Sirat Ibn Hisham 1296
The affair of the emigrant women after the truce
[ عَوْدٌ إلَى جَوَابِ عُرْوَةَ ] قَالَ: فَكَتَبَ إلَيْهِ عُرْوَةُ بْنُ الزُّبَيْرِ: إنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ كَانَ صَالَحَ قُرَيْشًا يَوْمَ الْحُدَيْبِيَةِ عَلَى أَنْ يَرُدَّ عَلَيْهِمْ مَنْ جَاءَ بِغَيْرِ إذْنِ وَلِيِّهِ؛ فَلَمَّا هَاجَرَ النِّسَاءُ إلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ وَإِلَى الْإِسْلَامِ، أَبَى اللَّهُ أَنْ يُرْدَدْنَ إلَى الْمُشْرِكِينَ إذَا هُنَّ اُمْتُحِنَّ بِمِحْنَةِ الْإِسْلَامِ، فَعَرَفُوا أَنَّهُنَّ إنَّمَا جِئْنَ رَغْبَةً فِي الْإِسْلَامِ، وَأَمَرَ بِرَدِّ صَدُقَاتِهِنَّ إلَيْهِمْ إنْ احْتَبَسْنَ عَنْهُمْ، إنْ هُمْ رَدُّوا عَلَى الْمُسْلِمِينَ صَدَاقَ مَنْ حُبِسُوا عَنْهُمْ مِنْ نِسَائِهِمْ، ذَلِكُمْ حُكْمُ اللَّهِ يَحْكُمُ بَيْنَكُمْ، وَاَللَّهُ عَلِيمٌ حَكِيمٌ. فَأَمْسَكَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ النِّسَاءَ وَرَدَّ الرِّجَالَ بعد الحديبية، وَسَأَلَ الَّذِي أَمَرَهُ اللَّهُ بِهِ أَنْ يَسْأَلَ مِنْ صَدُقَاتِ نِسَاءِ مَنْ حُبِسُوا مِنْهُنَّ، وَأَنْ يَرُدُّوا عَلَيْهِمْ مِثْلَ الَّذِي يَرُدُّونَ عَلَيْهِمْ، إنْ هُمْ فَعَلُوا، وَلَوْلَا الَّذِي حَكَمَ اللَّهُ بِهِ مِنْ هَذَا الْحُكْمِ لَرَدَّ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ النِّسَاءَ كَمَا رَدَّ الرِّجَالَ، وَلَوْلَا الْهُدْنَةُ وَالْعَهْدُ الَّذِي كَانَ بَيْنَهُ وَبَيْنَ قُرَيْشٍ يَوْمَ الْحُدَيْبِيَةِ لَأَمْسَكَ النِّسَاءَ، وَلَمْ يَرْدُدْ لَهُنَّ صَدَاقًا، وَكَذَلِكَ كَانَ يَصْنَعُ بِمَنْ جَاءَهُ مِنْ الْمُسْلِمَاتِ قَبْلَ الْعَهْدِ
Translation
✧ [Resuming the reply to ʿUrwah] He said: ʿUrwah b. al-Zubayr wrote to him: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ had made peace with Quraysh on the day of al-Ḥudaybiyyah on condition that he would return to them anyone who came without his guardian’s permission. So when the women emigrated to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and to Islam, Allah refused that they be returned to the polytheists once they were tested with the test of Islam, and it was known that they had come only out of desire for Islam. And he commanded that their bride-gifts be returned to them if they were withheld from them, if they returned to the Muslims the bride-gift of those of their women who were withheld from them. That is Allah’s judgment by which He judges between you, and Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. So the Messenger of Allah ﷺ kept the women and returned the men after al-Ḥudaybiyyah, and he asked for what Allah commanded him to ask of the bride-gifts of the women of those who had been withheld from them, and that they return to them the like of what they return to them, if they did so. Had it not been for the judgment Allah decreed in this ruling, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ would have returned the women as he returned the men. And had it not been for the truce and the covenant that was between him and Quraysh on the day of al-Ḥudaybiyyah, he would have kept the women and not returned any bride-gift for them. And thus he used to act toward any Muslim woman who came to him before the covenant.
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