Sirat Ibn Hisham 1275
The pledge of al-Riḍwān
بَيْعَةُ الرِّضْوَانِ [ مُبَايَعَةُ الرَّسُولِ النَّاسَ عَلَى الْحَرْبِ وَتَخَلُّفُ الْجَدِّ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: فَحَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ: أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ، قَالَ حِينَ بَلَغَهُ أَنَّ عُثْمَانَ قَدْ قُتِلَ: لَا نَبْرَحُ حَتَّى نُنَاجِزَ الْقَوْمَ، فَدَعَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ النَّاسَ إلَى الْبَيْعَةِ فَكَانَتْ بَيْعَةُ الرِّضْوَانِ تَحْتَ الشَّجَرَةِ، فَكَانَ النَّاسُ يَقُولُونَ: بَايَعَهُمْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ عَلَى الْمَوْتِ، وَكَانَ جَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ يَقُولُ: إنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ لَمْ يُبَايِعْنَا عَلَى الْمَوْتِ، وَلَكِنْ بَايَعَنَا عَلَى أَنْ لَا نَفِرَّ. فَبَايَعَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ النَّاسَ، وَلَمْ يَتَخَلَّفْ عَنْهُ أَحَدٌ مِنْ الْمُسْلِمِينَ حَضَرَهَا، إلَّا الْجَدَّ بْنَ قَيْسٍ أَخُو بَنِي سَلِمَةَ، فَكَانَ جَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ يَقُولُ: وَاَللَّهِ لَكَأَنِّي أَنْظُرُ إلَيْهِ لَاصِقًا بِإِبْطِ نَاقَتِهِ. قَدْ ضَبَأَ إلَيْهَا، يَسْتَتِرُ بِهَا مِنْ النَّاسِ. ثُمَّ أَتَى رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَنَّ الَّذِي ذُكِرَ مِنْ أَمْرِ عُثْمَانَ بَاطِلٌ. [ أَوَّلُ مَنْ بَايَعَ ] قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: فَذَكَرَ وَكِيعٌ عَنْ إسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ أَبِي خَالِدٍ عَنْ الشَّعْبِيِّ: أَنَّ أَوَّلَ مَنْ بَايَعَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ بَيْعَةَ الرِّضْوَانِ أَبُو سِنَانٍ الْأَسَدِيُّ. قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: وَحَدَّثَنِي مَنْ أَثِقُ بِهِ عَمَّنْ حَدَّثَهُ بِأَسْنَادٍ لَهُ، عَنْ ابْنِ أَبِي مُلَيْكَةَ عَنْ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَرَ: أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ بَايَعَ لِعُثْمَانِ، فَضَرَبَ بِإِحْدَى يَدَيْهِ عَلَى الْأُخْرَى.
Translation
✧ The Pledge of Good Pleasure [The Messenger's taking the pledge of the people for war, and the staying behind of al-Jadd] Ibn Isḥāq said: ʿAbd Allāh b. Abī Bakr narrated to me: When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ learned that ʿUthmān had been killed, he said: "We will not depart until we fight the people." Then the Messenger of Allah ﷺ called the people to the pledge, and that was the Pledge of Good Pleasure under the tree. The people used to say: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ made them pledge upon death, but Jābir b. ʿAbd Allāh used to say: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ did not make us pledge upon death, but he made us pledge that we would not flee. So the Messenger of Allah ﷺ took the pledge from the people, and none of the Muslims who were present stayed behind from it except al-Jadd b. Qays, the brother of the Banū Salimah. Jābir b. ʿAbd Allāh used to say: By Allah, it is as if I am looking at him clinging to the armpit of his she-camel, crouching beside it, shielding himself from the people by it. Then news came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ that what had been mentioned about the affair of ʿUthmān was false. [The first to pledge] Ibn Hishām said: Wakīʿ mentioned from Ismāʿīl b. Abī Khālid from al-Shaʿbī: The first to pledge allegiance to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ in the Pledge of Good Pleasure was Abū Sinān al-Asadī. Ibn Hishām said: One whom I trust narrated to me from someone who narrated to him with his chain from Ibn Abī Mulaykah from Ibn Abī ʿUmar: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ pledged on behalf of ʿUthmān, striking one of his hands upon the other.
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