Sirat Ibn Hisham 1269
The Messenger's departure
[ الْحُلَيْسُ رَسُولٌ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ إلَى الرَّسُولِ ] ثُمَّ بَعَثُوا إلَيْهِ الْحُلَيْسَ بْنَ عَلْقَمَةَ أَوْ ابْنَ زَبَّانَ، وَكَانَ يَوْمَئِذٍ سَيِّدَ الْأَحَابِيشِ، وَهُوَ أَحَدُ بَنِي الْحَارِثِ بْنِ عَبْدِ مَنَاةَ بْنِ كِنَانَةَ؛ فَلَمَّا رَآهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ: إنَّ هَذَا مِنْ قَوْمٍ يَتَأَلَّهُونَ فَابْعَثُوا الْهَدْيَ فِي وَجْهِهِ حَتَّى يَرَاهُ، فَلَمَّا رَأَى الْهَدْيَ يَسِيلُ عَلَيْهِ مِنْ عُرْضِ الْوَادِي فِي قَلَائِدِهِ، وَقَدْ أَكَلَ أَوْبَارَهُ مِنْ طُولِ الْحَبْسِ عَنْ مَحِلِّهِ، رَجَعَ إلَى قُرَيْشٍ، وَلَمْ يَصِلْ إلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ إعْظَامًا لَمَا رَأَى، فَقَالَ لَهُمْ ذَلِكَ. قَالَ: فَقَالُوا لَهُ: اجْلِسْ، فَإِنَّمَا أَنْتَ أَعْرَابِيٌّ لَا عِلْمَ لَكَ. قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: فَحَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ: أَنَّ الْحُلَيْسَ غَضِبَ عِنْدَ ذَلِكَ وَقَالَ: يَا مَعْشَرَ قُرَيْشٍ، وَاَللَّهِ مَا عَلَى هَذَا حَالَفْنَاكُمْ، وَلَا عَلَى هَذَا عَاقَدْنَاكُمْ. أَيُصَدُّ عَنْ بَيْتِ اللَّهِ مَنْ جَاءَ مُعَظِّمًا لَهُ وَاَلَّذِي نَفْسُ الْحُلَيْسِ بِيَدِهِ، لَتُخَلُّنَّ بَيْنَ مُحَمَّدٍ وَبَيْنَ مَا جَاءَ لَهُ، أَوْ لَأَنْفِرَنَّ بِالْأَحَابِيشِ نَفْرَةَ رَجُلٍ وَاحِدٍ. قَالَ: فَقَالُوا لَهُ: مَهْ، كُفَّ عَنَّا يَا حُلَيْسُ حَتَّى نَأْخُذَ لِأَنْفُسِنَا مَا نَرْضَى بِهِ
Translation
✧ [al-Ḥulays, a messenger from Quraysh to the Messenger] Then they sent to him al-Ḥulays b. ʿAlqamah or Ibn Zabbān—he was that day the chief of the Aḥābīsh, and he is one of the Banū al-Ḥārith b. ʿAbd Manāt b. Kinānah. When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ saw him, he said: “This is a man from a people who worship; so send the sacrificial animals toward him so that he may see them.” When he saw the sacrificial animals streaming toward him from the side of the valley with their garlands on, their fur having fallen off from the length of their confinement away from their place of sacrifice, he returned to Quraysh without reaching the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, out of reverence for what he had seen, and he told them that. He said: They said to him: “Sit down, for you are only a bedouin with no knowledge.” Ibn Isḥāq said: ʿAbd Allāh b. Abī Bakr narrated to me that al-Ḥulays became angry at that and said: “O company of Quraysh, by Allah, it was not on these terms that we allied with you, nor on these terms that we made a pact with you. Is one who comes revering the House of Allah to be turned away from it? By Him in whose hand is the soul of al-Ḥulays, either you will make way between Muḥammad and what he has come for, or I will rise with the Aḥābīsh with the rising of a single man.” He said: They said to him: “Enough, restrain yourself from us, O Ḥulays, until we obtain for ourselves what we are satisfied with.”
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