Sahih Ibn Hibban 6280

Translation

✧ Envoys of the disbelievers of Quraysh came to us, offering the blood money of each of the two—the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and Abu Bakr—to anyone who killed or captured them. He said: While I was sitting in a gathering of my people, Banu Mudlij, a man from among them approached until he stood over us and said: "O Suraqah, I just saw some black shapes by the shore; I think they are none other than Muhammad and his companions." Suraqah said: I knew that it was they, so I said: "They are not they; rather, you saw so-and-so and so-and-so. Come with us." Then I remained in the gathering for a while, then I got up and entered my house and ordered my slave girl to bring out my mare, which was behind a hill, and hold her for me. I took my spear and went out with it from the back of the house, then I dragged its butt on the ground and lowered the spearhead until I reached my mare, mounted her, and urged her on, galloping with me until I saw their black shapes. When I drew near enough for them to hear the sound, my mare stumbled with me and I fell from her. I reached for my quiver and took out the divining arrows and cast them, and the one I disliked came out, but I disobeyed the arrows and mounted my mare and urged her on, galloping with me until I heard the recitation of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ while he did not turn around, and Abu Bakr turned around often. Then the forelegs of my mare sank into the ground up to the knees, and I fell from her. I spurred her and she rose, but she could hardly pull out her forelegs. When she stood upright, there was a rising dust cloud in the sky.

Notes

• قَالَ مَعْمَرٌ قُلْتُ لِأَبِي عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَلَاءِ مَا الْعُثَانُ؟ فَسَكَتَ سَاعَةً ثُمَّ قَالَ هُوَ الدُّخَانُ مِنْ غَيْرِ نَارٍ قَالَ مَعْمَرٌ قَالَ الزُّهْرِيُّ فِي حَدِيثِهِ فَاسْتَقْسَمْتُ بِالْأَزْلَامِ فَخَرَجَ الَّذِي أَكْرَهُ أَنْ لَا أَضُرَّهُمْ فَنَادَيْتُهُمَا بِالْأَمَانِ فَوَقَفَا فَرَكِبْتُ فَرَسِي حَتَّى جِئْتُهُمْ وَوَقَعَ فِي نَفْسِي حَتَّى لَقِيتُ مِنَ الْحَبْسِ عَنْهُمْ أَنَّهُ سَيَظْهَرُ أَمْرُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَقُلْتُ إِنَّ قَوْمَكَ قَدْ جَعَلُوا فِيكَ الدِّيَةَ وَأَخْبَرْتُهُمْ مِنْ أَخْبَارِ أَسْفَارِهِمْ وَمَا يُرِيدُ النَّاسُ بِهِمْ وَعَرَضْتُ عَلَيْهِمُ الزَّادَ وَالْمَتَاعَ فَلَمْ يَرْزَءُونِي وَلَمْ يَسْأَلُونِي إِلَّا أَنْ قَالُوا «أَخْفِ عَنَّا» فَسَأَلْتُهُ أَنْ يَكْتُبَ لِي كِتَابَ مُوَادَعَةٍ فَأَمَرَ بِهِ عَامِرَ بْنَ فُهَيْرَةَ فَكَتَبَ لِي فِي رُقْعَةٍ مِنْ أَدَمٍ بَيْضَاءَ

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 3905

Narrators

1. 1
   Surāqah b. Mālik al-Mudlijī

   well-known Companion, embraced Islam at the Conquest of Meccad. 24 AH or after it
   سُرَاقَةُ بْنُ مَالِكٍ الْمُدْلِجِيُّصحابي مشهور ، من مسلمة الفتح
   سمع
2. 2
   Mālik b. Mālik b. Juʿsham b. Mālik b. ʿAmr

   acceptable (maqbūl)
   أَبَاهُمقبول
   أخبره
3. 3
   ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Mālik b. Juʿsham

   al-Nasāʾī deemed him trustworthy (waththaqahu al-Nasāʾī)
   عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مَالِكٍ الْمُدْلِجِيُّ وَهُوَ ابْنُ أُخْتِ سُرَاقَةَ بْنِ مَالِكِ بْنِ جُعْشُمٍوثقه النسائي
   أخبرني
4. 4
   al-Zuhrī

   The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AH
   الزُّهْرِيِّالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبته
   عن
5. 5
   Maʿmar b. Rāshid

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), excellent, except that there is some weakness in his narration from Thābit, al-Aʿmash, ʿĀṣim b. Abī al-Najūd and Hishām b. ʿUrwah, and likewise in what he narrated in Basrad. at the beginning of 150 AH, or: 152 AH, or: 153 AH, or: 154 AH, 155 AH
   مَعْمَرٌثقة ثبت فاضل ، إلا أن في روايته عن ثابت والأعمش وعاصم بن أبي النجود ، وهشام بن عروة شيئا ، وكذا فيما حدث به بالبصرة
   أخبرنا
6. 6
   ʿAbd al-Razzāq

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a renowned author (muṣannif); he went blind at the end of his life and his memory changed (taghayyara), and he had Shiite leanings (kāna yatashayyaʿ)d. 211 AH
   عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِثقة حافظ مصنف شهير ، عمي في آخر عمره فتغير ، وكان يتشيع
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Ibn Abī al-Sarī

   Truthful (ṣadūq) and knowledgeable, but with many errors.d. 238 AH
   ابْنُ أَبِي السَّرِيِّصدوق عارف له أوهام كثيرة
   حدثنا
8. 8
   Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan b. Qutaybah

   d. 310 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ قُتَيْبَةَ
   أخبرنا
9. 9
   Ibn Ḥibbān

   d. 354 AH
   ابن حبان

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