Tarikh (al-Tabari) 502
Genealogy of Our Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and Some Accounts of His Forefathers and Ancestors
[ ذُو نُوَاسٍ وَخَدُّ الْأُخْدُودِ ] فَسَارَ إلَيْهِمْ ذُو نُوَاسٍ بِجُنُودِهِ، فَدَعَاهُمْ إلَى الْيَهُودِيَّةِ، وَخَيَّرَهُمْ بَيْنَ ذَلِكَ وَالْقَتْلِ، فَاخْتَارُوا الْقَتْلَ، فَخَدَّ لَهُمْ الْأُخْدُودَ، فَحَرَقَ مَنْ حَرَقَ بِالنَّارِ، وَقَتَلَ بِالسَّيْفِ وَمَثَّلَ بِهِ حَتَّى قَتَلَ مِنْهُمْ قَرِيبًا مِنْ عِشْرِينَ أَلْفًا، فَفِي ذِي نُوَاسٍ وَجُنْدِهِ تِلْكَ أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى عَلَى رَسُولِهِ سَيِّدِنَا مُحَمَّدٍ ﷺ: قُتِلَ أَصْحَابُ الْأُخْدُودِ النَّارِ ذَاتِ الْوَقُودِ إِذْ هُمْ عَلَيْهَا قُعُودٌ وَهُمْ عَلَى مَا يَفْعَلُونَ بِالْمُؤْمِنِينَ شُهُودٌ وَمَا نَقَمُوا مِنْهُمْ إِلَّا أَنْ يُؤْمِنُوا بِاللَّهِ الْعَزِيزِ الْحَمِيدِ. [ الْأُخْدُودُ لُغَةً ] قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: الْأُخْدُودُ: الْحَفْرُ الْمُسْتَطِيلُ فِي الْأَرْضِ، كَالْخَنْدَقِ وَالْجَدْوَلِ وَنَحْوِهِ، وَجَمْعُهُ أَخَادِيدُ. قَالَ ذُو الرُّمَّةِ، وَاسْمُهُ غَيْلَانُ بْنُ عُقْبَةَ، أَحَدُ بَنِي عَدِيِّ بْنِ عَبْدِ مَنَافِ بْنِ أُدِّ بْنِ طَانِجَةَ بْنِ إلْيَاسَ بْنِ مُضَرَ: مِنْ الْعِرَاقِيَّةِ اللَّاتِي يُحِيلُ لَهَا بَيْنَ الْفَلَاةِ وَبَيْنَ النَّخْلِ أُخْدُودُ يَعْنِي جَدْوَلًا. وَهَذَا الْبَيْتُ فِي قَصِيدَةٍ لَهُ. قَالَ: وَيُقَالُ لِأَثَرِ السَّيْفِ وَالسِّكِّينِ فِي الْجِلْدِ وَأَثَرِ السَّوْطِ وَنَحْوِهِ: أُخْدُودٌ، وَجَمْعُهُ أَخَادِيدُ.
Translation
✧ [ Dhū Nuwās and the digging of the trench ] So Dhū Nuwās marched against them with his troops and called them to Judaism, giving them the choice between that and death. They chose death. He dug for them the trench, and burned with fire those whom he burned, killed with the sword, and mutilated, until he killed nearly twenty thousand of them. Concerning Dhū Nuwās and his troops, God, exalted be He, revealed to His Messenger, our master Muhammad ﷺ: "Slain were the companions of the trench, the fire abounding in fuel, when they sat over it and were witnesses of what they did to the believers. And they took vengeance on them only because they believed in God, the Mighty, the Praiseworthy." [ Al-ukhdūd linguistically ] Ibn Hishām said: Al-ukhdūd is the elongated excavation in the ground, like a trench, a watercourse, or the like; its plural is akhādīd. Dhū al-Rummah, whose name is Ghaylān b. ʿUqbah, one of the Banū ʿAdī b. ʿAbd Manāf b. Udd b. Ṭānijah b. Ilyās b. Muḍar, said: Of the Iraqi she-camels, for which there stretches between the desert and the palm trees a trench—meaning a watercourse. This verse is from a poem of his. He said: The mark of a sword or knife on leather, and the mark of a whip or the like, is called ukhdūd, and its plural is akhādīd.
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