Musnad Ahmad 9833

Translation

✧ The Messenger of God ﷺ sent horses toward Najd, and they brought back a man from Banu Hanifah, Thumamah b. Uthal, the chief of the people of al-Yamamah. They tied him to one of the columns of the mosque. The Messenger of God ﷺ came out to him and said to him, "What do you have, O Thumamah?" He said, "I have good, O Muhammad. If you kill, you kill one whose blood is sought; if you show favor, you show favor to one who is grateful; and if you want wealth, ask and you will be given whatever you wish." The Messenger of God ﷺ left him until the next day, then said to him, "What do you have, O Thumamah?" He said, "What I told you: if you show favor, you show favor to one who is grateful; if you kill, you kill one whose blood is sought; and if you want wealth, ask and you will be given whatever you wish." The Messenger of God ﷺ left him until the day after, and then said, "What do you have, O Thumamah?" He said, "I have what I told you: if you show favor, you show favor to one who is grateful; if you kill, you kill one whose blood is sought; and if you want wealth, ask and you will be given whatever you wish." The Messenger of God ﷺ said, "Release Thumamah." They took him to some palm trees near the mosque, and he bathed. Then he entered the mosque and said, "I bear witness that there is no god but God, and I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of God. O Muhammad, by God, there was no face on earth more hateful to me than your face, but your face has become the most beloved of all faces to me. By God, there was no religion more hateful to me than your religion, but your religion has become the most beloved religion to me. By God, there was no land more hateful to me than your land, but your land has become the most beloved of lands to me. Your cavalry seized me while I was intending to perform Umrah. So what do you think?" The Messenger of God ﷺ gave him good news and ordered him to perform Umrah. When he arrived in Makkah, someone said to him, "Have you apostatized?" He said, "No, but I have submitted with Muhammad, the Messenger of God ﷺ. And by God, no grain of wheat will come to you from al-Yamamah until the Messenger of God ﷺ permits it."

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 2423Sahih al-Bukhari 469Sunan an-Nasa'i 712

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Hurayrah al-Dawsī

   The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
   أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
   سمع
2. 2
   Saʿīd al-Maqburī

   Trustworthy (thiqah); his memory changed four years before his death, and his narration from ʿĀʾishah and Umm Salamah is mursal.d. 117 AH or 123 AH, or 125 AH, or 126 AH, or around the year 120 AH
   سَعِيدٌثقة ، تغير قبل موته بأربع سنين ، وروايته عن عائشة وأم سلمة مرسلة
   حدثني
3. 3
   al-Layth b. Saʿd

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh), a well-known imamd. 175 AH, or 176 AH, or 177 AH
   لَيْثٌثقة ثبت ، فقيه إمام مشهور
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Ḥajjāj

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), but his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his life, when he came to Baghdad before his death.d. 205 AH, or 206 AH
   حَجَّاجٌثقة ثبت لكنه اختلط في آخر عمره لما قدم بغداد قبل موته
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his view
   أحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

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Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.