الرَّجِيعِ خُبَيْبِ بْنِ عَدِيٍّ وَ أَصْحَابِهِ وَ أَظْهَرَ أَنَّهُ يُرِيدُ الشَّامَ لِيُصِيبَ مِنَ الْقَوْمِ غِرَّةً

I (Majlisi) am saying, ‘And Ibn Al-Aseer said in (the book) ‘Al-Kamil’ regarding the events of the year six, ‘There was the military expedition of the clan of Lahyan during Jumadi Al Awwal of it. Rasool-Allah^-saww went to the clan of Lahyan seeking with the companions of Al-Rajie, Hubeyb Bin Aday and his companions, and manifest that he^-saww intended Syria in order to attain surprise from the people.

وَ أَغَذَّ السَّيْرَ حَتَّى نَزَلَ عَلَى عِرَارٍ مَنَازِلِ بَنِي لِحْيَانَ فَوَجَدَهُمْ قَدْ حَذِرُوا وَ تَمَنَّعُوا فِي رُءُوسِ الْجِبَالِ فَلَمَّا أَخْطَأَهُ مَا أَرَادَ مِنْهُمْ خَرَجَ فِي مِائَتَيْ رَاكِبٍ حَتَّى نَزَلَ عُسْفَانَ تَخْوِيفاً لِأَهْلِ مَكَّةَ وَ أَرْسَلَ فَارِسَيْنِ مِنَ الصَّحَابَةِ حَتَّى بَلَغَا كُرَاعَ الْغَمِيمِ ثُمَّ عَادُوا

And he^-saww began the journey until he^-saww descended at by the houses of the clan of Lahyan. He^-saww found them to have been cautious and had gone away to the top of the mountain. When he^-saww missed what he^-saww intended from them, he^-saww went out among two hundred riders until he^-saww descended at Usfan, to frighten the people of Makkah, and he^-saww sent two horsemen from the companions until they reached Kura’a Al Ghameem, then they returned.[33]

6- فس‏ وَدُّوا لَوْ تَكْفُرُونَ كَما كَفَرُوا فَتَكُونُونَ سَواءً إِلَى قَوْلِهِ‏ وَ لا تَتَّخِذُوا مِنْهُمْ وَلِيًّا وَ لا نَصِيراً فَإِنَّهَا نَزَلَتْ فِي أَشْجَعَ وَ بَنِي ضَمْرَةَ وَ كَانَ خَبَرُهُ‏ أَنَّهُ لَمَّا خَرَجَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص إِلَى بَدْرٍ لِمَوْعِدٍ مَرَّ قَرِيباً مِنْ بِلَادِهِمْ وَ قَدْ كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص صَادَرَ بَنِي ضَمْرَةَ وَ وَادَعَهُمْ‏ قَبْلَ ذَلِكَ فَقَالَ أَصْحَابُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ هَذِهِ بَنُو ضَمْرَةَ قَرِيباً مِنَّا وَ نَخَافُ أَنْ يُخَالِفُونَا إِلَى الْمَدِينَةِ أَوْ يُعِينُوا عَلَيْنَا قُرَيْشاً فَلَوْ بَدَأْنَا بِهِمْ

They would love it if you were to disbelieve just as they are disbelieving, so you would be the same – up to His^-azwj Words: and neither take a friend from them nor a helper [4:89] – it was Revealed regarding Ashja’a and the clan of Zamra, and its news was that when Rasool-Allah^-saww went out to Badr for the appointment, he^-saww passed by a town from their cities, and Rasool-Allah^-saww had condemned the clan of Zamra and had promised them before that. The companions of Rasool-Allah^-saww said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! This clan of Zamra are near from us and we fear that they will oppose us to Al Medina or assist Quraysh against us, so if we could begin with them’.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص كَلَّا إِنَّهُمْ أَبَرُّ الْعَرَبِ بِالْوَالِدَيْنِ‏ وَ أَوْصَلُهُمْ لِلرَّحِمِ وَ أَوْفَاهُمْ بِالْعَهْدِ وَ كَانَ أَشْجَعُ بِلَادُهُمْ قَرِيباً مِنْ بِلَادِ بَنِي ضَمْرَةَ وَ هُمْ بَطْنٌ مِنْ كِنَانَةَ وَ كَانَتْ أَشْجَعُ بَيْنَهُمْ وَ بَيْنَ بَنِي ضَمْرَةَ حِلْفٌ بِالْمُرَاعَاةِ وَ الْأَمَانِ فَأَجْدَبَتْ بِلَادُ أَشْجَعَ وَ أَخْصَبَتْ بِلَادُ بَنِي ضَمْرَةَ فَصَارَتْ أَشْجَعُ إِلَى بِلَادِ بَنِي ضَمْرَةَ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Never! They are the kindest with the parents of the Arabs, and the most helpful to the relatives, and the most fulfilling of their agreements ’. And Ashja’a, their cities were close to the city of the clan of Zamra, and they were from the midst of Kanana, and Ashja’a were between them and the clan of Zamra, allied with the magnanimity and security. The city of Ashja’a became infertile, and the city of clan of Zamra became fertile, so Ashja’a came to the city of the clan of Zamra.

فَلَمَّا بَلَغَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَسِيرُهُمْ إِلَى بَنِي ضَمْرَةَ تَهَيَّأَ لِلْمَسِيرِ إِلَى أَشْجَعَ فَيَغْزُوهُمْ‏ لِلْمُوَادَعَةِ الَّتِي كَانَتْ بَيْنَهُ وَ بَيْنَ بَنِي ضَمْرَةَ فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ‏ وَدُّوا لَوْ تَكْفُرُونَ كَما كَفَرُوا الْآيَةَ

When it reached Rasool-Allah^-saww, their journey to the clan of Zamra, he^-saww prepared for the journey to Ashja’a to battle them due to the appointment which was between him^-saww and the clan of Zamra. Allah^-azwj Revealed: They would love it if you were to disbelieve just as they are disbelieving [4:89].

ثُمَّ اسْتَثْنَى بِأَشْجَعَ فَقَالَ‏ إِلَّا الَّذِينَ يَصِلُونَ إِلى‏ قَوْمٍ بَيْنَكُمْ وَ بَيْنَهُمْ مِيثاقٌ أَوْ جاؤُكُمْ حَصِرَتْ صُدُورُهُمْ أَنْ يُقاتِلُوكُمْ أَوْ يُقاتِلُوا قَوْمَهُمْ‏ إِلَى قَوْلِهِ‏ فَما جَعَلَ اللَّهُ لَكُمْ عَلَيْهِمْ سَبِيلًا وَ كَانَتْ أَشْجَعُ مَحَالُّهَا الْبَيْضَاءُ وَ الْحِلُ‏ وَ الْمُسْتَبَاحُ وَ قَدْ كَانُوا قَرُبُوا مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص

Then He^-azwj Excluded Ashja’a and Said: Except those who are arriving to a group who, between you and them is a covenant, or they are coming to you with regret in their hearts that they (either have to) fight you or fight their people  – up to His^-azwj Words: then Allah has not Made for you a way against them [4:90]. And Ashja’a, its neighbourhood was the white, and the mountain, and the lucrative, and they had been near from Rasool-Allah^-saww.

فَهَابُوا لِقُرْبِهِمْ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص أَنْ يَبْعَثَ إِلَيْهِمْ مَنْ يَغْزُوهُمْ وَ كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص قَدْ خَافَهُمْ أَنْ يُصِيبُوا مِنْ أَطْرَافِهِ‏ شَيْئاً فَهَمَّ بِالْمَسِيرِ إِلَيْهِمْ فَبَيْنَا هُوَ عَلَى ذَلِكَ إِذْ جَاءَتْ أَشْجَعُ وَ رَئِيسُهَا مَسْعُودُ بْنُ رُجَيْلَةَ وَ هُمْ سَبْعُمِائَةٍ

They were alarmed from Rasool-Allah^-saww that he^-saww might send to them ones who would battle them, and Rasool-Allah^-saww had feared them that they might attain something from its outskirts. He^-saww thought with the travelling to them. While he^-saww was upon that when Ashja’a came, and their chief was Masoud bin Rujeyla, and they were seven hundred.

فَنَزَلُوا شِعْبَ سَلْعٍ وَ ذَلِكَ فِي شَهْرِ رَبِيعٍ الْآخِرِ سَنَةَ سِتٍّ فَدَعَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص أُسَيْدَ بْنَ حُصَيْنٍ‏ فَقَالَ لَهُ اذْهَبْ فِي نَفَرٍ مِنْ أَصْحَابِكَ حَتَّى تَنْظُرَ مَا أَقْدَمَ أَشْجَعَ فَخَرَجَ أُسَيْدٌ وَ مَعَهُ ثَلَاثَةُ نَفَرٍ مِنْ أَصْحَابِهِ فَوَقَفَ عَلَيْهِمْ فَقَالَ مَا أَقْدَمَكُمْ فَقَامَ إِلَيْهِ مَسْعُودُ بْنُ رُجَيْلَةَ وَ هُوَ رَئِيسُ أَشْجَعَ فَسَلَّمَ عَلَى أُسَيْدٍ وَ عَلَى أَصْحَابِهِ وَ قَالُوا جِئْنَا لِنُوَادِعَ‏ مُحَمَّداً

They descended at the mountain pass of Sa’a, and that was during the month of Rabbi Al Akhar of the year six. Rasool-Allah^-saww called Aseyd Bin Husayn. He^-saww said to him: ‘Go among a number of your companions until you look at what the steps of Ashja’a are’. Aseyd went out and with him were three persons from his companions and paused at them. He said, ‘What are your steps?’ Masoud Bin Rujayla stood up to him, and he was a chief of the Ashja’a, and greeted unto Aseyd and unto his companions, and they said, ‘We have come for the promise of Muhammad^-saww’.

فَرَجَعَ أُسَيْدٌ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَأَخْبَرَهُ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص خَافَ الْقَوْمُ أَنْ أَغْزُوَهُمْ فَأَرَادُوا الصُّلْحَ بَيْنِي وَ بَيْنَهُمْ ثُمَّ بَعَثَ إِلَيْهِمْ بِعَشَرَةِ أَحْمَالِ تَمْرٍ فَقَدَّمَهَا أَمَامَهُ ثُمَّ قَالَ نِعْمَ الشَّيْ‏ءُ الْهَدِيَّةُ أَمَامَ الْحَاجَةِ ثُمَّ أَتَاهُمْ فَقَالَ يَا مَعْشَرَ أَشْجَعَ مَا أَقْدَمَكُمْ قَالُوا قَرُبَتْ دَارُنَا مِنْكَ وَ لَيْسَ فِي قَوْمِنَا أَقَلُّ عَدَداً مِنَّا فَضِقْنَا بِحَرْبِكَ لِقُرْبِ دَارِنَا مِنْكَ وَ ضِقْنَا لِحَرْبِ قَوْمِنَا لِقِلَّتِنَا فِيهِمْ فَجِئْنَا لِنُوَادِعَكَ

Aseyd returned to Rasool-Allah^-saww and informed him^-saww. Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘The people are scared that I^-saww might battle them, and they want reconciliation between me^-saww and them with ten loads of dates. These were brought in front of him^-saww, then he^-saww said: ‘The best thing as a gift is in front of the need’. Then he^-saww gave it to them. He^-saww said: ‘O community of Ashja’a! What have you come for?’ They said, ‘To draw our houses to be near from you^-saww, and there isn’t anyone among our people fewer than us in number. So, we would be constrained with battling you due to the closeness of our houses from you^-saww, and we would be constrained for you^-saww to battle our people to kills us among them, due to your^-saww promise’.

فَقَبِلَ النَّبِيُّ ص ذَلِكَ مِنْهُمْ وَ وَادَعَهُمْ فَأَقَامُوا يَوْمَهُمْ ثُمَّ رَجَعُوا إِلَى بِلَادِهِمْ وَ فِيهِمْ نَزَلَتْ هَذِهِ الْآيَةُ إِلَّا الَّذِينَ يَصِلُونَ إِلى‏ قَوْمٍ بَيْنَكُمْ وَ بَيْنَهُمْ مِيثاقٌ‏ الْآيَةَ

The Prophet^-saww accepted that from them and bade them farewell. They stayed on their day then returned to their cities, and regarding them this Verse was Revealed: Except those who are arriving to a group who, between you and them is a covenant [4:90] – the Verse’’.[34]

7- قب، المناقب لابن شهرآشوب‏ ثُمَّ بَعْدَ غَزَاةِ بَنِي قُرَيْظَةَ بَعَثَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ عَتِيكٍ إِلَى خَيْبَرَ فَقَتَلَ أَبَا رَافِعِ بْنَ أَبِي الْحُقَيْقِ بَنُو الْمُصْطَلِقِ مِنْ خُزَاعَةَ وَ هُوَ الْمُرَيْسِيعُ غَزَاهُمْ عَلِيٌّ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ فِي شَعْبَانَ وَ رَأْسُهُمُ الْحَارِثُ بْنُ أَبِي ضِرَارٍ وَ أُصِيبَ يَوْمَئِذٍ نَاسٌ مِنْ بَنِي عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ فَقَتَلَ عَلِيٌّ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ مَالِكاً وَ ابْنَهُ

‘Al Manaqib’ of Ibn Shehr Ashub – ‘Then there was the military expedition of the clan of Qureyza. Rasool-Allah^-saww sent Abdullah bin Itiyak to Khyber to kill Abu Rafie Bin Abu Al-Haqeeq of the clan of Al-Mustaliq from Khuza’a, and it is Al-Mureysie. Ali^-asws battled them during Shaban, and their chief was Al-Haris Bin Abu Zirar, and on that day people from the clan of Abdul Muttalib^-asws were injured. Ali^-asws killed Malik and his son.

فَأَصَابَ النَّبِيُّ ص سَبْياً كَثِيراً وَ كَانَ سَبَى عَلِيٌّ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ جُوَيْرِيَةَ بِنْتَ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ أَبِي ضِرَارٍ فَاصْطَفَاهَا النَّبِيُّ ص فَجَاءَ أَبُوهَا إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ص بِفِدَاءِ ابْنَتِهِ فَسَأَلَهُ النَّبِيُّ ص عَنْ جَمَلَيْنِ خَبَأَهُمَا فِي شِعْبِ كَذَا فَقَالَ الرَّجُلُ أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَ أَنَّكَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ‏ وَ اللَّهِ مَا عَرَفَهُمَا أَحَدٌ سِوَايَ

The Prophet^-saww attained many captives, and a captive of Ali^-asws was Juweyria Bint Al-Haris Bin Abu Zirara. The Prophet^-saww chose her. Her father came to the Prophet^-saww with a ransom of his daughter. The Prophet^-saww asked him about the two camels concealed in such and such mountain pass. The man said, ‘I testify that there is no god except Allah^-azwj and you^-saww are a Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj. By Allah^-azwj! None knew of these besides me’.

ثُمَّ قَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّ ابْنَتِي لَا تُسْبَى إِنَّهَا امْرَأَةٌ كَرِيمَةٌ قَالَ فَاذْهَبْ فَخَيِّرْهَا قَالَ قَدْ أَحْسَنْتَ وَ أَجْمَلْتَ وَ جَاءَ إِلَيْهَا أَبُوهَا فَقَالَ لَهَا يَا بُنَيَّةِ لَا تَفْضَحِي قَوْمَكِ فَقَالَتْ‏ قَدِ اخْتَرْتُ اللَّهَ وَ رَسُولَهُ فَدَعَا عَلَيْهَا أَبُوهَا فَأَعْتَقَهَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ جَعَلَهَا فِي جُمْلَةِ أَزْوَاجِهِ

Then he said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! My daughter cannot be made a captive. She is an honourable woman’. He^-saww said: ‘Go and give her a choice’. He said, ‘You^-saww have done good and majestic’. And her father came to her and said, ‘O daughter! Do not disgrace your people’. She said, ‘I have chosen Allah^-azwj and His^-azwj Rasool^-saww’. She invited her father upon it. Rasool-Allah^-saww liberated her and made her to be among the total of his^-saww wives’.

وَ فِي هَذِهِ الْغَزَاةِ نَزَلَتْ‏ إِنَّ الَّذِينَ جاؤُ بِالْإِفْكِ‏ وَ فِيهَا قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ أُبَيٍ‏ لَئِنْ رَجَعْنا إِلَى الْمَدِينَةِ

And regarding this military expedition was Revealed: Surely those who are coming with the falsehood [24:11], and regarding it Abdullah Bin Ubay said, ‘When we return to Al-Medina [63:8]’’.[35]

8- قب، المناقب لابن شهرآشوب‏ سَنَةَ سِتٍّ فِي شَهْرِ رَبِيعٍ الْأَوَّلِ بَعَثَ عُكَّاشَةَ بْنَ مِحْصَنٍ فِي أَرْبَعِينَ رَجُلًا إِلَى الْغَمْرَةِ فَهَرَبُوا وَ أَصَابَ مِائَتَيْ بَعِيرٍ وَ فِيهَا بَعَثَ أَبَا عُبَيْدَةَ بْنَ الْجَرَّاحِ إِلَى الْقَصَّةِ فِي أَرْبَعِينَ رَجُلًا فَأَغَارَ عَلَيْهِمْ وَ فِيهَا سَرِيَّةُ زَيْدِ بْنِ حَارِثَةَ إِلَى الْجَمُومِ مِنْ أَرْضِ بَنِي سُلَيْمٍ فَأَصَابُوا وَ وَصَلُوا إِلَى بَنِي ثَعْلَبَةَ فِي خَمْسَةَ عَشَرَ رَجُلًا فَهَرَبُوا وَ أَصَابَ مِنْهُمْ عِشْرِينَ بَعِيراً

‘Al-Manaqib’ of Ibn Shehr Ashub – ‘In the year six during the month of Rabbi Al-Awwal, he^-saww sent Akasha Bin Mihsan among forty men to Al-Ghamra and attained two hundred camels and during it he^-saww sent Abu Ubeyda Bin Al-Jarrah to Al-Qasah among forty men, and attacked upon them, and during it was the battalion of Zayd Bin Haris to Al-Jamoum from the clan Suleym, and they attained and arrived to the clan of Sa’alba among fifteen men. They fled and he attained twenty camels from them.

وَ غَزْوَةُ زَيْدٍ إِلَى الْعِيصِ فِي جُمَادَى الْأُولَى وَ غَزْوَةُ بَنِي قَرَدٍ وَ ذَلِكَ أَنَّ أُنَاساً مِنَ الْأَعْرَابِ قَدِمُوا وَ سَاقُوا الْإِبِلَ فَخَرَجَ إِلَيْهِمْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ قَدَّمَ أَبَا قَتَادَةَ الْأَنْصَارِيَّ مَعَ جَمَاعَةٍ فَاسْتَرَدَّ مِنْهُمْ‏ وَ بَعَثَ مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ مَسْلَمَةَ إِلَى قَوْمٍ مِنْ هَوَازِنَ فَكَمَنَ الْقَوْمُ لَهُمْ وَ أَفْلَتَ مُحَمَّدٌ وَ قُتِلَ أَصْحَابُهُ ذَاتَ السَّلَاسِلِ‏ وَ هُوَ حِصْنٌ

And Zayd led a military expedition to Al-Ays during Jumadi Al-Awwal, and the military expedition of the clan of Qard, and that is that some people from the Bedouins arrived and ushered the camels. Rasool-Allah^-saww came out to them and sent forward Abu Qatada the Helper with a group and recovered from them. And he^-saww sent Muhammad bin Maslama to a people from Hawazin. He was ambushed by a group of their and Muhammad escaped and his companions were killed at Zat Al-Salasil, and it is a fort.

وَ ذَلِكَ أَنَّ أَعْرَابِيّاً جَاءَ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ص فَقَالَ إِنَّ لِي نَصِيحَةً قَالَ وَ مَا نَصِيحَتُكَ قَالَ اجْتَمَعَ بَنُو سُلَيْمٍ بِوَادِي الرَّمْلِ عِنْدَ الْحَرَّةِ عَلَى أَنْ يُبِيتُوكَ بِهَا الْقَصَّةَ وَ فِيهَا غَزْوَةُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ إِلَى بَنِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ مِنْ أَهْلِ فَدَكَ وَ ذَلِكَ أَنَّهُ بَلَغَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لَهُمْ جَمْعاً يُرِيدُونَ أَنْ يُمِدُّوا يَهُودَ خَيْبَرَ

And that is that a Bedouin came to the Prophet^-saww and said, ‘There is a advice from me’. He^-saww said: ‘And what is your advice?’ He said, ‘Gather the clan of Suleym at the valley of Al-Raml at Al-Hira, upon which they will spend the night at it’. And during it was the military expedition of Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws to the clan of Abdullah Bin Sa’ad, from the people of Fadak, and that is that it reached Rasool-Allah^-saww that a group of theirs wants to help the Jews of Khyber.

وَ فِيهَا سَرِيَّةُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عَوْفٍ إِلَى دُومَةِ الْجَنْدَلِ فِي شَعْبَانَ وَ سَرِيَّةُ الْعُرَنِيِّينَ‏ الَّذِينَ قَتَلُوا رَاعِيَ النَّبِيِّ ص وَ اسْتَاقُوا الْإِبِلَ وَ كَانُوا عِشْرِينَ فَارِساً وَ فِيهَا أُخِذَتْ أَمْوَالُ أَبِي الْعَاصِ بْنِ الرَّبِيعِ وَ فِيهَا غَزْوَةُ الْغَابَةِ

And during it was the battalion of Abdul Rahman Bin Awf to Dowmat Al-Jandal during Shaban, and the battalion of Urneyn, those who had killed the shepherd of the Prophet^-saww and stole the camels, and they were twenty horsemen; and during it was seized the wealth of Al-Aas Bin Al-Rabie, and during it was the military expedition of Al-Ghaba’’.[36]

باب 19 آخر في قصة الإفك‏

CHAPTER 19 – ANOTHER REGARDING THE STORY OF THE OBVIOUS LIE

The Verses – (Surarh) Al-Noor:

الآيات النور إِنَّ الَّذِينَ جاؤُ بِالْإِفْكِ عُصْبَةٌ مِنْكُمْ لا تَحْسَبُوهُ شَرًّا لَكُمْ بَلْ هُوَ خَيْرٌ لَكُمْ لِكُلِّ امْرِئٍ مِنْهُمْ مَا اكْتَسَبَ مِنَ الْإِثْمِ وَ الَّذِي تَوَلَّى كِبْرَهُ مِنْهُمْ لَهُ عَذابٌ عَظِيمٌ

Surely those who are coming with the falsehood are a group from you. Do not reckon it as being an evil for you, but it is better for you. For every person from them is what he has earned from the sin, and those who assumed its major share from them, for him would be a grievous Punishment [24:11]

لَوْ لا إِذْ سَمِعْتُمُوهُ ظَنَّ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ وَ الْمُؤْمِناتُ بِأَنْفُسِهِمْ خَيْراً وَ قالُوا هذا إِفْكٌ مُبِينٌ

Why did they, the Momineen and the Mominaat, not think good with themselves and said, ‘This is a clear falsehood’? [24:12]

لَوْ لا جاؤُ عَلَيْهِ بِأَرْبَعَةِ شُهَداءَ فَإِذْ لَمْ يَأْتُوا بِالشُّهَداءِ فَأُولئِكَ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ هُمُ الْكاذِبُونَ

Why did they not come with four witnesses upon it? When they did not come with the witnesses, then they, in the Presence of Allah, they are the liars [24:13]

وَ لَوْ لا فَضْلُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ وَ رَحْمَتُهُ فِي الدُّنْيا وَ الْآخِرَةِ لَمَسَّكُمْ فِيما أَفَضْتُمْ فِيهِ عَذابٌ عَظِيمٌ

And had it not been for the Grace of Allah upon you and His Mercy, in the world and the Hereafter, there would have touched you, regarding what you rushed thoughtlessly into, a grievous Punishment [24:14]

إِذْ تَلَقَّوْنَهُ بِأَلْسِنَتِكُمْ وَ تَقُولُونَ بِأَفْواهِكُمْ ما لَيْسَ لَكُمْ بِهِ عِلْمٌ وَ تَحْسَبُونَهُ هَيِّناً وَ هُوَ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ عَظِيمٌ

When you received it with your tongues and you were saying with your mouths what there wasn’t any knowledge for you of it, and you were reckoning it as trivial, and it, in the Presence of Allah, is grievous [24:15]

وَ لَوْ لا إِذْ سَمِعْتُمُوهُ قُلْتُمْ ما يَكُونُ لَنا أَنْ نَتَكَلَّمَ بِهذا سُبْحانَكَ هذا بُهْتانٌ عَظِيمٌ

And why did you not, when you heard it, say, ‘It cannot happen for us that we should be speaking with this. Glorious are You! This is a grievous slander’ [24:16]

يَعِظُكُمُ اللَّهُ أَنْ تَعُودُوا لِمِثْلِهِ أَبَداً إِنْ كُنْتُمْ مُؤْمِنِينَ

Allah Advises you, lest you repeat to the like of it, ever, if you were Momineen [24:17]

وَ يُبَيِّنُ اللَّهُ لَكُمُ الْآياتِ وَ اللَّهُ عَلِيمٌ حَكِيمٌ

And Allah Clarifies the Signs to you, and Allah is Knowing, Wise [24:18]

إِنَّ الَّذِينَ يُحِبُّونَ أَنْ تَشِيعَ الْفاحِشَةُ فِي الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَهُمْ عَذابٌ أَلِيمٌ فِي الدُّنْيا وَ الْآخِرَةِ وَ اللَّهُ يَعْلَمُ وَ أَنْتُمْ لا تَعْلَمُونَ

Those who love that the scandal should spread regarding those who believe, for them would be a painful Punishment, and Allah Knows while you are not knowing [24:19]

وَ لَوْ لا فَضْلُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ وَ رَحْمَتُهُ وَ أَنَّ اللَّهَ رَؤُفٌ رَحِيمٌ

And except that there is the Grace of Allah upon you and His Mercy, and that Allah is Kind, Merciful [24:20]

يا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لا تَتَّبِعُوا خُطُواتِ الشَّيْطانِ وَ مَنْ يَتَّبِعْ خُطُواتِ الشَّيْطانِ فَإِنَّهُ يَأْمُرُ بِالْفَحْشاءِ وَ الْمُنْكَرِ وَ لَوْ لا فَضْلُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ وَ رَحْمَتُهُ ما زَكى‏ مِنْكُمْ مِنْ أَحَدٍ أَبَداً وَ لكِنَ‏ اللَّهَ يُزَكِّي مَنْ يَشاءُ وَ اللَّهُ سَمِيعٌ عَلِيمٌ

O you those who believe! Do not follow the footsteps of Satan! And one who follows the footsteps of Satan, then he enjoins with the immoralities and the evil. And had it not been for the Grace of Allah upon you and His Mercy, not one of you would be purified (from his sins), ever! But, Allah Purifies ones He so Desires to, and Allah is Hearing, Knowing [24:21]

وَ لا يَأْتَلِ أُولُوا الْفَضْلِ مِنْكُمْ وَ السَّعَةِ أَنْ يُؤْتُوا أُولِي الْقُرْبى‏ وَ الْمَساكِينَ وَ الْمُهاجِرِينَ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ وَ لْيَعْفُوا وَ لْيَصْفَحُوا أَ لا تُحِبُّونَ أَنْ يَغْفِرَ اللَّهُ لَكُمْ وَ اللَّهُ غَفُورٌ رَحِيمٌ

And the possessors of Grace and abundance from you should not swear from giving to the near of kin, and the poor, and the Emigrants in the Way of Allah, and let them be pardoning and let them be excusing. Do you not love that Allah should Forgive you? And Allah is Forgiving, Merciful [24:22]

إِنَّ الَّذِينَ يَرْمُونَ الْمُحْصَناتِ الْغافِلاتِ الْمُؤْمِناتِ لُعِنُوا فِي الدُّنْيا وَ الْآخِرَةِ وَ لَهُمْ عَذابٌ عَظِيمٌ

Surely, those who accuse chaste married women, the unaware Mominaat, would be Cursed in the world and the Hereafter, and for them is a grievous Punishment [24:23]

يَوْمَ تَشْهَدُ عَلَيْهِمْ أَلْسِنَتُهُمْ وَ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَ أَرْجُلُهُمْ بِما كانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ

On the Day, their tongues will testify against them, and their hands, and their legs, with what they had been doing [24:24]

يَوْمَئِذٍ يُوَفِّيهِمُ اللَّهُ دِينَهُمُ الْحَقَّ وَ يَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّ اللَّهَ هُوَ الْحَقُّ الْمُبِينُ

On that day Allah will Fulfil them, their Religion, the Truth, and they will come to know that Allah, He is the Manifest Truth [24:25]

الْخَبِيثاتُ لِلْخَبِيثِينَ وَ الْخَبِيثُونَ لِلْخَبِيثاتِ وَ الطَّيِّباتُ لِلطَّيِّبِينَ وَ الطَّيِّبُونَ لِلطَّيِّباتِ أُولئِكَ مُبَرَّؤُنَ مِمَّا يَقُولُونَ لَهُمْ مَغْفِرَةٌ وَ رِزْقٌ كَرِيمٌ‏

Wicked women are for the wicked men, and the wicked men are for the wicked women, and the good women are for the good men, and the good men are for the good women. They are innocent from what they are saying. For them is Forgiveness and an honourable sustenance [24:26].

روى الزهري عن عروة بن الزبير و سعيد بن المسيب و غيرهما عن عائشة أنها قالت‏ كان رسول الله ص إذا أراد سفرا أقرع بين نسائه فأيتهن خرج سهمها خرج بها فأقرع بيننا في غزوة غزاها فخرج فيها سهمي و ذلك بعد ما أنزل الحجاب فخرجت مع رسول الله ص حتى فرغ من غزوه و قفل

It is reported by Al-Zuhry, from Urwa bin Al-Zubeyr and Saeed Bin Al-Musayyab, and other from Ayesha having said, ‘Whenever Rasool-Allah^-saww wanted to travel, he^-saww drew lots between his^-saww women. Whichever of them her lot came out, he^-saww would go out with her. He^-saww drew lots between us during a military expedition he^-saww led, and my lot came out, and that was after the Revelation of (the Verse of) the Hijab. I went out with Rasool-Allah^-saww until he^-saww was free from his^-saww military expedition and came back’’.

و روي أنها كانت غزوة بني المصطلق من خزاعة

And it is reported that it was the military expedition of the clan of Al-Mustaliq – from Khuzaie.

قالت و دنونا من المدينة فقمت حين آذنوا بالرحيل فمشيت حتى جاوزت الجيش فلما قضيت شأني أقبلت إلى الرحل فلمست صدري فإذا بعقد من جزع ظفار قد انقطع فرجعت فالتمست عقدي فحبسني ابتغاؤه

She said, ‘And we were near from Al-Medina, and I stood up when they proclaimed the departure and I walked until I crossed over the army. When I had fulfilled my need, I returned to the rider. I touched my chest, and there was a necklace made of onyx which had been cut. I returned and touched my necklace, and seeking it withheld me.

و أقبل الرهط الذين كانوا يرحلوني فحملوا هودجي على بعيري الذي كنت أركب و هم يحسبون أني فيه و كانت النساء إذ ذاك خفافا و لم يهبلهن‏ اللحم و إنما يأكلن العلفة من الطعام فبعثوا الجمل و ساروا و وجدت عقدي و جئت منازلهم و ليس بها داع و لا مجيب فدنوت من منزلي‏ الذي كنت فيه و ظننت‏ أن القوم سيفقدونني فيرجعون إلي

And the group came, those who had made me ride. They were carrying my carriage upon my camel which I had ridden, and they were reckoning that I was in it, and the women, when it was that, were light and the meat did not overcome them, and rather they were eating light food. They sent the camel and travelled, and I found my necklace and came to their houses, and there wasn’t any caller at it nor an answerer. I went near my house, which I used to be in and I thought that the people would have missed me and they would be returning to me.

فبينا أنا جالسة إذ غلبتني عيناي فنمت و كان صفوان بن المعطل السلمي قد عرس‏ من وراء الجيش فأصبح عند منزلي فرأى سواد إنسان نائم فعرفني حين رآني فخمرت وجهي بجلبابي و و الله ما كلمني بكلمة حتى أناخ راحلته فركبتها فانطلق يقود الراحلة حتى أتينا الجيش بعد ما نزلوا موغرين في حر الظهيرة فهلك من هلك في و كان‏ الَّذِي تَوَلَّى كِبْرَهُ مِنْهُمْ‏ عبد الله بن أبي سلول

While I was seated, my eyes overcame me, so I fell asleep; and Safwan Bin Al-Ma’tal Al-Salmy had rested behind the army. I woke up in the morning in my house and I saw a black man sleeping. He recognised me when he saw me, so I covered my face with my veil, and by Allah^-azwj, he did not speak to me with a word until I knelt on his camel and rode it. He went on guiding the camel until we came to the army after the severity of the heat of the afternoon, and the one who perished, perished in (it), and those who assumed its major share from them, [24:11], was Abdullah Bin Salul.

فقدمنا المدينة فاشتكيت حين قدمتها شهرا و الناس يفيضون في قول أهل الإفك و لا أشعر بشي‏ء من ذلك و هو يربيني‏ في وجعي غير أني لا أعرف من رسول الله ص اللطف الذي كنت أرى منه حين اشتكى إنما يدخل و يسلم و يقول كيف تيكم

We arrived at Al-Medina, I complained of the publicity when I arrived at it, and the people were exposing regarding the words of the people of the obvious lie, and I was not aware of anything from that, and he had nourished me during my pains, apart from that I did not recognised from Rasool-Allah^-saww, the kindness which I used to see from him^-saww I complained. But rather he^-saww entered and greeted and said: ‘How was your journey?’

فذلك يحزنني و لا أشعر بالشر حتى خرجت بعد ما نقهت و خرجت معي أم مسطح قبل المصانع‏ و هو متبرزنا و لا نخرج إلا ليلا إلى ليل و ذلك قبل أن يتخذ الكنف و أمرنا أمر العرب الأول في التنزه و كنا نتأذى بالكنف أن نتخذها عند بيوتنا

That saddened me and I was not aware of the evil until I went out after I had recovered, and Ummr Mastah went came out with me before Al-Masanie, and it was out defecation, and we did not go out except at night to a night, and that was before the toilet had been taken, and our matter was the matter of the former Arabs regarding the hiking, and we used to be bothered with the toilet that we should be taking it in our houses.

فانطلقت أنا و أم مسطح و أمها بنت صخر بن عام‏ خالة أبي فعثرت أم مسطح في مرطها فقالت تعس‏ مسطح فقلت لها بئس ما قلت أ تسبين رجلا قد شهد بدرا قالت أي هنتاه أ لم تسمعي ما قال قلت و ما ذا قال فأخبرتني بقول أهل الإفك فازددت مرضا إلى مرضي

We went, I and Umm Mastah and her mother Bint Sakhar Bin Aam, a maternal aunt of my father.  Umm Mastah stumbled in her dress and she said, ‘Mastah is ruined’. I said to her, ‘Evil is what you said. Are you reviling a man who has attended Badr?’ She said, ‘Yes, or have you not heard what he said?’ I said, ‘And what is that?’ She informed me with the words of the people of the lies, and it increased the illness to my illness.

فلما رجعت إلى منزلي دخل على رسول الله ص ثم قال كيف تيكم قلت‏ تأذن لي أن آتي أبوي قالت و أنا أريد أتيقن الخبر من قبله فأذن لي رسول الله فجئت أبوي و قلت لأمي يا أمه ما ذا يتحدث الناس فقالت أي بنية هوني عليك‏ فو الله لعل‏ ما كانت امرأة قط و صبية عند رجل يحبها و لها ضرائر إلا أكثرن عليها قلت سبحان الله أ و قد تحدث الناس‏ بهذا قالت نعم

When I returned to my house, I went to Rasool-Allah^-saww. Then he^-saww said: ‘How was your journey?’ I said, ‘Will you^-saww permit me to go to my parents?’ She said, ‘And I wanted to confirm the news from before him^-saww’. Rasool-Allah^-saww permitted me and I came to my parents and said to my mother, ‘O mother! What is that which the people are narrating?’ She said, ‘Yes, daughter, it is a disgrace upon you. By Allah^-azwj, perhaps there has not been any woman or child with a man he loved her, and there are harms with her, except it is more upon her’. I said, Glory be to Allah^-azwj! Are the people narrating this?’ She said, ‘Yes’.

فمكثت تلك الليلة حتى أصبحت لا يرقأ لي‏ دمع و لا أكتحل بنوم حتى أصبحت أبكي و دعا رسول الله ص أسامة بن زيد و علي بن أبي طالب عليه السلام حين استلبث‏ الوحي يستشيرهما في فراق أهله فأما أسامة فأشار على رسول الله ص بالذي علم من براءة أهله بالذي يعلم في نفسه من الود فقال يا رسول الله هم أهلك و لا نعلم إلا خيرا

I remained that night; I woke up in the morning, and my tears had not dried up, nor was I sleepy until the morning. I cried, and Rasool-Allah^-saww called Asama Bin Zayd and Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws when the Revelation was delayed, to consult them regarding the separation (divorcing) of his^-saww wives. As for Asama, he consulted unto Rasool-Allah^-saww by that which he knew from the innocence of his^-saww wives, by that which he knew within himself, of the cordiality. He said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! They are your^-saww family and we do not know except goodness’.

و أما علي بن أبي طالب عليه السلام فقال لم يضيق الله عليك و النساء سواها كثير و إن تسأل الجارية تصدقك فدعا رسول الله ص بريرة فقال يا بريرة هل رأيت شيئا يريبك من عائشة قالت بريرة و الذي بعثك بالحق إن رأيت عليها أمرا قط أغمصه عليها أكثر من أنها جارية حديثة السن تنام عن عجين أهلها

And as for Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws, he^-asws said: ‘Allah^-azwj has not Constrained upon you^-saww, and the women besides them are a lot, and if you^-saww were to ask the girl she would ratify you^-saww’. Rasool-Allah^-saww called Bureyrah and said: ‘O Bureyra! Have you seen anything you have seen from Ayesha?’ Bureyrah said, ‘By the One^-azwj Who Sent you^-saww with the Truth! If I see anything against her any matter at all, I would cover it upon her more than that, she is a girl of young age. She slept from the meal of her family’.

قالت و أنا و الله أعلم أني بريئة و ما كنت أظن أن ينزل في شأني وحي يتلى و لكني كنت أرجو أن يرى رسول الله ص رؤيا يبرئني الله بها فأنزل الله على نبيه و أخذه ما كان يأخذه من برحاء الوحي حتى أنه لينحدر عنه مثل الجمان من العرق و هو في اليوم الشاتي من القول الذي أنزل عليه

She (Ayesha) said, ‘And by Allah^-azwj, I knew I was innocent, and I did not do a thing that a Revelation would come regarding my matter to be recited, but I was hoping that Rasool-Allah^-saww would see a dream Allah^-azwj would Prove my innocence by it. Allah^-azwj Revealed unto His^-azwj Prophet^-saww, and it seized him^-saww what used to seize him^-saww from the climax of the Revelation until there rolled down from him^-saww like the pearls, from the perspiration, and he^-saww was during the day of various Words which had been Revealed upon him^-saww.

فلما سري عن رسول الله ص قال أبشري يا عائشة أما و الله فقد برأك الله فقالت أمي قومي إليه فقلت و الله لا أقوم إليه و لا أحمد إلا الله و هو الذي برأني فأنزل الله تعالى‏ إِنَّ الَّذِينَ جاؤُ بِالْإِفْكِ‏

When it was gone from Rasool-Allah^-saww, he^-saww said: ‘Receive glad tidings, O Ayesha! But by Allah^-azwj! Allah^-azwj has Proved your innocence’. My mother said, ‘Arise to go to him^-saww’. I said, ‘By Allah^-azwj! I will not arise to go to him^-saww, nor will I praise anyone except Allah^-azwj, and He^-azwj is the One^-azwj Who Proved my innocence’. Allah^-azwj the Exalted Revealed: Surely those who are coming with the falsehood [24:11].

فس، تفسير القمي قَوْلُهُ‏ إِنَّ الَّذِينَ جاؤُ بِالْإِفْكِ‏ إِنَّ الْعَامَّةَ رَوَتْ أَنَّهَا نَزَلَتْ فِي عَائِشَةَ وَ مَا رُمِيَتْ بِهِ فِي غَزْوَةِ بَنِي الْمُصْطَلِقِ مِنْ خُزَاعَةَ وَ أَمَّا الْخَاصَّةُ فَإِنَّهُمْ رَوَوْا أَنَّهَا نَزَلَتْ فِي مَارِيَةَ الْقِبْطِيَّةِ وَ مَا رَمَتْهَا بِهِ عَائِشَةُ

Tafseer Al-Qummi – His^-azwj Words: Surely those who are coming with the falsehood [24:11]. – ‘The general Muslims are reporting that it was Revealed regarding Ayesha and what she had been accused with during the military expedition of the clan of Al-Mustaliq, from Khuza’a; and as for the special ones (Shias), they are reporting that it was Revealed regarding Mariah Qibtiyya and what she had been accused with by Ayesha’’.[37]

وَ فِي تَفْسِيرِ النُّعْمَانِيِّ عَنْ أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ وَ مِنْهُ الْحَدِيثُ فِي أَمْرِ عَائِشَةَ وَ مَا رَمَاهَا بِهِ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ أَبِي سَلُولٍ‏ وَ حَسَّانُ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ وَ مِسْطَحُ بْنُ أُثَاثَةَ فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى‏ إِنَّ الَّذِينَ جاؤُ بِالْإِفْكِ‏ الْآيَةَ فَكُلَّمَا كَانَ مِنْ هَذَا وَ شِبْهِهِ فِي كِتَابِ اللَّهِ فَهُوَ مِمَّا تَأْوِيلُهُ قَبْلَ تَنْزِيلِهِ‏.

In Tafseer Al-Numani – ‘From Amir Al-Momineen^-asws, and from him^-asws is the Hadeeth regarding the matter of Ayesha, and what she had been accused with by Abdullah Bin Abu Salul, and Hassan Bin Sabit, and Mistah Bi Usasa, so Allah^-azwj the Exalted Revealed: Surely those who are coming with the falsehood [24:11] – the Verse. So, all of what was from this, and resembling it, in the Book of Allah^-azwj, it is from what its interpretation is before its Revelation’’.[38]

باب 20 غزوة الحديبية و بيعة الرضوان و عمرة القضاء و سائر الوقائع‏

CHAPTER 20 – MILITARY EXPEDITION OF AL-HUDAYBIYA AND THE ALLEGIANCE OF THE CONTENTMENT AND THE UMRAH OF ACCOMPLISHMENT AND THE REST OF THE EVENTS

الآيات البقرة وَ مَنْ أَظْلَمُ مِمَّنْ مَنَعَ مَساجِدَ اللَّهِ أَنْ يُذْكَرَ فِيهَا اسْمُهُ وَ سَعى‏ فِي خَرابِها أُولئِكَ ما كانَ لَهُمْ أَنْ يَدْخُلُوها إِلَّا خائِفِينَ‏

The Verses – (Surah) Al Baqarah: And who is more unjust than one who prevents (people from) the Masjids of Allah, that His Name be mentioned in them, and strives to ruin them? (As for) they, it was not for them that they should be entering them except fearing [2:114]

و قال سبحانه‏ وَ قاتِلُوا فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ الَّذِينَ يُقاتِلُونَكُمْ وَ لا تَعْتَدُوا إِنَّ اللَّهَ لا يُحِبُّ الْمُعْتَدِينَ

And the Glorious Said: And fight in the Way of Allah with those who fight with you, and do not be aggressive; surely Allah does not love the aggressors [2:190]

وَ اقْتُلُوهُمْ حَيْثُ ثَقِفْتُمُوهُمْ وَ أَخْرِجُوهُمْ مِنْ حَيْثُ أَخْرَجُوكُمْ وَ الْفِتْنَةُ أَشَدُّ مِنَ الْقَتْلِ وَ لا تُقاتِلُوهُمْ عِنْدَ الْمَسْجِدِ الْحَرامِ حَتَّى يُقاتِلُوكُمْ فِيهِ فَإِنْ قاتَلُوكُمْ فَاقْتُلُوهُمْ كَذلِكَ جَزاءُ الْكافِرِينَ

And kill them wherever you find them; and Fitna (the strife) is more severe than the killing; and do not kill them at the Sacred Masjid until they fight you in it; if they do fight you, then kill them. Like that is the recompense of the Kafireen (unbelievers) [2:191]

فَإِنِ انْتَهَوْا فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ غَفُورٌ رَحِيمٌ

But if they discontinue (the Fitna), then surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful [2:192]

وَ قاتِلُوهُمْ حَتَّى لا تَكُونَ فِتْنَةٌ وَ يَكُونَ الدِّينُ لِلَّهِ فَإِنِ انْتَهَوْا فَلا عُدْوانَ إِلَّا عَلَى الظَّالِمِينَ

And fight with them until there does not happen to be any Fitna (strife) and the Religion only happens to be for Allah. So if they do discontinue (Fitna), then there should not be hostility except upon the unjust ones [2:193]

الشَّهْرُ الْحَرامُ بِالشَّهْرِ الْحَرامِ وَ الْحُرُماتُ قِصاصٌ فَمَنِ اعْتَدى‏ عَلَيْكُمْ فَاعْتَدُوا عَلَيْهِ بِمِثْلِ مَا اعْتَدى‏ عَلَيْكُمْ وَ اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ وَ اعْلَمُوا أَنَّ اللَّهَ مَعَ الْمُتَّقِينَ‏

The Sacred Month with the sacred Month and the Sacred things are (subject to) retaliation; The one who assaults upon you, then assault upon him with the like of what he assaulted upon you; and fear Allah and know that Allah is with the fearing ones [2:194]

إلى قوله تعالى‏ وَ أَتِمُّوا الْحَجَّ وَ الْعُمْرَةَ لِلَّهِ فَإِنْ أُحْصِرْتُمْ فَمَا اسْتَيْسَرَ مِنَ الْهَدْيِ وَ لا تَحْلِقُوا رُؤُسَكُمْ حَتَّى يَبْلُغَ الْهَدْيُ مَحِلَّهُ‏

Up to the Words of the Exalted: And complete the Hajj and the Umrah for Allah; but if you are restricted, then whatever is easy from the offering; and do not shave your heads until the offering reaches its place [2:196]

المائدة يا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَيَبْلُوَنَّكُمُ اللَّهُ بِشَيْ‏ءٍ مِنَ الصَّيْدِ تَنالُهُ أَيْدِيكُمْ وَ رِماحُكُمْ لِيَعْلَمَ اللَّهُ مَنْ يَخافُهُ بِالْغَيْبِ فَمَنِ اعْتَدى‏ بَعْدَ ذلِكَ فَلَهُ عَذابٌ أَلِيمٌ‏ ‏

(Surah) Al Maidah: O you who believe! Allah will Try you with something from the hunting your hands and your spears can attain, so Allah can Know the one who fears Him in private. But the one who exceeds after that, for him would be a painful Punishment [5:94]

الأنفال‏ وَ ما لَهُمْ أَلَّا يُعَذِّبَهُمُ اللَّهُ وَ هُمْ يَصُدُّونَ عَنِ الْمَسْجِدِ الْحَرامِ وَ ما كانُوا أَوْلِياءَهُ إِنْ أَوْلِياؤُهُ إِلَّا الْمُتَّقُونَ وَ لكِنَّ أَكْثَرَهُمْ لا يَعْلَمُونَ‏

And (reason) is for them that Allah should not Punish them and they are hindering from the Sacred Masjid, and they were not its custodians? Surely, its custodians are only the pious ones, but most of them are not knowing [8:34]

الحج‏ إِنَّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا وَ يَصُدُّونَ عَنْ سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ وَ الْمَسْجِدِ الْحَرامِ الَّذِي جَعَلْناهُ لِلنَّاسِ سَواءً الْعاكِفُ فِيهِ وَ الْبادِ وَ مَنْ يُرِدْ فِيهِ بِإِلْحادٍ بِظُلْمٍ نُذِقْهُ مِنْ عَذابٍ أَلِيمٍ

(Surah) Al Hajj: Surely those who are committing Kufr and blocking from the Way of Allah and the Sacred Masjid which We Made it for the people to be equal therein, the dweller in it and the visitor, and the one who responds with the heresy, with injustice, We will Make him taste from the painful Punishment [22:25]

الفتح‏ إِنَّ الَّذِينَ يُبايِعُونَكَ إِنَّما يُبايِعُونَ اللَّهَ يَدُ اللَّهِ فَوْقَ أَيْدِيهِمْ فَمَنْ نَكَثَ فَإِنَّما يَنْكُثُ عَلى‏ نَفْسِهِ وَ مَنْ أَوْفى‏ بِما عاهَدَ عَلَيْهُ اللَّهَ فَسَيُؤْتِيهِ أَجْراً عَظِيماً

(Surah) Al Fat’h: Surely, those pledging allegiance to you are rather pledging their allegiances to Allah, the Hand of Allah being Above their hands. The one who breaks, is rather breaking against himself, and the one who fulfils with what Allah Covenanted upon him, would be Given a Mighty Recompense [48:10]

سَيَقُولُ لَكَ الْمُخَلَّفُونَ مِنَ الْأَعْرابِ شَغَلَتْنا أَمْوالُنا وَ أَهْلُونا فَاسْتَغْفِرْ لَنا يَقُولُونَ بِأَلْسِنَتِهِمْ ما لَيْسَ فِي قُلُوبِهِمْ قُلْ فَمَنْ يَمْلِكُ لَكُمْ مِنَ اللَّهِ شَيْئاً إِنْ أَرادَ بِكُمْ ضَرًّا أَوْ أَرادَ بِكُمْ نَفْعاً بَلْ كانَ اللَّهُ بِما تَعْمَلُونَ خَبِيراً

Those Bedouins who stayed behind will be saying to you, ‘Our wealth and our families pre-occupied us, therefore seek Forgiveness for us’. They are saying with their tongues what isn’t in their hearts. Say: ‘So who can control anything for you from Allah if He Intends harm with you or Intends benefit with you? But Allah would always be Aware with what you are doing’ [48:11]

بَلْ ظَنَنْتُمْ أَنْ لَنْ يَنْقَلِبَ الرَّسُولُ وَ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ إِلى‏ أَهْلِيهِمْ أَبَداً وَ زُيِّنَ ذلِكَ فِي قُلُوبِكُمْ وَ ظَنَنْتُمْ ظَنَّ السَّوْءِ وَ كُنْتُمْ قَوْماً بُوراً

But, you thought that the Rasool and the Momineen would never return to their families, ever, and that was adorned in your hearts, and you thought the evil thought, and you were a doomed people [48:12] 

وَ مَنْ لَمْ يُؤْمِنْ بِاللَّهِ وَ رَسُولِهِ فَإِنَّا أَعْتَدْنا لِلْكافِرِينَ سَعِيراً

And one who does not believe in Allah and His Rasool, so We have Prepared for the Kafirs, a Blazing Fire [48:13]

وَ لِلَّهِ مُلْكُ السَّماواتِ وَ الْأَرْضِ يَغْفِرُ لِمَنْ يَشاءُ وَ يُعَذِّبُ مَنْ يَشاءُ وَ كانَ اللَّهُ غَفُوراً رَحِيماً

And for Allah is the Kingdom of the skies and the earth. He Forgives one He so Desires to and Punishes one He so Desires to, and Allah was always Forgiving, Merciful [48:14] 

سَيَقُولُ الْمُخَلَّفُونَ إِذَا انْطَلَقْتُمْ إِلى‏ مَغانِمَ لِتَأْخُذُوها ذَرُونا نَتَّبِعْكُمْ يُرِيدُونَ أَنْ يُبَدِّلُوا كَلامَ اللَّهِ قُلْ لَنْ تَتَّبِعُونا كَذلِكُمْ قالَ اللَّهُ مِنْ قَبْلُ فَسَيَقُولُونَ بَلْ تَحْسُدُونَنا بَلْ كانُوا لا يَفْقَهُونَ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا

The ones staying behind would be saying to you when you go to spoils of war in order to take these, ‘Leave us to follow you’, intending to change the Speech of Allah. Say: ‘You will never follow us! Like that, Allah has Said from before’. They would be saying, ‘But you are envying us’. But they were not understanding except a little [48:15] 

قُلْ لِلْمُخَلَّفِينَ مِنَ الْأَعْرابِ سَتُدْعَوْنَ إِلى‏ قَوْمٍ أُولِي بَأْسٍ شَدِيدٍ تُقاتِلُونَهُمْ أَوْ يُسْلِمُونَ فَإِنْ تُطِيعُوا يُؤْتِكُمُ اللَّهُ أَجْراً حَسَناً وَ إِنْ تَتَوَلَّوْا كَما تَوَلَّيْتُمْ مِنْ قَبْلُ يُعَذِّبْكُمْ عَذاباً أَلِيماً

Say to those from the Bedouins who stayed behind, ‘You will be called to (fight) a people of extreme violence, to fight them or they submit. So if you obey, Allah would Give you an excellent Recompense, and if you turn back just as you had turned back beforehand, He would Punish you with a painful Punishment [48:16] 

لَيْسَ عَلَى الْأَعْمى‏ حَرَجٌ وَ لا عَلَى الْأَعْرَجِ حَرَجٌ وَ لا عَلَى الْمَرِيضِ حَرَجٌ وَ مَنْ يُطِعِ اللَّهَ وَ رَسُولَهُ يُدْخِلْهُ جَنَّاتٍ تَجْرِي مِنْ تَحْتِهَا الْأَنْهارُ وَ مَنْ يَتَوَلَّ يُعَذِّبْهُ عَذاباً أَلِيماً ‏

It isn’t upon the blind to go out, nor a blame upon the lame, nor a blame upon the sick ones. And one who obeys Allah and His Rasool, He would Enter him into Gardens with the rivers flowing beneath them, and one who turns back, He would Punish him with a painful Punishment [48:17]

لَقَدْ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ إِذْ يُبايِعُونَكَ تَحْتَ الشَّجَرَةِ فَعَلِمَ ما فِي قُلُوبِهِمْ فَأَنْزَلَ السَّكِينَةَ عَلَيْهِمْ وَ أَثابَهُمْ فَتْحاً قَرِيباً

Allah was Pleased from the Momineen when they pledged their allegiances to you under the tree, and He Knew what was in their hearts, so He Sent down the tranquillity upon them and Rewarded them with a near victory [48:18]

وَ مَغانِمَ كَثِيرَةً يَأْخُذُونَها وَ كانَ اللَّهُ عَزِيزاً حَكِيماً

And they would be taking many spoils of war, and Allah was always Mighty, Wise [48:19] 

وَعَدَكُمُ اللَّهُ مَغانِمَ كَثِيرَةً تَأْخُذُونَها فَعَجَّلَ لَكُمْ هذِهِ وَ كَفَّ أَيْدِيَ النَّاسِ عَنْكُمْ وَ لِتَكُونَ آيَةً لِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَ يَهْدِيَكُمْ صِراطاً مُسْتَقِيماً

Allah Promises you many spoils of war you would be taking, and He Hastened this one for you and Restrained the hands of the people from you, and for it to be a Sign for the Momineen and (for) Him to Guide you to a Straight Path [48:20]

إلى قوله تعالى الفتح‏ وَ لَوْ قاتَلَكُمُ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا لَوَلَّوُا الْأَدْبارَ ثُمَّ لا يَجِدُونَ وَلِيًّا وَ لا نَصِيراً

Up to His^-azwj Words of (Surah) Al Fat’h: And if those who commit Kufr were to fight you, they would turn their backs, then they will neither find a guardian nor a helper [48:22]

سُنَّةَ اللَّهِ الَّتِي قَدْ خَلَتْ مِنْ قَبْلُ وَ لَنْ تَجِدَ لِسُنَّةِ اللَّهِ تَبْدِيلًا

(This) is a Sunnah of Allah which has passed from before, and you will never find any changes in the Sunnah of Allah [48:23]

وَ هُوَ الَّذِي كَفَّ أَيْدِيَهُمْ عَنْكُمْ وَ أَيْدِيَكُمْ عَنْهُمْ بِبَطْنِ مَكَّةَ مِنْ بَعْدِ أَنْ أَظْفَرَكُمْ عَلَيْهِمْ وَ كانَ اللَّهُ بِما تَعْمَلُونَ بَصِيراً

And He is the One Who Restrained their hand from you, and your hands from them in the valley of Makkah from after your victory over them, and Allah was always Seeing with what you do [48:24] 

هُمُ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا وَ صَدُّوكُمْ عَنِ الْمَسْجِدِ الْحَرامِ وَ الْهَدْيَ مَعْكُوفاً أَنْ يَبْلُغَ مَحِلَّهُ وَ لَوْ لا رِجالٌ مُؤْمِنُونَ وَ نِساءٌ مُؤْمِناتٌ لَمْ تَعْلَمُوهُمْ أَنْ تَطَؤُهُمْ فَتُصِيبَكُمْ مِنْهُمْ مَعَرَّةٌ بِغَيْرِ عِلْمٍ لِيُدْخِلَ اللَّهُ فِي رَحْمَتِهِ مَنْ يَشاءُ لَوْ تَزَيَّلُوا لَعَذَّبْنَا الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا مِنْهُمْ عَذاباً أَلِيماً

They are those who committed Kufr and blocked you from the Sacred Masjid, and prevented the sacrificial animal to reach its place. And if the Momineen men and the Mominaat women, whom you did not know might have been trampled upon, then a harm might have afflicted you from them without knowledge – in order for Allah to Enter into His Mercy one He so Desires to. If they had been apart, We would have Punished those who committed Kufr from them with a painful Punishment [48:25]

إِذْ جَعَلَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا فِي قُلُوبِهِمُ الْحَمِيَّةَ حَمِيَّةَ الْجاهِلِيَّةِ فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ سَكِينَتَهُ عَلى‏ رَسُولِهِ وَ عَلَى الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَ أَلْزَمَهُمْ كَلِمَةَ التَّقْوى‏ وَ كانُوا أَحَقَّ بِها وَ أَهْلَها وَ كانَ اللَّهُ بِكُلِّ شَيْ‏ءٍ عَلِيماً

When those who committed Kufr made the fanaticism to be in their hearts, fanaticism of the (days of) ignorance, then Allah Sent down the tranquillity upon His Rasool and upon the Momineen and Necessitated the Word of piety for them, and they were deserving of it and rightful of it, and Allah was always Knowing of all things [48:26]

لَقَدْ صَدَقَ اللَّهُ رَسُولَهُ الرُّؤْيا بِالْحَقِّ لَتَدْخُلُنَّ الْمَسْجِدَ الْحَرامَ إِنْ شاءَ اللَّهُ آمِنِينَ مُحَلِّقِينَ رُؤُسَكُمْ وَ مُقَصِّرِينَ لا تَخافُونَ فَعَلِمَ ما لَمْ تَعْلَمُوا فَجَعَلَ مِنْ دُونِ ذلِكَ فَتْحاً قَرِيباً

Allah has Validated the dream of His Rasool with the Truth – You will be entering the Sacred Masjid in safety if Allah so Desires, your heads being shaven and (others) with hair-cut, not fearing. He Knows what you do not know, and He Made from besides that, a near victory [48:27]

الممتحنة يا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا إِذا جاءَكُمُ الْمُؤْمِناتُ مُهاجِراتٍ فَامْتَحِنُوهُنَّ اللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ بِإِيمانِهِنَّ فَإِنْ عَلِمْتُمُوهُنَّ مُؤْمِناتٍ فَلا تَرْجِعُوهُنَّ إِلَى الْكُفَّارِ لا هُنَّ حِلٌّ لَهُمْ وَ لا هُمْ يَحِلُّونَ لَهُنَّ وَ آتُوهُمْ ما أَنْفَقُوا وَ لا جُناحَ عَلَيْكُمْ أَنْ تَنْكِحُوهُنَّ إِذا آتَيْتُمُوهُنَّ أُجُورَهُنَّ وَ لا تُمْسِكُوا بِعِصَمِ الْكَوافِرِ وَ سْئَلُوا ما أَنْفَقْتُمْ وَ لْيَسْئَلُوا ما أَنْفَقُوا ذلِكُمْ حُكْمُ اللَّهِ يَحْكُمُ بَيْنَكُمْ وَ اللَّهُ عَلِيمٌ حَكِيمٌ

(Surah) Al Mumtahana: O you those who believe! When the Mominaat come emigrating to you, then test them. Allah is more Knowing of their Eman. Then if you know them to be Mominaat, do not return them to the Kafirs. Neither are these (women) Permissible for them (Kafirs), nor are they Permissible for these ones. And give them what they spent, and there is no blame upon you if you were to marry them, when you have given them their dowries, and do not hold on to the ties of marriage of the Kafir women, and ask for what you spent and let them ask for what they spent. That is the Decision of Allah, Deciding between you, and Allah is most Knowing, Wise [60:10]

وَ إِنْ فاتَكُمْ شَيْ‏ءٌ مِنْ أَزْواجِكُمْ إِلَى الْكُفَّارِ فَعاقَبْتُمْ فَآتُوا الَّذِينَ ذَهَبَتْ أَزْواجُهُمْ مِثْلَ ما أَنْفَقُوا وَ اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ الَّذِي أَنْتُمْ بِهِ مُؤْمِنُونَ‏

And if from your wives, anything is lost from you to the Kafirs, then you marry successively, so give those whose wives had gone away the like of what they had spent, and fear Allah Whom you are believing in [60:11]

وَ رُوِيَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ‏ أَنَّهُمْ قُرَيْشٌ حِينَ مَنَعُوا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص دُخُولَ مَكَّةَ وَ الْمَسْجِدِ الْحَرَامَ

And it is reported from Abu Abdullah^-asws: ‘They are Quraysh, when they prevented Rasool-Allah^-saww from entering Makkah and the Sacred Masjid’.

ثم قال رحمه الله قصة فتح الحديبية قال ابن عباس‏ إن رسول الله ص خرج يريد مكة فلما بلغ الحديبية وقفت ناقته و زجرها فلم تنزجر و بركت الناقة فقال أصحابه خلأت الناقة فقال ص ما هذا لها عادة و لكن حبسها حابس الفيل و دعا عمر بن الخطاب ليرسله إلى أهل مكة ليأذنوا له بأن يدخل مكة و يحل من عمرته و ينحر هديه

Then he said regarding the story of Al-Hudaybiya, ‘Ibn Abbas said, ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww went out intending Makkah. When he^-saww reached Al-Hudaybiya, his^-saww camel stood and he^-saww spurred it on, but it did not move, and the camel knelt. His^-saww companions said: ‘The camel is immovable’. He^-saww said: ‘This is not its habit, but the Withholder of the elephants has Withheld it’, and he^-saww called Umar Bin Al-Khattab and sent him to the people of Makkah in order to get permission for him^-saww to enter Makkah and permit from his^-as Umrah and sacrifice his^-saww offering.

فقال يا رسول الله ما لي بها حميم و إني أخاف قريشا لشدة عداوتي إياها و لكن أدلك على رجل هو أعز بها مني عثمان بن عفان فقال صدقت فدعا رسول الله ص عثمان فأرسله إلى أبي سفيان و أشراف قريش يخبرهم أنه لم يأت لحرب و إنما جاء زائرا لهذا البيت معظما لحرمته‏

He said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! There is no intimate one for me at it, and I fear Quraysh due to the intensity of my enmity towards it, but I shall point you^-saww to a man who is more honourable with it than I am, Usman Bin Affan’. He^-saww said: ‘You speak the truth’. Rasool-Allah^-saww called Usman and sent him to Abu Sufyan and the noblemen of Quraysh to inform them that he^-saww has not come for the war, and rather he^-saww has come as a visitor of this House (Kabah), revering its Sanctity.

فاحتبسته‏ قريش عندها فبلغ رسول الله ص و المسلمين أن عثمان قد قتل فقال ص لا نبرح حتى نناجز القوم فدعا الناس إلى البيعة فقام‏ رسول الله ص إلى الشجرة فاستند إليها و بايع الناس‏ على أن يقاتلوا المشركين و لا يفروا

Quraysh withheld him with them, and news reached Rasool-Allah^-saww and Muslims thought that Usman had been killed. He^-saww said: ‘Do not move until we accomplish the people (purpose)’. He^-saww called the people to the allegiance (renewal). Rasool-Allah^-saww stood by a tree and leaned towards it and the people pledged allegiance upon that they will neither fight the Polytheists nor flee.

قال عبد الله بن مغفل كنت قائما على رأس رسول الله ص ذلك اليوم و بيدي غصن من السمرة أذب عنه و هو يبايع الناس فلم يبايعهم على الموت و إنما بايعهم على أن لا يفروا

Abdullah bin Magfal said, ‘I was standing by the head of Rasool-Allah^-saww on that day and in my hand was a branch of the tree flicking (insects) away from him^-saww, and he^-saww was taking allegiances of the people. They did not pledge their allegiance upon the death, and rather they pledged their allegiance that they will not flee.

و روى الزهري و عروة بن الزبير و المسور بن مخرمة قالوا خرج رسول الله ص من المدينة في بضع عشرة مائة من أصحابه حتى إذا كانوا بذي الحليفة قلد رسول الله ص الهدي و أشعره و أحرم بالعمرة و بعث بين يديه عينا له من خزاعة يخبره عن قريش

And it is reported by Al-Zuhry and Urwah Bin Al-Zubeyr and Al-Masour Bin Makhrama said, ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww went out from Al-Medina among ten hundreds of his^-saww companions until when they were at Zul Huleyfa. Rasool-Allah^-saww collared the sacrificial animal and marked it, and wore Ihraam for the Umrah, and sent in front of him^-saww, a spy of his^-saww from Khuzaie to inform him^-saww about Quraysh.

و سار رسول الله ص حتى إذا كان بغدير الأشطاط قريبا من عسفان أتاه عينه الخزاعي فقال إني تركت كعب بن لؤي و عامر بن لؤي قد جمعوا لك الأحابيش و جمعوا لك جموعا و هم قاتلوك أو مقاتلوك و صادوك عن البيت

And Rasool-Allah^-saww travelled until when he^-saww was at Ghadeer, nearby were tents near Asfan, his^-saww informer Al-Khuzaie came to him. He said, ‘I left Ka’ab Bin Lawy and Aamir Bin Lawy. They have gathered the Ethiopians and the crowds for fighting you^-saww, and they are thinking of killing you^-saww or your^-saww fighters, and blocking you^-saww from the House (Kabah)’.

فقال ص روحوا فراحوا حتى إذا كانوا ببعض الطريق قال النبي ص إن خالد بن الوليد بالغميم في خيل القريش‏ طليعة فخذوا ذات اليمين و سار ص حتى إذا كان بالثنية بركت راحلته فقال ص ما خلأت القصوى‏ و لكن حبسها حابس الفيل

He^-saww said: ‘Go ahead!’ They went ahead until when they were in one of the roads, the Prophet^-saww said: ‘Khalid Bin Al-Waleed is with the white turban among the cavalry of Quraysh at the forefront, so take to the right!’ And he^-saww travelled until, when he^-saww at the mountain pass, his^-saww camel knelt. He^-saww said: ‘The camel has not given up, but the Withholder of the elephants has Withheld it’.

ثم قال و الله لا يسألوني‏ خطة يعظمون فيها حرمات الله‏ إلا أعطيتهم إياها ثم زجرها فوثبت به

Then he^-saww said: ‘By Allah^-azwj! They will not ask me^-saww for any plan they would be revering in it the Sanctity of Allah^-azwj except I^-saww shall grant it to them’. Then he^-saww spurred it on and it leapt with him^-saww.

قال فعدل حتى نزل بأقصى الحديبية على ثمد قليل الماء إنما يتبرضه الناس تبرضا فشكوا إليه العطش فانتزع سهما من كنانته ثم أمرهم أن يجعلوه في الماء فو الله ما زال يجيش لهم بالري حتى صدروا عنه

He said, ‘Then he amended course until he^-saww descended by the outskirts of Al-Hudaybiya at a spring of little water, but rather the people had covered it with a covering. They complained to him^-saww of the thirst, so he^-saww removed his^-saww arrow from his^-saww quiver, then instructed them that they should make it to be in the water. By Allah^-azwj! It did not cease to overflow with water until they were saturated with it.

فبينما هم كذلك إذ جاءهم بديل بن ورقاء الخزاعي في نفر من خزاعة و كانوا عيبة نصح رسول الله ص من أهل تهامة فقال إني تركت كعب بن لؤي و عامر بن لؤي و معهم العوذ المطافيل و هم مقاتلوك و صادوك عن البيت

While they were like that when Badeel Bin Warqa Al-Khuzaie came among a number of (clan of) Khuza’a, and they used to fault the advice of Rasool-Allah^-saww from the people of Tahama. He said: ‘I left behind Ka’ab bin Lawy and Aamir Bin Lawy, and with them were the enthusiastic fighters, and they would be fighting you^-saww and blocking you^-saww from the House (Kabah)’.

فقال رسول الله ص إنا لم نجئ لقتال أحد و لكنا جئنا معتمرين و إن قريشا قد نهكتهم الحرب و أضرت بهم فإن شاءوا ماددتهم مدة و يخلوا بيني و بين الناس و إن شاءوا أن يدخلوا فيما دخل فيه الناس فعلوا و إلا فقد جموا و إن أبوا فو الذي نفسي بيده لأقاتلنهم على أمري هذا حتى تنفرد سالفتي أو لينفذن الله تعالى أمره

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘We did not come for fighting anyone, but we have come to perform Umrah, and that Quraysh have been fatigued by the war, and have been struck by them (Muslims), so if they like they can help them with a help, and free the way between me^-saww and the people, and if they like they can enter them (Muslims) to be among what the people enter into, they can do so, or else they (Muslims) have already gathered, and if they refuse, then by the One^-azwj in Whose Hand is my^-saww soul, I^-saww will fight them upon this matter of mine^-saww until my^-saww predecessors are isolated or Allah^-azwj the Exalted Implements His^-azwj Command’.

فقال بديل سأبلغهم ما تقول فانطلق حتى أتى قريشا فقال إنا قد جئناكم من عند هذا الرجل و إنه يقول كذا و كذا فقام عروة بن مسعود الثقفي فقال إنه قد عرض عليكم خطة رشد فاقبلوها و دعوني آته فقالوا ائته فأتاه فجعل يكلم النبي ص و قال له رسول الله ص نحوا من قوله لبديل

Badeel said, ‘I shall deliver to them what you^-saww are saying’. He went until he came to Quraysh and said, ‘I have come to you from the presence of this man, and he^-saww is saying such and such’. Urwa Bin Masoud Al-Saqafy stood up and said, ‘He^-saww has presented to you a righteous place, so accept it and leave me to go to him^-saww’. They said, ‘Go to him^-saww’. So, he went on to speak to the Prophet^-saww, and Rasool-Allah^-saww said to him, approximately, from his^-saww words of Badeel.

فقال عروة عند ذلك أي محمد أ رأيت إن استأصلت قومك هل سمعت بأحد من العرب اجتاح‏ أصله قبلك و إن تكن الأخرى فو الله إني لأرى وجوها و أرى أوباشا من الناس خلقا أن يفروا و يدعوك فقال له أبو بكر امصص بظر اللات‏ أ نحن نفر عنه و ندعه فقال من ذا قالوا أبو بكر قال أما و الذي نفسي بيده لو لا يد كانت لك عندي لم أجزك‏ بها لأجبتك

Urwah said during that, ‘Yes Muhammad^-saww! If your^-saww people are eradicated, have you^-saww heard anyone from the Arabs ravage his own origins? And if you^-saww become the other, then by Allah^-azwj, I see its aspect and I see the youths of the people as being such people that they would flee and leave you^-saww’. Abu Bakr said to him, ‘(Obscenity)! Would we flee from him^-saww and leave him^-saww?’ He said, ‘What is this Abu Bakr talking about?’ He said, ‘But, by the One^-azwj in Whose Hand in my soul! Had it not been for a favour for you which was with me, I would not have allowed you with it. I would answer you’.

قال و جعل يكلم النبي ص و كلما كلمه أخذ بلحيته و المغيرة بن شعبة قائم على رأس النبي ص و معه السيف و عليه المغفر فكلما أهوى عروة بيده إلى لحية رسول الله ص ضرب يده بنعل السيف و قال أخر يدك عن لحية رسول الله ص قبل أن لا ترجع إليك

He said, ‘And he went on to speak with the Prophet^-saww, and every time he spoke, he grabbed his^-saww beard, and Al-Mugheira Bin Sa’aba was standing by the head of the Prophet^-saww and with him was the sword, and upon him was the helmet. So, every time his bare hand overcame to the beard of Rasool-Allah^-saww, he struck his hand with the base of the sword and said, ‘Delay your hand from the beard of Rasool-Allah^-saww before it does not return to you!’

فقال من هذا قالوا المغيرة بن شعبة قال‏ أي غدر أ و لست أسعى في غدرتك‏ قال و كان المغيرة صحب قوما في الجاهلية فقتلهم و أخذ أموالهم ثم جاء فأسلم فقال النبي ص أما الإسلام فقد قبلنا و أما المال فإنه مال غدر لا حاجة لنا فيه

He^-saww said: ‘What is this Al-Mugheira Bin Sa’ba saying?’ He said, ‘Yes, treachery, and I do not seek treachery in you^-saww’. And Al-Mugheira had accompanied a group during the pre-Islamic period and had killed them, and seized their wealth, then had come and become a Muslim. The Prophet^-saww said: ‘As for Al-Islam, we accept, and as for the wealth, it is wealth of treachery; there is no need for us regarding it’.

ثم إن عروة جعل يرمق صحابة النبي ص‏ إذا أمرهم رسول الله ص ابتدروا أمره و إذا توضأ ثاروا يقتتلون على وضوئه و إذا تكلموا خفضوا أصواتهم عنده و ما يحدون إليه النظر تعظيما له

Then Urwah went on to survey the companions of the Prophet^-saww, when Rasool-Allah^-saww ordered them, and they rushed to his^-saww orders, and when they had performed Wudu they came fighting upon (assisting him^-saww) to perform his^-saww Wuduu, and whenever they spoke, they lowered their voiced in his^-saww presence, and they were not raising their gaze at him^-saww in reverence to him^-saww.

قال فرجع عروة إلى أصحابه و قال أي قوم و الله لقد وفدت على الملوك و وفدت على قيصر و كسرى و النجاشي و الله إن رأيت ملكا قط يعظمه أصحابه ما يعظم أصحاب محمد محمدا إذا أمرهم ابتدروا أمره و إذا توضأ كادوا يقتتلون على وضوئه و إذا تكلموا خفضوا أصواتهم عنده و ما يحدون إليه النظر تعظيما له و إنه قد عرض عليكم خطة رشد فاقبلوها

He said, ‘Urwa returned to his companions and said, ‘By Allah^-azwj! Which people had you delegate me to, and I have been delegated to Caesar and Chosroe and Al-Najashy. By Allah^-azwj! I have not seen any king being revered by his companions like the companions of Muhammad^-saww revering Muhammad^-saww. When he^-saww orders them, they rush to his^-saww command, and when he^-saww performs Wuduu, they almost kill each other upon his^-saww Wuduu, and when they speak they lower their voices in his^-saww presence, and they are not raising their gaze towards him^-saww in reverence to him^-saww, and he^-saww has presented to you all a righteous plan, accept it!’.

فقال رجل من بني كنانة دعوني آته فقال‏ ائته فلما أشرف عليهم قال رسول الله ص هذا فلان و هو من قوم يعظمون البدن فابعثوها فبعثت له و استقبله القوم يلبون فلما رأى ذلك قال‏ سبحان الله ما ينبغي لهؤلاء أن يصدوا عن البيت

A man from the clan of Kanana said, ‘Leave me to go to him^-saww’. He said, ‘Go to him^-saww’. When he looked upon them, Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘This is so and so, and he is from a people who are revering the sacrificial offerings, so send it’. They sent it to him, and the people welcomed him, exclaiming Talbiyya. When he saw that, he said, ‘Glory be to Allah^-azwj! It is not befitting that they should be blocked from the House (Kabah)’.

فقام رجل‏ منهم يقال له مكرز بن حفص فقال دعوني آته فقالوا ائته فلما أشرف عليهم قال النبي ص هذا مكرز و هو رجل فاجر فجعل يكلم النبي ص فبينا هو يكلمه إذ جاء سهيل بن عمرو فقال ص قد سهل الله عليكم أمركم فقال اكتب بيننا و بينك كتابا

A man from them called Makraz Bin Hafs stood up and said, ‘Leave me, I will go to him^-saww’. They said, ‘Go to him’. When he looked upon them, the Prophet^-saww said: ‘This is Makraz, and he is an immoral man. He went on to speak to the Prophet^-saww. While he was speaking to Him^-azwj, when Suheyl Bin Amro came, so he^-saww said: ‘Allah^-azwj has Eased your matter upon you all!’ He said, ‘Write out an agreement between us and you^-saww’.

فدعا رسول الله ص علي بن أبي طالب عليه السلام فقال له اكتب بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم فقال سهيل أما الرحمن فو الله ما أدري ما هو و لكن اكتب باسمك اللهم فقال المسلمون و الله لا نكتبها إلا بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

Rasool-Allah^-saww called Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws and said to him^-asws: ‘Write, ‘In the Name of Allah^-azwj the Beneficent, the Merciful’. Suheyl said, ‘As for the Beneficent, so by Allah^-azwj, I do not know who He^-azwj is. But write, ‘In Your^-azwj Name, O God^-azwj’. The Muslims said, ‘By Allah^-azwj! We will not write it except as ‘In the Name of Allah^-azwj the Beneficent, the Merciful’’.

فقال النبي ص اكتب باسمك اللهم هذا ما قاضى‏ عليه محمد رسول الله ص فقال سهيل لو كنا نعلم أنك رسول الله ما صددناك عن البيت و لا قاتلناك و لكن اكتب محمد بن عبد الله فقال النبي ص إني لرسول الله و إن كذبتموني

The Prophet^-saww said: ‘Write, ‘In Your^-azwj Name, O God^-azwj! This is what is decided between Muhammad^-saww, Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj’. Suheyl said, ‘If we knew that you^-saww are a Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj, we would not block you^-saww from the House (Kabah), nor fight against you^-saww. But write, ‘Muhammad^-saww Bin Abdullah^-asws’. The Prophet^-saww said: ‘I^-saww am a Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj, and even if you are belying me^-saww.

ثم قال لعلي عليه السلام امح رسول الله فقال يا رسول الله إن يدي لا تنطلق بمحو اسمك من النبوة فأخذه رسول الله ص فمحاه ثم قال اكتب هذا ما قاضى عليه‏ محمد بن عبد الله‏ سهيل بن عمرو و اصطلحا على وضع الحرب عن الناس عشر سنين يأمن فيهن الناس و يكف بعضهم عن بعض و على أنه من قدم مكة من أصحاب محمد حاجا أو معتمرا أو يبتغي من فضل الله فهو آمن على دمه و ماله

Then he^-saww said to Ali^-asws: ‘Delete ‘Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj’’. He^-asws said: ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! My^-asws hand cannot move in deletion of your^-saww name from the Prophet-hood’. So, Rasool-Allah^-saww took it and deleted it. Then he^-saww said: ‘Write, ‘This is what has been decided upon by Muhammad^-saww, son of Abdullah^-asws and Suheyl Bin Amro, and reconciling upon that the war be placed (suspended) from the people for ten years, during which the people would be safe and restrain from each other, and upon that the one from the companions of Muhammad^-saww who arrives at Makkah for a need, or to perform Umrah, or seeking from the Grace of Allah^-azwj, there would be safety upon his blood, and his wealth.

و من قدم المدينة من قريش مجتازا إلى مصر أو الشام فهو آمن على دمه و ماله فإن بيننا عيبة مكفوفة و أنه لا إسلال و لا إغلال و أنه من أحب أن يدخل في عقد محمد و عهده دخل فيه و من أحب أن يدخل في عقد قريش و عهدهم دخل فيه

And the one from Quraysh who arrives at Al-Medina going to Egypt or Syria, there would be safety upon his blood, and his wealth, for between us there are blinded faults, and there will neither be any chains nor any shackles, and the one who likes to enter into a pact of Muhammad^-saww and his^-saww covenant can enter into it, and the one who likes to enter into a pact of Quraysh and their covenants can enter into it.

فتواثبت خزاعة فقالوا نحن في عقد محمد و عهده و تواثبت بنو بكر فقالوا نحن في عقد قريش و عهدهم فقال رسول الله ص على أن يخلو بيننا و بين البيت فنطوف فقال سهيل و الله ما تتحدث العرب أنا أخذنا ضغطة و لكن ذلك من العام المقبل فكتب

The (clan of) Khuza’a leapt and said, ‘We are in a pact of Muhammad^-saww and his^-saww covenant’, and the clan of Bakr said, ‘We are in a pact of Quraysh and their covenant’. Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Upon that they would free the way between us and the House (Kabah), so we can perform Tawaaf’. Suheyl said, ‘By Allah^-azwj! The Arabs will not get to narrate that we were seized under pressure. But that will be from the next year’. Thus, it was written.

فقال سهيل على أنه لا يأتيك منا رجل و إن كان على دينك إلا رددته إلينا و من جاءنا ممن معك لم نرده عليك فقال المسلمون سبحان الله كيف يرد إلى المشركين و قد جاء مسلما فقال رسول الله ص من جاءهم منا فأبعده الله و من جاءنا منهم رددناه إليهم فلو علم الله الإسلام من قلبه جعل له مخرجا

Suheyl said, ‘Upon that no man from us will come to you^-saww and even if he was upon your^-saww Religion except you^-saww will return him to us, and the one who is with you^-saww comes to us, we will not return him to you^-saww’. The Muslims said, ‘Glory be to Allah^-azwj! How can he return to the Polytheists and he has become a Muslim?’ Rasool-Allah^-saww said:’ The one from us who goes to them, Allah^-azwj would Distance him, and the one from them who comes to us, we shall return him to them, for it, Allah^-azwj Knows Al-Islam from his heart, will Make a way out to be for him’.

فقال سهيل و على أنك ترجع عنا عامك هذا فلا تدخل علينا مكة فإذا كان عام قابل خرجنا عنها لك فدخلتها بأصحابك فأقمت بها ثلاثا و لا تدخلها بالسلاح إلا السيوف في القراب و سلاح الراكب و على أن هذا الهدي حيث ما حبسناه محله لا تقدمه علينا

Suheyl said, ‘And upon that you^-saww will return from us this year and will not enter Makkah upon us. When it will be the next year, we shall go out from it for you, and you^-saww can enter it with your^-saww companions, and you can stay at it for three (days), and you^-saww will not enter it with the weapons except for the swords in the sheaths, and the weapons of the riders; and upon that this sacrificial animal will be where we withhold it in its place, will not be brought forwards to us’.

فقال ص نحن نسوق و أنتم تردون فبينا هم كذلك إذ جاء أبو جندل بن سهيل بن عمرو يرسف في قيوده قد خرج من أسفل مكة حتى رمى بنفسه بين أظهر المسلمين فقال سهيل هذا يا محمد أول ما أقاضيك عليه أن ترده فقال النبي ص إنا لم‏ نرض بالكتاب بعد قال و الله إذا لا أصالحك على‏ شي‏ء أبدا

He^-saww said: ‘We are ushering and you are returning’. While they were like that, Abu Jandal Bin Suheyl Bin Amro came lingering in his seat. He had come out from the bottom of Makkah until he threw himself in the middle of the Muslims. Suheyl said, ‘O Muhammad^-saww! This is the first of what I am letting you decide upon him, that you^-saww return him’. The Prophet^-saww said: ‘We will not agree with the agreement afterwards’. He said, ‘Then I shall not reconcile with you^-saww upon anything, ever!’

فقال النبي ص فأجره‏ لي قال ما أنا بمجيره لك قال بلى فافعل قال ما أنا بفاعل قال مكرز بلى قد أجرناه قال أبو جندل بن سهيل معاشر المسلمين أرد إلى المشركين و قد جئت مسلما أ لا ترون ما قد لقيت‏ و كان قد عذب عذابا شديدا

The Prophet^-saww said: ‘Hire him^-saww to me’. He said, ‘I will not hire him to you^-saww’. He^-saww said: ‘Do it’. He said, ‘I will not do it’. Makraz said, ‘Yes we have employed him’. Abu Jandal Bin Suheyl said, ‘Community of Muslims! I shall return to the Polytheists. I have come to you as a Muslim. Do you not see what I am facing? and he had been tormented with severe punishments.

فقال عمر بن الخطاب و الله ما شككت منذ أسلمت إلا يومئذ فأتيت النبي ص فقلت أ لست نبي الله قال بلى قلت أ لسنا على الحق و عدونا على الباطل قال بلى قلت فلم نعطي الدنية في ديننا إذا قال إني رسول الله و لست أعصيه و هو ناصري

Umar Bin Al-Khattab said, ‘By Allah^-azwj! I did not doubt since I became a Muslim, except on that day. I came to the Prophet^-saww and said, ‘Aren’t you^-saww a Prophet^-saww of Allah^-azwj?’ He^-saww said: ‘Yes’. I said, ‘Aren’t we upon the Truth and our enemies upon the falsehood?’ He^-saww said: ‘Yes’. I said, ‘Why are we given the lowliness in our Religion then?’ He^-saww said: ‘I^-saww am Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj, and I^-saww will not disobey Him^-azwj, and He^-azwj is my^-saww Helper’.

قلت أ و لست تحدثنا أنا سنأتي البيت و نطوف حقا قال بلى أ فأخبرتك أنا نأتيه‏ العام قلت لا قال فإنك تأتيه و تطوف به فنحر رسول الله ص بدنة و دعا بحالقه فحلق شعره ثم جاءه نسوة مؤمنات فأنزل الله تعالى‏ يا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا إِذا جاءَكُمُ الْمُؤْمِناتُ مُهاجِراتٍ‏ الآية

I said, ‘Or didn’t you^-saww narrate to us that we shall be going to the House (Kabah) and perform Tawaaf as a right?’ He^-saww said: ‘Yes, but did I^-saww inform you that we will be going to it this year?’ I said, ‘No’. He^-saww said: ‘You will be going to it and performing Tawaaf with it’. Rasool-Allah^-saww slaughtered his^-saww sacrificial animal and called for a barber. He shaved his^-saww head. Then the believing women came, and Allah^-azwj the Exalted Revealed: O you those who believe! When the Mominaat come emigrating to you, [60:10] – the Verse.

قال محمد بن إسحاق بن بشار و حدثني بريدة بن سفيان عن محمد بن كعب‏ أن كاتب رسول الله ص في هذا الصلح كان علي بن أبي طالب عليه السلام فقال له رسول الله ص اكتب هذا ما صالح عليه محمد بن عبد الله سهيل بن عمرو فجعل علي عليه السلام يتلكأ و يأبى أن يكتب إلا محمد رسول الله ص

Muhammad Bin Is’haq Bin Bashar said, ‘And it is narrated to me by Bureyda Bin Sufyan, from Muhammad Bin Ka’ab, ‘The scribe of Rasool-Allah^-saww in this treaty was Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws. Rasool-Allah^-saww said to him^-asws: ‘Write, ‘This is what Muhammad^-saww, son of Abdullah^-asws has reconciled upon with Suheyl Bin Amro’. But Ali^-asws went on to delay and refused to write except, ‘Muhammad^-saww Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj’.

فقال رسول الله ص فإن لك مثلها تعطيها و أنت مضطهد فكتب ما قالوا ثم رجع رسول الله ص إلى المدينة فجاءه أبو بصير رجل من قريش و هو مسلم فأرسلوا في طلبه رجلين فقالوا العهد الذي جعلت لنا فدفعه إلى الرجلين فخرجا به حتى بلغا ذا الحليفة فنزلوا يأكلون‏ من تمر لهم

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘For you^-asws is its example. You^-asws will give it and you^-asws are under compulsion’. He^-asws wrote whatever they said. Then Rasool-Allah^-saww returned to Al-Medina, and there came to him^-saww Abu Baseer, a man from Quraysh, and he was a Muslim, and they (Quraysh) sent two men to search for him. They said, ‘The agreement which had been made to us, hand it over to the two men’. They went out with it until they reached Zul Huleyfa, and they descended eating from the dates of theirs.

فقال أبو بصير لأحد الرجلين إني لأرى سيفك هذا جيدا فاستله‏ و قال أجل إنه لجيد و جربت به ثم جربت فقال أبو بصير أرني أنظر إليه فأمكنه منه فضربه به حتى برد و فر الآخر حتى بلغ المدينة فدخل المسجد يعدو فقال رسول الله ص حين رآه لقد رأى هذا ذعرا

Abu Baseer said to one of the two men, ‘I see this sword of yours to be new, so unsheathe it’. And he said, ‘Yes, and it is new, and it has been tested, then tested’. Abu Baseer said, ‘Show me, I want to look at it’. He enabled him to use it, and he struck him with it until he died, and the other one fled until he reached Al-Medina and entered the Masjid being chased. Rasool-Allah^-saww said when he^-saww saw him: ‘This one has seen fear’.

فلما انتهى إلى النبي ص قال قتل و الله صاحبي و إني لمقتول قال فجاء أبو بصير فقال يا نبي‏ الله قد أوفى الله ذمتك و رددتني إليهم ثم أنجاني الله منهم فقال النبي ص ويل أمه مسعر حرب لو كان له أحد فلما سمع ذلك عرف أنه سيرده إليهم

When he ended up to the Prophet^-saww, he said, ‘By Allah^-azwj! My companions have been killed, and I will (also) be killed’. Abu Baseer came and said, ‘O Prophet^-saww of Allah^-azwj! Allah^-azwj has Fulfilled your^-saww responsibility, and return me to them, then Allah^-azwj will Rescue me from them’. The Prophet^-saww said: ‘Woe be unto his mother igniting him for war, if there was anyone for him’. When he heard that, he realised that he^-saww would be returning him to them.

فخرج حتى أتى سيف البحر و انفلت منهم أبو جندل بن سهيل فلحق بأبي بصير فلا يخرج من قريش رجل قد أسلم إلا لحق بأبي بصير حتى اجتمعت‏ عليه عصابة قال فو الله لا يسمعون بعير لقريش قد خرجت إلى الشام إلا اعترضوا لها فقتلوهم و أخذوا أموالهم

He went out until he came to the edge of the sea, and Abu Jandal Bin Suheyl escaped from them and joined up with Abu Baseer. No man from Quraysh who had become a Muslims came out except he joined up with Abu Baseer until a group gathered upon it. By Allah^-azwj! They had not heard of any caravan of Quraysh that had gone out to Syria except that they presented to it, killed them, and seized their wealth.

فأرسلت قريش إلى النبي ص تناشده الله و الرحم لما أرسل إليهم فمن أتاه منهم فهو آمن فأرسل ص إليهم فأتوه‏

Quraysh sent a message to the Prophet^-saww adjuring him^-saww with Allah^-azwj and the relationships to send a message to them, whoever from them comes to him^-saww would be safe’. He^-saww sent to them, and they came to him^-saww’.

ثم قال رحمه الله في ذكر عمرة القضاء و كذلك جرى الأمر في عمرة القضاء في السنة التالية للحديبية و هي سنة سبع من الهجرة في ذي القعدة و هو الشهر الذي صده فيه المشركون عن المسجد الحرام فخرج النبي ص و دخل مكة مع أصحابه معتمرين و أقاموا بمكة ثلاثة أيام ثم رجعوا إلى المدينة.

Then he said, mentioning the expired Umrah, ‘And like that flowed the matter regarding the expired Umrah during the next year of Al-Hudaybiya, and it is the seventh year from the Emigration during Zil Qadah, and it is the month during which the Polytheists had blocked him^-saww from the Sacred Masjid. The Prophet^-saww went out with his^-saww companions as pilgrims of Umrah, and they stayed at Makkah for three days, then returned to Al-Medina’.

و عن الزهري قال‏ بعث رسول الله ص جعفر بن أبي طالب بين يديه إلى‏ ميمونة بنت الحارث العامرية فخطبها ص فجعلت أمرها إلى العباس بن عبد المطلب و كانت تحته أختها أم الفضل بنت الحارث فزوجها العباس من رسول الله ص فلما قدم رسول الله ص أمر أصحابه فقال اكشفوا عن المناكب و اسعوا في الطواف ليرى المشركون جلدهم و قوتهم

And from Al-Zuhry who said, ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww sent Ja’far^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws in front of him^-saww to Maymuna Bint Al-Haris Al-Amiriya and he^-saww proposed to her. She made her matter to Al-Abbas (adopted) son of Abdul Muttalib^-asws, and her sister Umm Al-Fazl Bint Al-Haris was married to him. Al-Abbas got her married to Rasool-Allah^-saww. When Rasool-Allah^-saww brought forward the matter of his^-saww companions, he said, ‘Remove the (clothes) from the shoulders and let them sprint in performing the Tawaaf to show the Polytheists their skins and their strength’.

فاستكف أهل مكة الرجال و النساء و الصبيان ينظرون إلى رسول الله ص و أصحابه و هم يطوفون بالبيت و عبد الله بن رواحة يرتجز بين يدي رسول الله متوشحا بالسيف يقول‏

The people of Makkah, the men and the women and the children, stopped looking at Rasool-Allah^-saww and his^-saww companions, and they were performing Tawaaf of the House (Kabah), and Abdullah Bin Rawha was reciting rhetoric in front of Rasool-Allah^-saww, wearing the sword, saying (a poem),

خلوا بني الكفار عن سبيله		قد أنزل الرحمن في تنزيله
في صحف تتلى على رسوله		اليوم نضربكم على تأويله
كما ضربناكم على تنزيله		ضربا يزيل الهام عن مقيله
و يذهل الخليل عن خليله		يا رب إني مؤمن بقيله
إني رأيت الحق في قبوله

‘The sons of Kafirs have freed the way from him^-saww; the Beneficent has Revealed in His^-azwj Revelation in Parchments being recited to His^-azwj Rasool^-saww. Today we are striking you upon its interpretation just as we had struck you upon its Revelation, strikes removing the worries from its speaker, and the friend is amazed from his friend. O Lord^-azwj! I am a believer in his^-saww words, I see the Truth in accepting him^-saww’.

و يشير بيده إلى رسول الله ص و أنزل الله في تلك العمرة الشَّهْرُ الْحَرامُ بِالشَّهْرِ الْحَرامِ‏ و هو أن رسول الله ص اعتمر في الشهر الحرام الذي صد فيه‏

And he pointed by his hand towards Rasool-Allah^-saww, and Allah^-azwj Revealed regarding that Umrah: The Sacred Month with the sacred Month [2:194], and it is that Rasool-Allah^-saww had performed Umrah during the Sacred month in which he^-saww had been blocked from it (the year before)’.

و قال‏ في قوله تعالى‏ إِذا جاءَكُمُ الْمُؤْمِناتُ مُهاجِراتٍ‏ قال ابن عباس صالح رسول الله ص بالحديبية مشركي مكة على أن من أتاه من أهل مكة رده عليهم و من أتى أهل مكة من أصحاب رسول الله ص فهو لهم و لم يردوه عليه و كتبوا بذلك كتابا و ختموا عليه

And he said regarding the Words of the Exalted: O you those who believe! When the Mominaat come emigrating to you [60:10], Ibn Abbas said, ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww reconciled at Al-Hudaybiyya with the Polytheists of Makkah upon that the one from the people of Makkah who comes to him, he^-saww would return him to them, and the one from the companions of Muhammad^-saww who comes to the people of Makkah, he would be for them and will not return him to him^-saww, and an agreement was written with that, and they agreed upon it.

فجاءت سبيعة بنت الحارث الأسلمية مسلمة بعد الفراغ من الكتاب و النبي ص بالحديبية فأقبل زوجها مسافر من بني مخزوم و قال مقاتل هو صيفي بن الراهب في طلبها و كان كافرا فقال يا محمد اردد علي امرأتي فإنك قد شرطت لنا أن ترد علينا من أتاك منا و هذه طينة الكتاب لم تجف بعد

Sabia Bint Al-Haris Al-Aslamiya came as a Muslim after the conclusion from the agreement, and the Prophet^-saww was at Al-Hudaybiya. Her husband came travelling from the clan of Makhzum, and Maqatil said, ‘He is Sayfi Bin Al-Rahib’, in seeking her, and he was a Kafir. He said, ‘O Muhammad^-saww! Return my wife to me for you^-saww have stipulated to us that you^-saww will return to us the one who comes to you^-saww, and this is an essence of the agreement (the ink of) which has not even dried up yet’.

فنزلت الآية يا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا إِذا جاءَكُمُ الْمُؤْمِناتُ مُهاجِراتٍ‏ من دار الكفر إلى دار الإسلام‏ فَامْتَحِنُوهُنَ‏

The Verse was Revealed: O you those who believe! When the Mominaat come emigrating to you – from the house of Kufr to the house of Al-Islam, then test them [60:10].

قال ابن عباس امتحانهن أن يستحلفن ما خرجن‏ من بغض زوج‏ و لا رغبة عن أرض إلى أرض و لا التماس دنيا و لا خرجت‏ إلا حبا لله و لرسوله فاستحلفها رسول الله ص ما خرجت بغضا لزوجها و لا عشقا لرجل منا و ما خرجت إلا رغبة في الإسلام

Ibn Abbas said, ‘Test them that they should swear an oath they have not come out from hatred of a husband, nor desirous from a land to a land, nor seeking the world, nor coming out except in love for Allah^-azwj and for His^-azwj Rasool^-saww. Rasool-Allah^-saww made her swear an oath that she had neither come out in hatred towards her husband, nor her love for a man from us, and she has not come out except being desirous regarding Al-Islam’.

فحلفت بالله الذي لا إله إلا هو على ذلك فأعطى رسول الله ص زوجها مهرها و ما أنفق عليها و لم يردها عليه فتزوجها عمر بن الخطاب فكان رسول الله يرد من جاءه من الرجال و يحبس من جاءه من النساء إذا امتحن و يعطي أزواجهن مهورهن

She swore by Allah^-azwj the One there is no god except Him^-azwj, upon that. Rasool-Allah^-saww gave her husband her dower and whatever he had spent on her, and did not return her to him, and Umar Bin Al-Khattab married her. Rasool-Allah^-saww used to return the ones from the men who came to him^-saww and withhold the ones from the women who came to him^-saww, when he^-saww had tested them, and would give their husbands, their dowers’.

رَوَى فِي جَامِعِ الْأُصُولِ عِنْدَ سِيَاقِ قِصَّةِ الْحُدَيْبِيَةِ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ قَالَ: لَمَّا كَانَ يَوْمُ الْحُدَيْبِيَةِ خَرَجَ إِلَيْنَا نَاسٌ مِنَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ مِنْهُمْ سُهَيْلُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو وَ أُنَاسٌ مِنْ رُؤَسَاءِ الْمُشْرِكِينَ فَقَالُوا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قَدْ خَرَجَ إِلَيْكَ نَاسٌ مِنْ أَبْنَائِنَا وَ إِخْوَانِنَا وَ أَرِقَّائِنَا وَ لَيْسَ بِهِمْ فِقْهٌ فِي الدِّينِ وَ إِنَّمَا خَرَجُوا فِرَاراً مِنْ أَمْوَالِنَا وَ ضِيَاعِنَا فَارْدُدْهُمْ إِلَيْنَا فَإِنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ فِقْهٌ فِي الدِّينِ سَنُفَقِّهُهُمْ

It is reported in (the book) ‘Jamie Al-usool’ in the context of the story of Al-Hudaybiya, from Ali^-asws having said: ‘When it was the day of Al-Hudaybiyya, some people from the Polytheists came to us, from them being Suheyl Bin Amro and some people from the chiefs of the Polytheists. O Rasool-Allah^-saww! Some people have come to you^-saww, from our sons and our brothers and our freed slaves, and there is no understanding with them regarding the religion, and rather they have come out fleeing from our wealth and our estates. Return them to us for there does not happen to be any understanding for them regarding the religion; we shall make them understand’.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص يَا مَعْشَرَ قُرَيْشٍ لَتَنْتَهِيَنَ‏ أَوْ لَيَبْعَثَنَّ اللَّهُ عَلَيْكُمْ مَنْ يَضْرِبُ رِقَابَكُمْ بِالسَّيْفِ عَلَى الدِّينِ قَدِ امْتَحَنَ اللَّهُ قُلُوبَهُمْ‏ عَلَى الْإِيمَانِ قَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَ عُمَرُ مَنْ هُوَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قَالَ هُوَ خَاصِفُ النَّعْلِ‏ وَ كَانَ‏ قَدْ أَعْطَى عَلِيّاً نَعْلَهُ يَخْصِفُهَا

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘O community of Quraysh! Or shall Allah^-azwj Send upon you one who will strike your necks with the sword upon the Religion. Allah^-azwj has Tested their hearts upon the Eman’. Abu Bakr and Umar said, ‘Who is he, O Rasool-Allah^-saww?’ He^-saww said: ‘He is the repairer of the slipper’, and he^-saww had already given Ali^-asws his^-saww slipper to repair it.

ثُمَّ الْتَفَتَ إِلَيْنَا عَلِيٌّ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ فَقَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ مَنْ كَذَبَ عَلَيَّ مُتَعَمِّداً فَلْيَتَبَوَّأْ مَقْعَدَهُ مِنَ النَّارِ

Then Ali^-asws turned towards us and he^-asws said: ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘One who belies upon me^-saww deliberately, then let him assume his seat from the Fire’’.

1 كا، الكافي عَلِيٌّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ حَمَّادٍ وَ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ عَمَّارٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ‏ فِي قَوْلِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَ‏ لَيَبْلُوَنَّكُمُ اللَّهُ بِشَيْ‏ءٍ مِنَ الصَّيْدِ تَنالُهُ أَيْدِيكُمْ‏ وَ رِماحُكُمْ‏ قَالَ حُشِرَتْ لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فِي عُمْرَةِ الْحُدَيْبِيَةِ الْوُحُوشُ حَتَّى نَالَتْهَا أَيْدِيهِمْ وَ رِمَاحُهُمْ‏

Al Kafi – Ali, from his father, from Hammad and Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Muawiya Bin Ammar,

‘From Abu Abdullah^-asws regarding the Words of Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic: Allah will Try you with something from the hunting your hands and your spears can attain [5:94]. He^-asws said: ‘The wild animals crowded to Rasool-Allah^-azwj during the Umrah of Al-Hudaybiyya to the extent that their (Muslim’s) hands and their spears could reach them’’.

شي، تفسير العياشي عَنْ مُعَاوِيَةَ مِثْلَهُ وَ فِي آخِرِهِ لِيَبْلُوَهُمُ اللَّهُ بِهِ‏

Tafseer Al-Ayyashi, from Muawiya – similar to it, and at the end of it, ‘For Allah^-azwj to Test them by it’’.[39]

2 كا، الكافي عَلِيٌّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ حَمَّادٍ عَنِ الْحَلَبِيِّ قَالَ: سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ عَنْ قَوْلِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَ‏ يا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَيَبْلُوَنَّكُمُ اللَّهُ بِشَيْ‏ءٍ مِنَ الصَّيْدِ تَنالُهُ أَيْدِيكُمْ وَ رِماحُكُمْ‏ قَالَ حُشِرَ عَلَيْهِمُ الصَّيْدُ فِي كُلِّ مَكَانٍ حَتَّى دَنَا مِنْهُمْ لِيَبْلُوَهُمُ اللَّهُ بِهِ

‘Al Kafi’ – Ali, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Hammad, from Al Halby who said,

‘I asked Abu Abdullah^-asws about the Words of Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic: O you who believe! Allah will Try you with something from the hunting your hands and your spears can attain [5:94]. He^-asws said: ‘The prey crowded towards them in every place until they approached them. Allah^-azwj Tried them with it’’.[40]

3 شي، تفسير العياشي عَنْ سَمَاعَةَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ‏ فِي قَوْلِ اللَّهِ‏ لَيَبْلُوَنَّكُمُ اللَّهُ بِشَيْ‏ءٍ مِنَ الصَّيْدِ قَالَ ابْتَلَاهُمُ اللَّهُ بِالْوَحْشِ فَرَكِبَتْهُمْ مِنْ كُلِّ مَكَانٍ

‘Tafseer Al Ayyashi’ – From Sama’at,

‘From Abu Abdullah^-asws regarding the Words of Allah^-azwj: ‘Allah will Try you with something from the hunting [5:94]. He^-asws said: ‘Allah^-azwj Tried them with the wild animal, and they rode them from every place’’.[41]

4 فس، تفسير القمي‏ إِنَّا فَتَحْنا لَكَ فَتْحاً- قَالَ فَإِنَّهُ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنِ ابْنِ سِنَانٍ‏ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ قَالَ: كَانَ سَبَبُ نُزُولِ هَذِهِ السُّورَةِ وَ هَذَا الْفَتْحِ الْعَظِيمِ أَنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ أَمَرَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص‏ فِي النَّوْمِ أَنْ يَدْخُلَ الْمَسْجِدَ الْحَرَامَ وَ يَطُوفَ وَ يَحْلِقَ مَعَ الْمُحَلِّقِينَ فَأَخْبَرَ أَصْحَابَهُ وَ أَمَرَهُمْ بِالْخُرُوجِ فَخَرَجُوا

‘Tafseer Al-Qummi’ – (Re): Surely, We Opened for you a clear victory [48:1] – He said, ‘It is narrated to me by my father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Ibn Sinan, ‘From Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘The reason for the Revelation of this Chapter and this great victory was that Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Commanded Rasool-Allah^-saww during the sleep that he^-saww should enter the Sacred Masjid and perform Tawaaf and shave his^-saww head along with the shavers. He^-saww informed his^-saww companions and ordered them with the going out. They came out.

فَلَمَّا نَزَلَ ذَا الْحُلَيْفَةِ أَحْرَمُوا بِالْعُمْرَةِ وَ سَاقُوا الْبُدْنَ وَ سَاقَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص سِتّاً وَ سِتِّينَ بَدَنَةً وَ أَشْعَرَهَا عِنْدَ إِحْرَامِهِ وَ أَحْرَمُوا مِنْ ذِي الْحُلَيْفَةِ مُلَبِّينَ‏ بِالْعُمْرَةِ وَ قَدْ سَاقَ مَنْ سَاقَ مِنْهُمُ الْهَدْيَ مُعَرَّاتٍ‏ مُجَلَّلَاتٍ

When he^-saww descended at Zul Huleyfa, they wore Ihraam for the Umrah and ushered the sacrificial animals, and Rasool-Allah^-saww ushered sixty-six sacrificial animals, and marked them during his^-saww Ihraam, and they wore Ihraam from Zul Huleyfa exclaiming Talbiyya for the Umrah, and the one from them who had ushered, ushered the sheep and the goats.

فَلَمَّا بَلَغَ قريش [قُرَيْشاً] ذَلِكَ بَعَثُوا خَالِدَ بْنَ الْوَلِيدِ فِي مِائَتَيْ فَارِسٍ كَمِيناً لِيَسْتَقْبِلَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص فَكَانَ‏ يُعَارِضُهُ عَلَى الْجِبَالِ فَلَمَّا كَانَ فِي بَعْضِ الطَّرِيقِ حَضَرَتْ صَلَاةُ الظُّهْرِ فَأَذَّنَ بِلَالٌ وَ صَلَّى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص بِالنَّاسِ فَقَالَ خَالِدُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ لَوْ كُنَّا حَمَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ فِي الصَّلَاةِ لَأَصَبْنَاهُمْ‏ فَإِنَّهُمْ لَا يَقْطَعُونَ صَلَاتَهُمْ وَ لَكِنْ يَجِي‏ءُ لَهُمُ الْآنَ صَلَاةٌ أُخْرَى أَحَبُّ إِلَيْهِمْ مِنْ ضِيَاءِ أَبْصَارِهِمْ فَإِذَا دَخَلُوا فِي الصَّلَاةِ أَغَرْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ

When that reached Quraysh, they sent Khalid Bin Al Waleed among two hundred horsemen to face Rasool-Allah^-saww. He had objected to him^-saww at the mountain. When he^-saww was in one of the roads, Al-Zohar Salat presented and Bilal proclaimed the Azaan, and Rasool-Allah^-saww prayed Salat with the people. Khalid Bin Al-Waleed said, ‘If we were to attack upon them during the Salat, we would attain from them, for they will not be terminating their Salat, but now another Salat is more beloved to them than the illumination of their visions. When they enter into the Salat, we will attack upon them’.

فَنَزَلَ جَبْرَئِيلُ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص بِصَلَاةِ الْخَوْفِ فِي قَوْلِهِ‏ وَ إِذا كُنْتَ فِيهِمْ فَأَقَمْتَ لَهُمُ الصَّلاةَ الْآيَةَ فَلَمَّا كَانَ فِي الْيَوْمِ الثَّانِي نَزَلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص الْحُدَيْبِيَةَ وَ هِيَ عَلَى طَرَفِ الْحَرَمِ‏ وَ كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص يَسْتَنْفِرُ الْأَعْرَابَ فِي طَرِيقِهِ مَعَهُ فَلَمْ يَتَّبِعْهُ مِنْهُمْ أَحَدٌ وَ يَقُولُونَ أَ يَطْمَعُ مُحَمَّدٌ وَ أَصْحَابُهُ أَنْ يَدْخُلُوا الْحَرَمَ وَ قَدْ غَزَتْهُمْ قُرَيْشٌ فِي عُقْرِ دِيَارِهِمْ فَقَتَلُوهُمْ إِنَّهُ لَا يَرْجِعُ مُحَمَّدٌ وَ أَصْحَابُهُ إِلَى الْمَدِينَةِ أَبَداً

Jibraeel^-as descended unto Rasool-Allah^-saww with Salat of the fear, in His^-azwj Words: And when you (O Rasool) are among them, so establish the Salat for them [4:102] – the Verse. When it was during the second day, Rasool-Allah^-saww descended at Al-Hudaybiya, and it is at the end part of the Sanctuary, and Rasool-Allah^-saww used to mobilise the Bedouins in his^-saww road (to come) with him^-saww, but not one of them followed him^-saww and they were saying, ‘Do Muhammad^-saww and his^-saww companions covet to enter the Sanctuary? The Quraysh will battle them in the courtyards of their houses and kill them. Surely, Muhammad^-saww and his^-saww will not be returning to Al-Medina, ever!’

فَلَمَّا نَزَلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص الْحُدَيْبِيَةَ خَرَجَتْ قُرَيْشٌ يَحْلِفُونَ بِاللَّاتِ وَ الْعُزَّى لَا يَدَعُونَ مُحَمَّداً يَدْخُلُ مَكَّةَ وَ فِيهِمْ عَيْنٌ تَطْرِفُ فَبَعَثَ إِلَيْهِمْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص أَنِّي لَمْ آتِ لِحَرْبٍ وَ إِنَّمَا جِئْتُ لِأَقْضِيَ نُسُكِي وَ أَنْحَرَ بُدْنِي وَ أُخَلِّيَ بَيْنَكُمْ وَ بَيْنَ لَحَمَاتِهَا

When Rasool-Allah^-saww descended at Al-Hudaybiya, Quraysh came out swearing by Al-Laat and Al-Uzza (two idols) that they will not let Muhammad^-saww enter Makkah, and among them was a blinking eye’. Rasool-Allah^-saww sent a message to them: ‘I^-saww did not come for war, and rather I^-saww have come to fulfil rituals and make a sacrificial offering, and leave between you and its meats’.

فَبَعَثُوا عُرْوَةَ بْنَ مَسْعُودٍ الثَّقَفِيَّ وَ كَانَ عَاقِلًا لَبِيباً وَ هُوَ الَّذِي أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ فِيهِ‏ وَ قالُوا لَوْ لا نُزِّلَ‏ هذَا الْقُرْآنُ عَلى‏ رَجُلٍ مِنَ الْقَرْيَتَيْنِ عَظِيمٍ‏ فَلَمَّا أَقْبَلَ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص عَظَّمَ ذَلِكَ‏ وَ قَالَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ تَرَكْتَ قَوْمَكَ وَ قَدْ ضَرَبُوا الْأَبْنِيَةَ وَ أَخْرَجُوا الْعُوذَ الْمَطَافِيلَ يَحْلِفُونَ بِاللَّاتِ وَ الْعُزَّى لَا يَدَعُوكَ تَدْخُلُ حَرَمَهُمْ‏ وَ فِيهِمْ عَيْنٌ تَطْرِفُ أَ فَتُرِيدُ أَنْ تُبِيرَ أَهْلَكَ وَ قَوْمَكَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ

They sent Urwah Bin Masoud Al-Saqafy, and he was an intellectual, one of understanding, and he is the one Allah^-azwj Revealed regarding him: And they are saying, ‘If only this Quran had been Revealed unto a great man from the two towns’ [43:31]. When he came to Rasool-Allah^-saww, he respected that, and said: ‘O Muhammad^-saww! You^-saww left your^-saww people and struck the sons, and brought out the camels. They are swearing by Al-Laat and Al-Uzza that they will not let you^-saww enter their Sanctuary and among them is a blinking eye. Do you^-saww want to see your^-saww family and your^-saww people (again), O Muhammad^-saww?’

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص مَا جِئْتُ لِحَرْبٍ وَ إِنَّمَا جِئْتُ لِأَقْضِيَ نُسُكِي‏ فَأَنْحَرَ بُدْنِي وَ أُخَلِّيَ بَيْنَكُمْ‏ وَ بَيْنَ لَحَمَاتِهَا فَقَالَ عُرْوَةُ بِاللَّهِ مَا رَأَيْتُ كَالْيَوْمِ أَحَداً صُدَّ عَمَّا صُدِدْتَ‏ فَرَجَعَ إِلَى قُرَيْشٍ وَ أَخْبَرَهُمْ فَقَالَتْ قُرَيْشٌ وَ اللَّهِ لَئِنْ دَخَلَ مُحَمَّدٌ مَكَّةَ وَ تَسَامَعَتْ بِهِ الْعَرَبُ لَنَذِلَّنَّ وَ لَتَجْتَرِئَنَّ عَلَيْنَا الْعَرَبُ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘I^-saww have not come for war, and rather I^-saww have come to fulfil my^-saww rituals and sacrifice an offering and vacate between you and its meats’. Urwah said, ‘By Allah^-azwj! I have not seen anyone, like today, being blocked from what you^-saww are being blocked from. He returned to Quraysh and informed them. Quraysh said, ‘By Allah^-azwj! If Muhammad^-saww were to enter Makkah, the Arabs will hear of it, we will be disgraced and they will be emboldened upon us’.

فَبَعَثُوا حَفْصَ بْنَ الْأَحْنَفِ وَ سُهَيْلَ بْنَ عَمْرٍو فَلَمَّا نَظَرَ إِلَيْهِمَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص قَالَ وَيْحَ قُرَيْشٍ قَدْ نَهَكَتْهُمُ الْحَرْبُ أَلَا خَلُّوا بَيْنِي وَ بَيْنَ الْعَرَبِ فَإِنْ أَكُ صَادِقاً فَإِنَّمَا أَجُرُّ الْمُلْكَ‏ إِلَيْهِمْ مَعَ النُّبُوَّةِ وَ إِنْ أَكُ كَاذِباً كَفَتْهُمْ‏ ذُؤْبَانُ الْعَرَبِ لَا يَسْأَلُ الْيَوْمَ امْرُؤٌ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ خُطَّةً لَيْسَ لِلَّهِ فِيهَا سَخَطٌ إِلَّا أَجَبْتُهُمْ إِلَيْهِ

They sent Hafs Bin Al-Ahnaf and Suheyl Bin Amro. When he^-saww looked at them, Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Woe be unto Quraysh! The war has fatigued them. Will not they free the way between me^-saww and the Arabs? If I^-saww was truthful, then rather I^-saww shall be taking the kingdom to them along with the Prophet-hood, and if I^-saww was a liar, the wolves of the Arabs would suffice them. No person from Quraysh will ask for a plan today; there isn’t Wrath of Allah^-azwj in it, except I^-saww shall answer them to it’.

قَالَ فَوَافَوْا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص فَقَالُوا يَا مُحَمَّدُ إِلَى أَنْ نَنْظُرَ إِلَى مَا ذَا يَصِيرُ أَمْرُكَ وَ أَمْرُ الْعَرَبِ عَلَى أَنْ تَرْجِعَ مِنْ عَامِكَ‏ هَذَا فَإِنَّ الْعَرَبَ قَدْ تَسَامَعَتْ بِمَسِيرِكَ فَإِنْ دَخَلْتَ بِلَادَنَا وَ حَرَمَنَا اسْتَذَلَّتْنَا الْعَرَبُ وَ اجْتَرَأَتْ عَلَيْنَا وَ نُخْلِي لَكَ الْبَيْتَ فِي‏ الْقَابِلِ فِي هَذَا الشَّهْرِ ثَلَاثَةَ أَيَّامٍ حَتَّى تَقْضِيَ نُسُكَكَ وَ تَنْصَرِفَ عَنَّا

They sufficed Rasool-Allah^-saww and said, ‘O Muhammad^-saww! If you^-saww look at what your^-saww matter and the matter of the Arabs has come to, upon that you^-saww should return from this season (year) of yours^-saww, for the Arabs have already heard of your^-saww journey. If you^-saww were to enter our city and our Sanctuary, the Arabs will disgrace us and be emboldened upon us, and we will vacate the House (Kabah) for you^-saww next year during this month, for three days, until you^-saww fulfil your^-saww rituals and leave from us’.

فَأَجَابَهُمْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص إِلَى ذَلِكَ وَ قَالُوا لَهُ وَ تَرُدُّ إِلَيْنَا كُلَّ مَنْ جَاءَكَ مِنْ رِجَالِنَا وَ نَرُدُّ إِلَيْكَ كُلَّ مَنْ جَاءَنَا مِنْ رِجَالِكَ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص مَنْ جَاءَكُمْ مِنْ رِجَالِنَا فَلَا حَاجَةَ لَنَا فِيهِ وَ لَكِنْ عَلَى أَنَّ الْمُسْلِمِينَ بِمَكَّةَ لَا يُؤْذَوْنَ فِي إِظْهَارِهِمُ الْإِسْلَامَ وَ لَا يُكْرَهُونَ وَ لَا يُنْكَرُ عَلَيْهِمْ شَيْ‏ءٌ يَفْعَلُونَهُ مِنْ شَرَائِعِ الْإِسْلَامِ

Rasool-Allah^-saww answered him to that and they said to him^-saww, ‘And you^-saww will return to us every one from our men who comes to you and we will return every one from your^-saww men who comes to us’. Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘The one from our men who comes to you, there is no need for us regarding him, but upon that the Muslims of Makkah will not be harmed in the manifestation of Al-Islam, and they will not be forced nor will anything be denied upon them from anything they do from the Laws of Al-Islam’.

فَقَبِلُوا ذَلِكَ فَلَمَّا أَجَابَهُمْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص إِلَى الصُّلْحِ أَنْكَرَ عَلَيْهِ عَامَّةُ أَصْحَابِهِ وَ أَشَدُّ مَا كَانَ إِنْكَاراً عُمَرُ فَقَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَ لَسْنَا عَلَى الْحَقِّ وَ عَدُوُّنَا عَلَى الْبَاطِلِ فَقَالَ نَعَمْ قَالَ فَنُعْطِي الدَّنِيَّةَ فِي دِينِنَا فَقَالَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ قَدْ وَعَدَنِي وَ لَنْ يُخْلِفَنِي

They accepted that. When Rasool-Allah^-saww had answered them to the reconciliation the generality of his^-saww companions denied upon it, and the one of the severest of the denials was Umar. He said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! Aren’t we upon the Truth and our enemies are upon the falsehood?’ He^-saww said: ‘Yes’. He said, ‘But we have been given the disgrace in our Religion’. He^-saww said: ‘Allah^-azwj has Promised me^-saww and He^-azwj will never break it on me^-saww’.

قَالَ لَوْ أَنَ‏ مَعِي أَرْبَعِينَ رَجُلًا لَخَالَفْتُهُ وَ رَجَعَ سُهَيْلُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو وَ حَفْصُ بْنُ الْأَحْنَفِ إِلَى قُرَيْشٍ فَأَخْبَرَاهُمْ بِالصُّلْحِ فَقَالَ عُمَرُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَ لَمْ تَقُلْ لَنَا أَنْ نَدْخُلَ الْمَسْجِدَ الْحَرَامَ‏ وَ نَحْلِقَ مَعَ الْمُحَلِّقِينَ فَقَالَ أَ مِنْ عَامِنَا هَذَا وَعَدْتُكَ‏ قُلْتُ‏ لَكَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ قَدْ وَعَدَنِي‏ أَنْ أَفْتَحَ مَكَّةَ وَ أَطُوفَ وَ أَسْعَى وَ أَحْلِقَ مَعَ الْمُحَلِّقِينَ

He said, ‘If there were forty men with me, I would have opposed it (him^-saww)’. And Suheyl Bin Amro and Hafs Bin Al Ahnaf returned to Quraysh and informed them with the reconciliation (peace treaty). Umar said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! Did you not say to us that we shall enter the Sacred Masjid and shave (our heads) along with the shavers?’ He^-saww said: ‘What is regarding this season (year) that I^-saww promised you? I^-saww said to you that Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic has Promised me^-saww that I^-saww shall conquer Makkah, and perform Tawaaf and Sa’ee, and shave (my^-saww head) along with the shavers’.

فَلَمَّا أَكْثَرُوا عَلَيْهِ قَالَ لَهُمْ إِنْ لَمْ تَقْبَلُوا الصُّلْحَ فَحَارِبُوهُمْ فَمَرُّوا نَحْوَ قُرَيْشٍ وَ هُمْ مُسْتَعِدُّونَ لِلْحَرْبِ وَ حَمَلُوا عَلَيْهِمْ فَانْهَزَمَ أَصْحَابُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص هَزِيمَةً قَبِيحَةً وَ مَرُّوا بِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَتَبَسَّمَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص ثُمَّ قَالَ يَا عَلِيُّ خُذِ السَّيْفَ وَ اسْتَقْبِلْ قُرَيْشاً

When they persisted a lot upon him^-saww, he^-saww said to them: ‘If you are not accepting the peace treaty then battle them’. They passed by around Quraysh and they were preparing for the war, and they attacked upon them. The companions of Rasool-Allah^-saww were defeated with an ugly defeat, and they passed by Rasool-Allah^-saww. Rasool-Allah^-saww smiled, then said: ‘O Ali^-asws! Take the sword and face Quraysh’.

فَأَخَذَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ سَيْفَهُ وَ حَمَلَ عَلَى قُرَيْشٍ فَلَمَّا نَظَرُوا إِلَى أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ تَرَاجَعُوا وَ قَالُوا يَا عَلِيُّ بَدَا لِمُحَمَّدٍ فِيمَا أَعْطَانَا قَالَ لَا فَرَجَعَ‏ أَصْحَابُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص مُسْتَحْيِينَ وَ أَقْبَلُوا يَعْتَذِرُونَ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص

Amir Al-Momineen^-asws grabbed his^-asws sword and attacked upon Quraysh. When they looked at Amir Al-Momineen^-asws, they withdrew and said, ‘O Ali^-asws! Has there been a change of mind for Muhammad^-saww regarding what he^-saww gave us?’ He^-asws said: ‘No’. The companions of Rasool-Allah^-saww returned ashamed and came presenting excuses to Rasool-Allah^-saww.

فَقَالَ لَهُمْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص أَ لَسْتُمْ أَصْحَابِي يَوْمَ بَدْرٍ إِذْ أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ فِيكُمْ‏ إِذْ تَسْتَغِيثُونَ رَبَّكُمْ فَاسْتَجابَ لَكُمْ أَنِّي مُمِدُّكُمْ بِأَلْفٍ مِنَ الْمَلائِكَةِ مُرْدِفِينَ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said to them: ‘Weren’t you my^-saww companions on the day of Badr when Allah^-azwj Revealed regarding you: When you sought Assistance from your Lord, so He Answered you: “I will Assist you with a thousand of the Angels, following one (after) another [8:9]?

‏ أَ لَسْتُمْ أَصْحَابِي يَوْمَ أُحُدٍ إِذْ تُصْعِدُونَ وَ لا تَلْوُونَ عَلى‏ أَحَدٍ وَ الرَّسُولُ يَدْعُوكُمْ فِي أُخْراكُمْ‏

Weren’t you my^-saww companions on the day of Ohad When you were ascending (the mount Ohad) and were not even glancing at any one, and the Rasool kept calling you among your last ones. [3:153]?

أَ لَسْتُمْ أَصْحَابِي يَوْمَ كَذَا أَ لَسْتُمْ أَصْحَابِي يَوْمَ كَذَا فَاعْتَذَرُوا إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ نَدِمُوا عَلَى مَا كَانَ مِنْهُمْ وَ قَالُوا اللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ وَ رَسُولُهُ فَاصْنَعْ مَا بَدَا لَكَ

Weren’t you my^-saww companions on such and such day? Weren’t you my^-saww companions on such and such day?’ They kept presenting excuses to Rasool-Allah^-saww and regretted upon what had transpired from them, and they said, ‘Allah^-azwj and His^-azwj Rasool^-saww are more knowing, so do whatever comes to you^-saww’.

وَ رَجَعَ حَفْصُ بْنُ الْأَحْنَفِ وَ سُهَيْلُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَقَالا يَا مُحَمَّدُ قَدْ أَجَابَتْ قُرَيْشٌ إِلَى مَا اشْتَرَطْتَ مِنْ إِظْهَارِ الْإِسْلَامِ وَ أَنْ لَا يُكْرَهَ أَحَدٌ عَلَى دِينِهِ فَدَعَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص بِالْمُكْتِبِ وَ دَعَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ فَقَالَ‏ لَهُ اكْتُبْ فَكَتَبَ‏ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ

And Hafs Bin Al-Ahnaf and Suheyl Bin Amro returned to Rasool-Allah^-saww and they said, ‘O Muhammad^-saww! Quraysh have answered to what you^-saww stipulated from the manifestation of Islam, and that they will not force anyone upon his religion’. Rasool-Allah^-saww called with the writing down and called Amir Al-Momineen^-asws and said to him^-asws: ‘Write’. Amir Al-Momineen^-asws wrote: ‘In the Name of Allah^-azwj the Beneficent, the Merciful’.

قَالَ‏ سُهَيْلُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو لَا نَعْرِفُ الرَّحْمَنَ اكْتُبْ كَمَا كَانَ‏ يَكْتُبُ آبَاؤُكَ بِاسْمِكَ اللَّهُمَّ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص اكْتُبْ بِاسْمِكَ اللَّهُمَّ فَإِنَّهُ اسْمٌ مِنْ أَسْمَاءِ اللَّهِ ثُمَّ كَتَبَ هَذَا مَا تَقَاضَى‏ عَلَيْهِ مُحَمَّدٌ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ الْمَلَأُ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ فَقَالَ سُهَيْلُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو وَ لَوْ عَلِمْنَا أَنَّكَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ مَا حَارَبْنَاكَ اكْتُبْ هَذَا مَا تَقَاضَى‏ عَلَيْهِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ أَ تَأْنَفُ مِنْ نَسَبِكَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ

Suheyl Bin Amro said, ‘We do not recognise the Beneficent. Write as what your^-saww forefathers^-asws used to write: ‘In Your^-azwj Name O God^-azwj!’ Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Write, ‘In Your^-azwj Name O God^-azwj!’, for it is a Name from the Names of Allah^-azwj. Then write, ‘This is what has been fixed upon by Muhammad^-saww Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj and the chiefs of Quraysh’. Suheyl Bin Amro said, ‘And if we knew that you^-saww are a Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj, we would not go to war with you^-saww. Write, ‘This is what is fixed upon by Muhammad^-saww son of Abdullah^-asws’. Are you^-saww turning your^-saww nose from your^-saww own lineage, O Muhammad^-saww?’

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص أَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ وَ إِنْ لَمْ تُقِرُّوا ثُمَّ قَالَ امْحُ يَا عَلِيُّ وَ اكْتُبْ مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ فَقَالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ مَا أَمْحُو اسْمَكَ مِنَ النُّبُوَّةِ أَبَداً فَمَحَاهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص بِيَدِهِ ثُمَّ كَتَبَ هَذَا مَا تَقَاضَى عَلَيْهِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ وَ الْمَلَأُ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ وَ سُهَيْلُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو اصْطَلَحُوا عَلَى وَضْعِ الْحَرْبِ بَيْنَهُمْ عَشْرَ سِنِينَ عَلَى أَنْ يَكُفَّ بَعْضُنَا عَنْ بَعْضٍ وَ عَلَى أَنَّهُ لَا إِسْلَالَ وَ لَا إِغْلَالَ وَ أَنَّ بَيْنَنَا وَ بَيْنَهُمْ عَيْبَةً مَكْفُوفَةً

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘I^-saww am a Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj and even if you do not acknowledge’. Then he^-saww said: ‘Delete, O Ali^-asws and write, ‘Muhammad^-saww son of Abdullah^-asws’’. Amir Al-Momineen^-asws said: ‘I^-asws will not delete your^-saww name from the Prophet-hood, ever!’ Rasool-Allah^-saww deleted it by his^-saww hand, then wrote: ‘This is what is fixed upon by Muhammad^-saww son of Abdullah and the chiefs of Quraysh and Suheyl Bin Amro. They will call upon dropping the war between them for ten years upon that they would refrain from each other, and upon that there will neither be any chains and shackles, and between them would be blindness from faulting;

وَ أَنَّهُ مَنْ أَحَبَّ أَنْ يَدْخُلَ فِي عَهْدِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ عَقْدِهِ فَعَلَ وَ أَنَّهُ‏ مَنْ أَحَبَّ أَنْ يَدْخُلَ فِي عقد [عَهْدِ] قُرَيْشٍ وَ عَقْدِهَا فَعَلَ وَ أَنَّهُ مَنْ أَتَى مُحَمَّداً بِغَيْرِ إِذْنِ وَلِيِّهِ يَرُدُّهُ‏ إِلَيْهِ وَ أَنَّهُ مَنْ أَتَى قُرَيْشاً مِنْ أَصْحَابِ مُحَمَّدٍ لَمْ يَرُدُّوهُ إِلَيْهِ‏ وَ أَنْ يَكُونَ الْإِسْلَامُ ظَاهِراً بِمَكَّةَ لَا يُكْرَهُ أَحَدٌ عَلَى دِينِهِ وَ لَا يُؤْذَى وَ لَا يُعَيَّرُ وَ أَنَّ مُحَمَّداً يَرْجِعُ عَنْهُمْ عَامَهُ هَذَا وَ أَصْحَابَهُ ثُمَّ يَدْخُلُ عَلَيْنَا فِي الْعَامِ الْقَابِلِ مَكَّةَ فَيُقِيمُ فِيهَا ثَلَاثَةَ أَيَّامٍ وَ لَا يَدْخُلُ عَلَيْنَا بِسِلَاحٍ إِلَّا سِلَاحِ الْمُسَافِرِ السُّيُوفُ فِي الْقُرُبِ

And the one who likes to enter into a pact of Muhammad^-saww and his^-saww bond can do so, and the one who like to entering into a pact of Qureys and its bond can do so; and the one who comes to Muhammad^-saww without permission of his master, would be returned to him and the one from the companions of Muhammad^-saww who comes to Quraysh would not be returned to him^-saww; And Islam would be allowed to be manifest at Makkah, no one would be forced upon his religion, nor harmed, nor faulted; and Muhammad^-saww and his^-saww companions would return from them this season (year), then can enter upon us during the next year at Makkah, and he^-saww can stay there for three days, and will not enter upon us with weapons except weapons of the traveller, the swords in the sheath’.

وَ كَتَبَ‏ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ وَ شَهِدَ عَلَى الْكِتَابِ الْمُهَاجِرُونَ وَ الْأَنْصَارُ ثُمَّ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص يَا عَلِيُّ إِنَّكَ أَبَيْتَ أَنْ تَمْحُوَ اسْمِي مِنَ النُّبُوَّةِ فَوَ الَّذِي‏ بَعَثَنِي بِالْحَقِّ نَبِيّاً لَتُجِيبَنَّ أَبْنَاءَهُمْ إِلَى مِثْلِهَا وَ أَنْتَ مَضِيضٌ مُضْطَهَدٌ

And Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws wrote it and the Emigrants and the Helpers bore witness upon the writing. Then Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘O Ali^-asws! You^-asws refused to delete my^-saww name from the Prophet-hood. By the One^-azwj Who Sent me^-saww with the Truth as a Prophet^-saww! Their sons will come to you^-asws with it’s like and you^-asws will be forced, oppressed.

فَلَمَّا كَانَ يَوْمُ صِفِّينَ وَ رَضُوا بِالْحَكَمَيْنِ كَتَبَ هَذَا مَا اصْطَلَحَ عَلَيْهِ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ وَ مُعَاوِيَةُ بْنُ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ فَقَالَ عَمْرُو بْنُ الْعَاصِ لَوْ عَلِمْنَا أَنَّكَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ مَا حَارَبْنَاكَ وَ لَكِنِ اكْتُبْ هَذَا مَا اصْطَلَحَ عَلَيْهِ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ وَ مُعَاوِيَةُ بْنُ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ

When it was the day (battle) of Siffeen and they had agreed with the two judges, it was written, ‘This is what Amir Al-Momineen Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws and Muawiya Bin Abu Sufyan have reconciled upon’, Amro Bin Al-Aas said, ‘If we knew you^-asws are Emir of the Momineen, we would not be at war with you^-asws. But write, ‘This is what Ali^-asws son of Abu Talib^-asws and Muawiya Bin Abu Sufyan have reconciled upon’’.

فَقَالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ صَدَقَ اللَّهُ وَ صَدَقَ رَسُولُهُ ص أَخْبَرَنِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص بِذَلِكَ ثُمَّ كَتَبَ الْكِتَابَ

Amir Al-Momineen^-asws said: ‘Allah^-azwj and His^-azwj Rasool^-saww spoke the truth. Rasool-Allah^-saww had informed me^-asws of that’. Then the agreement was written.

قَالَ فَلَمَّا كَتَبُوا الْكِتَابَ قَامَتْ خُزَاعَةُ فَقَالَتْ نَحْنُ فِي عَهْدِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ عَقْدِهِ وَ قَامَتْ بَنُو بَكْرٍ فَقَالَتْ نَحْنُ فِي عَهْدِ قُرَيْشٍ وَ عَقْدِهَا وَ كَتَبُوا نُسْخَتَيْنِ نُسْخَةً عِنْدَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ نُسْخَةً عِنْدَ سُهَيْلِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو وَ رَجَعَ سُهَيْلُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو وَ حَفْصُ بْنُ الْأَحْنَفِ إِلَى قُرَيْشٍ فَأَخْبَرَاهُمْ‏

He^-asws said, ‘When the agreement (of Al-Hudaybiya) had been written, (clan of) Khuza’a stood up and said, ‘We are in the pact of Muhammad^-saww and his^-saww bond’, and the clan of Bakr said, ‘We are in the pact of Quraysh and its bond’. And they wrote down two copies, a copy to be with Rasool-Allah^-saww and a copy to be with Suheyl Bin Amro; and Suheyl Bin Amro and Hafs Bin Al-Ahnaf returned to Quraysh and informed them.

وَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لِأَصْحَابِهِ انْحَرُوا بُدْنَكُمْ وَ احْلِقُوا رُءُوسَكُمْ فَامْتَنَعُوا وَ قَالُوا كَيْفَ نَنْحَرُ وَ نَحْلِقُ وَ لَمْ نَطُفْ بِالْبَيْتِ وَ لَمْ نَسْعَ بَيْنَ الصَّفَا وَ الْمَرْوَةِ فَاغْتَمَّ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص مِنْ ذَلِكَ وَ شَكَا ذَلِكَ إِلَى أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ فَقَالَتْ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ انْحَرْ أَنْتَ وَ احْلِقْ

And Rasool-Allah^-saww said to his^-saww companions: ‘Sacrifice your animals and shave your heads’. They abstained and said, ‘How can we sacrifice and shave and we have not performed Tawaaf of the House (Kabah) and not performed Sa’ee between Al-Safa and Al-Marwa?’ Rasool-Allah^-saww was gloomy about that and complained of it to Umm Salma^-ra. She^-ra said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! You^-saww sacrifice and shave’.

فَنَحَرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ حَلَقَ فَنَحَرَ الْقَوْمُ عَلَى خُبْثِ‏ يَقِينٍ وَ شَكٍّ وَ ارْتِيَابٍ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص تَعْظِيماً لِلْبُدْنِ رَحِمَ اللَّهُ الْمُحَلِّقِينَ وَ قَالَ قَوْمٌ لَمْ يَسُوقُوا الْبُدْنَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ وَ الْمُقَصِّرِينَ لِأَنَّ مَنْ لَمْ يَسُقْ هَدْياً لَمْ يَجِبْ عَلَيْهِ الْحَلْقُ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ثَانِياً رَحِمَ اللَّهُ الْمُحَلِّقِينَ الَّذِينَ‏ لَمْ يَسُوقُوا الْهَدْيَ

Rasool-Allah^-saww sacrificed and shaved (head), and the people sacrificed upon malicious conviction and doubt and suspicion. Rasool-Allah^-saww said in reference to the sacrificial animal: ‘May Allah^-azwj have Mercy of the shaved ones’. And a group and the deficient ones (from having a sacrificial animal) said, ‘Arise and sacrifice the sacrificial animal, O Rasool-Allah^-saww!’, because the one who does not usher a sacrificial animal, the shaving is not Obligated upon him. Rasool-Allah^-saww said secondly: ‘May Allah^-azwj have Mercy of the shaved ones, those who have not ushered the sacrificial animal’.

فَقَالُوا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ وَ الْمُقَصِّرِينَ فَقَالَ رَحِمَ اللَّهُ الْمُقَصِّرِينَ ثُمَّ رَحَلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص نَحْوَ الْمَدِينَةِ فَرَجَعَ إِلَى التَّنْعِيمِ وَ نَزَلَ تَحْتَ الشَّجَرَةِ فَجَاءَ أَصْحَابُهُ الَّذِينَ أَنْكَرُوا عَلَيْهِ الصُّلْحَ وَ اعْتَذَرُوا وَ أَظْهَرُوا النَّدَامَةَ عَلَى مَا كَانَ مِنْهُمْ وَ سَأَلُوا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص أَنْ يَسْتَغْفِرَ لَهُمْ فَنَزَلَ آيَةُ الرِّضْوَانِ

They said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! And the deficient ones?’ He^-saww said: ‘May Allah^-azwj have Mercy on the deficient ones’. Then Rasool-Allah^-saww departed to around Al Medina, and he^-saww returned to al Tan’eem and descended beneath the tree. His^-saww companions came, those who had denied the reconciliation upon him^-saww, and they presented excuses and manifested the regret upon what had transpired from them, and they asked Rasool-Allah^-saww to seek Forgiveness for them. The Verse of ‘Al Rizwaan’ was Revealed’’.[42]

5 يج، الخرائج و الجرائح رُوِيَ عَنْ عِيسَى بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْهَاشِمِيِّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ جَدِّهِ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ عَلَيْهِمُ السَّلَامُ قَالَ: لَمَّا كَانَ يَوْمَ الْقَضِيَّةِ حِينَ رَدَّ الْمُشْرِكُونَ النَّبِيَّ ص وَ مَنْ مَعَهُ وَ دَافَعُوهُ عَنِ الْمَسْجِدِ أَنْ يَدْخُلُوهُ هَادَنَهُمْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَكَتَبُوا بَيْنَهُمْ كِتَاباً

‘Al Kharaij Wa Al Jaraih’ – It is reported from Isa Bin Abdullah Al Hashimy, from his father, from his grandfather,

‘From Ali^-asws having said: ‘When it was the day of the treaty when the Polytheists returned the Prophet^-saww and the ones with him^-saww and repelled him^-saww from entering the Masjid, Rasool-Allah^-saww reconciled with them, so they wrote an agreement between them’.

قَالَ عَلِيٌّ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ فَكُنْتُ أَنَا الَّذِي كَتَبَ فَكَتَبْتُ بِاسْمِكَ اللَّهُمَّ هَذَا كِتَابٌ بَيْنَ مُحَمَّدٍ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ بَيْنَ قُرَيْشٍ فَقَالَ سُهَيْلُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو لَوْ أَقْرَرْنَا أَنَّكَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ لَمْ يُنَازِعْكَ أَحَدٌ فَقُلْتُ بَلْ هُوَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ وَ إِنَّكَ رَاغِمٌ‏

Ali^-asws said: ‘I^-asws was the one who wrote, so I^-asws wrote, ‘In Your^-azwj Name O Allah^-azwj. This is an agreement between Muhammad^-saww Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj and Quraysh’. Suheyl Bin Amro said, ‘If we acknowledge you^-saww are a Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj, no one would contend you^-saww’. I^-asws said: ‘But, he^-saww is a Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj and you are compelled’.

فَقَالَ لِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص اكْتُبْ لَهُ مَا أَرَادَ سَتُعْطَى يَا عَلِيُّ بَعْدِي مِثْلَهَا

Rasool-Allah^-saww said to me^-asws: ‘Write for him what he wants. O Ali^-asws! You^-asws will also give it after me^-asws, the like of it’.

قَالَ فَلَمَّا كَتَبْتُ الصُّلْحَ بَيْنِي وَ بَيْنَ أَهْلِ الشَّامِ كَتَبْتُ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ هَذَا كِتَابٌ بَيْنَ عَلِيٍّ أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَ بَيْنَ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ فَقَالَ مُعَاوِيَةُ وَ عَمْرُو بْنُ الْعَاصِ لَوْ عَلِمْنَا أَنَّكَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ لَمْ نُنَازِعْكَ فَقَالَ‏ اكْتُبُوا مَا رَأَيْتُمْ فَعَلِمْتُ أَنَّ قَوْلَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ حَقٌ‏ قَدْ جَاءَ

He^-asws said: ‘When the treaty was written between me^-asws and the people of Syria, I^-asws wrote: ‘In the Name of Allah^-azwj the Beneficent, the Merciful. This is an agreement between Ali^-asws Emir of the Momineen and Muawiya Bin Abu Sufyan, Muawiya and Amro Bin Al-Aas said: ‘If we knew you^-asws are Emir of the Momineen we would not contend you^-asws’. I^-asws said, ‘Write whatever you see fit’, and I^-asws knew that the word of Rasool-Allah^-saww had come true’’.[43]

6 يج، الخرائج و الجرائح‏ رُوِيَ أَنَّهُ لَمَّا صَدَّهُ الْمُشْرِكُونَ بِالْحُدَيْبِيَةِ شَكَا إِلَيْهِ النَّاسُ قِلَّةَ الْمَاءِ فَدَعَا بِدَلْوٍ مِنْ مَاءِ الْبِئْرِ فَتَوَضَّأَ مِنْهُ ثُمَّ تَمَضْمَضَ وَ مَجَّ فِي الدَّلْوِ وَ أَخْرَجَ مِنْ كِنَانَتِهِ سَهْماً ثُمَّ أَمَرَ بِأَنْ يُصَبَّ فِي الْبِئْرِ تِلْكَ الدَّلْوُ وَ أَنْ يُغْرَزَ ذَلِكَ السَّهْمُ فِي أَسْفَلِ الْبِئْرِ

‘Al-Kharaij Wa Al-Jaraih’ – It is reported that when the Polytheists blocked him^-saww at Al-Hudaybiya, the people complained to him^-saww of the scarcity of water. He^-saww called for a bucket from the water of the well and performed Wuduu from it, then he^-saww rinsed and spat it out in the bucket, and brought out an arrow from his^-saww quiver. Then he^-saww instructed to pour that bucket into the well, and to lodge that arrow at the bottom of the well.

فَعَمِلُوا فَفَارَتِ الْبِئْرُ بِالْمَاءِ إِلَى شَفِيرِهَا وَ اغْتَرَفَ النَّاسُ فَعِنْدَ ذَلِكَ قَالَ أَوْسُ بْنُ خَوَلِيٍّ لِعَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي سَلُولٍ‏ أَ بَعْدَ هَذَا شَيْ‏ءٌ أَ مَا آنَ لَكَ أَنْ تُبْصِرَ

They did so, and the well overflowed with the water and the people scooped out. During that, Aws Bin Khuwally said to Abdullah Bin Abay Salul, ‘Is there anything after this? Is it not for you now that you see?[44]

7 يج، الخرائج و الجرائح‏ رُوِيَ أَنَّهُ لَمَّا أَصَابَ النَّاسَ بِالْحُدَيْبِيَةِ جُوعٌ شَدِيدٌ وَ قَلَّتْ أَزْوَادُهُمْ لِأَنَّهُمْ أَقَامُوا بِهَا بَضْعَةَ عَشَرَ يَوْماً فَشَكَوْا إِلَيْهِ ذَلِكَ فَأَمَرَ بِالنَّطْعِ أَنْ يُبْسَطَ وَ أَمَرَهُمْ أَنْ يَأْتُوا بِبَقِيَّةِ أَزْوَادِهِمْ فَيَطْرَحُوا فَأَتَوْا بِدَقِيقٍ‏ قَلِيلٍ وَ تُمَيْرَاتٍ فَقَامَ وَ دَعَا بِالْبَرَكَةِ فِيهَا وَ أَمَرَهُمْ بِأَنْ يَأْتُوا بِأَوْعِيَتِهِمْ فَمَلَئُوهَا حَتَّى لَمْ يَجِدُوا لَهَا مَحَلًّا

‘Al-Kharaij Wa Al-Jaraih’ – It is reported that when the people were afflicted with severe hunger at Al-Hudaybiya and their provisions were scarce because they had stayed there for ten days, they complained to him^-saww about it. He^-saww instructed that a leather sheet be spread out, and instructed them that they come with the remainder of their provisions and drop it therein. They came with a little flour and dates. He^-saww stood and supplicated with the Blessings in it, and instructed them that they come with their utensils and they fill these up until no place was found for it’’.[45]

8 يج، الخرائج و الجرائح‏ مِنْ مُعْجِزَاتِهِ ص أَنَّهُ لَمَّا خَرَجَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لِلْعُمْرَةِ سَنَةَ الْحُدَيْبِيَةِ مَنَعَتْ قُرَيْشٌ مِنْ دُخُولِهِ مَكَّةَ وَ تَحَالَفُوا أَنَّهُ لَا يَدْخُلُهَا وَ مِنْهُمْ عَيْنٌ تَطْرِفُ وَ قَالَ لَهُمْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص مَا جِئْتُ مُحَارِباً لَكُمْ إِنَّمَا جِئْتُ مُعْتَمِراً

‘Al-Kharaij Wa Al-Jaraih’ – From his^-saww miracles – ‘When Rasool-Allah^-azwj went out for the Umrah in the year of Al-Hudaybiya, Quraysh refused his^-saww entry into Makkah, and they swore that he^-saww would not enter it, and from them and there was (still) a blinking eye among them. And Rasool-Allah^-saww said to them: ‘I^-saww have not come for war with you, but rather I^-saww have come to perform Umrah’.

قَالُوا لَا نَدَعُكَ تَدْخُلُ مَكَّةَ عَلَى هَذِهِ الْحَالِ فَتَسْتَذِلَّنَا الْعَرَبُ وَ تُعَيِّرَنَا وَ لَكِنِ اجْعَلْ بَيْنَنَا وَ بَيْنَكَ هُدْنَةً لَا تَكُونُ لِغَيْرِنَا فَاتَّفَقُوا عَلَيْهِ وَ قَدْ نَفِدَ مَاءُ الْمُسْلِمِينَ وَ كَظَّهُمْ وَ بَهَائِمَهُمُ الْعَطَشُ فَجِي‏ءَ بِرَكْوَةٍ فِيهَا قَلِيلٌ مِنَ الْمَاءِ فَأَدْخَلَ يَدَهُ فِيهَا فَفَاضَتِ الرَّكْوَةُ وَ نُودِيَ فِي الْعَسْكَرِ مَنْ أَرَادَ الْمَاءَ فَلْيَأْتِهِ فَسَقَوْا وَ اسْتَقَوْا وَ مَلَئُوا الْقِرَبَ‏

They said, ‘We will not leave you^-saww to enter Makkah upon this state, so the Arabs would disgrace us and fault us, but make a truce to be between us and you^-saww, not happening to be for other than us’. They concurred upon it and the water (supply) of the Muslims had depleted and their animals were dying of the thirst. He^-saww came with a container of water and inserted his^-saww hand in it, and the container overflowed, and he^-saww called out among the soldiers: ‘One who wants the water, let him come to it!’ They quenched and quenched (their animals) and filled their water skins’’.[46]

9 – وَ فِي هَذِهِ الْغَزَاةِ أَقْبَلَ سُهَيْلُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ص فَقَالَ لَهُ يَا مُحَمَّدُ إِنَّ أَرِقَّاءَنَا لَحِقُوا بِكَ فَارْدُدْهُمْ عَلَيْنَا فَغَضِبَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص حَتَّى تَبَيَّنَ الْغَضَبُ فِي وَجْهِهِ ثُمَّ قَالَ لَتَنْتَهُنَّ يَا مَعَاشِرَ قُرَيْشٍ أَوْ لَيَبْعَثَنَّ اللَّهُ عَلَيْكُمْ رَجُلًا امْتَحَنَ اللَّهُ قَلْبَهُ بِالْإِيمَانِ يَضْرِبُ رِقَابَكُمْ عَلَى الدِّينِ

And during this military expedition, Suheyl Bin Amro came to the Prophet^-saww and said to him^-saww, ‘O Muhammad^-saww! Our slaves have joined up with you^-saww, so return them to us’. Rasool-Allah^-saww was angered until the anger appeared in his^-saww face, then said: ‘End it, O community of Quraysh or Allah^-azwj will Send a man upon you, Allah^-azwj has Tested his heart for the Eman. He will strike off your necks upon the Religion!’

فَقَالَ بَعْضُ مَنْ حَضَرَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَبُو بَكْرٍ ذَلِكَ الرَّجُلُ قَالَ لَا قَالَ فَعُمَرُ قَالَ لَا وَ لَكِنَّهُ خَاصِفُ النَّعْلِ فِي الْحُجْرَةِ فَتَبَادَرَ النَّاسُ إِلَى الْحُجْرَةِ يَنْظُرُونَ مَنِ الرَّجُلُ فَإِذَا هُوَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع

One of the ones who were present said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! Is Abu Bakr that man?’ He^-saww said: ‘No’. He said, ‘So (is it) Umar’. He^-saww said: ‘No, but he is a repairer of the slipper in the room’. The people rushed to the room to look at who the man is, and there it was Amir Al-Momineen Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws’’.

و قد روى هذا الحديث جماعة عن أمير المؤمنين عليه السلام و قالوا فيه إن عليا قص هذه القصة – ثُمَّ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص يَقُولُ‏ مَنْ كَذَبَ عَلَيَّ مُتَعَمِّداً فَلْيَتَبَوَّأْ مَقْعَدَهُ مِنَ النَّارِ

And this Hadeeth has been reported by a group from Amir Al-Momineen^-asws, and they said in it that Ali^-asws related this story, then said, ‘I^-asws heard Rasool-Allah^-saww saying: ‘One who belies upon me^-saww deliberately, so let his assume his seat in the Fire’’.[47]

10 عم، إعلام الورى‏ فِي سَنَةِ خَمْسٍ كَانَتْ غَزْوَةُ الْحُدَيْبِيَةِ فِي ذِي الْقَعْدَةِ وَ خَرَجَ فِي نَاسٍ كَثِيرٍ مِنْ أَصْحَابِهِ يُرِيدُ الْعُمْرَةَ وَ سَاقَ مَعَهُ سَبْعِينَ بَدَنَةً وَ بَلَغَ ذَلِكَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ فَبَعَثُوا خَيْلًا لِيَصُدُّوهُ عَنِ الْمَسْجِدِ الْحَرَامِ وَ كَانَ ص يَرَى أَنَّهُمْ لَا يُقَاتِلُونَهُمْ‏ لِأَنَّهُ خَرَجَ فِي الشَّهْرِ الْحَرَامِ

‘Alam Al-Wara’ – In the year five was the military expedition of Al-Hudaybiya in Zil Qadah, and a lot of people from his^-saww companions came out intending the Umrah, and he^-saww ushered with him^-saww seventy sacrificial animals; and that reached the Polytheists from Quraysh, so they sent a cavalry to block him^-saww from the Sacred Masjid, and he^-saww was viewing that they would not be fighting him^-saww because he^-saww had come out during the Sacred month.

وَ كَانَ مِنْ أَمْرِ سُهَيْلِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو وَ أَبِي جَنْدَلٍ ابْنِهِ وَ مَا فَعَلَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص مَا شَكَّ بِهِ مَنْ زَعَمَ أَنَّهُ مَا شَكَّ إِلَّا يَوْمَئِذٍ فِي الدِّينِ‏ وَ أَتَى بُدَيْلُ بْنُ وَرْقَاءَ إِلَى قُرَيْشٍ فَقَالَ لَهُمْ يَا مَعْشَرَ قُرَيْشٍ خَفِّضُوا عَلَيْكُمْ وَ إِنَّهُ لَمْ يَأْتِ يُرِيدُ قِتَالَكُمْ وَ إِنَّمَا يُرِيدُ زِيَارَةَ هَذَا الْبَيْتِ فَقَالُوا وَ اللَّهِ لَا نَسْمَعُ مِنْكَ وَ لَا تُحَدِّثُ الْعَرَبُ أَنَّهُ دَخَلَهَا عَنْوَةً وَ لَا نَقْبَلُ مِنْهُ إِلَّا أَنْ يَرْجِعَ عَنَّا

And it was from the matter of Suheyl Bin Amro and Abu Jandal his son and what Rasool-Allah^-saww what was doubted by the one claimed he did not doubt except on that day regarding the Religion. And Budeyl Bin Warqa came to Quraysh and said to them, ‘O community of Quraysh! They have come down upon you and he^-saww has not come to fight you, and rather he^-saww wants to visit this House (Kabah)’. They said, ‘By Allah^-azwj! We will not listen to you nor will the Arabs narrate that he^-saww entered it forcibly, nor will we accept from him^-saww except that he^-saww returns from us’.

ثُمَّ بَعَثُوا إِلَيْهِ بِكُرْزِ بْنِ حَفْصٍ‏ وَ خَالِدِ بْنِ الْوَلِيدِ وَ صَدُّوا الْهَدْيَ وَ بَعَثَ ص عُثْمَانَ بْنَ عَفَّانَ إِلَى أَهْلِ مَكَّةَ يَسْتَأْذِنُهُمْ فِي أَنْ يَدْخُلَ‏ مَكَّةَ مُعْتَمِراً فَأَبَوْا أَنْ يَتْرُكُوهُ وَ احْتُبِسَ عُثْمَانُ فَظَنَّ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص أَنَّهُمْ قَتَلُوهُ

Then they sent to him^-saww Kurz Bin Hafs and Khalid Bin Al-Waleed, and they blocked the offering and he^-saww sent Usman Bin Affan to the people of Makkah to seek their permission to enter Makkah for Umrah. They refused to let him^-saww and withheld Usman. Rasool-Allah^-saww thought they had killed him.

فَقَالَ لِأَصْحَابِهِ أَ تُبَايِعُونِّي عَلَى الْمَوْتِ فَبَايَعُوهُ تَحْتَ الشَّجَرَةِ عَلَى أَنْ لَا يَفِرُّوا عَنْهُ أَبَداً ثُمَّ إِنَّهُمْ بَعَثُوا سُهَيْلَ بْنَ عَمْرٍو فَقَالَ يَا أَبَا الْقَاسِمِ إِنَّ مَكَّةَ حَرَمُنَا وَ عِزُّنَا وَ قَدْ تَسَامَعَتِ الْعَرَبُ بِكَ أَنَّكَ قَدْ غَزَوْتَنَا وَ مَتَى مَا تَدْخُلُ عَلَيْنَا مَكَّةَ عَنْوَةً تَطْمَعُ فِينَا فَنُتَخَطَّفُ وَ إِنَّا نَذْكُرُكَ الرَّحِمَ فَإِنَّ مَكَّةَ بَيْضَتُكَ الَّتِي تَفَلَّقَتْ عَنْ رَأْسِكَ‏

He^-saww said to his^-saww companions: ‘Will you pledge your allegiance to me^-saww upon the death?’ They pledged to him^-saww beneath the tree that they will not flee from him^-saww, ever!’ Then they (Quraysh) sent Suheyl Bin Amro and he said, ‘O Abu Al Qasim^-saww! Makkah is our sanctity and our honour, and the Arabs have already heard of you^-saww that you^-saww have come to battle us, and when you^-saww enter Makkah forcibly upon us, they will covet regarding us, and we will be replaced, and we remind you^-saww of the relationship, for Makkah is your^-saww egg which you^-saww have broken upon your^-saww own head’.

قَالَ فَمَا تُرِيدُ قَالَ أُرِيدُ أَنْ أَكْتُبَ بَيْنِي وَ بَيْنَكَ هُدْنَةً عَلَى أَنْ أُخَلِّيَهَا لَكَ فِي قَابِلٍ فَتَدْخُلَهَا وَ لَا تَدْخُلَهَا بِخَوْفٍ وَ لَا فَزَعٍ وَ لَا سِلَاحٍ إِلَّا سِلَاحِ الرَّاكِبِ السَّيْفُ فِي الْقِرَابِ وَ الْقَوْسُ

He^-saww said: ‘So what do you want?’ He said, ‘I want to write an agreement between me and you^-saww upon that I shall respite it for you^-saww during the next (year), so you^-saww can enter it, neither with fear nor alarm, nor weapons except weapons of the rider, the sword in the sheath, and the bow’.

فَدَعَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص عَلِيَّ بْنَ أَبِي طَالِبٍ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ فَأَخَذَ أَدِيماً أَحْمَرَ فَوَضَعَهُ عَلَى فَخِذِهِ ثُمَّ كَتَبَ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ فَقَالَ سُهَيْلُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو هَذَا كِتَابٌ بَيْنَنَا وَ بَيْنَكَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ فَافْتَتِحْهُ بِمَا نَعْرِفُهُ اكْتُبْ بِاسْمِكَ اللَّهُمَّ

Rasool-Allah^-saww called Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws. He^-asws took a red skin and placed it upon his^-asws thigh, then wrote, ‘In the Name of Allah^-azwj the Beneficent, the Merciful’. Suheyl Bin Amro said, ‘This is an agreement between us and you^-saww, O Muhammad^-saww, so begin it with what we recognise. Write, ‘In Your^-azwj Name, O God^-azwj!’

فَقَالَ اكْتُبْ بِاسْمِكَ اللَّهُمَّ وَ امْحُ مَا كَتَبْتَ فَقَالَ لَوْ لَا طَاعَتُكَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ لَمَا مَحَوْتُ فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ص اكْتُبْ هَذَا مَا قَاضَى عَلَيْهِ مُحَمَّدٌ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ سُهَيْلَ بْنَ عَمْرٍو فَقَالَ سُهَيْلٌ لَوْ أَجَبْتُكَ فِي الْكِتَابِ إِلَى هَذَا لَأَقْرَرْتُ لَكَ بِالنُّبُوَّةِ فَامْحُ هَذَا الِاسْمَ وَ اكْتُبْ مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ

He^-saww said: ‘Write, ‘In Your^-azwj Name, O God^-azwj!’, and delete what you^-asws wrote’. He^-asws said: ‘Had I^-asws not been in your^-saww obedience, I^-asws would not have deleted it’. The Prophet^-saww said: ‘Write, ‘This is was is fixed upon by Muhammad^-saww Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj and Suheyl Bin Amro’. Suheyl said, ‘If I were to answer you^-saww in the agreement to this, I would be accepting to you^-saww with the Prophet-hood. Delete this name and write, ‘Muhammad^-saww son of Abdullah^-asws’.

فَقَالَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ إِنَّهُ وَ اللَّهِ لَرَسُولُ اللَّهِ عَلَى رَغْمِ أَنْفِكَ فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ص امْحُهَا يَا عَلِيُّ فَقَالَ لَهُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّ يَدِي لَا تَنْطَلِقُ لِمَحْوِ اسْمِكَ مِنَ النُّبُوَّةِ

Ali^-asws said to him: ‘By Allah^-azwj! He^-saww is a Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj upon the rubbing of your nose’. The Prophet^-saww said: ‘Delete it, O Ali^-asws’. He^-asws said to him^-saww: ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! My^-asws hand will not move to delete your^-saww name from the Prophet-hood’.

قَالَ فَضَعْ يَدِي عَلَيْهَا فَمَحَاهَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص بِيَدِهِ وَ قَالَ لِعَلِيٍّ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ سَتُدْعَى إِلَى مِثْلِهَا فَتُجِيِبُ وَ أَنْتَ عَلَى مَضَضٍ

He said, ‘He^-saww placed his^-saww hand upon it and Rasool-Allah^-saww deleted it by his^-saww hand, and said to Ali^-asws: ‘You^-asws will be called to similar to it, so you^-asws will answer and you^-asws would be under compulsion’.

ثُمَّ كَتَبَ بِاسْمِكَ اللَّهُمَّ هَذَا مَا قَاضَى عَلَيْهِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ وَ مَنْ مَعَهُ مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ سُهَيْلَ بْنَ عَمْرٍو وَ مَنْ مَعَهُ مِنْ أَهْلِ مَكَّةَ عَلَى أَنَّ الْحَرْبَ مَكْفُوفَةٌ فَلَا إِغْلَالَ وَ لَا إِسْلَالَ وَ لَا قِتَالَ وَ عَلَى أَنْ لَا يُسْتَكْرَهَ أَحَدٌ عَلَى دِينِهِ وَ عَلَى أَنْ يُعْبَدَ اللَّهُ بِمَكَّةَ عَلَانِيَةً وَ عَلَى أَنَّ مُحَمَّداً يَنْحَرُ الْهَدْيَ مَكَانَهُ

Then he^-saww wrote: ‘In Your^-azwj Name O God^-azwj! This is was is fixed upon by Muhammad^-saww son of Abdullah^-asws son of Abdul Muttalib^-asws and the ones from the Muslims with him, and Suheyl Bin Amro and the ones from the people of Makkah with him, upon that the war is stooped, so there will neither be shackles not chains nor fighting; and upon that no one will be coerced upon his religion; and upon that Allah^-azwj will be worshipped openly at Makkah; and upon that Muhammad^-saww will sacrificed the offering in its place;

وَ عَلَى أَنْ يُخَلِّيَهَا لَهُ فِي قَابِلٍ ثَلَاثَةَ أَيَّامٍ فَيَدْخُلَهَا بِسِلَاحِ الرَّاكِبِ وَ يَخْرُجَ‏ قُرَيْشٌ كُلُّهَا مِنْ مَكَّةَ إِلَّا رَجُلٌ وَاحِدٌ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ يُخَلِّفُونَهُ مَعَ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ أَصْحَابِهِ وَ مَنْ لَحِقَ مُحَمَّداً وَ أَصْحَابَهُ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ فَإِنَّ مُحَمَّداً يَرُدُّهُ إِلَيْهِمْ وَ مَنْ رَجَعَ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ مُحَمَّدٍ إِلَى قُرَيْشٍ بِمَكَّةَ فَإِنَّ قُرَيْشاً لَا تَرُدُّهُ إِلَى مُحَمَّدٍ

And upon that it will be vacated for him^-saww during the next year for three days, and he^-saww would enter it with weapons of the rider, and all of the Quraysh will go out from Makkah except for one man from Quraysh staying behind with Muhammad^-saww and his^-saww companions; and the one from Quraysh who joins up with Muhammad^-saww and his^-saww companions, then Muhammad^-saww will return him to them, and one from the companions of Muhammad^-saww who return to Quraysh at Makkah, Quraysh will not return him to Muhammad^-saww’.

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص إِذَا سَمِعَ كَلَامِي ثُمَّ جَاءَكُمْ فَلَا حَاجَةَ لِي فِيهِ

And Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘When he has heard my speech then comes to you, there is no need for me^-saww regarding him’.

وَ إِنَّ قُرَيْشاً لَا يُعِينُ‏ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَ أَصْحَابِهِ أَحَداً بِنَفْسٍ وَ لَا سِلَاحٍ إِلَى آخِرِهِ

‘And upon that Quraysh will not assist anyone against Muhammad^-saww and his^-saww companions by people nor weapons up to its end (term)’.

فَجَاءَ أَبُو جَنْدَلٍ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ص حَتَّى جَلَسَ إِلَى جَنْبِهِ فَقَالَ أَبُوهُ سُهَيْلٌ رُدَّهُ‏ عَلَيَّ فَقَالَ الْمُسْلِمُونَ لَا نَرُدُّهُ فَقَامَ ص وَ أَخَذَ بِيَدِهِ فَقَالَ اللَّهُمَّ إِنْ كُنْتَ تَعْلَمُ إِنَّ أَبَا جَنْدَلٍ لَصَادِقٌ فَاجْعَلْ لَهُ فَرَجاً وَ مَخْرَجاً ثُمَّ أَقْبَلَ عَلَى النَّاسِ وَ قَالَ إِنَّهُ لَيْسَ عَلَيْهِ بَأْسٌ إِنَّمَا يَرْجِعُ إِلَى أَبِيهِ وَ أُمِّهِ وَ إِنِّي أُرِيدُ أَنْ أُتِمَّ لِقُرَيْشٍ شَرْطَهَا

Abu Jandal came to the Prophet^-saww until he sat to his^-saww side. His father Suheyl said, ‘Return him to me’. The Muslims said, ‘We will not return him’. He^-saww stood up and grabbed his hand and said, ‘O Allah^-azwj! If You^-azwj Know that Abu Jandal is sincere, then Hasten the way out for him’. Then he^-saww face towards the people and said: ‘There isn’t any problem upon him. But rather he should return to his father and his mother, and I^-saww to complete a condition to Quraysh’.

وَ رَجَعَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص إِلَى الْمَدِينَةِ وَ أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ فِي الطَّرِيقِ سُورَةَ الْفَتْحِ‏ إِنَّا فَتَحْنا لَكَ فَتْحاً مُبِيناً قَالَ الصَّادِقُ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ فَمَا انْقَضَتْ تِلْكَ الْمُدَّةُ حَتَّى كَادَ الْإِسْلَامُ يَسْتَوْلِي عَلَى أَهْلِ مَكَّةَ وَ لَمَّا رَجَعَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص إِلَى الْمَدِينَةِ انْفَلَتَ أَبُو بَصِيرِ بْنُ أُسَيْدِ بْنِ حَارِثَةَ الثَّقَفِيُّ مِنَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ وَ بَعَثَ الْأَخْنَسُ بْنُ شُرَيْقٍ فِي أَثَرِهِ رَجُلَيْنِ

And Rasool-Allah^-saww returned to Al-Medina, and Allah^-azwj Revealed Surah Al-Fat’h in the way: Surely, We Opened for you a clear victory [48:1]. Al-Sadiq^-asws said: ‘That term had not expired until Islam almost ruled upon the people of Makkah, and when Rasool-Allah^-saww returned to Al-Medina, Abu Baseer Bin Aseyd Bin Haris Al-Saqafy fled from the Polytheists, and Al-Akhna Bin Shueyq sent two men in his tracks.

فَقَتَلَ أَحَدَهُمَا وَ أَتَى رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص مُسْلِماً مُهَاجِراً فَقَالَ مُسْعِرُ حَرْبٍ لَوْ كَانَ مَعَهُ وَاحِدٌ ثُمَّ قَالَ شَأْنَكَ بِسَلْبِ‏ صَاحِبِكَ وَ اذْهَبْ حَيْثُ شِئْتَ فَخَرَجَ أَبُو بَصِيرٍ وَ مَعَهُ خَمْسَةُ نَفَرٍ كَانُوا قَدِمُوا مَعَهُ مُسْلِمِينَ حَتَّى كَانُوا بَيْنَ الْعِيصِ وَ ذِي الْمَرْوَةِ مِنْ أَرْضِ جُهَيْنَةَ عَلَى طَرِيقِ عِيرَاتِ قُرَيْشٍ مِمَّا يَلِي سِيفَ الْبَحْرِ

He killed one of the two and came to Rasool-Allah^-saww as a Muslim emigrating. He^-saww said: ‘Conflagration of war, if there was one with him’. Then he^-saww said: ‘It’s up to you with plundering your victim, and you can go wherever you like’. Abu Baseer went out and with him were five person who had proceeded with him as Muslims, until they were between Al-Ays and Zil-Marwa from the land of Juheyna upon the way of the caravans of Quraysh from what follows the coast of the sea.

وَ انْفَلَتَ أَبُو جَنْدَلِ بْنُ عَمْرٍو فِي سَبْعِينَ رَاكِباً أَسْلَمُوا فَلَحِقَ بِأَبِي بَصِيرٍ وَ اجْتَمَعَ إِلَيْهِمْ نَاسٌ مِنْ غِفَارٍ وَ أَسْلَمَ وَ جُهَيْنَةَ حَتَّى بَلَغُوا ثَلَاثَمِائَةِ مُقَاتِلٍ وَ هُمْ مُسْلِمُونَ لَا يَمُرُّ بِهِمْ عِيرٌ لِقُرَيْشٍ إِلَّا أَخَذُوهَا وَ قَتَلُوا أَصْحَابَهَا

And Abu Jandal Bin Amro escaped among seventy riders becoming Muslims and joined up with Abu Baseer, and people from Ghafar gathered to him and became Muslims, and (so did) Juheyna until they reached three hundred fighters, and they were Muslims. No caravan of Quraysh passed by them except they seized it and killed their people.

فَأَرْسَلَتْ قُرَيْشٌ أَبَا سُفْيَانَ بْنَ حَرْبٍ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص يَسْأَلُونَهُ وَ يَتَضَرَّعُونَ إِلَيْهِ أَنْ يَبْعَثَ إِلَى أَبِي بَصِيرٍ وَ أَبِي جَنْدَلٍ وَ مَنْ مَعَهُمْ فَيَقْدَمُوا عَلَيْهِ وَ قَالُوا مَنْ خَرَجَ مِنَّا إِلَيْكَ فَأَمْسِكْهُ غَيْرَ حَرَجٍ أَنْتَ فِيهِ فَعَلِمَ الَّذِينَ كَانُوا أَشَارُوا عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص أَنْ يَمْنَعَ أَبَا جَنْدَلٍ مِنْ أَبِيهِ بَعْدَ الْقِصَّةِ أَنَّ طَاعَةَ- رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص خَيْرٌ لَهُمْ فِيمَا أَحَبُّوا وَ فِيمَا كَرِهُوا

Quraysh sent Abu Sufyan Bin Harb to Rasool-Allah^-saww asking him^-saww and beseeching him^-saww to send for Abu Baseer and Abu Jandal and the ones with them, and they should come to him^-saww, and they said, ‘One who goes out from us to you^-saww, then withhold him without blame of you^-saww being in it’. He knew those whom he had indicated upon Rasool-Allah^-saww that he^-saww had deprived Abu Jandal of his father after the story that obedience to Rasool-Allah^-azwj is better for them regarding what they like and what they dislike.

وَ كَانَ أَبُو بَصِيرٍ وَ أَبُو جَنْدَلٍ وَ أَصْحَابُهُمَا هُمُ الَّذِينَ مَرَّ بِهِمْ أَبُو الْعَاصِ بْنُ الرَّبِيعِ مِنَ الشَّامِ فِي نَفَرٍ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ فَأَسَرُوهُمْ فَأَخَذُوا مَا مَعَهُمْ‏ وَ لَمْ يَقْتُلُوا مِنْهُمْ أَحَداً لِصِهْرِ أَبِي الْعَاصِ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص وَ خَلَّوْا سَبِيلَ أَبِي الْعَاصِ فَقَدِمَ الْمَدِينَةَ عَلَى امْرَأَتِهِ وَ كَانَ أَذِنَ لَهَا حِينَ خَرَجَ إِلَى الشَّامِ أَنْ تَقْدَمَ الْمَدِينَةَ فَتَكُونَ مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ أَبُو الْعَاصِ هُوَ ابْنُ أُخْتِ خَدِيجَةَ بِنْتِ خُوَيْلِدٍ

And Abu Baseer and Abu Jandal and their companions, they are those whom Abu Al-Aas Bin Al-Rabie passed by them from Syria among a number of Quraysh, and they captured them and seized whatever was with them and did not kill anyone of them due to the in-law connection of Abu Al-Aas with Rasool-Allah^-saww, and they freed the way of Abu Al-Aas. He arrived at Al-Medina to his wife and he had permitted her, when he had gone out to Syria that she could go to Al-Medina and be with Rasool-Allah^-saww. And Abu Al-Aas, he is a son of a sister of Khadeeja^-asws Bint Khuweylid’’.[48]

11 عم، إعلام الورى رِبْعِيُّ بْنُ خِرَاشٍ عَنْ أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ قَالَ: أَقْبَلَ سُهَيْلُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو وَ رَجُلَانِ أَوْ ثَلَاثَةٌ مَعَهُ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فِي الْحُدَيْبِيَةِ فَقَالُوا لَهُ إِنَّهُ يَأْتِيكَ قَوْمٌ مِنْ سَفَلَتِنَا وَ عُبْدَانِنَا فَارْدُدْهُمْ عَلَيْنَا فَغَضِبَ حَتَّى احْمَارَّ وَجْهُهُ وَ كَانَ إِذَا غَضِبَ ص يَحْمَارُّ وَجْهُهُ

‘Alam Al-Wara – Rabie Bin Jirash, from Amir Al-Momineen^-asws having said: ‘Suheyl Bin Amro and two men or three came with him to Rasool-Allah^-saww in Al-Hudaybiya and they said to him^-saww, ‘A group of our lowly ones and our slaves have come to you^-saww, so return them to us’. He^-saww got angry until his^-saww face reddened, and it was so that whenever he^-saww got angered, his^-saww face would redden.

ثُمَّ قَالَ لَتَنْتَهُنَّ يَا مَعْشَرَ قُرَيْشٍ أَوْ لَيَبْعَثَنَّ اللَّهُ عَلَيْكُمْ رَجُلًا امْتَحَنَ اللَّهُ قَلْبَهُ لِلْإِيمَانِ يَضْرِبُ رِقَابَكُمْ وَ أَنْتُمْ مُجْفِلُونَ عَنِ الدِّينِ‏ فَقَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ أَنَا هُوَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قَالَ لَا قَالَ عُمَرُ أَنَا هُوَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قَالَ لَا وَ لَكِنَّهُ ذَلِكُمْ خَاصِفُ النَّعْلِ فِي الْحُجْرَةِ وَ أَنَا أَخْصِفُ نَعْلَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص

Then he said, ‘Either you end it, O community of Quraysh or else Allah^-azwj will Sent to you a man whose heart Allah^-azwj has Tested for the Eman. He will strike off your necks and you will be appalled upon the Religion’. Abu Bakr said, ‘Am I him, O Rasool-Allah^-saww?’ He^-saww said: ‘No’. Umar said, ‘Am I him, O Rasool-Allah^-saww?’ He^-saww said: ‘No, but he is that one repairing the slipper in the room’, and I^-asws was repairing a slipper of Rasool-Allah^-saww’.

ثُمَّ قَالَ أَمَا إِنَّهُ قَدْ قَالَ ص‏ مَنْ كَذَبَ عَلَيَّ مُتَعَمِّداً فَلْيَتَبَوَّأْ مَقْعَدَهُ مِنَ النَّارِ

Then he^-asws said: ‘He^-saww had said: ‘One who belies upon me^-saww deliberately, so let him assume his seat in the Fire’’.[49]

12 كا، الكافي الْعِدَّةُ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ حُكَيْمٍ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ الصَّيْرَفِيِّ عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ قَالَ: إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص فِي عُمْرَةِ الْقَضَاءِ شَرَطَ عَلَيْهِمْ أَنْ يَرْفَعُوا الْأَصْنَامَ مِنَ الصَّفَا وَ الْمَرْوَةِ فَتَشَاغَلَ رَجُلٌ حَتَّى تَرَكَ السَّعْيَ حَتَّى انْقَضَتِ الْأَيَّامُ وَ أُعِيدَتِ الْأَصْنَامُ فَجَاءُوا إِلَيْهِ فَقَالُوا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّ فُلَاناً لَمْ يَسْعَ بَيْنَ الصَّفَا وَ الْمَرْوَةِ وَ قَدْ أُعِيدَتِ الْأَصْنَامُ فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَ‏ فَلا جُناحَ عَلَيْهِ أَنْ يَطَّوَّفَ بِهِما أَيْ وَ عَلَيْهِمَا الْأَصْنَامُ

‘Al Kafi’ – The number, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Muawiya Bin Hukeym, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Al Hassan Bin Ali Al Sayrafi, from one of our companions,

‘From Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww stipulated upon them during the expired Umrah that they lift the idols from Al-Safa and Al-Marwa. A man worked until he neglected the Sa’ee until the days expired and the idols were returned. They came to him^-saww and said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! So and so did not perform Sa’ee between Al-Safa and Al-Marwa, and the idols have returned. So, Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Revealed: there is no blame on him if he goes does Tawaaf of both of them; [2:158] – i.e. and upon them are the idols’’.[50]

13- كا، الكافي عَلِيٌّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ وَ غَيْرِهِ عَنْ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ عَمَّارٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ قَالَ: لَمَّا خَرَجَ النَّبِيُّ ص فِي غَزْوَةِ الْحُدَيْبِيَةِ خَرَجَ فِي ذِي الْقَعْدَةِ فَلَمَّا انْتَهَى إِلَى الْمَكَانِ الَّذِي أَحْرَمَ فِيهِ أَحْرَمُوا وَ لَبِسُوا السِّلَاحَ فَلَمَّا بَلَغَهُ أَنَّ الْمُشْرِكِينَ قَدْ أَرْسَلُوا إِلَيْهِ خَالِدَ بْنَ الْوَلِيدِ لِيَرُدَّهُ قَالَ ابْغُونِي‏ رَجُلًا يَأْخُذُنِي عَلَى غَيْرِ هَذَا الطَّرِيقِ فَأُتِيَ بِرَجُلٍ مِنْ مُزَيْنَةَ أَوْ جُهَيْنَةَ فَسَأَلَهُ فَلَمْ يُوَافِقْهُ

‘Al Kafi’ – Ali, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr and someone else, from Muawiya Bin Ammar,

‘From Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘When Rasool-Allah^-saww went out in a military expedition of Al-Hudaybiyya, it was the Month of Zil-al-Qadaha. When he^-saww ended up at the place in which Ihram had to be worn, they did so and wore their weapons as well. When it (news) reached the Polytheists, they sent to him^-saww Khalid Bin Waleed to turn him^-saww back. He^-saww said; ‘Bring me a man who can take me^-saww via a different road to this one. They came with a man from Muzaynat or from Juhaynat. He^-saww asked him, but he did not agree.

قَالَ ابْغُونِي‏ رَجُلًا غَيْرَهُ فَأُتِيَ بِرَجُلٍ آخَرَ إِمَّا مِنْ مُزَيْنَةَ وَ إِمَّا مِنْ جُهَيْنَةَ قَالَ فَذَكَرَ لَهُ فَأَخَذَهُ مَعَهُ حَتَّى انْتَهَى إِلَى الْعَقَبَةِ فَقَالَ مَنْ يَصْعَدْهَا حَطَّ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ كَمَا حَطَّ اللَّهُ عَنْ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ فَقَالَ لَهُمْ‏ ادْخُلُوا الْبابَ سُجَّداً نَغْفِرْ لَكُمْ خَطِيئاتِكُمْ‏

He^-saww said; ‘Bring to me^-saww a man other than him’. They came with another man from Muzaynat, or from Juhaynat. He said, ‘I remember it. He took them with him until they ended up at Al-Uqba. He^-saww said: ‘The one who climbs it, Allah^-azwj would Forgive him just as He^-azwj Forgave the Children of Israel, so He^-azwj Said: and enter into the door performing Sajdah, We will Forgive your mistakes for you. [7:161].

قَالَ فَابْتَدَرَهَا خَيْلُ الْأَنْصَارِ الْأَوْسُ وَ الْخَزْرَجُ قَالَ وَ كَانُوا أَلْفاً وَ ثَمَانَمِائَةٍ قَالَ فَلَمَّا هَبَطُوا إِلَى الْحُدَيْبِيَةِ إِذَا امْرَأَةٌ مَعَهَا ابْنُهَا عَلَى الْقَلِيبِ فَسَعَى ابْنُهَا هَارِباً فَلَمَّا أَثْبَتَتْ أَنَّهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَرَخَتْ بِهِ هَؤُلَاءِ الصَّابِئُونَ لَيْسَ عَلَيْكَ مِنْهُمْ بَأْسٌ

The cavalry of the Helpers, Al-Aws, and Al-Khazraj initiated the advance, and they were one thousand eight hundred of them. When they descended to Al-Hudaybiyya, there was a woman who had her son with her at Al-Quleyb. Her son ran away. When she established that it was the Rasool-Allah^-saww, she screamed, ‘These are Al-Sa’ibun, there is no problem to you from them’.

فَأَتَاهَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَأَمَرَهَا فَاسْتَقَتْ دَلْواً مِنْ مَاءٍ فَأَخَذَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَشَرِبَ وَ غَسَلَ وَجْهَهُ فَأَخَذَتْ فَضْلَتَهُ فَأَعَادَتْهُ فِي الْبِئْرِ فَلَمْ تَبْرَحْ حَتَّى السَّاعَةِ وَ خَرَجَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَأَرْسَلَ إِلَيْهِ الْمُشْرِكُونَ أَبَانَ بْنَ سَعِيدٍ فِي الْخَيْلِ فَكَانَ بِإِزَائِهِ ثُمَّ أَرْسَلُوا الْجَيْشَ‏ فَرَأَى الْبُدْنَ وَ هِيَ تَأْكُلُ بَعْضُهَا أَوْبَارَ بَعْضٍ

Rasool-Allah^-saww came up to her and commanded her to draw a bucket of water. Rasool-Allah^-saww took it. He^-saww drank, and washed his^-saww face. She took its remaining bit and returned it back in the well. That well still has water until this time. And the Rasool-Allah^-saww came out, and the Polytheists sent to him^-saww Aban Bin Saeed with some horsemen in front of them. Then they sent Al-Hulays, and he saw the animals being prepared for sacrifice.

فَرَجَعَ وَ لَمْ يَأْتِ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص وَ قَالَ لِأَبِي سُفْيَانَ يَا بَا سُفْيَانَ أَمَا وَ اللَّهِ مَا عَلَى هَذَا حَالَفْنَاكُمْ عَلَى أَنْ تَرُدُّوا الْهَدْيَ عَنْ مَحِلِّهِ فَقَالَ اسْكُتْ فَإِنَّمَا أَنْتَ أَعْرَابِيٌّ فَقَالَ أَ مَا وَ اللَّهِ لَتُخَلِّيَنَّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ مَا أَرَادَ أَوْ لَأَنْفَرِدَنَّ فِي الْأَحَابِيشِ‏ فَقَالَ اسْكُتْ حَتَّى نَأْخُذَ مِنْ مُحَمَّدٍ وَلْثاً

He returned and did not come to the Rasool-Allah^-saww, and said to Abu Sufyan: ‘ By Allah^-azwj, it was not this that we agreed upon, to return the sacrifices from its place’. He said, ‘Be quiet! For you are only a Bedouin’. He said, ‘But, by Allah^-azwj, stay away from Muhammad^-saww and what he^-saww wants, or else I shall revolt among Al-Ahabeysh’. He said, ‘Keep quiet until we take an agreement from Muhammad^-saww’.

فَأَرْسَلُوا إِلَيْهِ عُرْوَةَ بْنَ مَسْعُودٍ وَ قَدْ كَانَ جَاءَ إِلَى قُرَيْشٍ فِي الْقَوْمِ الَّذِينَ أَصَابَهُمُ الْمُغِيرَةُ بْنُ شُعْبَةَ كَانَ خَرَجَ مَعَهُمْ مِنَ الطَّائِفِ وَ كَانُوا تُجَّاراً فَقَتَلَهُمْ وَ جَاءَ بِأَمْوَالِهِمْ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَأَبَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص أَنْ يَقْبَلَهَا وَ قَالَ هَذَا غَدْرٌ وَ لَا حَاجَةَ لَنَا فِيهِ

They sent to him^-saww Urwat Bin Masoud and he had gone to the Quraysh regarding the people whom Al-Mugheira Bin Soh’ba had killed when they had gone with him from Al-Taef, and they used to be businessmen. He (Al-Mughirah) killed them and had come with their wealth to the Rasool-Allah^-saww, but Rasool-Allah^-saww had refused to accept it and said; ‘This is treachery, and we^-saww have no need with regards to it’.

فَأَرْسَلُوا إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَقَالُوا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ هَذَا عُرْوَةُ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ قَدْ أَتَاكُمْ وَ هُوَ يُعَظِّمُ الْبُدْنَ قَالَ فَأَقِيمُوهَا فَأَقَامُوهَا فَقَالَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ مَجِي‏ءَ مَنْ جِئْتَ قَالَ جِئْتُ أَطُوفُ بِالْبَيْتِ وَ أَسْعَى بَيْنَ الصَّفَا وَ الْمَرْوَةِ وَ أَنْحَرُ هَذِهِ الْإِبِلَ وَ أُخَلِّي عَنْكُمْ وَ عَنْ لُحْمَانِهَا

They sent him and he said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww, this is Urwat Bin Masoud who has come to you, and he magnifies the sacrifices’. He^-saww said: ‘Make him stand here’. They brought him to stand. He said, ‘O Muhammad^-saww, why have you^-saww come?’ He^-saww said: ‘I^-saww have come to circumambulate (Tawaaf) the House, and perform Sa’ee between Al-Safa and Al-Marwa, and sacrifice this camel and leave its meat for you’.

قَالَ لَا وَ اللَّاتِ وَ الْعُزَّى فَمَا رَأَيْتُ مِثْلَكَ رُدَّ عَمَّا جِئْتَ لَهُ إِنَّ قَوْمَكَ يُذَكِّرُونَكَ اللَّهَ وَ الرَّحِمَ أَنْ تَدْخُلَ عَلَيْهِمْ بِلَادَهُمْ بِغَيْرِ إِذْنِهِمْ وَ أَنْ تَقْطَعَ أَرْحَامَهُمْ وَ أَنْ تُجَرِّئَ عَلَيْهِمْ عَدُوَّهُمْ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص مَا أَنَا بِفَاعِلٍ حَتَّى أَدْخُلَهَا

He said, ‘No, I swear by Al-laat and Al-uzza (two idols), a person like you^-saww should not be sent back from what he has come for. If your^-saww people bind you^-saww to Allah^-azwj and the mercy, to enter their city without their permission, and cut-off their relationships, and make enemies to go against them’. Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘I^-saww will not do it until I^-saww enter it’.

قَالَ وَ كَانَ عُرْوَةُ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ حِينَ كَلَّمَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص تَنَاوَلَ لِحْيَتَهُ وَ الْمُغِيرَةُ قَائِمٌ عَلَى رَأْسِهِ فَضَرَبَ بِيَدِهِ فَقَالَ مَنْ هَذَا يَا مُحَمَّدُ فَقَالَ هَذَا ابْنُ أَخِيكَ الْمُغِيرَةُ فَقَالَ يَا غُدَرُ وَ اللَّهِ مَا جِئْتُ إِلَّا فِي غَسْلِ سَلْحَتِكَ‏ قَالَ فَرَجَعَ إِلَيْهِمْ فَقَالَ لِأَبِي سُفْيَانَ وَ أَصْحَابِهِ لَا وَ اللَّهِ مَا رَأَيْتُ مِثْلَ مُحَمَّدٍ رُدَّ عَمَّا جَاءَ لَهُ‏

And when Urwat Bin Masoud was speaking with the Rasool-Allah^-saww, he was holding his beard, and Al-Mugheira was standing near to his head. He hit him by his hand and said, ‘Who is this, O Muhammad^-saww! He^-saww said: ‘This is the son of your brother, Al-Mugheira’. He said, ‘O treachery! By Allah^-azwj, I did not come here except for the reconciliation with you^-saww’. He returned to them and said to Abu Sufyan and his companions, ‘No, by Allah^-azwj, a person like Muhammad^-saww should not be turned back from what he has come for’.

فَأَرْسَلُوا إِلَيْهِ سُهَيْلَ بْنَ عَمْرٍو وَ حُوَيْطِبَ بْنَ عَبْدِ الْعُزَّى فَأَمَرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَأُثِيرَتْ فِي وُجُوهِهِمُ الْبُدْنُ فَقَالا مَجِي‏ءَ مَنْ جِئْتَ قَالَ جِئْتُ لِأَطُوفَ بِالْبَيْتِ وَ أَسْعَى بَيْنَ الصَّفَا وَ الْمَرْوَةِ وَ أَنْحَرَ الْبُدْنَ وَ أُخَلِّيَ بَيْنَكُمْ وَ بَيْنَ لُحْمَانِهَا فَقَالا إِنَّ قَوْمَكَ يُنَاشِدُونَكَ اللَّهَ وَ الرَّحِمَ أَنْ تَدْخُلَ عَلَيْهِمْ بِلَادَهُمْ بِغَيْرِ إِذْنِهِمْ وَ تُقَطِّعَ أَرْحَامَهُمْ وَ تُجَرِّئَ عَلَيْهِمْ عَدُوَّهُمْ

They sent to him^-saww Suhail Bin Amro and Huweytab Bin Abdul Uzza. Rasool-Allah^-saww instructed for the sacrificial animals to be spread out in front of their eyes. He said, ‘Why have you^-saww come here?’ He^-saww said: ‘For Tawaaf of the House, and the Sa’ee between Al-Safa and Al-Marwa, and sacrifice the animals and leave their meat between you’. If your^-saww people bind you^-saww to Allah^-azwj and the mercy from entering their city without their permission, and cut-off their relationships, and make their enemies emboldened upon them’.

قَالَ فَأَبَى عَلَيْهِمَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص إِلَّا أَنْ يَدْخُلَهَا وَ كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص أَرَادَ أَنْ يَبْعَثَ عُمَرَ فَقَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّ عَشِيرَتِي قَلِيلٌ وَ إِنِّي فِيهِمْ عَلَى مَا تَعْلَمُ وَ لَكِنِّي أَدُلُّكَ عَلَى عُثْمَانَ بْنِ عَفَّانَ

He^-asws said: ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww refused the two of them, except that he^-saww would enter it. And the Rasool-Allah^-saww had intended to send Umar to them. He said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww, my relatives are few, and I am among them of the status that you^-saww know about (a humiliating one). You^-saww should send Usman Bin Affan’.

فَأَرْسَلَ إِلَيْهِ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ فَقَالَ انْطَلِقْ إِلَى قَوْمِكَ مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ فَبَشِّرْهُمْ بِمَا وَعَدَنِي رَبِّي مِنْ فَتْحِ مَكَّةَ فَلَمَّا انْطَلَقَ عُثْمَانُ إِلَى أَبَانِ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ فَتَأَخَّرَ عَنِ السَّرْجِ‏ فَحَمَلَ‏ عُثْمَانَ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ وَ دَخَلَ عُثْمَانُ فَأَعْلَمَهُمْ وَ كَانَتِ الْمُنَاوَشَةُ فَجَلَسَ سُهَيْلُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو عِنْدَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ جَلَسَ عُثْمَانُ فِي عَسْكَرِ الْمُشْرِكِينَ

Rasool-Allah^-saww sent for him and said, ‘Go to your people from the Believers. Give them the good news of what my^-saww Lord^-azwj has Promised me^-saww of the victory over Makkah’. When Usman went, he met Aban Bin Saeed. He delayed the camel and made room for Usman to ride with him. Usman entered (Makkah) and there was a skirmish. Suhail Bin Amro seated himself in the presence of the Rasool-Allah^-saww, and Usman sat in the army of the Polytheists.

وَ بَايَعَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص الْمُسْلِمِينَ وَ ضَرَبَ بِإِحْدَى يَدَيْهِ عَلَى الْأُخْرَى لِعُثْمَانَ وَ قَالَ الْمُسْلِمُونَ طُوبَى لِعُثْمَانَ قَدْ طَافَ بِالْبَيْتِ وَ سَعَى بَيْنَ الصَّفَا وَ الْمَرْوَةِ وَ أَحَلَّ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ مَا كَانَ لِيَفْعَلَ فَلَمَّا جَاءَ عُثْمَانُ قَالَ لَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص أَ طُفْتَ بِالْبَيْتِ فَقَالَ مَا كُنْتُ لِأَطُوفَ بِالْبَيْتِ وَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لَمْ يَطُفْ بِهِ ثُمَّ ذَكَرَ الْقَضِيَّةَ وَ مَا كَانَ فِيهَا

And Rasool-Allah^-saww got the Muslims to pledge their allegiances and tap one by his hand upon the other and Muslims said: ‘How good of Usman that he has performed Tawaaf of the House and performed Sa’ee between Al-Safa and Al-Marwa and be lawful (out of Ihraam)’. Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘He did what he had to do’. When Usman came, Rasool-Allah^-saww said to him; ‘Did you circumambulate the House?’ He said, ‘I could not perform Tawaaf of the House while Rasool-Allah^-saww had not performed Tawaaf of it’. Then he mentioned the story and what had happened’.

فَقَالَ لِعَلِيٍّ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ اكْتُبْ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ فَقَالَ سُهَيْلٌ مَا أَدْرِي مَا الرَّحْمَنُ الرَّحِيمُ إِلَّا أَنِّي أَظُنُّ هَذَا الَّذِي بِالْيَمَامَةِ وَ لَكِنِ اكْتُبْ كَمَا يُكْتَبُ‏ بِاسْمِكَ اللَّهُمَّ قَالَ وَ اكْتُبْ هَذَا مَا قَاضَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص سُهَيْلَ بْنَ عَمْرٍو

He^-saww said to Ali^-asws: ‘Write – In the Name of Allah^-azwj, the Beneficent, the Merciful’. Suhail said, ‘I don’t know what the Beneficent, the Merciful is except that I think this is the one at Al-Yamama. But, write as we write – ‘By Your^-azwj Name, O God^-azwj’. He^-saww said; ‘And write this – What has been agreed upon by the Rasool-Allah^-saww and Suhail Bin Amro’.

فَقَالَ سُهَيْلٌ فَعَلَى مَا نُقَاتِلُكَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ فَقَالَ أَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ وَ أَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ فَقَالَ النَّاسُ أَنْتَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ قَالَ اكْتُبْ فَكَتَبَ هَذَا مَا قَاضَى عَلَيْهِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ فَقَالَ النَّاسُ أَنْتَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ

Suhail said, ‘What are we fighting you^-saww for, O Muhammad^-saww?’ He^-saww said; ‘I^-saww and the Rasool-Allah^-saww and I^-saww am Muhammad^-saww bin Abdullah^-asws’. The people said: ‘You^-saww are the Rasool-Allah^-saww. He said, ‘Write – Write that this is what has been agreed upon by Muhammad^-saww Bin Abdullah^-asws’. The people said: ‘You^-saww are the Rasool-Allah^-saww.

وَ كَانَ فِي الْقَضِيَّةِ إِنْ كَانَ‏ مِنَّا أَتَى إِلَيْكُمْ رَدَدْتُمُوهُ إِلَيْنَا وَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص غَيْرُ مُسْتَكْرَهٍ عَنْ دِينِهِ وَ مَنْ جَاءَ إِلَيْنَا مِنْكُمْ لَمْ نَرُدَّهُ إِلَيْكُمْ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لَا حَاجَةَ لَنَا فِيهِمْ وَ عَلَى أَنْ يُعْبَدَ اللَّهُ‏ فِيكُمْ عَلَانِيَةً غَيْرَ سِرٍّ وَ إِنْ كَانُوا لَيَتَهَادَوْنَ السُّيُورَ فِي الْمَدِينَةِ إِلَى مَكَّةَ

And what was in the agreement that – ‘The one who was from us, if he were to come to you, shall be returned back to us and the Rasool-Allah^-saww will not keep him unwillingly from his religion, and the one who comes to us from you will not be returned back to you’. Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘There is no need for us regarding them’, and they should be allowed to worship Allah^-azwj among you openly, not in secret, and be allowed to exchange gifts between Al-Medina to Makkah’.

وَ مَا كَانَتْ قَضِيَّةٌ أَعْظَمَ بَرَكَةً مِنْهَا لَقَدْ كَادَ أَنْ يَسْتَوْلِيَ عَلَى أَهْلِ مَكَّةَ الْإِسْلَامُ فَضَرَبَ‏ سُهَيْلُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو عَلَى أَبِي جَنْدَلٍ ابْنِهِ فَقَالَ أَوَّلُ مَا قَاضَيْنَا عَلَيْهِ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ هَلْ قَاضَيْتُ عَلَى شَيْ‏ءٍ فَقَالَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ مَا كُنْتَ بِغَدَّارٍ قَالَ فَذَهَبَ بِأَبِي جَنْدَلٍ فَقَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ تَدْفَعُنِي إِلَيْهِ قَالَ وَ لَمْ أَشْتَرِطْ لَكَ قَالَ وَ قَالَ اللَّهُمَّ اجْعَلْ لِأَبِي جَنْدَلٍ مَخْرَجاً

And there was not any agreement more magnificent in Blessings than it for it made Al-Islam to almost take over the people of Makkah. Suhail Bin Amro struck his hand upon his son Abu Jandal, so he said, ‘The first of what we have agreed with you’. The Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Have I^-saww applied the agreement upon anything yet?’ He said, ‘O Muhammad^-saww! You^-saww are not a traitor’. He went with Abu Jandal’. He said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww, you^-saww are handing me over to him?’ He^-saww said: ‘And I^-saww did not set any conditions for you’. And said: ‘O God^-azwj! Make a way out for Abu Jandal!’’.[51]

14 وَ رُوِيَ فِي جَامِعِ الْأُصُولِ مِنْ صِحَاحِهِمْ عَنِ الْبَرَاءِ بْنِ عَازِبٍ قَالَ: اعْتَمَرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فِي ذِي الْقَعْدَةِ فَأَبَى أَهْلُ مَكَّةَ أَنْ يَدَعُوهُ يَدْخُلُ مَكَّةَ حَتَّى قَاضَاهُمْ عَلَى أَنْ يَدْخُلَ يَعْنِي مِنَ الْعَامِ الْمُقْبِلِ يُقِيمُ فِيهَا ثَلَاثَةً فَلَمَّا كَتَبُوا الْكِتَابَ كَتَبُوا هَذَا مَا قَاضَى عَلَيْهِ مُحَمَّدٌ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص قَالُوا مَا نُقِرُّ بِهَا فَلَوْ نَعْلَمُ أَنَّكَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ مَا مَنَعْنَاكَ وَ لَكِنْ أَنْتَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ

And it is reported in (the book) ‘Jamie al Usool’, from their correct ones, from Al-Bara’a Bin Azib who said, ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww went for Umrah in Zil Qadah but the people of Makkah refused to leave him^-saww to enter Makkah until they agreed that he^-saww will enter, meaning from the next year, staying in it for three (days). When they had written the agreement, ‘This is what Muhammad^-saww Rasool-Allah^-saww has agreed upon, they said, ‘We acknowledge it, for if we knew that you^-saww are a Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj, we would not prevent you^-saww, but you^-saww are Muhammad^-saww, son of Abdullah^-asws’.

فَقَالَ أَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ وَ أَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ثُمَّ قَالَ لِعَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ امْحُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ فَقَالَ لَا وَ اللَّهِ لَا أَمْحُوكَ أَبَداً فَأَخَذَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ لَيْسَ يُحْسِنُ يَكْتُبُ‏ فَكَتَبَ‏ هَذَا مَا قَاضَى عَلَيْهِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ لَا يُدْخِلُ مَكَّةَ السِّلَاحَ إِلَّا السَّيْفَ فِي الْقِرَابِ وَ أَنْ لَا يَخْرُجَ مِنْ أَهْلِهَا بِأَحَدٍ إِنْ أَرَادَ أَنْ يَتْبَعَهُ‏ وَ أَنْ لَا يَمْنَعَ مِنْ أَصْحَابِهِ أَحَداً إِنْ أَرَادَ أَنْ يُقِيمَ بِهَا

He^-saww said: ‘I^-saww am Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj and I^-saww am Muhammad^-saww son of Abdullah^-asws’. Then he^-saww said to Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws: ‘Delete (the word) ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww’. He^-asws said: ‘No, by Allah^-azwj, I^-asws will not delete you^-saww, ever!’ So, Rasool-Allah^-saww took it, and he^-saww wasn’t good at writing, and he^-saww wrote: ‘This is what Muhammad^-saww son of Abdullah^-asws has agreed upon – He^-saww will not enter Makkah with weapons except the sword in the sheath, and he^-saww will not bring out anyone from its people if he wants to follow him^-saww, and he^-saww will not prevent any one from his^-saww companions if he wants to stay at it’.

فَلَمَّا دَخَلَهَا وَ مَضَى الْأَجَلُ أَتَوْا عَلِيّاً فَقَالُوا قُلْ لِصَاحِبِكَ اخْرُجْ عَنَّا فَقَدْ مَضَى الْأَجَلُ فَخَرَجَ النَّبِيُّ ص فَتَبِعَتْهُ‏ ابْنَةُ حَمْزَةَ تُنَادِي يَا عَمِّ يَا عَمِّ فَتَنَاوَلَهَا عَلِيٌّ وَ قَالَ لِفَاطِمَةَ دُونَكَ بِنْتُ عَمِّكَ فَحَمَلَتْهَا

When he^-saww entered and the term expired, they came to Ali^-asws and said, ‘Tell your^-asws companions to go out from us, for the term has expired’. The Prophet^-saww came out and a daughter of Hamza^-as followed him^-saww calling out, ‘O uncle! O uncle!’ Ali^-asws took her and said to (Syeda) Fatima^-asws: ‘A daughter of your^-asws uncle under you^-asws’. She^-asws carried her (on the camel).

فَاخْتَصَمَ فِيهَا عَلِيٌّ وَ زَيْدٌ وَ جَعْفَرٌ قَالَ عَلِيٌّ أَنَا أَخَذْتُهَا قَالَ الْحُمَيْدِيُّ أَنَا أَحَقُ‏ بِهَا وَ هِيَ بِنْتُ عَمِّي وَ قَالَ جَعْفَرٌ بِنْتُ عَمِّي وَ خَالَتُهَا تَحْتِي وَ قَالَ زَيْدٌ بِنْتُ أَخِي

Ali^-asws and Zayd and Ja’far disputed regarding her (upbringing). Ali^-asws said: ‘I^-asws will take her’. Al-Humeydi said, ‘(Ali^-asws said): ‘I^-asws am more rightful with her and she is a daughter of my^-asws uncle^-ra’. And Ja’far said, ‘Daughter of my uncle^-ra and her maternal aunt is married to me’. And Zayd said, ‘Daughter of my brother^-as’.

فَقَضَى بِهَا النَّبِيُّ ص لِخَالَتِهَا وَ قَالَ الْخَالَةُ بِمَنْزِلَةِ الْأُمِّ وَ قَالَ لِعَلِيٍّ أَنْتَ مِنِّي وَ أَنَا مِنْكَ وَ قَالَ لِجَعْفَرٍ أَشْبَهْتَ خَلْقِي وَ خُلُقِي وَ قَالَ لِزَيْدٍ أَنْتَ أَخُونَا وَ مَوْلَانَا.

The Prophet^-saww judged with her to be for her maternal aunt and said: ‘The maternal aunt is at the status of the mother’, and he^-saww said to Ali^-asws: ‘You^-asws are from me^-saww and I^-saww am from you^-asws’. And He^-saww said to Ja’far: ‘You resemble my^-saww body and my^-saww manners’. And he^-saww said to Zayd: ‘You are our brother and our master’’.[52]

15 أقول ذكر ابن الأثير في الكامل في حوادث السنة السادسة فيها نزلت سورة الفتح و هاجر إلى رسول الله ص نسوة مؤمنات فيهن أم كلثوم ابنة عقبة بن أبي معيط فجاء أخواها عمارة و الوليد يطلبانها فأنزل الله‏ فَإِنْ عَلِمْتُمُوهُنَّ مُؤْمِناتٍ فَلا تَرْجِعُوهُنَّ إِلَى الْكُفَّارِ فلم يرسل امرأة مؤمنة إلى مكة و أنزل الله‏ وَ لا تُمْسِكُوا بِعِصَمِ الْكَوافِرِ فطلق عمر بن الخطاب امرأتين له

I (Majlisi) am saying, ‘Ibn Al Aseer mentioned in (the book) ‘Al Kamil’ regarding the events of the year six – During it Surah Al Fat’h was Revealed and believing women emigrated to Rasool-Allah^-saww, among them were Umm Kulsoom daughter of Aqaba Bin Abu Mueet. Her brothers Ammar and Al Waleed came seeking her, so Allah^-azwj Revealed: Then if you know them to be Mominaat, do not return them to the Kafirs [60:10], so he^-saww did not send any believing woman to Makkah; and Allah^-azwj Revealed: and do not hold on to the ties of marriage of the Kafir women [60:10]. Umar Bin Al Khattab had to divorce two wives of his.

و فيها كانت سرية عكاشة بن محصن في أربعين رجلا إلى الغمر فنذر القوم‏ بهم فهربوا فسعت الطلائع فوجدوا مائتي بعير فأخذوها إلى المدينة و كانت في ربيع الآخر.

And during it was the battalion of Akasha Bin Mohsin, among forty men to Al Ghamr. The people were pre-warned with them, so they fled and ascended the mountain. They found two hundred camels and took them to Al Medina, and it was during Rabbi Al Akher.

و فيها كانت سرية محمد بن مسلمة أرسله رسول الله ص في عشرة فوارس في ربيع الأول إلى بني ثعلبة بن سعد فكمن القوم له حتى نام هو و أصحابه فظهروا عليهم فقتل أصحابه و نجا هو وحده جريحا.

And during it was the battalion of Muhammad Bin Maslama. Rasool-Allah^-saww sent him among ten horsemen during Rabbi Al Awwal to the clan of Sa’alba Bin Sa’ad. The people set up an ambush. When he and his companions had slept, they attacked upon them and killed his companions, and he alone was saved, injured.

و فيها كانت سرية أبي عبيدة بن الجراح إلى ذي القصة في ربيع الآخر في أربعين رجلا فهرب أهله منهم و أصابوا نعما و رجلا فأسلم فتركه رسول الله ص.

And during it was the battalion of Abu Ubeyda Bin Al Jarrah to Zul Qasa during Rabbi Al Akher among forty men. Its people fled from them and they attained bounties, and a man. He became a Muslim, so Rasool-Allah^-saww left him.

و فيها كانت سرية زيد بن حارثة بالجموم فأصاب امرأة من مزينة اسمها حليمة فدلتهم على محلة من محال بني سليم فأصابوا نعما و شاء و أسراء فيهم زوجها فأطلقها رسول الله ص و زوجها معها.

And during it was the battalion of Zayd Bin Haris with Al Jamum. He attained a woman from Muzeyna, her name was Haleema. She pointed them upon a neighbourhood from the neighbourhoods of the clan of Suleym, and they attained bounties, and livestock, and captives, among them being a married woman. Rasool-Allah^-saww effected her divorce and got married with her.

و فيها سرية زيد أيضا إلى العيص في جمادى الأولى.

And during it was a battalion of Zayd as well, to Al Ays during Jamadi Al Awwal.

و فيها أخذت الأموال التي كانت مع أبي العاص بن الربيع و استجار بزينب بنت رسول الله ص فأجارته كما تقدم.

And during it the wealth which was with Abu Al Allas bin Al Rabie was seized, and he sought refuge with Zainab daughter of Rasool-Allah^-saww, and she gave him refuge as has preceded.

و فيها سرية زيد أيضا إلى الطرف في جمادى الآخرة في بني تغلبة في خمسة عشر رجلا فهربوا منه و أصاب من تميم‏ عشرين بعيرا.

And during it was the battalion of Zayd as well, to Al Tarf during Jamadi Al Akhira regarding the clan of Taghlub among fifteen men. They fled from him and he attained twenty camels from Tameem.

و فيها سرية زيد بن حارثة إلى خمس‏ في جمادى الآخرة و سببها أن رفاعة بن زيد الجدلي‏ ثم الضبي قدم على رسول الله ص في هدنة الحديبية و أهدى لرسول الله ص غلاما و أسلم فحسن إسلامه و كتب له رسول الله ص كتابا إلى قومه يدعوهم إلى الإسلام فأسلموا ثم ساروا إلى الحرة

And during it was the battalion of Zayd Bin Haris to Hamas during Jamad Al Akhira, and its reason was that Rafa’a Bin Zayd Al Jadly, then Al Zaby, came to Rasool-Allah^-saww regarding the sacrificial animals of Al-Hudaybiya, and gifted a servant to Rasool-Allah^-azwj, and he became a Muslim and his Islam was good, and Rasool-Allah^-saww wrote out for him an agreement to his people inviting them to Al-Islam. They became Muslims. Then they travelled to Al Hira.

ثم إن دحية بن خليفة أقبل من الشام من عند قيصر حتى إذا كان بأرض حذام أغار إليه الهنيد و ابنه العوص الصليعيان‏ و هو بطن من حذام فأخذا كل شي‏ء معه فبلغ ذلك‏ نفرا من بني الضب‏ قوم رفاعة ممن كان أسلم فنفروا إلى الهنيد و ابنه فلقوهم فاقتتلوا فظفر بنو الضب‏ و استنقذوا كل شي‏ء كان أخذ من دحية و ردوه عليه فخرج دحية حتى لقي رسول الله ص و طلب منه دم الهنيد و ابنه العوص

Then Dahiya Bin Khalifa came from Syria from the presence of Chosroe until when he was at the land of Hazam, Al Huneyd and his son Al Aws Al Saliyayn attacked upon him, and he was from the midst of the servants, and they took everything which was with him. That reached a number of the clan of Al Zayb, a group of Rafa’at from the ones who had become Muslims. They went to Al Huneyd and his come Al Aws.

فبعث رسول الله ص إليهم‏ زيد بن حارثة في جيش فأغاروا و جمعوا ما وجدوا من مال و قتلوا الهنيد و ابنه فلما سمع ذلك بنو الضب‏ رهط رفاعة سار بعضهم إلى زيد بن حارثة فقالوا إنا قوم مسلمون فقال زيد نادوا في الجيش أن الله حرم علينا ما أخذ من طريق القوم الذين جاءوا منها و أراد أن يسلم إليهم سباياهم

Rasool-Allah^-saww sent Zayd Bin Haris to them among an army, and they attacked and collected whatever they found from the wealth and killed Al Huneyd and his son. When the clan of Al Zab heard that, a group pf Rafa’at, some of them travelled to Zayd Bin Haris and said, ‘We are a group of Muslims’. Zayd said, ‘Call out among the army that Allah^-azwj has Prohibited upon us what is seized from the road of the people, those who have come from it and wanted to become Muslims, that you should submit to them their captives’.

فأخبره بعض أصحابه عنهم بما أوجب أن يحتاط فتوقف في تسليم السبايا و قال هم في حكم الله تعالى و نهى الجيش أن يهبطوا واديهم و عاد أولئك الركب إلى رفاعة بن زيد لم يشعر بشي‏ء من أمرهم فقال له بعضهم إنك لجالس تحلب المعزى و نساء حذام‏ أسارى

One of his companions informed about them with what is Obligated and be cautious in submitting the captives, and said, ‘They are in the Judgment of Allah^-azwj the Exalted’; and he forbade the army from descending into their valley, and those riders returned to Rafa’at Bin Zayd, not being away of anything of their matter. One of them said to him, ‘You are seated milking the goat and the women are captives’.

فسار رفاعة و القوم معه إلى المدينة و عرض كتاب رسول الله ص عليه فقال كيف أصنع بالقتيل فقالوا لنا من كان حيا و من قتل فهو تحت أقدامنا فأجابهم إلى ذلك و أرسل معهم علي بن أبي طالب إلى زيد بن حارثة فرد على القوم ما لهم حتى كانوا ينتزعون لبد المرأة من تحت الرجل‏.

Rafa’at travelled to Al Medina and the group was with him, and presented the letter of Rasool-Allah^-saww and he said, ‘How should I deal with the killed ones. They said, ‘For us the one who was alive and the one who is killed, he is under our feet, so answer them to that and send Ali Bin Abu Talib^-asws with them to Zayd Bin Haris. He^-asws returned to the people whatever was for them until they were snatching the body of the woman from under the man’.

و فيها سرية زيد أيضا إلى وادي القرى في رجب‏.

And during it was the battalion of Zayd as well to the valley of Al Qura during Rajab.

و فيها سرية عبد الرحمن بن عوف إلى دومة الجندل في شعبان فأسلموا فتزوج عبد الرحمن تمامة بنت الإصبع‏ رئيسهم و هي أم أبي سلمة.

And during it was the battalion of Abdul Rahman Bin Awf to Dowmat Al Jandal during Shaban. They became Muslims and Abdul Rahman married Tamama Bint Al Asba’a, their chief, and she is mother of Abu Salma.

و فيها سرية علي بن أبي طالب عليه السلام إلى فدك في شعبان في مائة رجل و ذلك أن رسول الله ص بلغه أن حيا من بني سعد قد تجمعوا له يريدون أن يمدوا أهل خيبر فسار إليهم علي عليه السلام فأصاب عينا لهم فأخبره أنهم ساروا إلى أهل خيبر يعرضون عليهم نصرهم على أن يجعلوا لهم تمر خيبر.

And during it was the battalion of Ali Bin Abu Talib^-asws to Fadak during Shaban among one hundred men, and that is that Rasool-Allah^-saww, it reached him that a group of the clan of Sa’ad has gathered to him intending to help the people of Khyber. Ali Bin Abu Talib^-asws travelled to them and attained a spy of theirs. He informed him^-asws that they had travelled to the people of Khyber presenting their help to them upon that they would make the dates of Khyber to be for them’’.[53]

16 أَقُولُ ذَكَرَ فِي رَوْضَةِ الْأَحْبَابِ‏ أَنَّهُ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ سَارَ بِاللَّيْلِ وَ كَمَنَ بِالنَّهَارِ حَتَّى أَتَى الْهَمَجَ فَأَصَابَ عَيْناً لَهُمْ فَذَهَبَ بِعَسْكَرِ الْمُسْلِمِينَ إِلَيْهِمْ فَأَغَارُوا عَلَيْهِمْ‏ فَانْهَزَمَ بَنُو سَعْدٍ وَ غَنِمَ الْمُسْلِمُونَ مِنْهُمْ مِائَةَ بَعِيرٍ وَ أَلْفَيْ شَاةٍ فَاصْطَفَى عَلِيٌّ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ لِلنَّبِيِّ ص عِدَّةً مِنَ الْإِبِلِ وَ قَسَمَ سَائِرَ الْمَالِ عَلَى أَهْلِ السَّرِيَّةِ وَ رَجَعَ

I (Majlisi) am saying, ‘It is mentioned in (the book) ‘Rowzat Al Ahbab’, he^-asws travelled at night and lied in wait by the day until he^-asws came to Al Hamaj. He attained a spy of theirs. He went with the army of the Muslims to them and attacked upon them. The clan of Sa’ad were defeated and the Muslims got booty from them of one hundred camels and two thousand sheep. Ali^-asws selected a number of camels for the Prophet^-saww and distributed the rest of the wealth upon the people of the battalion, and returned.

قَالَ وَ فِيهَا أَجْدَبَ النَّاسُ جَدْباً شَدِيداً فَاسْتَسْقَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص بِالنَّاسِ فِي شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ‏

He said, ‘And during it the people were afflicted by severe drought, so Rasool-Allah^-saww prayed for rain with the people during the month of Ramazan.

وَ فِيهَا سَرِيَّةُ زَيْدِ بْنِ حَارِثَةَ إِلَى وَادِي الْقُرَى وَ ذَلِكَ أَنَّ زَيْداً كَانَ يَذْهَبُ إِلَى الشَّامِ فِي تِجَارَةٍ وَ مَعَهُ بَضَائِعُ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ النَّبِيِّ ص فَلَمَّا قَرُبُوا مِنْ وَادِي الْقُرَى‏ أَغَارَ عَلَيْهِمْ قَوْمٌ مِنْ فَزَارَةَ فَقَتَلُوا الْمُسْلِمِينَ وَ هَرَبَ زَيْدٌ إِلَى الْمَدِينَةِ وَ فِي رِوَايَةٍ ارْتُثَ‏ زَيْدٌ مِنْ بَيْنِ الْقَتْلَى فَنَذَرَ أَنْ لَا يَمَسَّ طِيباً وَ لَا مَاءً مِنْ جَنَابَةٍ حَتَّى يَغْزُوَ فَزَارَةَ فَبَعَثَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص إِلَى بَنِي فَزَارَةَ فَلَقِيَهُمْ بِوَادِي الْقُرَى فَأَصَابَ مِنْهُمْ وَ قَتَلَ وَ أَسَرَ أُمَّ فَرْوَةَ وَ هِيَ فَاطِمَةُ بِنْتُ رَبِيعَةَ فَقَتَلَهَا

And during it was the battalion of Zayd Bin Haris to the valley of Al Qura, and that is that Zayd was going to Syria among traders and with him was merchandise from the companions of the Prophet^-saww. When they were near from the valley of Al Qura, a group from Fazara attacked upon them and they killed the Muslims, and Zayd fled to Al Medina. And in a report, Zayd got up from among the killed ones and he was still alive, and he vowed that he will neither touch perfume nor water from a sexual impurity until he attacked Fazara. Rasool-Allah^-saww sent him to the clan of Fazara and he met them at the valley of Al Qura, and he attained from them and killed, and captured Umm Farwa, and she is Fatima Bint Rabie, and killed her’’.[54]

باب 21 مراسلاته ص إلى ملوك العجم و الروم و غيرهم و ما جرى بينه و بينهم و بعض ما جرى إلى غزوة خيبر

CHAPTER 21 – HIS^-saww MESSAGES TO THE KINGS OF PERSIA, AND ROME AND OTHERS, AND WHAT FLOWED BETWEEN HIM^-saww AND THEM, AND SOME OF WHAT FLOWED UP TO THE BATTLE OF KHYBER

1- يج، الخرائج و الجرائح‏ رُوِيَ أَنَّ كِسْرَى كَتَبَ إِلَى فَيْرُوزَ الدَّيْلَمِيِ‏ وَ هُوَ مِنْ بَقِيَّةِ أَصْحَابِ سَيْفِ بْنِ ذِي يَزَنَ أَنِ احْمِلْ إِلَيَّ هَذَا الْعَبْدَ الَّذِي يَبْدَأُ بِاسْمِهِ قَبْلَ اسْمِي فَاجْتَرَأَ عَلَيَّ وَ دَعَانِي إِلَى غَيْرِ دِينِي

‘Al-Kharaij Wa Al-Jaraih’ – It is reported that Chosroes wrote to Feyrouz Al-Daylami, and he was from the remnants of the companions of Sayf Bin Zi Yazan, ‘Bring to me this servant whose name begins before my name and is audacious upon me and calls me to other than my religion’.

فَأَتَاهُ فَيْرُوزُ وَ قَالَ لَهُ إِنَّ رَبِّي أَمَرَنِي أَنْ آتِيَهُ بِكَ فَقَالَ لَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص إِنَّ رَبِّي خَبَّرَنِي أَنَّ رَبَّكَ قُتِلَ الْبَارِحَةَ فَجَاءَ الْخَبَرُ أَنَّ ابْنَهُ شِيرَوَيْهِ وَثَبَ عَلَيْهِ فَقَتَلَهُ فِي تِلْكَ اللَّيْلَةِ فَأَسْلَمَ فَيْرُوزُ وَ مَنْ مَعَهُ فَلَمَّا خَرَجَ الْكَذَّابُ الْعَبْسِيُّ أَنْفَذَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لِيَقْتُلَهُ فَتَسَلَّقَ سَطْحاً فَلَوَّى عُنُقَهُ فَقَتَلَهُ‏

Feyrouz came to him^-saww and said to him^-saww, ‘My lord ordered me that I come with you^-saww’. Rasool-Allah^-saww said to him: ‘My^-saww Lord^-azwj Informed me^-saww that your lord was killed last night’. Then came the news that his son Sheyrawiya had leapt upon him and killed him during that night. Feyrouz and the ones with him became Muslims. When the liar went out frowning, Rasool-Allah^-saww sent a delegation to kill him. He ascended to a rooftop and twisted his neck and it killed him’’.[55]

2 يج، الخرائج و الجرائح‏ رُوِيَ أَنَّ هِرَقْلَ بَعَثَ رَجُلًا مِنْ غَسَّانَ وَ أَمَرَهُ أَنْ يَأْتِيَهُ بِخَبَرِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ قَالَ لَهُ احْفَظْ لِي مِنْ أَمْرِهِ ثَلَاثاً انْظُرْ عَلَى أَيِّ شَيْ‏ءٍ تَجِدُهُ جَالِساً وَ مَنْ عَلَى يَمِينِهِ وَ إِنِ اسْتَطَعْتَ أَنْ تَنْظُرَ إِلَى خَاتَمِ النُّبُوَّةِ فَافْعَلْ

‘Al-Kharaij Wa Al-Jaraih’ – It is reported that Hercules sent a man from Gassan and ordered him to come to him with the news of Muhammad^-saww and said to him, ‘Memorise three things from his^-saww matter – look at which thing you see him^-saww to be seated upon, and who is upon his^-saww right, and if you are able, then look at the seal of the Prophet-hood, then do so’.

فَخَرَجَ الْغَسَّانِيُّ حَتَّى أَتَى النَّبِيَّ ص فَوَجَدَهُ جَالِساً عَلَى الْأَرْضِ وَ وَجَدَ عَلِيَّ بْنَ أَبِي طَالِبٍ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ عَنْ يَمِينِهِ وَ جَعَلَ رِجْلَيْهِ فِي مَاءٍ يَفُورُ فَقَالَ مَنْ هَذَا عَلَى يَمِينِهِ قِيلَ ابْنُ عَمِّهِ فَكَتَبَ ذَلِكَ وَ نَسِيَ الْغَسَّانِيُّ الثَّالِثَةَ فَقَالَ لَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص تَعَالَ فَانْظُرْ إِلَى مَا أَمَرَكَ بِهِ صَاحِبُكَ فَنَظَرَ إِلَى خَاتَمِ النُّبُوَّةِ فَانْصَرَفَ الرَّجُلُ‏ إِلَى هِرَقْلَ

The Gassanite went out until he came to the Prophet^-saww and found him^-saww to be seated upon the ground, and found Ali Bin Abu Talib^-asws on his^-saww right, and made his^-saww leg to be in flowing water. He said, ‘Who is this on his^-saww right?’ It was said, ‘His^-saww cousin^-asws’. He wrote that, and the Gassanite forgot the third. Rasool-Allah^-saww said to him: ‘Come and look at what your master ordered you with’. He looked at the seal of the Prophet-hood, and the man left to go to Hercules.

قَالَ‏ مَا صَنَعْتَ قَالَ وَجَدْتُهُ جَالِساً عَلَى الْأَرْضِ وَ الْمَاءُ يَفُورُ تَحْتَ قَدَمَيْهِ وَ وَجَدْتُ عَلِيّاً ابْنَ عَمِّهِ عَنْ يَمِينِهِ وَ أُنْسِيتُ مَا قُلْتَ لِي فِي الْخَاتَمِ فَدَعَانِي فَقَالَ هَلُمَّ إِلَى مَا أَمَرَكَ بِهِ صَاحِبُكَ فَنَظَرْتُ إِلَى خَاتَمِ النُّبُوَّةِ

He said, ‘What did you do?’ He said, ‘I found him^-saww seated upon the ground and the water was flowing beneath his^-saww feet, and found Ali^-asws, his^-saww cousin on his^-saww right, and I forgot what you had said to me regarding the seal. He^-saww called me and said: ‘Come to what your master has ordered you with’. I looked at the seal of Prophet-hood’.

فَقَالَ هِرَقْلُ هَذَا الَّذِي بَشَّرَ بِهِ عِيسَى ابْنُ مَرْيَمَ أَنَّهُ يَرْكَبُ الْبَعِيرَ فَاتَّبِعُوهُ وَ صَدِّقُوهُ ثُمَّ قَالَ لِلرَّسُولِ اخْرُجْ إِلَى أَخِي فَأَعْرِضْ عَلَيْهِ فَإِنَّهُ شَرِيكِي فِي الْمُلْكِ فَقُلْتُ لَهُ فَمَا طَابَ نَفْسُهُ عَنْ ذَهَابِ مُلْكِهِ

Hercules said, ‘This is the one Isa Ibn Maryam^-as has given the glad tidings with that he^-saww will be riding the camel, so follow him^-saww and ratify him^-saww’. Then he said to the messenger, ‘Go out to my brother and presented to him, for he is my partner in the kingdom’’. I said to him, ‘So his soul is not good about the going away of his kingdom’’.[56]

3 يج، الخرائج و الجرائح رُوِيَ أَنَّ دِحْيَةَ الْكَلْبِيَّ قَالَ: بَعَثَنِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص بِكِتَابٍ إِلَى قَيْصَرَ فَأَرْسَلَ إِلَى الْأُسْقُفِّ فَأَخْبَرَهُ بِمُحَمَّدٍ وَ كِتَابِهِ فَقَالَ هَذَا النَّبِيُّ الَّذِي كُنَّا نَنْتَظِرُهُ‏ بَشَّرَنَا بِهِ عِيسَى ابْنُ مَرْيَمَ

(The book) ‘Al-Kharaij Wa Al-Jaraih’ – It is reported that Dahiya Al-Kalby said, ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww sent me with a letter to Caesar, so I sent a message to the bishop and informed him with Muhammad^-saww and his^-saww letter. He said, ‘This is the Prophet^-saww we were awaiting him^-saww. Isa Bin Maryam^-as has given glad tidings with’.

وَ قَالَ الْأُسْقُفُّ أَمَّا أَنَا فَمُصَدِّقُهُ وَ مُتَّبِعُهُ فَقَالَ قَيْصَرُ أَمَّا أَنَا إِنْ فَعَلْتُ ذَلِكَ ذَهَبَ مُلْكِي

And the bishop said, ‘As for I, I ratify him^-saww follow him^-saww’. Caesar said, ‘As for I, if I were to do that, my kingdom would go away’.

ثُمَّ قَالَ قَيْصَرُ الْتَمِسُوا لِي مِنْ قَوْمِهِ هَاهُنَا أَحَداً أَسْأَلُهُ عَنْهُ وَ كَانَ أَبُو سُفْيَانَ وَ جَمَاعَةٌ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ دَخَلُوا الشَّامَ تُجَّاراً فَأَحْضَرَهُمْ وَ قَالَ لِيَدْنُ مِنِّي أَقْرَبُكُمْ نَسَباً بِهِ فَأَتَاهُ أَبُو سُفْيَانَ فَقَالَ أَنَا سَائِلٌ عَنْ هَذَا الرَّجُلِ الَّذِي يَقُولُ إِنَّهُ نَبِيٌّ ثُمَّ قَالَ لِأَصْحَابِهِ إِنْ كَذَبَ فَكَذِّبُوهُ

Then Caesar said, ‘Seek out for me someone from his^-saww people, anyone I can ask him about him^-saww’, and Abu Sufyan and a group of Quraysh had entered Syria, so I presented them and said, ‘Let my closest relative judge with it. Abu Sufyan came to him^-saww and said, ‘I ask about this man who is saying he is a Prophet^-saww’. Then he said to his companions, ‘If he lies, then belie him^-saww’.

قَالَ أَبُو سُفْيَانَ لَوْ لَا حَيَائِي‏ أَنْ يَأْثِرَ أَصْحَابِي عَنِّي الْكَذِبَ لَأَخْبَرْتُهُ بِخِلَافِ مَا هُوَ عَلَيْهِ فَقَالَ كَيْفَ نَسَبُهُ فِيكُمْ قُلْتُ ذُو نَسَبٍ قَالَ هَلْ قَالَ هَذَا الْقَوْلَ مِنْكُمْ‏ أَحَدٌ قُلْتُ لَا قَالَ فَهَلْ كُنْتُمْ تَتَّهِمُونَهُ بِالْكَذِبِ قَبْلُ قُلْتُ لَا قَالَ فَأَشْرَافُ النَّاسِ اتَّبَعُوهُ أَوْ ضُعَفَاؤُهُمْ قُلْتُ ضُعَفَاؤُهُمْ

Abu Sufyan said, ‘Had it not been for my shame at my companions are preferring the liar upon me, I would inform him with opposite of what he^-saww is upon’. He said, ‘How is his^-saww lineage among you’. I said, ‘He^-saww is with (good) lineage’. He said, ‘Has anyone of you said this word?’ I said, ‘No’. He said, ‘Have you been accusing him^-saww of being with lies before?’ I said, ‘No’. He said, ‘The noblest of the people are following him^-saww of their weak ones?’ I said, ‘Their weak ones’.

قَالَ فَهَلْ يَزِيدُونَ أَوْ يَنْقُصُونَ قُلْتُ يَزِيدُونَ قَالَ يَرْتَدُّ أَحَدٌ مِنْهُمْ سَخَطاً لِدِينِهِ قُلْتُ لَا قَالَ فَهَلْ يَغْدِرُ قُلْتُ لَا قَالَ فَهَلْ قَاتَلْتُمُوهُ قُلْتُ نَعَمْ قَالَ فَكَيْفَ حَرْبُكُمْ وَ حَرْبُهُ قُلْتُ ذُو سِجَالٍ مَرَّةً لَهُ وَ مَرَّةً عَلَيْهِ قَالَ هَذَا آيَةُ النُّبُوَّةِ

He said, ‘Are they increasing or decreasing?’ I said, ‘They are increasing’. He said, ‘Has anyone of them reneged out of anger to his^-saww Religion?’ I said, ‘No’. He said, ‘Does he^-saww betray?’ I said, ‘No’. He said, ‘Have you fought him^-saww’. I said, ‘Yes’. He said, ‘How is your war and his^-saww war?’ I said, ‘With competition, sometimes it goes for him^-saww, sometimes against him^-saww’. He said, ‘This is a Sign of the Prophet-hood’.

قَالَ فَمَا يَأْمُرُكُمْ قُلْتُ يَأْمُرُنَا أَنْ نَعْبُدَ اللَّهَ وَحْدَهُ وَ لَا نُشْرِكَ بِهِ شَيْئاً وَ يَنْهَانَا عَمَّا كَانَ يَعْبُدُ آبَاؤُنَا وَ يَأْمُرُنَا بِالصَّلَاةِ وَ الصَّوْمِ وَ الْعَفَافِ وَ الصِّدْقِ وَ أَدَاءِ الْأَمَانَةِ وَ الْوَفَاءِ بِالْعَهْدِ قَالَ هَذِهِ صِفَةُ نَبِيٍّ وَ قَدْ كُنْتُ أَعْلَمُ أَنَّهُ يَخْرُجُ وَ لَمْ أَظُنَّ أَنَّهُ مِنْكُمْ فَإِنَّهُ يُوشِكُ أَنْ يَمْلِكَ مَا تَحْتَ قَدَمَيَّ هَاتَيْنِ وَ لَوْ أَرْجُو أَنْ أُخْلِصَ إِلَيْهِ لَتَجَشَّمْتُ لُقْيَاهُ‏ وَ لَوْ كُنْتُ عِنْدَهُ لَغَسَلْتُ قَدَمَيْهِ‏

He said, ‘What does he^-saww instruct you?’ I said, ‘He^-saww instructs us that we should worship Allah^-azwj Alone, and not associate anything with Him^-azwj, and forbids us from what our fathers used to worship, and instructs us with the Salat, and the Fasting, and the charity, and the truthfulness, and paying the entrustments, and the loyalty with the covenant’. He said, ‘These are attributes of a Prophet^-saww, and I had known that he^-saww will be coming out, and I did not think that he^-saww would be from you. Surely there is no doubt that he^-saww will rule what is under these two feet of mine, and if I were to hope to be saved, I would go to meet him^-saww, and if I were to be in his^-saww present, I would wash his^-saww feet’.

وَ إِنَّ النَّصَارَى اجْتَمَعُوا عَلَى الْأُسْقُفِّ لِيَقْتُلُوهُ فَقَالَ اذْهَبْ إِلَى صَاحِبِكَ فَاقْرَأْ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامَ‏ وَ أَخْبِرْهُ أَنِّي أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَ أَنَّ مُحَمَّداً رَسُولُ اللَّهِ وَ أَنَّ النَّصَارَى أَنْكَرُوا ذَلِكَ‏ عَلَيَّ ثُمَّ خَرَجَ إِلَيْهِمْ فَقَتَلُوهُ‏

And the Christians had gathered upon the rood in order to kill him, so he said, ‘Go to your master^-saww and convey the greetings to him^-saww and inform him^-saww that I testify that there is no god except Allah^-azwj and that Muhammad^-saww is a Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj, and the Christians are denying that upon me’. Then they came out to him and killed him’’.[57]

4 يج، الخرائج و الجرائح رُوِيَ‏ أَنَّهُ لَمَّا بُعِثَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص بِالنُّبُوَّةِ بَعَثَ كِسْرَى رَسُولًا إِلَى بَاذَانَ عَامِلِهِ فِي أَرْضِ الْمَغْرِبِ بَلَغَنِي أَنَّهُ خَرَجَ رَجُلٌ قِبَلَكَ يَزْعُمُ أَنَّهُ نَبِيٌّ فَلْتَقُلْ لَهُ فَلْيَكْفُفْ عَنْ ذَلِكَ أَوْ لَأَبْعَثَنَّ إِلَيْهِ مَنْ يَقْتُلُهُ وَ يَقْتُلُ قَوْمَهُ فَبَعَثَ بَاذَانُ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ص بِذَلِكَ

‘Al-Kharaij Wa Al-Jaraih’ – When Muhammad^-saww was Sent with the Prophet-hood, Chosroe sent a messenger with Bazan his office bearer in the land of Al-Maghrib, ‘It has reached me that a man has come out in front of you claiming that he^-saww is a Prophet^-saww. Tell him^-saww to refrain from that or I shall send to him^-saww ones who would kill him^-saww and kill his^-saww people’. Bazan sent messengers to the Prophet^-saww with that.

فَقَالَ لَوْ كَانَ شَيْ‏ءٌ قُلْتُهُ مِنْ قِبَلِي لَكَفَفْتُ عَنْهُ وَ لَكِنَّ اللَّهَ بَعَثَنِي وَ تَرَكَ رُسُلَ بَاذَانَ وَ هُمْ خَمْسَةَ عَشَرَ نَفَراً لَا يُكَلِّمُهُمْ خَمْسَةَ عَشَرَ يَوْماً ثُمَّ دَعَاهُمْ فَقَالَ اذْهَبُوا إِلَى صَاحِبِكُمْ فَقُولُوا لَهُ إِنَّ رَبِّي قَتَلَ رَبَّهُ اللَّيْلَةَ إِنَّ رَبِّي قَتَلَ كِسْرَى اللَّيْلَةَ وَ لَا كِسْرَى بَعْدَ الْيَوْمِ وَ قَتَلَ قَيْصَرَ وَ لَا قَيْصَرَ بَعْدَ الْيَوْمِ

He^-saww said: ‘If there was something I^-saww have said from myself^-saww, I would refrain from it, but Allah^-azwj has Sent me^-saww’. And the messengers of Bazan left, and they were fifteen persons, not speaking to them for fifteen days. Then he^-saww called them and said: ‘Go to your master and say to him that my^-saww Lord^-azwj will Kill his lord tonight. My^-saww Lord^-azwj will Kill Chosroe tonight, and there will be no Chosroe after today, and Kill Caesar and there will be no Caesar after today’.

فَكَتَبُوا قَوْلَهُ فَإِذَا هُمَا قَدْ مَاتَا فِي الْوَقْتِ الَّذِي حَدَّثَهُ‏ مُحَمَّدٌ ص

They wrote down his^-saww words, and there, both of them had been killed during the time which Muhammad^-saww had narrated with’’.[58]

5 يج، الخرائج و الجرائح رُوِيَ عَنْ جَرِيرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْبَجَلِيِّ قَالَ: بَعَثَنِي النَّبِيُّ ص بِكِتَابِهِ إِلَى ذِي الْكَلَاعِ وَ قَوْمِهِ فَدَخَلْتُ عَلَيْهِ فَعَظَّمَ كِتَابَهُ وَ تَجَهَّزَ وَ خَرَجَ فِي جَيْشٍ عَظِيمٍ وَ خَرَجْتُ مَعَهُ نَسِيرُ إِذْ رُفِعَ لَنَا دَيْرُ رَاهِبٍ فَقَالَ أُرِيدُ هَذَا الرَّاهِبَ

‘Al-Kharaij Wa Al-Jaraih’ – it is reported from Jareer Bin Abdullah Al-Bajaly who said, ‘The Prophet^-saww sent me with his^-saww letter to Zu Al-Kala’a and his people. I entered to see him, and he revered his^-saww letter and equipped and went out in a great army and Nuseyr came out with him, when we came to a monastery of a monk. He said, ‘I want this monk’.

فَلَمَّا دَخَلْنَا عَلَيْهِ سَأَلَهُ أَيْنَ تُرِيدُ قَالَ هَذَا النَّبِيَّ الَّذِي خَرَجَ فِي قُرَيْشٍ وَ هَذَا رَسُولُهُ قَالَ الرَّاهِبُ لَقَدْ مَاتَ هَذَا الرَّسُولُ فَقُلْتُ مِنْ أَيْنَ عَلِمْتَ بِوَفَاتِهِ قَالَ إِنَّكُمْ قَبْلَ أَنْ تَصِلُوا إِلَيَّ كُنْتُ أَنْظُرُ فِي كِتَابِ دَانِيَالَ مَرَرْتُ بِصِفَةِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ نَعْتِهِ وَ أَيَّامِهِ وَ أَجَلِهِ فَوَجَدْتُ أَنَّهُ تُوُفِّيَ‏ فِي هَذِهِ السَّاعَةِ

When we entered to see him, he asked him, ‘What do you want?’ He said, ‘This Prophet^-saww who has come out among Quraysh, and this one is his^-saww messenger’. The monk said, ‘This Rasool^-saww has died’. I said, ‘From where did you know of his^-saww expiry?’ He said, ‘Before you arrived to me, I was looking in the Book of Danyal^-as, I passed by the description of Muhammad^-saww and his^-saww attributes and his^-saww days, and his^-saww term, and I found that he^-saww has expired during this time’.

فَقَالَ ذُو الْكَلَاعِ أَنَا أَنْصَرِفُ قَالَ جَرِيرٌ فَرَجَعْتُ فَإِذَا رَسُولُ‏ اللَّهِ ص تُوُفِّيَ‏ ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمَ‏

Zul Kala’a said, ‘I shall leave’. Jareer said, ‘I returned and there Rasool-Allah^-saww had expired during that day’’.[59]

6 قب، المناقب لابن شهرآشوب الزُّهْرِيُّ عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عَوْفٍ قَالَ: بَعَثَ اللَّهُ إِلَى كِسْرَى مَلَكاً وَقْتَ الْهَاجِرَةِ وَ قَالَ يَا كِسْرَى تُسْلِمُ أَوْ أَكْسِرُ هَذِهِ الْعَصَا فَقَالَ بهل بهل فَانْصَرَفَ عَنْهُ فَدَعَا حُرَّاسَهُ وَ قَالَ مَنْ أَدْخَلَ هَذَا الرَّجُلَ عَلَيَّ فَقَالُوا مَا رَأَيْنَاهُ

‘Al-Manaqib of Ibn Shehr Ashub Al-Zuhry, from Abu Salama Bin Abdul Rahman Bin Awf who said, ‘Allah^-azwj sent an Angel to Chosroe at the time of midday heat and he said, ‘O Chosroe! Either become a Muslim or break this stick’. He said, ‘Curse! Curse!’ He left from him. He called his guards and said, ‘Who entered this man unto me?’ They said, ‘We did not see him’.

ثُمَّ أَتَاهُ فِي الْعَامِ الْمُقْبِلِ وَ وَقْتِهِ فَكَانَ كَمَا كَانَ أَوَّلًا ثُمَّ أَتَاهُ فِي الْعَامِ الثَّالِثِ فَقَالَ تُسْلِمُ أَوْ أَكْسِرُ هَذِهِ الْعَصَا فَقَالَ بهل بهل فَكَسَرَ الْعَصَا ثُمَّ خَرَجَ فَلَمْ يَلْبَثْ أَنْ وَثَبَ عَلَيْهِ ابْنُهُ فَقَتَلَهُ‏

Then he came to him the next year and its time, and it happened just as it had happened at first. Then he came to him the third year and said: ‘Be a Muslim or break this stick’. He said, ‘Curse! Curse!’ He broke the stick. Then he went out. It was not long before his son leapt upon him and killed him’’.[60]

7 قب، المناقب لابن شهرآشوب ابْنُ مَهْدِيٍّ الْمَامَطِيرِيُ‏ فِي مَجَالِسِهِ‏ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ كَتَبَ إِلَى كِسْرَى مِنْ مُحَمَّدٍ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ إِلَى كِسْرَى بْنِ هُرْمُزْدَ أَمَّا بَعْدُ فَأَسْلِمْ تَسْلَمْ وَ إِلَّا فَأْذَنْ بِحَرْبٍ مِنَ اللَّهِ وَ رَسُولِهِ‏ وَ السَّلامُ عَلى‏ مَنِ اتَّبَعَ الْهُدى

(The book) ‘Al-Manaqib of Ibn Shehr Ashub – Ibn Mahdi Al Mamatiri, in his gatherings – ‘The Prophet^-saww wrote to Chosroe: ‘From Muhammad^-saww Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj to Chosroe Bin Hurmuzd. As for after, become a Muslim, submit, or else be proclaimed with a war from Allah^-azwj and His^-azwj Rasool^-saww: and the greetings be upon one who follows the Guidance [20:47]’.

فَلَمَّا وَصَلَ إِلَيْهِ الْكِتَابُ مَزَّقَهُ وَ اسْتَخَفَّ بِهِ وَ قَالَ مَنْ هَذَا الَّذِي يَدْعُونِي إِلَى دِينِهِ وَ يَبْدَأُ بِاسْمِهِ قَبْلَ اسْمِي وَ بَعَثَ إِلَيْهِ بِتُرَابٍ

When the letter arrived to him, he tore it and belittled with it and said, ‘Who is this one calling me to his^-saww Religion, and he^-saww begins with his^-saww own name before my name?’, and sent the soil to him^-saww.

‏ فَقَالَ ص مَزَّقَ اللَّهُ مُلْكَهُ كَمَا مَزَّقَ كِتَابِي أَمَا إِنَّهُ‏ سَتُمَزِّقُونَ مُلْكَهُ وَ بَعَثَ إِلَيَّ بِتُرَابٍ أَمَا إِنَّكُمْ سَتَمْلِكُونَ أَرْضَهُ فَكَانَ كَمَا قَالَ

He^-saww said: ‘Allah^-azwj will Tear his kingdom just as he tore my^-saww letter, and it is he would be torn up; and he sends the soil to me^-saww, but you (Muslims) will be ruling his soil (land)’. It happened as he^-saww said’’.

الْمَاوَرْدِيُّ فِي أَعْلَامِ النُّبُوَّةِ إِنَّ كِسْرَى كَتَبَ فِي الْوَقْتِ إِلَى عَامِلِهِ بِالْيَمَنِ بَاذَانَ وَ يُكَنَّى أَبَا مِهْرَانَ أَنِ احْمِلْ إِلَيَّ هَذَا الَّذِي يَذْكُرُ أَنَّهُ نَبِيٌّ وَ بَدَأَ بِاسْمِهِ قَبْلَ اسْمِي وَ دَعَانِي إِلَى غَيْرِ دِينِي

Al-Mawardy in (the book) ‘Alam Al-Wara – Chosroe wrote during the time of his office bearer in Al-yemen, ‘Wo be unto you, O Abu Mihran! Bring to me this one who had mentioned that he^-saww is a Prophet^-saww, and he^-saww begins with his^-saww own name before my name, and calls me to other than my religion’.

فَبَعَثَ إِلَيْهِ فَيْرُوزَ الدَّيْلَمِيَّ فِي جَمَاعَةٍ مَعَ كِتَابٍ يَذْكُرُ فِيهِ مَا كَتَبَ بِهِ كِسْرَى فَأَتَاهُ فَيْرُوزُ بِمَنْ مَعَهُ فَقَالَ لَهُ إِنَّ كِسْرَى أَمَرَنِي أَحْمِلُكَ إِلَيْهِ‏ فَاسْتَنْظَرَهُ لَيْلَةً فَلَمَّا كَانَ مِنَ الْغَدِ حَضَرَ فَيْرُوزُ مُسْتَحِثّاً فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ص أَخْبَرَنِي رَبِّي أَنَّهُ قَتَلَ رَبَّكَ الْبَارِحَةَ سَلَّطَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ ابْنَهُ شِيرَوَيْهِ عَلَى سَبْعِ سَاعَاتٍ مِنَ اللَّيْلِ فَأَمْسِكْ حَتَّى يَأْتِيَكَ الْخَبَرُ

He sent Feyruz Al-Daylami among a group with a letter mentioning in it what Chosroe had written with. Feyruz came with the ones with him and said to him^-saww, ‘Chosroe has ordered me to carry you^-saww to him’. He^-saww told him to wait for a night. When it was morning, Feyruz presented himself. The Prophet^-saww said: ‘My^-saww Lord^-azwj Informed me^-saww that your lord was killed last night. Allah^-azwj Caused his son Sheyrawiys to overcome him, at seven hours from the night, therefore withhold until the news comes to you’.

فَرَاعَ ذَلِكَ فَيْرُوزَ وَ هَالَهُ وَ عَادَ إِلَى بَاذَانَ فَأَخْبَرَهُ فَقَالَ لَهُ بَاذَانُ كَيْفَ وَجَدْتَ نَفْسَكَ حِينَ دَخَلْتَ عَلَيْهِ فَقَالَ وَ اللَّهِ مَا هِبْتُ أَحَداً كَهَيْبَةِ هَذَا الرَّجُلِ فَوَصَلَ الْخَبَرُ بِقَتْلِهِ فِي تِلْكَ اللَّيْلَةِ مِنْ تِلْكَ السَّاعَةِ فَأَسْلَمَا جَمِيعاً وَ ظَهَرَ الْعَبْسِيُ‏ وَ مَا افْتَرَاهُ مِنَ الْكَذِبِ فَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ إِلَى فَيْرُوزَ اقْتُلْهُ قَتَلَهُ اللَّهُ فَقَتَلَهُ‏

That scared Feyruz and left him^-saww and returned to Bazan and informed him. Bazan said to him, ‘How did you find yourself to be when you entered to see him^-saww?’ He said, ‘By Allah^-azwj! No one has knocked me down like this man’. The news of his killing arrived during that night, of that time. They both became Muslims together, Al-Absy manifested it and what he had fabricated from the like, so he^-saww sent (someone) to Feyruz to kill him, and Allah^-azwj killed him’’.[61]

8- أقول قال الكازروني في المنتقى، في حوادث السنة السادسة فيها اتخذ رسول الله ص الخاتم و ذلك أنه قيل إن الملوك لا يقرءون كتابا إلا مختوما.

I (Majlisi) am saying, ‘Al-Karzuny said in (the book) ‘Al-Mantaqa’ regarding the events of the year six, ‘During it Rasool-Allah^-saww took the seal, and that is that it was said, ‘The kings do not read a letter unless it is sealed’.

و فيها بعث رسول الله ص ستة نفر فخرجوا مصطحبين في ذي الحجة حاطب بن أبي بلتعة إلى المقوقس‏ و دحية بن خليفة الكلبي إلى قيصر و عبد الله بن حذافة إلى كسرى‏ و عمرو بن أمية الضميري‏ إلى النجاشي و شجاع‏ بن وهب إلى الحارث بن أبي شمر الغساني‏ و سليط بن عمرو العامري إلى هوذة بن علي النخعي‏

And during it Rasool-Allah^-saww six persons as escorts and they went out during Zil Hijah with Hatab Bin Abu Balta’at to Al-Maqwqas (king of Alexandria), and Dahiya Bin Khalifa Al-Kalby to Caesar (king of Rome), and Abdullah Bin Hazafa to Chosroe (king of Persia), and Amro Bin Amiya Al-Zameyri to Al-Najjashi (king of Ethiopia), and Shuja’a Bin Wahab to Al-Haris Bin Abu Shimr Al-Ghasany (king in the outskirts of Syria), and Saleyt Bin Amro Al-Aamiry to Howza Bin Ali Al-Nakhaie (king of Al-Yamama).

أما المقوقس فإنه لما وصل إليه حاطب أكرمه و أخذ كتاب رسول الله ص‏ و كتب في جوابه قد علمت أن نبيا قد بقي و قد أكرمت رسولك‏ و أهدى إلى رسول الله ص أربع جوار منهن مارية أم إبراهيم و أختها سيرين و حمارا يقال له عفير و قيل يعفور و بغلة يقال لها الدلدل و لم يسلم فقبل رسول الله ص هديته و قال ضن الخبيث بملكه و لا بقاء لملكه و اصطفى مارية لنفسه و أما سيرين فوهبها لحسان بن وهب و أما الحمار فنفق‏ منصرفه من حجة الوداع و أما البغلة فبقيت إلى زمان معاوية

As for Al-Maqawqas, when Hatib arrived to him, he honoured him and took the letter of Rasool-Allah^-saww and wrote in its answer, ‘I have known that a Prophet^-saww has remained (yet to come), and I have honoured your^-saww messenger’; and he gifted four maids to him^-saww from them was Mariah, mother of Ibrahim^-as, and her sister Sireen, and a donkey called Ufeyr, and it is said, Yafour, and a mule called Al Duldul, and he did not become a Muslim. Rasool-Allah^-saww accepted his gift and said: ‘The wicked one thinks of his kingdom, and there is no lasting for his kingdom’. And he^-saww chose Mariah for himself^-saww. And as for Sireen, he^-saww gifted her to Hasaan Bin Wahab, and as for the donkey, its leaving was spent from the Farewell Hajj, and as for the mule, it remained up to the era of Muawiya.

و أما قيصر و هو هرقل ملك الروم فإنه أصبح يوما مهموما فقالت له بطارقته‏ في ذلك فقال أجل أريت في هذه الليلة أن ملك الختان صار ظاهرا قالوا ما نعلم أمة تختتن إلا يهود و هم في سلطانك و سألوه أن يقتلهم جميعا فيستريح فبينا هم في ذلك من رأيهم إذ أتاهم‏ رسول صاحب بصرى برجل من العرب يقوده

And as for Caesar, and he is Hercules, king of Rome, he woke up one day worried. The guides asked him during that day, and he said, ‘Yes, I saw during this night that the king of circumcised ones has become victorious’. They said, ‘We do not know any community circumcising except Jews, and they are in your authority’, and they asked him to kill them all, so he can be at rest. While they were in that, from their views, a messenger of the governor of Basrah came with a man from the Arabs, guiding him.

فقال أيها الملك إن هذا من العرب يحدث عن أمر حدث ببلاده عجب فقال هرقل لترجمانه سله ما هذا الحدث الذي كان ببلاده فسأله فقال خرج من بين أظهرنا رجل يزعم أنه نبي فاتبعه ناس و خالفه الآخرون و كانت بينهم ملاحم فتركتهم على ذلك

He said, ‘O king! This one is from the Arabs. He narrates about a strange new occurrence in his city’. Hercules said, ‘Translate it. Ask him what this new occurrence is which happened in his city’. He asked him and he said, ‘There has come out from our midst a man claiming that he is a Prophet^-saww, and the people are following him, and others are opposing him^-saww, and there have been epic battles between them, and I left them upon that’.

قال جردوه فجردوه فإذا هو مختون فقال هرقل هذا و الله الذي رأيت أعطوه ثوبه انطلق‏ ثم دعا صاحب شرطته فقال قلب لي الشام ظهرا و بطنا حتى تأتيني برجل من قوم هذا الرجل يعني النبي ص قال أبو سفيان و كنت قد خرجت في تجارة في زمن الهدنة فهجم علينا صاحب شرطته فقال أنتم من قوم هذا الرجل فقلنا نعم فدعانا

He said, ‘Strip him!’ They stripped him and there he was circumcised. Hercules said, ‘By Allah^-saww! This is the one whom I saw. Give him his clothes and let him go’. Then he called the commander of his police and said, ‘Send backs (horses) and bellies (riders) to Syria until they come to be with a man from the people of this man^-saww’ – meaning the Prophet^-saww’ Abu Sufyan said, ‘And I had gone out regarding trading in the time of armistice, and the commander of his police crowded upon us and said, ‘Are you from the people of this man?’ We said, ‘Yes’. He called us.

و بإسنادي في سماع البخاري إليه بإسناده عن عبد الله بن عباس أن أبا سفيان بن حرب أخبره أن هرقل أرسل إليه في ركب من قريش و كانوا تجارا بالشام في المدة التي كان رسول الله ص ماد فيها أبا سفيان و كفار قريش فأتوهم بإيليا فدعاهم في مجلسه و حوله عظماء الروم ثم دعاهم و دعا ترجمانه فقال أيكم أقرب نسبا بهذا الرجل الذي يزعم أنه نبي

And by my chain in hearing Al Bukhari to him, by his chain from Abdullah Bin Abbas, ‘Abu Sufyan Bin Harb informed him that Hercules sent a message to him among rider from Quraysh, and they were trading at Syria during the period in which Rasool-Allah^-saww had upset Abu Sufyan and the Kafirs of Quraysh. They came to him at Eilat and called them to his gathering, and around him were great ones of Rome. Then he called them and called his interpreter and he said, ‘Which one of you is closest in lineage with this man who claims that he^-saww is a Prophet^-saww?’

فقال أبو سفيان فقلت أنا أقربهم نسبا فقال أدنوه مني و قربوا أصحابه فاجعلوه‏ عند ظهره ثم قال لترجمانه قل‏لهم إني سائل هذا عن هذا الرجل فإن كذبني فكذبوه قال أبو سفيان فو الله لو لا الحياء من أن يأثروا علي كذبا لكذبت عنه

Abu Sufyan said, ‘I said, ‘I am their closest one in lineage’. He said, ‘Bring him closer to me’, and his companions drew closer and they made him to be at their back. Then he said to his interpreter, ‘Say to them I want to question this one about this man, so if he lies to me, I will belie him^-saww’. Abu Sufyan said, ‘By Allah^-saww! If I had no shamed from the preferring a liar over me, I would have lied about him^-saww.

ثم كان أول ما سألني عنه أن قال كيف نسبه فيكم قلت هو فينا ذو نسب قال فهل قال هذا القول منكم أحد قبله قط قلت لا قال فهل كان في آبائه من ملك قلت لا قال فأشراف الناس اتبعوه أم ضعفاؤهم قلت بل ضعفاؤهم قال أ يزيدون أم ينقصون قلت بل يزيدون

Then the first of what he asked me was that he said, ‘How is his^-saww lineage among you?’ I said, ‘He^-saww is among us with (good) lineage’. He said, ‘Has anyone from you before him^-saww said this word at all?’ I said, ‘No’. He said, ‘Has there being a king amon any of his^-saww forefathers?’ I said, ‘No’. He said, ‘Are the noble ones following him^-saww or their weak ones?’ I said, ‘But, their weak ones’. He said, ‘Are they increasing or decreasing?’ I said, ‘But, they are increasing’.

قال فهل يرتد منهم أحد سخطه لدينه بعد أن يدخل فيه قلت لا قال فهل كنتم تتهمونه بالكذب قبل أن يقول ما قال قلت لا قال فهل يغدر قلت لا و نحن في مدة لا ندري ما هو فاعل فيها قال و لم يمكني كلمة أدخل فيها شيئا غير هذه الكلمة قال فهل قاتلتموه قلت نعم قال فكيف كان قتالكم إياه قلت الحرب بيننا و بينه سجال ينال منا و ننال منه

He said, ‘Has anyone from them reneged due to his anger of his^-saww Religion after having entered into it?’ I said, ‘No’. He said, ‘Have you been accusing him^-saww of lying before he^-saww said what he^-saww said?’ I said, ‘No’. He said, ‘Do he^-saww betray?’ I said, ‘No, and we were during a period we did not know what he^-saww was doing during it’. He said, ‘And I am not able to include in it anything other than these phrases. Did you fight him^-saww’. I said, ‘Yes’. He said, ‘How was your fighting him^-saww?’ I said, ‘The war between us and him is a competition. He^-saww attains from us and we attain from him^-saww’.

قال فما ذا يأمركم قلت يقول اعبدوا الله وحده و لا تشركوا به شيئا و اتركوا ما يقول آباؤكم و يأمرنا بالصلاة و الصدقة و العفاف و الصلة

He said, ‘So what is that he^-saww instructs you?’ I said, ‘He^-saww is saying: ‘Worship Allah^-saww Alone and do not associate anything with Him^-saww, and leave what your fathers are saying, and he^-saww enjoins us with the Salat, and the charities, and the chastity, and the helping relatives’.

فقال للترجمان قل له سألتك عن نسبه فذكرت أنه ذو نسب و كذلك الرسل تبعث في نسب قومها و سألتك هل قال أحد منكم هذا القول فذكرت أنه لا فقلت لو قال أحد هذا القول قبله لقلت رجل يأتيني بقول قيل قبله‏

He said to the interpreter, ‘Tell him, ‘I asked you about his^-saww lineage, and you mentioned that he^-saww is with good lineage, and like that are the Rasools^-as Sent among good lineages of their people; and I asked you has anyone from you said this word and you mentioned that he hasn’t’, I would say, ‘If anyone had said this word before him^-saww, a man would have come to me that is has been said before him^-saww’.

و سألتك هل كان من آبائه من ملك فذكرت أن لا قلت فلو كان من آبائه من ملك لقلت رجل يطلب ملك أبيه و سألتك هل كنتم تتهمونه بالكذب قبل أن يقول ما قال فذكرت أن لا فقد علمت أنه لم يكن ليذر الكذب على الناس و يكذب على الله

And I asked you has there been a king among his^-saww forefathers, you mentioned, no there hasn’t, I say, ‘If there was a king from his^-saww forefathers, one could have said he^-saww is a man seeking the kingdom of his father; and I asked you whether you used to accuse him^-saww with lying before he^-saww said what he^-saww said, and you mentioned, no. So I know that one who does not lie upon the people will not lie upon Allah^-saww.

و سألتك أشراف الناس اتبعوه أم ضعفاؤهم فذكرت أن ضعفاءهم اتبعوه و هم أتباع الرسل و سألتك أ يزيدون أم ينقصون فذكرت أنهم يزيدون و كذلك أمر الإيمان حتى يتم و سألتك أ يرتد أحد سخطه‏ لدينه بعد أن يدخل فيه فذكرت أن لا و كذلك الإيمان حين يخالط بشاشة القلوب و سألتك هل يغدر فذكرت أن لا و كذلك الرسل لا تغدر

And I asked you whether the noble ones of the people are following him^-saww or their weak ones, and you mentioned that their weak ones are following him^-saww, and they are the followers of the Rasools^-as; and I asked you whether they are increasing or decreasing, and you mentioned that they are increasing. Like that is the matter of the Eman, until it is completed; and I asked you whether anyone has reneged out of his anger to his^-saww Religion after having entered into it, and you mentioned, no, and like that is the Eman when it mingles with the canner of the hearts; and I asked you, does he betray, and you mentioned, no, and like that are the Rasools^-as, they do not betray.

و سألتك بما يأمركم فذكرت أنه يأمركم أن تعبدوا الله و لا تشركوا به شيئا و ينهاكم عن عبادة الأوثان و يأمركم بالصلاة و الصدقة و العفاف فإن كان ما تقول حقا فسيملك موضع قدمي هاتين و قد كنت أعلم أنه خارج لم أكن أظن أنه منكم فلو أني أعلم أني أخلص إليه لتجشمت لقاه و لو كنت عنده لغسلت قدمه‏

And I asked you what he^-saww is instructing you with, and you mentioned that he^-saww instructs you that you should be worshipping Allah^-saww and not associate anything with Him^-saww, and forbids you from worshipping the idols, and instructs you with the Salat, and the charity, and the chastity. So, if what you are saying is true, then he^-saww will be ruling the place of these two feet of mine, and I have known that he^-saww would be coming but I did not think that he^-saww would be from you all. If I knew I would be sincere to him^-saww, desiring meeting him^-saww, and if I was in his^-saww presence, I would wash his^-saww feet’.

ثُمَّ دَعَا بِكِتَابِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص الَّذِي بَعَثَ بِهِ دِحْيَةَ إِلَى عَظِيمِ بُصْرَى‏ فَدَفَعَهُ إِلَى هِرَقْلَ فَقَرَأَهُ فَإِذَا فِيهِ‏ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ مِنْ مُحَمَّدٍ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ عَبْدِهِ وَ رَسُولِهِ إِلَى هِرَقْلَ عَظِيمِ الرُّومِ وَ سَلَامٌ‏ عَلى‏ مَنِ اتَّبَعَ الْهُدى‏ أَمَّا بَعْدُ فَإِنِّي أَدْعُوكَ بِدِعَايَةِ الْإِسْلَامِ أَسْلِمْ تَسْلَمْ أَسْلِمْ‏ يُؤْتِكَ اللَّهُ أَجْرَكَ مَرَّتَيْنِ فَإِنْ تَوَلَّيْتَ فَإِنَّ عَلَيْكَ إِثْمَ الْيَرِيسِينَ‏

Then he called for the letter of Rasool-Allah^-saww, the one sent with Dahiya to the governor of Busra, and handed it over Hercules, and therein was: ‘In the Name of Allah^-saww the Beneficent, the Merciful. From Muhammad^-saww Rasool-Allah^-saww, His^-saww servant and His^-saww Rasool^-saww, to Hercules, great one of Rome. and the greetings be upon one who follows the Guidance [20:47]. As for after, I^-saww hereby call you with an invitation of Al-Islam. Become a Muslim and submit, you will be safe, Allah^-saww will Give you your Recompense twice. If you turn away, then upon you is the sins of the posterity.

وَ يا أَهْلَ الْكِتابِ تَعالَوْا إِلى‏ كَلِمَةٍ سَواءٍ بَيْنَنا وَ بَيْنَكُمْ أَلَّا نَعْبُدَ إِلَّا اللَّهَ وَ لا نُشْرِكَ بِهِ شَيْئاً وَ لا يَتَّخِذَ بَعْضُنا بَعْضاً أَرْباباً مِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِ فَإِنْ تَوَلَّوْا فَقُولُوا اشْهَدُوا بِأَنَّا مُسْلِمُونَ‏

Say: ‘O People of the Book! Come to an equitable word between us and you that we shall not worship any except Allah and (that) we shall not associate anything with Him, and (that) some of us shall not take others as lords besides Allah’; but if they turn back, then say: ‘Bear witness that we are the submitting ones (Muslims)’ [3:64].

قال أبو سفيان فلما قال ما قال و فرغ من قراءة الكتاب كثر عنده الصخب و ارتفعت الأصوات فأخرجنا فقلت لأصحابي حين أخرجنا لقد أمر أمر ابن أبي كبشة أنه يخافه ملك بني الأصفر فما زلت موقنا أنه سيظهر حتى أدخل الله على الإسلام‏

Abu Sufyan said, ‘When he said what he said and was free from reading the letter, the companions became a lot in his presence, and the voices were raised. We went out, and I said to my companions when we went out, ‘The matter of Abu Kabasha has reached here. He^-saww is scaring the kings of the sons of yellow ones’. I did not cease to be certain that he^-saww will be victorious until Allah^-saww Entered me into Al-Islam’.

هرقل عظيم الروم‏ ملك إحدى و ثلاثين سنة و في ملكه توفي النبي ص.

Hercules the great one of Rome was a king of thirty-one years of age, and during his rule, the Prophet^-saww passed away.

و أما كسرى فلما بلغه كتاب رسول الله ص قرأه فمزقه فدعا عليهم رسول الله ص أن يمزقوا كل ممزق

And as for Chosroe, when the letter of Rasool-Allah^-saww reached him, he read it and tore it. So, Rasool-Allah^-saww supplicated against him that he be torn with every tearing’.

وَ رُوِيَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَ قَالَ قَالَ: بَعَثَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ حُذَافَةَ بْنِ قَيْسٍ إِلَى كِسْرَى بْنِ هُرْمُزَ مَلِكِ فَارِسَ وَ كَتَبَ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ مِنْ مُحَمَّدٍ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ إِلَى كِسْرَى عَظِيمِ فَارِسَ سَلَامٌ‏ عَلى‏ مَنِ اتَّبَعَ الْهُدى‏ وَ آمَنَ بِاللَّهِ وَ رَسُولِهِ وَ شَهِدَ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَحْدَهُ لَا شَرِيكَ لَهُ وَ أَنَّ مُحَمَّداً عَبْدُهُ وَ رَسُولُهُ وَ أَدْعُوكَ بِدَاعِيَةِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ فَإِنِّي أَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص إِلَى النَّاسِ كَافَّةً لِأُنْذِرَ مَنْ كانَ حَيًّا وَ يَحِقَّ الْقَوْلُ عَلَى الْكافِرِينَ‏ فَأَسْلِمْ تَسْلَمْ فَإِنْ أَبَيْتَ فَإِنَّ إِثْمَ الْمَجُوسِ‏ عَلَيْكَ

And it is reported from Muhammad Bin Is’haq who said, ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww sent Abdullah Bin Huzafa Bin Qays to Chosroe Bin Hurmuz, king of Persia, and wrote: ‘In the Name of Allah^-saww the Beneficent, the Merciful. From Muhammad^-saww Rasool^-saww of Allah^-saww to Chosroe great one of Persia. and the greetings be upon one who follows the Guidance [20:47]; and believe in Allah^-saww and His^-saww Rasool^-saww and testify that there is no god except Allah^-saww Alone, there being no associates for Him^-saww and that Muhammad^-saww is His^-saww servant and His^-saww Rasool; and I^-saww call you with the Call of Allah^-saww Mighty and Majestic, for I^-saww am a Rasool^-saww of Allah^-saww to the people altogether in order to warn one who was alive, and (for) the Word to be proven true upon the Kafirs [36:70]. Be a Muslim, you will be safe, and if you refuse, then the sins of the Magians would be upon you.

فَلَمَّا قَرَأَ كِتَابَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص شَقَّقَهُ‏ وَ قَالَ يَكْتُبُ إِلَيَّ بِهَذَا الْكِتَابِ وَ هُوَ عَبْدِي

When he read the letter of Rasool-Allah^-saww, he tore it up and said, ‘He^-saww writes to me with this letter and he is my servant?’.

يظهر من تاريخ اليعقوبي انه لم يشقق كتابه، بل كتب إليه صلّى اللّه عليه و آله كتابا جعله بين سرقتى حرير و جعل فيهما مسكا، فلما دفعه الرسول الى النبيّ صلّى اللّه عليه و آله فتحه فأخذ قبضة من المسك فشمه و ناوله أصحابه، و قال: «لا حاجة لنا في هذا الحرير ليس من لباسنا»

Note – It appears from the history of Al-Yaqouby that he did not tear his^-saww letter, but he^-saww wrote to him^-saww a letter making it to be between two sheets of silk and made musk to be in it. When the messenger handed it over to the Prophet^-saww, he^-saww opened it and grabbed a bit of the musk, smelt it and gave it to his^-saww companions and said: ‘There is no need for us regarding this silk, it isn’t from our clothing’.

و قال: «لتدخلن في امرى او لآتينك بنفسى و من معى، و امر اللّه اسرع من ذلك، فاما كتابك فانا اعلم به منك، فيه كذا و كذا» و لم يفتحه، و لم يقرأه و رجع الرسول الى كسرى فأخبره.

And he^-saww said: ‘You are interfering in my^-saww matter or I^-saww shall come to you myself^-saww and the ones with me^-saww (for battle), and the Command of Allah^-saww is Quicker than that. As for your letter, I^-saww am more knowing with it than you are, in it is such and such’. And he^-saww did not open it, and did not read it; and the messenger returned to Chosroe and informed him’.

فَبَلَغَنِي أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص قَالَ مَزَّقَ اللَّهُ مُلْكَهُ حِينَ بَلَغَهُ أَنَّهُ شَقَّقَ كِتَابَهُ ثُمَّ كَتَبَ كِسْرَى إِلَى بَاذَانَ وَ هُوَ عَلَى الْيَمَنِ أَنِ ابْعَثْ إِلَى هَذَا الرَّجُلِ الَّذِي بِالْحِجَازِ مِنْ عِنْدِكَ رَجُلَيْنِ جَلَدَيْنِ فَلْيَأْتِيَانِي بِهِ

It reached me that Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘May Allah^-saww Tear down his kingdom’, when it reached him^-saww that he had torn his^-saww letter. Then Chosroes wrote to Bazan, and he was in charge upon Al-Yemen, ‘Send to this man who is in Al Hijaz, two forceful men from you then let them come to me with him^-saww’.

و في رواية كتب إلى باذان أن بلغني أن في أرضك رجلا يتنبأ فاربطه و ابعث‏ به إلي فبعث باذان قهرمانه و هو بانوبه‏ و كان كاتبا حاسبا و بعث معه برجل من الفرس يقال له خرخسك‏ فكتب معهما إلى رسول الله ص يأمره أن ينصرف معهما إلى كسرى و قال لبانوبه‏ ويلك انظر ما الرجل و كلمه و أتني بخبره

And in a report – he wrote to Bazan, ‘It has reached me that in your land there is a man making predictions. Connect with him^-saww and send him^-saww to me’. Bazan sent his manager and he is Banubah, and he was a scribe, an accountant, and he sent with him a man from Persia called Kharkhasaak. He wrote with them to Rasool-Allah^-saww ordering him^-saww to leave with them to Chosroe, and he said to Banubah, ‘Woe be unto you! Look at what the man is and speak to him^-saww and come to me with his^-saww new’.

فخرجا حتى قدما المدينة على رسول الله ص و كلمه بانوبه‏ و قال إن شاهنشاه‏ ملك الملوك كسرى كتب إلى الملك باذان يأمره أن يبعث إليك من يأتيه بك و قد بعثني إليك لتنطلق معي فإن فعلت كتبت فيك إلى ملك الملوك بكتاب ينفعك و يكف عنك به و إن أبيت فهو من قد علمت فهو مهلكك و مهلك قومك و مخرب بلادك

They both went out and arrived at Al Medina to Rasool-Allah^-saww, and Banubah spoke to him^-saww and said: ‘Emperor of emperors, the king of kings Chosroes has written to king Bazan ordering him to send to you^-saww someone who would come to him with you^-saww, and he has sent me to you^-saww in take you^-saww with me. If you were to do so, then I shall write to the king of kings a letter to benefit you^-saww and refrain from you, with it, and if you^-saww refuse, then he is someone you know he will destroy you^-saww and destroy your^-saww people, and ruin your^-saww city’.

و كانا قد دخلا على رسول الله ص و قد حلقا لحاهما و أعفيا شواربهما فكره النظر إليهما و قال ويلكما من أمركما بهذا قالا أمرنا بهذا ربنا يعنيان كسرى فقال رسول الله ص لكن ربي أمرني بإعفاء لحيتي و قص شاربي

And it was so when they had both come to Rasool-Allah^-saww, they had shaved off their beards and preserved their moustaches, so he^-saww abhorred looking at them and said: ‘Woe be unto you both! Who ordered you two with this (trait)?’ They said, ‘Our lord ordered us’, meaning Chosroe. Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘But my^-saww Lord^-azwj Commanded me^-saww with preserving my^-saww beard and clipping my^-saww moustache’.

ثم قال لهما ارجعا حتى تأتياني غدا و أتى رسول الله ص الخبر من السماء أن الله عز و جل قد سلط على كسرى ابنه شيرويه فقتله في شهر كذا و كذا لكذا و كذا من الليل فلما أتيا رسول الله ص قال لهما إن ربي قد قتل ربكما ليلة كذا و كذا من شهر كذا و كذا بعد ما مضى من الليل كذا و كذا سلط عليه شيرويه فقتله

Then he^-saww said to them: ‘Return until you come tomorrow’, and news from the sky came to Rasool-Allah^-saww that Allah^-saww Mighty and Majestic had Caused Chosroes to be overcome by Sheyrawiya his son during such and such month, to such and such time of the night’. When they came to Rasool-Allah^-saww, he^-saww said to them: ‘My^-saww Lord^-azwj has Killed your lord on such and such from such a such month after the expiry of such and such time of the night. His son overcame upon him and killed him’.

فقالا هل تدري ما تقول إنا قد نقمنا منك ما هو أيسر من هذا فنكتب بها عنك و نخبر الملك قال نعم أخبراه ذلك عني و قولا له إن ديني و سلطاني سيبلغ ما بلغ ملك كسرى و ينتهي إلى منتهى الخف و الحافر و قولا له إنك إن أسلمت أعطيتك ما تحت يديك و ملكتك على قومك‏.

They said, ‘Do you^-saww know what you^-saww are saying? We have risen from you^-saww what is easier than this. We shall write with it as being from you^-saww, and inform the king’. He^-saww said:’ Yes, inform him of that from me^-saww and say to him that my^-saww Religion and my^-saww authority will be reaching what the kingdom of Chosroe had reached and end up to the ending of the shoes (infantry) and the hooves (cavalry), and both of you say to him that if you become a Muslim, I^-saww shall grant you whatever (kingdom) is already under your hand, and you will (still) rule upon your people’.

ثم أعطى خرخسك منطقة فيها ذهب و فضة كان أهداها له بعض الملوك فخرجا من عنده حتى قدما على باذان و أخبراه الخبر فقال و الله ما هذا بكلام ملك و إني لأرى الرجل نبيا كما يقول و لننظر ما قد قال فلئن كان ما قد قال حقا ما فيه كلام أنه نبي مرسل و إن لم يكن فسترى‏ فيه رأينا

Then he^-saww gave Kharkhask a chest wherein was gold and silver which one of the kings had gifted him^-saww. They went out from his^-saww presence until they arrived to Bazan and informed him the news. He said, ‘By Allah^-saww! This is not a speech of a king, and I see the man as being a Prophet^-saww just as he^-saww is saying, and let us consider what he^-saww has said. If what he^-saww has said is true, then there is nothing to say regarding it, he^-saww is definitely a Sent Prophet^-saww, and if it does not happen to be so, then we shall conceal our view regarding it’.

فلم يلبث باذان أن قدم عليه كتاب شيرويه أما بعد فإني قد قتلت كسرى و لم أقتله إلا غضبا لفارس لما كان استحل من قتل أشرافهم فإذا جاءك كتابي هذا فخذ لي الطاعة ممن قبلك و انظر الرجل الذي كان كسرى كتب إليك فيه فلا تهجه حتى يأتيك أمري فيه.

It was not long for Bazan before a letter of Sheyrawiya came to him, ‘As for after, I have killed Chosroe, and I did not kill him except in anger of Persia due to what he had legalised from the killing of their noblemen. When this letter of mine comes to you, then take notification for me from you, and look at the man whom Chosroe had written a letter to you regarding him^-saww, and do not agitate him until my orders come to you regarding him^-saww’.

فلما انتهى كتاب شيرويه باذان‏ قال إن هذا الرجل لرسول فأسلم و أسلمت الأبناء من فارس من كان منهم باليمن.

When the letter of Sheyrawiya ended up to Bazan, he said, ‘This man is a Rasool^-saww’. He became a Muslims and sons from Persian became Muslim, the ones who were from them at Al-Yemen’.

وَ أَمَّا النَّجَاشِيُّ فَإِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص بَعَثَ عَمْرَو بْنَ أُمَيَّةَ إِلَيْهِ فِي شَأْنِ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ وَ أَصْحَابِهِ وَ كَتَبَ‏ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ مِنْ مُحَمَّدٍ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ إِلَى النَّجَاشِيِّ مَلِكِ الْحَبَشَةِ إِنِّي أَحْمَدُ إِلَيْكَ اللَّهَ الْمَلِكَ الْقُدُّوسَ السَّلَامَ الْمُهَيْمِنَ‏ وَ أَشْهَدُ أَنَّ عِيسَى ابْنَ مَرْيَمَ رُوحُ اللَّهِ‏ وَ كَلِمَتُهُ أَلْقاها إِلى‏ مَرْيَمَ‏ الْبَتُولِ الطَّيِّبَةِ فَحَمَلَتْ بِعِيسَى

And as for Al-Najashy, Rasool-Allah^-saww sent Amro Bin Umaya to him during the affair of Ja’far Bin Abu Talib^-asws and his^-asws companions, and he^-saww wrote: ‘In the Name of Allah^-saww the Beneficent, the Merciful. From Muhammad^-saww, Rasool^-saww of Allah^-saww, to Al-Najashy king of Ethiopia. I^-saww praise Allah^-saww to you, the King, the Holy, the Granter of Safety, the Dominant, and I^-saww testify that Isa Bin Maryam^-as is a Spirit of Allah^-saww and His Word which He Cast to Maryam [4:171], the chaste, the good, so she^-as became pregnant with Isa^-as.

وَ إِنِّي أَدْعُوكَ إِلَى اللَّهِ وَحْدَهُ لَا شَرِيكَ لَهُ فَإِنْ تَبِعْتَنِي وَ تُؤْمِنْ بِالَّذِي جَاءَنِي فَإِنِّي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ وَ قَدْ بَعَثْتُ إِلَيْكَ ابْنَ عَمِّي جَعْفَراً وَ مَعَهُ نَفَرٌ مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ‏ وَ السَّلامُ عَلى‏ مَنِ اتَّبَعَ الْهُدى‏

And I^-saww call you to Allah^-saww Alone, there being no associates for Him^-saww, and if you were to follow me^-saww and believe in that which has come to me^-saww, for I^-saww am a Rasool^-saww of Allah^-saww and have sent to you my^-saww cousin Ja’far^-as and with him^-as are a number of Muslims, and the greetings be upon one who follows the Guidance [20:47]’.

فَكَتَبَ النَّجَاشِيُّ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ إِلَى مُحَمَّدٍ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ مِنَ النَّجَاشِيِّ سَلَامٌ عَلَيْكَ يَا نَبِيَّ اللَّهِ وَ رَحْمَةُ اللَّهِ وَ بَرَكَاتُهُ الَّذِي لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا هُوَ الَّذِي هَدَانِي إِلَى الْإِسْلَامِ

Al-Najashy wrote to Rasool-Allah^-saww, ‘In the Name of Allah^-saww the Beneficent, the Merciful. To Muhammad^-saww Rasool^-saww of Allah^-saww, from Al-Najashy. Greeting be upon you^-saww, O Prophet^-saww of Allah^-saww, and Mercy of Allah^-saww and His^-saww Blessings, Who, there is no god except He, the One^-saww Who Guided me to Al-Islam.

أَمَّا بَعْدُ فَقَدْ بَلَغَنِي كِتَابُكَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ فِيمَا ذَكَرْتَ مِنْ أَمْرِ عِيسَى فَوَ رَبِّ السَّمَاءِ وَ الْأَرْضِ إِنَّ عِيسَى مَا يَزِيدُ عَلَى مَا ذَكَرْتَ ثُفْرُوقاً إِنَّهُ كَمَا قُلْتَ وَ قَدْ عَرَفْنَا مَا بَعَثْتَ بِهِ إِلَيْنَا وَ قَدِمَ ابْنُ عَمِّكَ وَ أَصْحَابُكَ‏ وَ أَشْهَدُ أَنَّكَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ وَ قَدْ بَايَعْتُكَ وَ بَايَعْتُ ابْنَ عَمِّكَ وَ أَسْلَمْتُ عَلَى يَدَيْهِ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ وَ قَدْ بَعَثْتُ إِلَيْكَ يَا نَبِيَ‏ اللَّهِ فَإِنْ شِئْتَ أَنْ آتِيَكَ فَعَلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ فَإِنِّي أَشْهَدُ أَنَّ مَا تَقُولُ حَقٌّ وَ السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكَ وَ رَحْمَةُ اللَّهِ وَ بَرَكَاتُهُ.

As for after, your^-saww letter has reached me, O Rasool-Allah^-saww, regarding what you^-saww mentioned from the matter of Isa^-as. By the Lord^-azwj of the sky and the earth, he^-as does not exceed upon what you^-saww mentioned differently, he^-as is as you^-saww say, and we have known what you^-saww sent with to us, and your^-saww cousin and his^-as companions have arrived; and I testify that you^-saww are a Rasool^-saww of Allah^-saww, and I have pledged allegiance to you^-saww and pledged with your cousin and become a Muslim upon his^-as hands for the Sake of Allah^-saww Lord^-azwj of the worlds and have sent to you^-saww, O Prophet^-saww of Allah^-saww, If you^-saww like me to come to you^-saww I shall do so, O Rasool-Allah^-saww, for I testify that what you^-saww saying is true; and the greetings be upon you^-saww and Mercy of Allah^-saww and His^-saww Blessings’’.

قال ابن إسحاق فذكر لي أنه بعث ابنه في ستين من الحبشة في سفينة حتى إذا توسطوا البحر غرقت بهم السفينة فهلكوا

Ibn Is’haq said, ‘It is mentioned to me that he sent his son among sixty from the Ethiopians in his ship until when they were in the middle of the sea, the ship sank with them and they died’.

قال الواقدي عن أشياخه كتب رسول الله إلى النجاشي كتابين يدعوه في أحدهما إلى الإسلام و يتلو عليه القرآن فأخذ كتاب رسول الله ص فوضعه على عينه و نزل من سريره ثم جلس على الأرض تواضعا ثم أسلم و شهد شهادته الحق و قال لو كنت أستطيع أن آتيه لآتينه‏ و كتب إلى رسول الله ص بإجابته و تصديقه و إسلامه على يد جعفر بن أبي طالب

Al-Waqidy said, from his elders, ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww wrote two letters to Al-Najashy calling him to Al-Islam and recited the Quran to him. He took the letter of Rasool-Allah^-saww and placed it upon his eyes and came down from his throne, then sat upon the ground in humbleness. Then he became a Muslim and testified with his testimony of the Truth and said, ‘If I was able to go to him^-saww, I would go’, and he wrote to Rasool-Allah^-saww in answering him^-saww and ratifying him^-saww, and his becoming a Muslim at the hands of Ja’far^-asws Bin Abdul Talib^-asws.

و في الكتاب الآخر يأمره أن يزوجه أم حبيبة بنت أبي سفيان و كانت قد هاجرت إلى الحبشة مع زوجها عبد الله بن جحش الأسدي فتنصر هناك و مات و أمره في الكتاب أن يبعث إليه بمن قبله من أصحابه ففعل ذلك و هذه الأخبار دالة على أن النجاشي هو الذي كانت الهجرة إلى أرضه و روي أنه غير ذلك.

And in another letter he^-saww instructed him to marry (him^-saww) Umm Habeeba Bint Abu Sufyan, and she had emigrated to Ethiopia with her husband Abdullah Bin Jahash Al Asady, and he had converted to Christianity over there and died, and instructed him in the letter to send (her) to him^-saww with the ones before him form his^-saww companions. He did that, and this news points upon that Al Najashy, he is the one to whom they had emigrated to his land, and it is reported that he is other than that.

و أما الحارث بن أبي الشمر الغساني فقال شجاع بن وهب انتهيت بكتاب رسول الله و هو بغوطة دمشق و هو مشغول بتهية الأنزال و الألطاف لقيصر و هو جاء من حمص إلى إيليا فأقمت على بابه يومين أو ثلاثة فقلت لحاجبه إني رسول رسول الله ص فقال لا تصل إليه حتى يخرج يوم كذا و كذا و جعل حاجبه و كان روميا

And as for Al-Haris Bin Abu Al-Shimr Al-Ghasany, so Shuja’a bin Wahab said, ‘I ended up with the letter of Rasool-Allah^-saww, and he was at Ghouta in Damascus, and he was busy with welcoming the emissaries and civilians of Caesar, and he had come from Homs to Eilat. I stayed at his door for two days or three days, then I said to his doorman, ‘I am a messenger of Rasool-Allah^-saww’. He said, ‘You cannot arrive to him until he comes out on such and such day’, and went on to bar him, and he was a Roman.

يسألني عن رسول الله ص فكنت أحدثه عن صفة رسول الله ص و ما يدعو إليه فيرق حتى يغلبه البكاء و يقول إني قرأت الإنجيل و أجد صفة هذا النبي بعينه و أنا أومن به و أصدقه و أخاف من الحارث أن يقتلني و كان يكرمني و يحسن ضيافتي

He asked me about Rasool-Allah^-saww, and I was narrating to him about the attributes of Rasool-Allah^-saww and what he^-saww is calling to, he wept until the crying reached him, and he said, ‘I have read the Evangel and I found the description of this Prophet^-saww exactly, and I believe in him^-saww and ratify him^-saww, and I fear from Al-Haris that he would kill me, and he has been honouring me and hosting me excellently’.

فخرج الحارث يوما فجلس و وضع التاج على رأسه و أذن لي عليه فدفعت إليه كتاب رسول الله ص‏ فقرأه ثم رمى به و قال من‏ ينتزع مني ملكي أنا سائر إليه و لو كان باليمن جئته علي بالناس فلم يزل يعرض حتى قام و أمر بالخيول تنعل‏ ثم قال أخبر صاحبك بما ترى

Al-Haris came out one day and sat down and placed the crown upon his head and permitted me to him, so I handed over the letter of Rasool-Allah^-saww to him. He read it, then threw it down and said, ‘Who can snatch my kingdom away from me? I will travel to him^-saww, and even if he^-saww was at Al-Yemen and bring him to me^-saww with the people’. He did not stop objecting until he stood up and ordered with preparing the cavalry. Then he said, ‘Inform your master with what you see’.

و كتب إلى قيصر يخبره خبري و ما عظم عليه فكتب إليه قيصر أن لا تسر إليه و اله عنه و وافني بإيليا فلما جاءه جواب كتابه دعاني فقال متى تريد أن تخرج إلى صاحبك فقلت غدا فأمر لي بمائة مثقال ذهب و وصلني حاجبه بنفقة و كسوة فقال‏ اقرأ على رسول الله ص مني السلام فقدمت على النبي ص فأخبرته فقال باد ملكه و مات الحارث بن أبي الشمر عام الفتح

And he wrote to Caesar informing him of my news and what he had determined upon. Caesar wrote to him, ‘Do not travel and turn away from him^-saww and come to Eilat’. When the answer of his letter came to him, he called me and said, ‘When do you intend to go out to your master?’ I said, ‘Tomorrow morning’. He ordered for me with one hundred ounces of gold and his doorman arrived to me with expense monies and a cloth. He said, ‘Convey the greetings unto Rasool-Allah^-saww from me’. I arrived to the Prophet^-saww and informed him^-saww. He^-saww said: ‘His kingdom will perish’. And Al-Hais Bin Abu Al-Shimr died in the year of the conquest (of Makkah)’.

و أما هوذة بن علي فإنه كان من الملوك العقلاء إلا أن التوفيق عزيز

And as for Howzah Bin Ali, he was from the wise kings except that he reconciled with Azeez’.

قال الواقدي عن أشياخه بعث رسول الله ص سليط بن عمرو العامري إلى هوذة بن علي الحنفي يدعوه إلى الإسلام و كتب معه كتابا فقدم عليه فأنزله و حياه و قرأ كتاب رسول الله ص‏ و كتب إليه و أجمله‏ و أنا شاعر قومي و خطيبهم و العرب تهاب مكاني فاجعل لي بعض الأمر أتبعك.

Al-Waqidy said from his elders, ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww sent Saleyt Bin Amro Al-Aamiry to Howza Bin Ali Al-Hanafi calling him to Al-Islam and wrote a letter with him. He arrived to him, and he hosted him and welcomed him and read the letter of Rasool-Allah^-saww and wrote to him^-saww and admired him^-saww, ‘I am a poet of my people and their preacher, and the Arabs are scared of my position, so make some of the matter to be for me, I shall follow you^-saww’.

و أجاز سليط بن عمرو بجائزة و كساه أثوابا من نسج هجر فقدم بذلك كله على رسول الله ص و أخبره عنه بما قال فقرأ كتابه و قال لو سألني سبابة من‏ الأرض ما فعلت باد و باد ما في يده‏ فلما انصرف رسول الله ص من الفتح جاءه جبرئيل فأخبره أنه قد مات.

And Saleyt Bin Amro awarded him and clothed him with a woven cloth. He arrived with all of it to Rasool-Allah^-saww and informed him with what he had said. He^-saww read his letter and said: ‘Had he asked me^-saww for a forefinger from the earth, I^-saww would not do so. He will perish and whatever is his hands will perish’. When Rasool-Allah^-saww left from the conquest (of Makkah), Jibraeel^-as came to him^-saww and informed him^-saww that he had died’’.[62]

9 وَ قَالَ ابْنُ الْأَثِيرِ وَ أَرْسَلَ الْعَلَاءُ بْنُ الْحَضْرَمِيِّ إِلَى الْمُنْذِرِ بْنِ شَادِيٍ‏ أَخِي عَبْدِ الْقَيْسِ وَ قِيلَ إِنَّ إِرْسَالَهُ كَانَ سَنَةَ ثَمَانٍ فَلَمَّا أَتَاهُ الْعَلَاءُ يَدْعُوهُ‏ وَ مَنْ مَعَهُ بِالْبَحْرَيْنِ إِلَى الْإِسْلَامِ أَوِ الْجِزْيَةِ وَ كَانَتْ وِلَايَةُ الْبَحْرَيْنِ لِلْفُرْسِ فَأَسْلَمَ الْمُنْذِرُ وَ أَسْلَمَ جَمْعٌ مِنَ الْعَرَبِ‏ فَأَمَّا أَهْلُ الْبِلَادِ مِنَ الْيَهُودِ وَ النَّصَارَى وَ الْمَجُوسِ فَإِنَّهُمْ صَالَحُوا الْعَلَاءَ وَ الْمُنْذِرَ عَلَى الْجِزْيَةِ وَ لَمْ يَكُنْ بِالْبَحْرَيْنِ قِتَالٌ إِنَّمَا بَعْضُهُمْ أَسْلَمَ وَ بَعْضُهُمْ صَالَحَ‏

And Ibn al Aseer said, ‘And he^-saww sent Al-A’laa Bin Al-Hazramy to Al-Munzir Bin Shady, brother of Abdul Qays, and it is said that his^-saww sent him; the reason was in the year eight. When Al-Ala’a came to him, calling him and the ones with him at Al-Bahrain to Al-Islam or (pay) the tribute (tax), and his governorate of Al-Bahrain was for Persia. Al-Munzir became a Muslim and the entirety of the ones from the Arabs who were with him became Muslim. As for the people of the country, from the Jews and the Christian and the Magians, they reconciled with Al-Ala’a and Al-Munzi upon the (payment of) tribute, and there did not happen to be any fighters at Al-Bahrain. But rather, some of them became Muslims and some of them reconciled’’.[63]

10 نُقِلَ مِنْ خَطِّ الشَّهِيدِ رَحِمَهُ اللَّهُ‏ قِيلَ كَتَبَ النَّجَاشِيُّ رَحِمَهُ اللَّهُ كِتَاباً إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ص فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لِعَلِيٍّ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ اكْتُبْ جَوَاباً وَ أَوْجِزْ فَكَتَبَ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ أَمَّا بَعْدُ فَكَأَنَّكَ مِنَ الرِّقَّةِ عَلَيْنَا مِنَّا وَ كَأَنَّا مِنَ الثِّقَةِ بِكَ مِنْكَ لِأَنَّا لَا نَرْجُو شَيْئاً مِنْكَ إِلَّا نِلْنَاهُ وَ لَا نَخَافُ مِنْكَ أَمْراً إِلَّا أَمِنَّاهُ وَ بِاللَّهِ التَّوْفِيقُ فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ص الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي جَعَلَ مِنْ أَهْلِي مِثْلَكَ وَ شَدَّ أَزْرِي بِكَ‏

It has been copied from the handwriting of the martyr – ‘It is said Al-Najashy wrote a letter to the Prophet^-saww. Rasool-Allah^-saww said to Ali^-asws: ‘Write an answer and be brief’. He^-asws wrote: ‘In the Name of Allah^-saww, the Beneficent, the Merciful. As for after, it is as if you were from the kindness upon us from us, and as if we are from the dependants with you from you, because we do not hope for anything from you except that we can take it, and we do not fear any matter from you except we can secure it, and with Allah^-saww is the inclination’. The Prophet^-saww said: ‘The Praise is for Allah^-saww Who has Made the like of you^-asws to be from my^-saww family, and Strengthened my back with you^-asws.[64]

 

إلى هنا انتهى الجزء المتمم للعشرون من كتاب بحار الأنوار

Up to here ended the complete volume twenty from the book Bihar Al-Anwaar

[1] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 17 H 1

[2] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 17 H 2

[3] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 17 H 3

[4] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 17 H 4

[5] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 17 H 5

[6] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 17 H 6

[7] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 17 H 7

[8] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 17 H 8

[9] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 17 H 9

[10] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 17 H 10

[11] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 17 H 11

[12] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 17 H 12

[13] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 17 H 13

[14] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 17 H 14

[15] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 17 H 15

[16] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 17 H 16

[17] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 17 H 17

[18] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 17 H 18

[19] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 17 H 19

[20] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 17 H 20

[21] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 17 H 21

[22] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 17 H 22

[23] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 17 H 23

[24] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 17 H 24

[25] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 17 H 25

[26] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 17 H 26

[27] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 17 H 27

[28] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 17 H 28

[29] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 18 H 1

[30] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 18 H 2

[31] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 18 H 3

[32] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 18 H 4

[33] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 18 H 5

[34] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 18 H 6

[35] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 18 H 7

[36] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 18 H 8

[37] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 19 H 1

[38] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 19 H 2

[39] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 20 H 1

[40] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 20 H 2

[41] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 20 H 3

[42] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 20 H 4

[43] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 20 H 5

[44] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 20 H 6

[45] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 20 H 7

[46] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 20 H 8

[47] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 20 H 9

[48] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 20 H 10

[49] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 20 H 11

[50] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 20 H 12

[51] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 20 H 13

[52] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 20 H 14

[53] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 20 H 15

[54] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 20 H 16

[55] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 21 H 1

[56] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 21 H 2

[57] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 21 H 3

[58] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 21 H 4

[59] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 21 H 5

[60] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 21 H 6

[61] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 21 H 7

[62] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 21 H 8

[63] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 21 H 9

[64] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 20, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 21 H 10