Tarikh (al-Tabari) 939
The Detachment of ʿUbayda b. al-Ḥārith b. al-Muṭṭalib b. ʿAbd Manāf ᴿᴬ to Baṭn Rābigh
سَرِيَّةِ عُبَيْدَةَ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ الْمُطَّلِبِ بْنِ عَبْدِ مَنَافٍ، ؓ إِلَى بَطْنِ رَابِغٍ وَهِيَ أَوَّلُ رَايَةٍ عَقَدَهَا عَلَيْهِ الصَّلَاةُ وَالسَّلَامُ وذلك فِي شَوَّالَ مِنَ السَّنَةِ الْأُولَى وَقَالَ ابْنُ إِسْحَاقَ: إِنَّمَا كَانَتْ هَذِهِ الْغَزَاةِ فِي السَّنَةِ الثَّانِيَةِ. وذلك فِي سِتِّينَ أَوْ ثَمَانِينَ رَاكِبًا مِنَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ لَيْسَ فِيهِمْ أَنْصَارِيٌّ وَكَانَ لِوَاؤُهُ أَبْيَضَ حَمَلَهُ مِسْطَحُ بْنُ أُثَاثَةَ بْنِ عَبَّادِ بْنِ الْمُطَّلِبِ بْنِ عَبْدِ مَنَافٍ ؓ. فَخَرَجَ فَلَقِيَ أَبَا سُفْيَانَ بْنَ حَرْبٍ، فِي أُنَاسٍ مِنْ أَصْحَابِهِ عَلَى مَاءٍ يُقَالُ لَهُ أَحْيَاءٌ مِنْ بَطْنِ رَابِغٍ [عَلَى عَشَرَةِ أَمْيَالٍ مِنَ الْجُحْفَةِ وَأَنْتَ تُرِيدُ قَدِيدًا عَلَى يَسَارِ الطَّرِيقِ، وَإِنَّمَا] نَكَبُوا عَنِ الطَّرِيقِ لِيَرْعَوْا رِكَابَهُمْ. وَأَبُو سُفْيَانَ فِي مِائَتَيْنِ وَعَلَى الْمُشْرِكِينَ أَبُو سُفْيَانَ، قَالَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُمَرَ: وَهُوَ الثَّبْتُ عِنْدَنَا، وَقِيلَ مَكْرَزُ بْنُ حَفْصٍ، وَقِيلَ عِكْرِمَةُ بْنُ أَبِي جَهْلٍ. فَكَانَ بَيْنَهُمُ الرَّمْيُ، وَلَمْ يَسُلُّوا سَيْفًا وَلَمْ يَصْطَفُّوا لِلْقِتَالِ، وَإِنَّمَا كَانَتْ بَيْنَهُمُ الْمُنَاوَشَةُ إِلَّا أَنَّ سَعْدَ بْنَ أَبِي وَقَّاصٍ ؓ رَمَى بِسَهْمٍ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ، فَكَانَ أَوَّلَ سَهْمٍ رُمِيَ بِهِ فِي الْإِسْلَامِ فَنَثَرَ كِنَانَتَهُ وَتَقَدَّمَ أَمَامَ أَصْحَابِهِ وَقَدْ تَتَرَّسُوا عَنْهُ، فَرَمَى بِمَا فِي كِنَانَتِهِ، وَكَانَ فِيهَا عِشْرُونَ سَهْمًا مَا مِنْهَا سَهْمٌ إِلَّا وَيَجْرَحُ إِنْسَانًا أَوْ دَابَّةً. وَلَمْ يَكُنْ بَيْنَهُمْ يَوْمَئِذٍ إِلَّا هَذَا، ثُمَّ انْصَرَفَ الْفَرِيقَانِ عَلَى حَامِيَتِهِمْ. وَفَرَّ مِنَ الْكُفَّارِ إِلَى الْمُسْلِمِينَ الْمِقْدَادُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو الْبَهْرَانِيُّ حَلِيفُ بَنِي زُهْرَةَ، وَعُتْبَةُ بْنُ غَزْوَانَ الْمَازِنِيُّ حَلِيفُ [بَنِي نَوْفَلِ] بْنِ عَبْدِ مَنَافٍ، وَكَانَا مُسْلِمَيْنِ، وَلَكِنَّهُمَا خَرَجَا لِيَتَوَصَّلَا بِالْمُشْرِكِينَ. قَالَ ابْنُ إِسْحَاقَ: وَكَانَ عَلَى الْقَوْمِ عِكْرِمَةُ بْنُ أَبِي جَهْلٍ، وَقَدَّمَ سَرِيَّةَ عبيدة عَلَى سَرِيَّةِ حمزة.
Translation
✧ The Detachment of ʿUbayda b. al-Ḥārith b. al-Muṭṭalib b. ʿAbd Manāf ؓ to Baṭn Rābigh: This was the first banner that he ﷺ tied. That was in Shawwāl of the first year. Ibn Isḥāq said: This expedition was only in the second year. It consisted of sixty or eighty riders from the Muhājirūn, with no Anṣārī among them. His banner was white, carried by Misṭaḥ b. Uthātha b. ʿAbbād b. al-Muṭṭalib b. ʿAbd Manāf ؓ. He set out and met Abū Sufyān b. Ḥarb with some of his companions at a watering place called Aḥyāʾ from Baṭn Rābigh, [ten miles from al-Juḥfa as you head toward Qudayd, on the left side of the road; they had only] turned aside from the road to pasture their mounts. Abū Sufyān was with two hundred, and the polytheists were commanded by Abū Sufyān. Muḥammad b. ʿUmar said: He is the reliable one in our view; it was also said Mikraz b. Ḥafṣ, and it was said ʿIkrima b. Abī Jahl. There was shooting between them; they did not draw swords or line up for battle. There was only skirmishing between them, except that Saʿd b. Abī Waqqāṣ ؓ shot an arrow in the cause of Allah, and it was the first arrow shot in Islam. He emptied his quiver and advanced ahead of his companions, who shielded themselves from him. He shot what was in his quiver; it contained twenty arrows, not one of which failed to wound a person or an animal. Nothing else happened between them that day; then the two parties withdrew with their rear guards. Al-Miqdād b. ʿAmr al-Bahrānī, ally of Banū Zuhra, and ʿUtba b. Ghazwān al-Māzinī, ally of [Banū Nawfal] b. ʿAbd Manāf, fled from the disbelievers to the Muslims. They were Muslims but had gone out to make their way with the polytheists. Ibn Isḥāq said: The people were commanded by ʿIkrima b. Abī Jahl, and he placed the detachment of ʿUbayda before the detachment of Ḥamza.
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