Sahih al-Bukhari 4890

Translation

Messenger of Allah ﷺ sent me along with AzZubair and Al-Miqdad and said, "Proceed till you reach a place called Raudat-Khakh where there is a lady travelling in a howda on a camel. She has a letter. Take the letter from her." So we set out, and our horses ran at full pace till we reached Raudat Khakh, and behold, we saw the lady and said (to her), "Take out the letter!" She said, "I have no letter with me." We said, "Either you take out the letter or we will strip you of your clothes." So she took the letter out of her hair braid. We brought the letter to the Prophet ﷺ and behold, it was addressed by Hatib bin Abi Balta'a to some pagans at Mecca, informing them of some of the affairs of the Prophet. The Prophet ﷺ said, "What is this, O Hatib?" Hatib replied, "Do not be hasty with me, O Messenger of Allah ﷺ! I am an Ansari man and do not belong to them (Quraish infidels) while the emigrants who were with you had their relatives who used to protect their families and properties at Mecca. So, to compensate for not having blood relation with them.' I intended to do them some favor so that they might protect my relatives (at Mecca), and I did not do this out of disbelief or an inclination to desert my religion." The Prophet then said (to his companions), "He (Hatib) has told you the truth." ʿUmar said, "O Allah's Apostle! Allow me to chop his head off?" The Apostle said, "He is one of those who witnessed (fought in) the Battle of Badr, and what do you know, perhaps Allah looked upon the people of Badr (Badr warriors) and said, 'Do what you want as I have forgiven you.' " (ʿAmr, a sub-narrator, said,: This Verse was revealed about him (Hatib): 'O you who believe! Take not My enemies and your enemies as friends or protectors.' (60.1) Narrated ʿAli: Sufyan was asked whether (the Verse): 'Take not My enemies and your enemies...' was revealed in connection with Hatib. Sufyan replied, "This occurs only in the narration of the people. I memorized the Hadith from ʿAmr, not overlooking even a single letter thereof, and I do not know of anybody who remembered it by heart other than myself."

Notes

• قَالَ عَمْرٌو وَنَزَلَتْ فِيهِ {يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لاَ تَتَّخِذُوا عَدُوِّي وَعَدُوَّكُمْ} قَالَ لاَ أَدْرِي الآيَةَ فِي الْحَدِيثِ أَوْ قَوْلُ عَمْرٍو حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيٌّ قِيلَ لِسُفْيَانَ فِي هَذَا فَنَزَلَتْ {لاَ تَتَّخِذُوا عَدُوِّي} قَالَ سُفْيَانُ هَذَا فِي حَدِيثِ النَّاسِ حَفِظْتُهُ مِنْ عَمْرٍو وَمَا تَرَكْتُ مِنْهُ حَرْفًا وَمَا أُرَى أَحَدًا حَفِظَهُ غَيْرِي

  machine translationʿAmr said: "And there was revealed concerning him: {يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لاَ تَتَّخِذُوا عَدُوِّي وَعَدُوَّكُمْ}." He said: I do not know whether the verse is in the hadith or is the saying of ʿAmr. ʿAlī narrated to us: Sufyān was asked about this: "So there was revealed: {لاَ تَتَّخِذُوا عَدُوِّي}?" Sufyān said: This is in the people's hadith. I memorized it from ʿAmr and did not leave out a single letter from it, and I do not think anyone has memorized it other than me. Report a problem

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 2494bMusnad Ahmad 1083Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 33014Musnad Abi Ya'la 395al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 6968

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAlī b. Abū Ṭālib

   One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AH
   عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرة
   سمعت
2. 2
   ʿUbaydullāh b. Abī Rāfiʿ mawlá Rasūl Allāh

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 91 AH and 100 AH
   عُبَيْدَ اللهِ بْنَ أَبِي رَافِعٍ كَاتِبَ عَلِيٍّثقة
   سمع
3. 3
   al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib

   trustworthy (thiqah), jurist, it is said: he was the first to speak about Irjāʾd. 100 AH, or 99 AH, also said: 95 AH, also said: 101 AH
   الْحَسَنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّثقة فقيه ، يقال : إنه أول من تكلم في الإرجاء
   حدثني
4. 4
   ʿAmr b. Dīnār al-Athram

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 125 AH, or 126 AH, or 129 AH, also said: 116 AH
   عَمْرُو بْنُ دِينَارٍثقة ثبت
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an imam and a proof (ḥujjah), except that his memory changed towards the end of his life; he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), but only from trustworthy narrators.d. 197 AH or 198 AH
   سُفْيَانُثقة حافظ فقيه , إمام حجة إلا أنه تغير حفظه بأخرة , وكان ربما دلس لكن عن الثقات
   حدثنا
6. 6
   al-Ḥumaydī

   trustworthy (thiqah), ḥāfiẓ, jurist, the most eminent of Ibn ʿUyaynah's studentsd. 219 AH, or 220 AH
   الْحُمَيْدِيُّثقة حافظ فقيه ، أجل أصحاب ابن عيينة
   حدثنا
7. 7
   al-Bukhārī

   a mountain of memorization and the leader of the world in the comprehension of hadith (jabal al-ḥifẓ wa-imām al-dunyā fī fiqh al-ḥadīth)d. 256 AH
   الْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث

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