Sahih Ibn Hibban 4872

Translation

✧ I have not seen anyone more consultative with his companions than the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. Al-Zuhri said in his hadith from 'Urwah from al-Miswar and Marwan in their hadith: They departed until when they were on part of the road, the Prophet ﷺ said, 'Khalid b. al-Walid is at al-Ghamim with cavalry of Quraysh as a vanguard, so take the right path.' By Allah, Khalid b. al-Walid did not notice them until he saw the dust of the army, so he rushed back as a warner to Quraysh. The Prophet ﷺ proceeded until he was at the mountain pass from which he would descend upon them. When he reached it, his she-camel knelt down. The people said, 'Hal, hal!' She kept kneeling. They said, 'Al-Qaswa' has become stubborn.' The Prophet ﷺ said, 'Al-Qaswa' has not become stubborn, and that is not her nature, but she has been held back by the One who held back the elephant.' Then he said, 'By Him in whose hand is my soul, they will not ask me for any plan by which they honor the sanctities of Allah except that I grant it to them.' Then he urged her, and she leapt up with him. He turned away from them until he camped at the far side of al-Hudaybiyyah on a small water source that people were sipping from sparingly. The people did not linger before they exhausted it. Thirst was complained of to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, so he took out an arrow from his quiver and ordered them to put it in the water. It kept gushing for them with water until they all drank their fill. While they were thus, Budayl b. Warqa' al-Khuza'i came to him with a group of his people from Khuza'ah, who were the confidants of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ among the people of Tihamah. He said, 'I left Ka'b b. Lu'ayy and 'Amir b. Lu'ayy encamped at the water sources of al-Hudaybiyyah, with them were nursing camels and their young. They are fighting you and preventing you from the Sacred House.' The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, 'We have not come to fight anyone, but we have come to perform 'Umrah. Quraysh have been exhausted by war and harmed by it. If they wish, I will grant them a truce for a period, and they will leave me alone with the people. If we prevail and they wish to enter into what the people have entered, they may do so, and they have rested. But if they refuse, by Him in whose hand is my soul, I will fight them for this matter of mine until my neck is severed, or Allah will make His command prevail.' Budayl b. Warqa' said, 'I will convey to them what you say.' He went until he came to Quraysh and said, 'We have come to you from this man, and we heard him say something. If you wish, we will present it to you.' Their fools said, 'We have no need for you to tell us anything about him.' Those of sound judgment said, 'Give us what you heard him say.' He said, 'I heard him say such and such,' and he informed them of what the Prophet ﷺ said. At that, Abu Mas'ud 'Urwah b. Mas'ud al-Thaqafi stood up and said, 'O people, am I not the father?' They said, 'Yes.' He said, 'Am I not the son?' They said, 'Yes.' He said, 'Do you accuse me?' They said, 'No.' He said, 'Do you not know that I called upon the people of 'Ukaz, and when they refused me, I came to you with my family, children, and those who obeyed me?' They said, 'Yes.' He said, 'This man has offered you a plan of guidance, so accept it and let me go to him.' They said, 'Go to him.' He went and began to speak with the Prophet ﷺ, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said something similar to what he had said to Budayl b. Warqa'. 'Urwah b. Mas'ud said, 'O Muhammad, do you think that if you exterminate your people, have you heard of any Arab who destroyed his own root before you? And if it is the other way, by Allah, I see faces and a mixture of people who are likely to flee and abandon you.' Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, ؓ, said, 'Suck the clitoris of al-Lat! Would we flee and abandon him?' Abu Mas'ud said, 'Who is this?' They said, 'Abu Bakr b. Abi Quhafah.' He said, 'By Him in whose hand is my soul, were it not for a favor you did for me that I have not repaid, I would have answered you.' He continued speaking with the Prophet ﷺ, and whenever he spoke to him, he grabbed his beard. Al-Mughirah b. Shu'bah al-Thaqafi was standing at the head of the Prophet ﷺ, wearing a sword and helmet. Whenever 'Urwah reached his hand to the beard of the Prophet ﷺ, he struck his hand with the scabbard of the sword and said, 'Keep your hand away from the beard of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.' 'Urwah raised his head and said, 'Who is this?' They said, 'Al-Mughirah b. Shu'bah al-Thaqafi.' He said, 'O treacherous one, am I not striving to rectify your treachery?' Al-Mughirah b. Shu'bah had accompanied a people in the Jahiliyyah, killed them, and taken their wealth, then he came and embraced Islam. The Prophet ﷺ said to him, 'As for Islam, I accept it, but as for the wealth, I have nothing to do with it.' Then 'Urwah began to observe the companions of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ with his eyes. By Allah, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ did not spit except that his spittle fell into the hand of one of them, and he would rub it on his face and skin. If he commanded them, they hastened to obey his command. If he performed ablution, they almost fought over his ablution water. If he spoke, they lowered their voices in his presence and did not stare at him out of reverence for him. 'Urwah b. Mas'ud returned to his companions and said, 'O people, by Allah, I have visited kings, I have visited Khosrau, Caesar, and the Negus, and by Allah, I have never seen a king whose companions honor him as the companions of Muhammad honor Muhammad. By Allah, he does not spit except that his spittle falls into the hand of one of them, and he rubs it on his face and skin. If he commands them, they rush to obey his command. If he performs ablution, they fight over his ablution water. When he speaks, they lower their voices in his presence and do not stare at him out of reverence for him. He has offered you a plan of guidance, so accept it.' A man from Banu Kinanah said, 'Let me go to him.' When he came in sight of the Prophet ﷺ, the Prophet ﷺ said, 'This is so-and-so from a people who venerate sacrificial camels, so send them to him.' So they were sent, and the people met him while reciting the talbiyah. When he saw that, he said, 'Glory be to Allah! It is not right for these people to be prevented from the House.' When he returned to his companions, he said, 'I saw the sacrificial camels garlanded and marked, so I do not think they should be prevented from the House.' A man from among them called Mikraz stood up and said, 'Let me go to him.' They said, 'Go to him.' When he came in sight of them, the Prophet ﷺ said, 'This is Mikraz, and he is a wicked man.' He began to speak with the Prophet ﷺ. While he was speaking with him, Suhayl b. 'Amr came. Ma'mar said: Ayyub al-Sakhtiyani informed me from 'Ikrimah: When Suhayl came, the Prophet ﷺ said, 'This is Suhayl; Allah has made your affair easy for you.' Ma'mar said in his hadith from al-Zuhri from 'Urwah from al-Miswar and Marwan: When Suhayl came, he said, 'Come, write a treaty between us and you.' The scribe was called, and he said, 'Write: In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.' Suhayl said, 'As for the Most Gracious, I do not know, by Allah, what it is, but write: In Your name, O Allah.' Then the Prophet ﷺ said, 'Write: This is what Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, has agreed upon.' Suhayl b. 'Amr said, 'If we knew that you were the Messenger of Allah, we would not have prevented you from the House nor fought you, but write Muhammad b. 'Abdullah.' The Prophet ﷺ said, 'By Allah, I am indeed the Messenger of Allah, even if you disbelieve me. Write Muhammad b. 'Abdullah.' Al-Zuhri said: That was because of his saying, 'They will not ask me for any plan by which they honor the sanctities of Allah except that I grant it to them.' He said in his hadith from 'Urwah from al-Miswar and Marwan: The Prophet ﷺ said, 'On condition that you leave us alone with the House so that we may circumambulate it.' Suhayl b. 'Amr said, 'The Arabs must not say that we were forced, but you will have it next year.' He wrote that. Suhayl b. 'Amr said, 'On condition that no man from us comes to you, even if he is on your religion or wants your religion, except that you return him to us.' The Muslims said, 'Glory be to Allah! How can a man be returned to the polytheists when he has come as a Muslim?' While they were thus, Abu Jandal b. Suhayl b. 'Amr came dragging his chains, having escaped from the lower part of Makkah until he threw himself among the Muslims. Suhayl b. 'Amr said, 'O Muhammad, this is the first one with whom I will settle the treaty: you must return him to me.' The Prophet ﷺ said, 'We have not yet concluded the treaty.' He said, 'By Allah, I will never make peace with you on anything.' The Prophet ﷺ said, 'Then grant him to me.' He said, 'I will not grant him to you.' He said, 'Do it.' He said, 'I will not do it.' Mikraz said, 'Rather, we have granted him to you.' Abu Jandal b. Suhayl b. 'Amr said, 'O assembly of Muslims, am I to be returned to the polytheists after I have come as a Muslim? Do you not see what I have suffered?' He had been severely tortured for the sake of Allah. 'Umar b. al-Khattab, ؓ, said, 'By Allah, I have not doubted since I embraced Islam except on that day. I came to the Prophet ﷺ and said, "Are you not truly the Messenger of Allah?" He said, "Yes." I said, "Are we not on the truth and our enemies on falsehood?" He said, "Yes." I said, "Then why do we accept humiliation in our religion?" He said, "I am the Messenger of Allah, and I do not disobey my Lord, and He will help me." I said, "Did you not tell us that we would come to the House and circumambulate it?" He said, "Yes, but did I tell you that you would come to it this year?" I said, "No." He said, "Then you will come to it and circumambulate it." Then I came to Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, ؓ, and said, "O Abu Bakr, is this not truly the Prophet of Allah?" He said, "Yes." I said, "Are we not on the truth and our enemies on falsehood?" He said, "Yes." I said, "Then why do we accept humiliation in our religion?" He said, "O man, he is the Messenger of Allah, and he does not disobey his Lord, and He will help him. Hold fast to his stirrup until you die, for by Allah, he is on the truth." I said, "Did he not tell us that we would come to the House and circumambulate it?" He said, "Yes, but did he tell you that you would come to it this year?" I said, "No." He said, "Then you will come to it and circumambulate it." 'Umar b. al-Khattab, ؓ, said, 'I did some deeds regarding that, meaning regarding the nullification of the document.' When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ finished the treaty, he ordered his companions, saying, 'Slaughter the sacrificial animals and shave your heads.' By Allah, not one of them stood up, hoping that Allah would bring about a change. When none of them stood, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ went to Umm Salamah and said, 'What I have encountered from the people!' Umm Salamah said, 'Do you want that? Go out and do not speak a word to any of them until you slaughter your sacrificial camel and call your barber.' The Prophet ﷺ stood up and went out, and did not speak to anyone until he slaughtered his sacrificial camel, then he called his barber and had his head shaved. When the people saw that, they began shaving one another until some of them almost killed others. Then some believing women came, and Allah revealed: "O you who have believed, when the believing women come to you as emigrants..." to the end of the verse. 'Umar, ؓ, divorced two wives he had in polytheism, one of whom Mu'awiyah b. Abi Sufyan married and the other Safwan b. Umayyah. The Prophet ﷺ returned to Madinah, and Abu Basir, a man from Quraysh who was a Muslim, came to him. They sent two men after him, saying, 'Remember the treaty you made with us.' He handed him over to the two men. They left with him until they reached Dhu al-Hulayfah, where they dismounted to eat some dates they had. Abu Basir said to one of the two men, 'By Allah, I see that your sword, O so-and-so, is excellent.' He said, 'Yes, by Allah, it is excellent. I have tried it and tried it again.' Abu Basir said, 'Show it to me, let me look at it.' He gave it to him, and Abu Basir struck him until he died. The other man fled until he reached Madinah and entered the mosque running. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, 'This man has seen something terrifying.' When he reached the Prophet ﷺ, he said, 'By Allah, my companion has been killed, and I am as good as dead.' Abu Basir came and said, 'O Prophet of Allah, by Allah, Allah has fulfilled your protection. You returned me to them, and then Allah saved me from them.' The Prophet ﷺ said, 'Woe to his mother, if only he had someone with him.' When Abu Basir heard that, he knew that he would return him to them again, so he left until he reached the coast. Abu Jandal b. Suhayl b. 'Amr escaped from them and joined Abu Basir. No man from Quraysh embraced Islam except that he joined Abu Basir, until a band of them gathered. By Allah, they did not hear of any caravan of Quraysh going to Syria except that they intercepted it, killed them, and took their wealth. Quraysh sent to the Prophet ﷺ, adjuring him by Allah and kinship to send word to those who came to him, and they would be safe. The Prophet ﷺ sent word to them, and Allah, Mighty and Sublime, revealed: "And it is He who withheld their hands from you and your hands from them in the valley of Makkah..." until "the fervor of the Jahiliyyah." Their fervor was that they did not acknowledge that he was the Prophet of Allah and did not acknowledge "In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful."

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