Tarikh (al-Tabari) 1565
What Has Been Reported Regarding the Arrival of the Thaqīf Delegation to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and Their Conversion
[ فِي شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ سَنَةَ تِسْعٍ ] [ إِسْلَامُ عُرْوَةَ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ وَرُجُوعُهُ إِلَى قَوْمِهِ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَقَدِمَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ الْمَدِينَةَ مِنْ تَبُوكَ فِي رَمَضَانَ، وَقَدِمَ عَلَيْهِ فِي ذَلِكَ الشَّهْرِ وَفْدُ ثَقِيفٍ. وَكَانَ مِنْ حَدِيثِهِمْ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ لَمَّا انْصَرَفَ عَنْهُمْ، اتَّبَعَ أَثَرَهُ عُرْوَةُ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ الثَّقَفِيُّ، حَتَّى أَدْرَكَهُ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَصِلَ إلَى الْمَدِينَةِ، فَأَسْلَمَ وَسَأَلَهُ أَنْ يَرْجِعَ إلَى قَوْمِهِ بِالْإِسْلَامِ، فَقَالَ لَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ، كَمَا يَتَحَدَّثُ قَوْمُهُ: إنَّهُمْ قَاتَلُوكَ،: وَعَرَفَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَنَّ فِيهِمْ نَخْوَةَ الِامْتِنَاعِ الَّذِي كَانَ مِنْهُمْ، فَقَالَ عُرْوَةُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَنَا أَحَبُّ إلَيْهِمْ مِنْ أَبْكَارِهِمْ قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: وَيُقَالُ: فِي أَبْصَارِهِمْ. [ دُعَاؤُهُ لِلْإِسْلَامِ وَمَقْتَلُهُ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَكَانَ فِيهِمْ كَذَلِكَ مُحَبَّبًا مُطَاعًا، فَخَرَجَ يَدْعُو قَوْمَهُ إلَى الْإِسْلَامِ رَجَاءَ أَنْ لَا يُخَالِفُوهُ، لِمَنْزِلَتِهِ فِيهِمْ؛ فَلَمَّا أَشْرَفَ لَهُمْ عَلَى عَلِيَّةٍ لَهُ، وَقَدْ دَعَاهُمْ إلَى الْإِسْلَامِ، وَأَظْهَرَ لَهُمْ دِينَهُ، رَمَوْهُ بِالنَّبْلِ مِنْ كُلِّ وَجْهٍ، فَأَصَابَهُ سَهْمٌ فَقَتَلَهُ، فَتَزْعُمُ بَنُو مَالِكٍ أَنَّهُ قَتَلَهُ رَجُلٌ مِنْهُمْ، يُقَالُ لَهُ أَوْسُ بْنُ عَوْفٍ، أَخُو بَنِي سَالِمِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ، وَتَزْعُمُ الْأَحْلَافُ أَنَّهُ قَتَلَهُ رَجُلٌ مِنْهُمْ، مِنْ بَنِي عَتَّابِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ، يُقَالُ لَهُ وَهْبُ بْنُ جَابِرٍ، فَقِيلَ لِعُرْوَةِ: مَا تَرَى فِي دَمِكَ ؟ قَالَ: كَرَامَةٌ أَكَرَمَنِي اللَّهُ بِهَا، وَشَهَادَةٌ سَاقَهَا اللَّهُ إلَيَّ، فَلَيْسَ فِيَّ إلَّا مَا فِي الشُّهَدَاءِ الَّذِينَ قَتَلُوا مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَرْتَحِلَ عَنْكُمْ، فَادْفِنُونِي مَعَهُمْ، فَدَفَنُوهُ مَعَهُمْ، فَزَعَمُوا أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ فِيهِ: إنَّ مِثْلَهُ فِي قَوْمِهِ لَكَمِثْلِ صَاحِبِ يَاسِينَ فِي قَوْمِهِ
Translation
✧ [In the month of Ramadan, year nine] [The conversion of ʿUrwah b. Masʿūd and his return to his people] Ibn Isḥāq said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ arrived in Madinah from Tabūk in Ramadan, and in that same month the delegation of Thaqīf came to him. Part of their story is that when the Messenger of Allah ﷺ departed from them, ʿUrwah b. Masʿūd al-Thaqafī followed in his tracks until he caught up with him before he reached Madinah. He converted to Islam and asked him to return to his people with Islam. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to him, as his people relate, 'They will fight you.' The Messenger of Allah ﷺ knew that they still had the pride of refusal that had been in them. ʿUrwah said: 'O Messenger of Allah, I am dearer to them than their firstborn.' Ibn Hishām said: It is also said: 'than their eyesight.' [His call to Islam and his killing] Ibn Isḥāq said: He was indeed beloved and obeyed among them. So he went out calling his people to Islam, hoping that they would not oppose him because of his standing among them. When he appeared before them on a high place of his, after he had called them to Islam and shown them his religion, they shot arrows at him from every direction. An arrow struck him and killed him. The Banū Mālik claim that he was killed by a man of theirs called Aws b. ʿAwf, brother of the Banū Sālim b. Mālik. The Aḥlāf claim that he was killed by a man of theirs from the Banū ʿAttāb b. Mālik called Wahb b. Jābir. It was said to ʿUrwah: 'What do you think about your blood?' He said: 'It is an honor with which Allah has honored me, and a martyrdom that Allah has brought to me. There is nothing in me except what is in the martyrs who were killed with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ before he departed from you. Bury me with them.' So they buried him with them. They claimed that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said about him: 'His likeness among his people is like the likeness of the companion of Yā Sīn among his people.'
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