Musnad Ahmad 1775

Translation

✧ I witnessed with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ the Battle of Ḥunayn. He said: I saw the Prophet ﷺ with no one but me and Abū Sufyān b. al-Ḥārith b. ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib. We stayed close to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and did not leave him while he was on a grayish mule—and sometimes Maʿmar said: white—a gift given to him by Farwah b. Naʿāmah al-Judhāmī. When the Muslims and the disbelievers met, the Muslims turned back in retreat, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ began spurring his mule toward the disbelievers. Al-ʿAbbās said: I was holding the bridle of the Messenger of Allah's mule, restraining it, while he spared no effort speeding toward the polytheists, and Abū Sufyān b. al-Ḥārith was holding the stirrup of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: O ʿAbbās, call out: O companions of the samurah tree. He said: I was a loud-voiced man, so I called out at the top of my voice: Where are the companions of the samurah tree? He said: By Allah, it was as if their turning when they heard my voice was like the turning of cows toward their calves. They said: At your service, at your service, at your service. The Muslims came forward and fought with the disbelievers. The Anṣār called out, saying: O company of the Anṣār. Then the call was restricted to the Banū al-Ḥārith b. al-Khazraj, and they called: O Banū al-Ḥārith b. al-Khazraj. He said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ looked on while on his mule, as if leaning forward over it at their fighting, and said: Now the oven has heated up. He said: Then the Messenger of Allah ﷺ took some pebbles and threw them at the faces of the disbelievers, then said: They have been defeated, by the Lord of the Kaʿbah; they have been defeated, by the Lord of the Kaʿbah. He said: I went to look, and the fighting appeared to me as it had been. He said: By Allah, it was only when the Messenger of Allah ﷺ threw his pebbles at them that I kept seeing their strength weakened and their affair in retreat until Allah defeated them. He said: It is as if I am looking at the Prophet ﷺ spurring on behind them on his mule.

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