Tarikh (al-Tabari) 681
Quraysh's Innovation of the Hums
حَدِيثُ الْحُمْسِ [ الْحُمْسُ عِنْدَ قُرَيْشٍ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَقَدْ كَانَتْ قُرَيْشٌ - لَا أَدْرِي أَقَبْلَ الْفِيلِ أَمْ بَعْدَهُ - ابْتَدَعَتْ رَأْيَ الْحُمْسِ رَأْيًا رَأَوْهُ وَأَدَارُوهُ؛ فَقَالُوا: نَحْنُ بَنُو إبْرَاهِيمَ وَأَهْلُ الْحُرْمَةِ، وَوُلَاةُ الْبَيْتِ، وَقُطَّانُ مَكَّةَ وَسَاكِنُهَا، فَلَيْسَ لِأَحَدٍ مِنْ الْعَرَبِ مِثْلُ حَقِّنَا، وَلَا مِثْلُ مَنْزِلَتِنَا، وَلَا تَعْرِفُ لَهُ الْعَرَبُ مِثْلَ مَا تَعْرِفُ لَنَا، فَلَا تُعَظِّمُوا شَيْئًا مِنْ الْحِلِّ كَمَا تُعَظِّمُونَ الْحَرَمَ، فَإِنَّكُمْ إنْ فَعَلْتُمْ ذَلِكَ اسْتَخَفَّتْ الْعَرَبُ بِحُرْمَتِكُمْ، وَقَالُوا قَدْ عَظَّمُوا مِنْ الْحِلِّ مِثْلَ مَا عَظَّمُوا مِنْ الْحَرَمِ. فَتَرَكُوا الْوُقُوفَ عَلَى عَرَفَةَ، وَالْإِفَاضَةَ مِنْهَا، وَهُمْ يَعْرِفُونَ وَيُقِرُّونَ أَنَّهَا مِنْ الْمَشَاعِرِ وَالْحَجِّ وَدِينِ إبْرَاهِيمَ ﷺ، وَيَرَوْنَ لِسَائِرِ الْعَرَبِ أَنْ يَقِفُوا عَلَيْهَا، وَأَنْ يُفِيضُوا مِنْهَا، إلَّا أَنَّهُمْ قَالُوا: نَحْنُ أَهْلُ الْحَرَمِ، فَلَيْسَ يَنْبَغِي لَنَا أَنْ نَخْرُجَ مِنْ الْحُرْمَةِ وَلَا نُعَظِّمُ غَيْرَهَا كَمَا نُعَظِّمُهَا نَحْنُ الْحُمْسُ، وَالْحُمْسُ أَهْلُ الْحَرَمِ، ثُمَّ جَعَلُوا لِمِنْ وُلِدُوا مِنْ الْعَرَبِ مِنْ سَاكِنِ الْحِلِّ وَالْحَرَمِ مِثْلَ الَّذِي لَهُمْ، بِوِلَادَتِهِمْ إيَّاهُمْ، يَحِلُّ لَهُمْ مَا يَحِلُّ لَهُمْ، وَيَحْرُمُ عَلَيْهِمْ مَا يَحْرُمُ عَلَيْهِمْ.
Translation
✧ The Account of the Ḥums [The Ḥums according to Quraysh] Ibn Isḥāq said: Quraysh—I do not know whether before the Elephant or after it—had introduced the doctrine of the Ḥums, an opinion they held and propagated. They said: “We are the sons of Ibrāhīm, the people of the sanctuary, the guardians of the House, the residents and inhabitants of Makkah. No one among the Arabs has a right like ours, nor a standing like ours, and the Arabs do not recognize for anyone the like of what they recognize for us. So do not venerate anything of the profane land as you venerate the sacred territory, for if you do that, the Arabs will belittle your sanctity and say: ‘They have venerated of the profane land the like of what they venerated of the sacred territory.’” So they abandoned standing at ʿArafah and the departure from it, while they knew and acknowledged that it was among the rites and the pilgrimage and the religion of Ibrāhīm ﷺ. They held that the rest of the Arabs should stand upon it and depart from it, except that they said: “We are the people of the sanctuary, so it is not proper for us to leave the sacred territory, nor do we venerate other than it as we venerate it. We are the Ḥums, and the Ḥums are the people of the sanctuary.” Then they assigned to those of the Arabs who were born to them, whether residents of the profane land or the sacred territory, the like of what they had for themselves, by virtue of their birth to them: what is lawful for them is lawful for them, and what is forbidden to them is forbidden to them.
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