Tarikh (al-Tabari) 1783
Preparation of the Prophet ﷺ and his burial
[ افْتِتَانُ الْمُسْلِمِينَ بَعْدَ مَوْتِ الرَّسُولِ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَلَمَّا تُوُفِّيَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ عَظُمَتْ بِهِ مُصِيبَةُ الْمُسْلِمِينَ، فَكَانَتْ عَائِشَةُ، فِيمَا بَلَغَنِي، تَقُولُ: لَمَّا تُوُفِّيَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ ارْتَدَّتْ الْعَرَبُ، وَاشْرَأَبَّتْ الْيَهُودِيَّةُ وَالنَّصْرَانِيَّةِ، وَنَجَمَ النِّفَاقُ، وَصَارَ الْمُسْلِمُونَ كَالْغَنَمِ الْمَطِيرَةُ فِي اللَّيْلَةِ الشَّاتِيَةِ، لِفَقْدِ نَبِيِّهِمْ ﷺ، حَتَّى جَمَعَهُمْ اللَّهُ عَلَى أَبِي بَكْرٍ قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ وَغَيْرُهُ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ أَنَّ أَكْثَرَ أَهْلِ مَكَّةَ لَمَّا تُوُفِّيَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ هَمُّوا بِالرُّجُوعِ عَنْ الْإِسْلَامِ، وَأَرَادُوا ذَلِكَ، حَتَّى خَافَهُمْ عَتَّابُ بْنُ أَسِيدٍ، فَتَوَارَى، فَقَامَ سُهَيْلُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو، فَحَمِدَ اللَّهَ، وَأَثْنَى عَلَيْهِ، ثُمَّ ذَكَرَ وَفَاةَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ، وَقَالَ: إنَّ ذَلِكَ لَمْ يَزِدْ الْإِسْلَامَ إلَّا قُوَّةً، فَمَنْ رَابَنَا ضَرَبْنَا عُنُقَهُ، فَتَرَاجَعَ النَّاسُ وَكَفُّوا عَمَّا هَمُّوا بِهِ، وَظَهَرَ عَتَّابُ بْنُ أَسِيدٍ. فَهَذَا الْمَقَامُ الَّذِي أَرَادَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ فِي قَوْلِهِ لِعُمَرِ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِ: إنَّهُ عَسَى أَنْ يَقُومَ مَقَامًا لَا تَذُمُّهُ.
Translation
✧ [The Muslims' trial after the death of the Messenger ﷺ] Ibn Isḥāq said: When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ died, the Muslims' calamity by it was immense. ʿĀʾishah, according to what has reached me, used to say: When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ died, the Arabs apostatized, Judaism and Christianity reared up, hypocrisy emerged, and the Muslims became like sheep driven by rain on a winter night, for the loss of their Prophet ﷺ, until Allah gathered them around Abū Bakr. Ibn Hishām said: Abū ʿUbaydah and other people of knowledge narrated to me that most of the people of Makkah, when the Messenger of Allah ﷺ died, were on the point of turning back from Islam, and they desired that, until ʿAttāb b. Asīd feared them and hid. Suhayl b. ʿAmr stood, praised Allah, lauded Him, then mentioned the death of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and said: That did not increase Islam except in strength. Whoever makes us doubt, we strike his neck. So the people turned back and refrained from what they had been on the point of doing, and ʿAttāb b. Asīd appeared. This is the station that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ meant in his saying to ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb: Perhaps he will stand a station in which you will not find fault.
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