Sahih Ibn Hibban 7017

Translation

✧ I went out with ʿUbayd Allah b. ʿAdi b. al-Khiyar to Syria. When we arrived in Homs, ʿUbayd Allah said to me: “Would you like to go to Wahshi and ask him about the killing of Hamzah?” I said: “Yes.” He said: Wahshi used to live in Homs. He said: We asked about him and were told: “He is over there in the shade of his palace, looking like a water skin.” He said: We went until we stood before him and greeted him. He returned the greeting. ʿUbayd Allah had covered his face with a turban, so Wahshi could see only his eyes and feet. ʿUbayd Allah said to him: “O Wahshi, do you recognize me?” He looked at him and said: “No, by Allah, except that I know that ʿAdi b. al-Khiyar married a woman called Umm al-Qital bt. Abi al-ʿIs, and she bore him a boy in Makkah. He sought a wet nurse for him, and I carried that boy with his mother and handed him to her. It is as if I am looking at your feet.” He said: ʿUbayd Allah uncovered his face and said: “Will you not tell us about the killing of Hamzah?” He said: “Yes. Hamzah killed Tuʿaymah b. ʿAdi b. al-Khiyar at Badr.” He said: My master Jubayr b. Mutʿim said to me: “If you kill Hamzah in revenge for my uncle, you are free.” He said: When the people set out in the year of ʿAynayn—ʿAynayn is a mountain below Uhud, with a valley between them—I went out with the people to fight. When they lined up for battle, Sibaʿ Abu Niyar came out. Hamzah b. ʿAbd al-Muttalib went out to him and said: “O Sibaʿ, O son of Umm Anmar, O son of the cutter of clitorises, do you oppose Allah and His Messenger?” He said: Then he attacked him, and he was like a bygone yesterday. He said: I hid from Hamzah until he passed by me. When he came near me, I threw my spear at him and planted it in his groin until it came out between his hips. He said: That was the last of him. When the people returned, I returned with them and stayed in Makkah until Islam spread there, then I went to al-Taʾif. He said: They sent messengers to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and it was said to him that he does not harm messengers. He said: I came with them until I reached the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ saw me, he said: “Are you Wahshi?” I said: “Yes.” He said: “Are you the one who killed Hamzah?” He said: I said: “What happened has reached you.” The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “Can you keep your face away from me?” He said: I left. When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ died, Musaylimah the Liar emerged. He said: I said: “I will go out against Musaylimah, perhaps I can kill him and thereby compensate for Hamzah.” He said: I went out with the people, and their affair happened as it happened. Then I saw a little man standing in a gap in a wall, looking like a dark camel; we could not see his head. He said: I threw my spear at him and planted it between his breasts until it came out between his shoulders. He said: A man from the Ansar rushed forward and struck him on the head with a sword. ʿAbd Allah b. al-Fadl said: Sulayman b. Yasar informed me that he heard ʿAbd Allah b. ʿUmar say: A slave girl on the roof said: “The Commander of the Faithful has been killed by the black slave.”

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