al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 4359

Translation

✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ and his companions proceeded in the year of the conquest until he camped at Marr al-Zahran with ten thousand Muslims. Sulaym numbered seven hundred, Muzayna one thousand, and in every tribe there was a number and Islam. The Muhajirun and the Ansar all went out with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and not one of them stayed behind. The news had become hidden from Quraysh, so no report about the Messenger of Allah ﷺ came to them, and they did not know what he was doing. Abu Sufyan b. al-Harith and 'Abd Allah b. Abi Umayya b. al-Mughira had met the Messenger of Allah ﷺ at Thaniyyat al-'Iqab, between Makkah and Madinah, and they sought permission to enter upon him. Umm Salama spoke to him and said: O Messenger of Allah, your paternal cousin and your maternal cousin and your brother-in-law. He said: «I have no need of them. As for my paternal cousin, he violated my honor, and as for my maternal cousin and brother-in-law, he is the one who said to me in Makkah what he said.» When the news of that reached them, and Abu Sufyan b. al-Harith had a son with him, he said: By Allah, either the Messenger of Allah ﷺ will give permission, or I will take my son by the hand and we will go into the land until we die of thirst or hunger. When that reached the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, he felt compassion for them, so they entered upon him. Abu Sufyan recited to him his poem about his Islam and his apology for what had passed, and he said: [al-tawil] By your life, on the day I carry a banner, for the horses of al-Lat to overcome the horses of Muhammad, I am like a confused night traveler in the darkness of night, but this is the time of truth, I am guided and I guide. Say to Thaqif: I do not want to fight you, and say to Thaqif: that is with me, so make threats. A guide other than myself guided me, and led me to Allah the one whom I drove away with every driving. I flee swiftly, striving away from Muhammad, and I claim, even if I were not related to Muhammad. They are a band whose desires no one opposes, even if he has sound opinion, he is blamed and deemed weak. I seek to please them, and I am not one to utter with the people what I am not guided to in every sitting. I was not in the army that reached 'Amir, nor did my tongue or hand fall short of good. Tribes came from distant lands, followers came from Siham and Surdad. Indeed the one whom you expelled and reviled will strive for you like a man who is not lowly. He said: When he recited to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ "to Allah the one whom I drove away with every driving," the Messenger of Allah ﷺ struck his chest and said: «You drove me away with every driving.» Ibn Ishaq said: «The mother of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ died at al-Abwa' while she was visiting her maternal uncles from Banu al-Najjar.»

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