Sahih al-Bukhari 5663

Translation

The Prophet ﷺ rode a donkey having a saddle with a Fadakiyya velvet covering. He mounted me behind him and went to visit Saʿd bin 'Ubada, and that had been before the battle of Badr. The Prophet ﷺ proceeded till he passed by a gathering in which ʿAbdullah bin Ubai bin Salul was present, and that had been before ʿAbdullah embraced Islam. The gathering comprised of Muslims, polytheists, i.e., isolators and Jews. ʿAbdullah bin Rawaha was also present in that gathering. When dust raised by the donkey covered the gathering, ʿAbdullah bin Ubai covered his nose with his upper garment and said, "Do not trouble us with dust." The Prophet ﷺ greeted them, stopped and dismounted. Then he invited them to Allah (i.e., to embrace Islam) and recited to them some verses of the Holy Qur'an. On that, ʿAbdullah bin Ubai said, "O man ! There is nothing better than what you say if it is true. Do not trouble us with it in our gathering, but return to your house, and if somebody comes to you, teach him there." On that ʿAbdullah bin Rawaha said, Yes, O Messenger of Allah ﷺ! Bring your teachings to our gathering, for we love that." So the Muslims, the pagans and the Jews started abusing each other till they were about to fight. The Prophet ﷺ kept on quietening them till they became calm. Thereupon the Prophet mounted his animal and proceeded till he entered upon Saʿd bin Ubada. He said to him "O Saʿd! Have you not heard what Abu Hubab (i.e., ʿAbdullah bin Ubai) said?" Saʿd said, 'O Allah's Apostle! Excuse and forgive him, for Allah has given you what He has given you. The people of this town (Medina decided unanimously to crown him and make him their chief by placing a turban on his head, but when that was prevented by the Truth which Allah had given you he (ʿAbdullah bin Ubai) was grieved out of jealously, and that was the reason which caused him to behave in the way you have seen."

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 4566Musnad Ahmad 21769al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 6928Musnad al-Bazzar 2575Musnad al-Bazzar 2577al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 7478

Narrators

1. 1
   Usāmah b. Zayd b. Ḥārithah dhū al-Buṭayn

   a well-known Companiond. Ibn Ḥibbān said: he died after ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān was killed. In al-Samʿānī's Amālī: 40 AH. Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr deemed correct that he died in the year 54 AH. Muṣʿab al-Zubayrī said: 58 AH or 59 AH
   أُسَامَةُ بْنُ زَيْدِ بْنِ حَارِثَةَ ذُو الْبُطَيْنِصحابي مشهور
   أخبره
2. 2
   ʿUrwah b. al-Zubayr

   trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), well-known (mashhūr)d. 91 AH, or 92, or 93 AH, or 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 99 AH, or 100 AH, or 101 AH
   عُرْوَةَثقة فقيه مشهور
   عن
3. 3
   al-Zuhrī

   The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AH
   ابْنِ شِهَابٍالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبته
   عن
4. 4
   ʿUqayl

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 141 AH, or: 142 AH, or: 144 AH
   عُقَيْلٍثقة ثبت
   عن
5. 5
   al-Layth b. Saʿd

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh), a well-known imamd. 175 AH, or 176 AH, or 177 AH
   اللَّيْثُثقة ثبت ، فقيه إمام مشهور
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Yaḥyā b. Bukayr

   Trustworthy (thiqah) in narrating from al-Layth, but they spoke critically about his hearing from Mālikd. 231 AH or 232 AH
   يَحْيَى بْنُ بُكَيْرٍثقة في الليث ، وتكلموا في سماعه من مالك
   حدثني
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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