Sirat Ibn Hisham 1476
The Messenger's order to the people to prepare for Tabūk
غَزْوَةُ تَبُوكَ [ فِي رَجَبٍ سَنَةَ تِسْعٍ ] [ أَمْرُ الرَّسُولِ النَّاسَ بِالتَّهَيُّؤِ لِتَبُوكَ ] قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ عَبْدُ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ هِشَامٍ، قَالَ زِيَادُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْبَكَّائِيَّ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إسْحَاقَ الْمُطَّلِبِيِّ، قَالَ: ثُمَّ أَقَامَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ بِالْمَدِينَةِ مَا بَيْنَ ذِي الْحَجَّةِ إلَى رَجَبٍ، ثُمَّ أَمَرَ النَّاسَ بِالتَّهَيُّؤِ لِغَزْوِ الرُّومِ وَقَدْ ذَكَرَ لَنَا الزُّهْرِيُّ وَيَزِيدُ بْنُ رُومَانَ وَعَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ وَعَاصِمُ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ قَتَادَةَ، وَغَيْرُهُمْ مِنْ عُلَمَائِنَا، كُلٌّ حَدَّثَ فِي غَزْوَةِ تَبُوكَ مَا بَلَغَهُ عَنْهَا، وَبَعْضُ الْقَوْمِ يُحَدِّثُ مَا لَا يُحَدِّثُ بَعْضٌ: أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَمَرَ أَصْحَابَهُ بِالتَّهَيُّؤِ لِغَزْوِ الرُّومِ، وَذَلِكَ فِي زَمَانٍ مِنْ عُسْرَةِ النَّاسِ، وَشِدَّةٍ مِنْ الْحَرِّ، وَجَدْبٍ مِنْ الْبِلَادِ: وَحِينَ طَابَتْ الثِّمَارُ، وَالنَّاسُ يُحِبُّونَ الْمُقَامَ فِي ثِمَارِهِمْ وَظِلَالِهِمْ، وَيَكْرَهُونَ الشُّخُوصَ عَلَى الْحَالِ مِنْ الزَّمَانِ الَّذِي هُمْ عَلَيْهِ؛ وَكَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَلَّمَا يَخْرُجُ فِي غَزْوَةٍ إلَّا كَنَّى عَنْهَا، وَأَخْبَرَ أَنَّهُ يُرِيدُ غَيْرَ الْوَجْهِ الَّذِي يَصْمُدُ لَهُ، إلَّا مَا كَانَ مِنْ غَزْوَةِ تَبُوكَ، فَإِنَّهُ بَيَّنَهَا لِلنَّاسِ، لِبُعْدِ الشُّقَّةِ، وَشِدَّةِ الزَّمَانِ، وَكَثْرَةِ الْعَدُوِّ الَّذِي يَصْمُدُ لَهُ، لِيَتَأَهَّبَ النَّاسُ لِذَلِكَ أُهْبَتَهُ، فَأَمَرَ النَّاسَ بِالْجِهَازِ، وَأَخْبَرَهُمْ أَنَّهُ يُرِيدُ الرُّومَ.
Translation
✧ The expedition of Tabūk, in Rajab of the year nine. The Messenger's ordering the people to prepare for Tabūk. He said: Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Malik b. Hishām narrated to us; he said: Ziyād b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Bakkāʾī, from Muḥammad b. Isḥāq al-Muṭṭalibī, who said: Then the Messenger of God ﷺ remained in Madinah from Dhū al-Ḥijjah until Rajab, then he ordered the people to prepare for the expedition against the Byzantines. Al-Zuhrī, Yazīd b. Rūmān, ʿAbd Allāh b. Abī Bakr, ʿĀṣim b. ʿUmar b. Qatādah, and others of our scholars have mentioned to us—each narrated concerning the expedition of Tabūk what reached him about it, and some of the people narrate what others do not: that the Messenger of God ﷺ ordered his companions to prepare for the expedition against the Byzantines. That was in a time of hardship for the people, intense heat, barrenness of the lands, and when the fruits had ripened, and the people loved to stay among their fruits and their shade, and disliked setting out under the circumstances of the time they were in. The Messenger of God ﷺ rarely went out on an expedition without concealing it, and he would indicate that he intended a direction other than the one he was making for, except in the case of the expedition of Tabūk; for he made it clear to the people, because of the distance of the journey, the severity of the time, and the multitude of the enemy he was making for, so that the people could prepare for that fully. So he ordered the people to equip themselves, and he informed them that he intended the Byzantines.
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