Sirat Ibn Hisham 1489
The hypocrites' discouragement of the two Muslims and what was revealed concerning them
[ تَخْذِيلُ الْمُنَافِقِينَ لِلْمُسْلِمَيْنِ وَمَا نَزَلَ فِيهِمْ في غزوة تبوك ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَقَدْ كَانَ رَهْطٌ مِنْ الْمُنَافِقِينَ، مِنْهُمْ وَدِيعَةُ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ، أَخُو بَنِي عَمْرِو بْنِ عَوْفٍ، وَمِنْهُمْ رَجُلٌ مِنْ أَشْجَعَ، حَلِيفٌ لِبَنِي سَلِمَةَ، يُقَالُ لَهُ: مُخَشِّنُ بْنُ حُمَيِّرٍ - قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: وَيُقَالُ مَخْشِيٌّ - يُشِيرُونَ إلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ وَهُوَ مُنْطَلِقٌ إلَى تَبُوكَ، فَقَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ لِبَعْضِ: أَتَحْسِبُونَ جَلَّادَ بَنِي الْأَصْفَرِ كَقِتَالِ الْعَرَبِ بَعْضُهُمْ بَعْضًا وَاَللَّهِ لَكَأَنَّا بِكَمْ غَدًا مُقَرَّنِينَ فِي الْحِبَالِ، إرْجَافًا وَتَرْهِيبًا لِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ، فَقَالَ مُخَشِّنُ بْنُ حُمَيِّرٍ: وَاَللَّهِ لَوَدِدْتُ أَنِّي أُقَاضِي عَلَى أَنْ يُضْرَبُ كُلَّ ( رَجُلٍ ) مِنَّا مِئَةَ جَلْدَةٍ، وَإِنَّا نَنْفَلِتُ أَنْ يَنْزِلَ فِينَا قُرْآنٌ لِمَقَالَتِكُمْ هَذِهِ. وَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ - فِيمَا بَلَغَنِي - لِعَمَّارِ بْنِ يَاسِرٍ أَدْرِكْ الْقَوْمَ، فَإِنَّهُمْ قَدْ احْتَرَقُوا، فَسَلْهُمْ عَمَّا قَالُوا، فَإِنْ أَنْكَرُوا فَقُلْ: بَلَى، قُلْتُمْ كَذَا وَكَذَا. فَانْطَلَقَ إلَيْهِمْ عَمَّارٌ، فَقَالَ ذَلِكَ لَهُمْ: فَأَتَوْا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَعْتَذِرُونَ إلَيْهِ، فَقَالَ وَدِيعَةُ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ، وَرَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ وَاقِفٌ عَلَى نَاقَتِهِ، فَجَعَلَ يَقُولُ وَهُوَ آخِذٌ بِحَقَبِهَا: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، إنَّمَا كُنَّا نَخُوضُ وَنَلْعَبُ؛ فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ: وَلَئِنْ سَأَلْتَهُمْ لَيَقُولُنَّ إِنَّمَا كُنَّا نَخُوضُ وَنَلْعَبُ وَقَالَ مُخَشِّنُ بْنُ حُمَيِّرٍ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، قَعَدَ بِي اسْمِي وَاسْمُ أَبِي؛ وَكَأَنَّ الَّذِي عُفِيَ عَنْهُ فِي هَذِهِ الْآيَةِ مُخَشِّنُ بْنُ حُمَيِّرٍ، فَتَسَمَّى عَبْدَ الرَّحْمَنِ، وَسَأَلَ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى أَنْ يَقْتُلَهُ شَهِيدًا لَا يُعْلَمُ بِمَكَانِهِ، فَقُتِلَ يَوْمَ الْيَمَامَةِ، فَلَمْ يُوجَدْ لَهُ أَثَرٌ
Translation
✧ [The hypocrites' dissuasion of the Muslims and what was revealed concerning them in the expedition of Tabūk] Ibn Isḥāq said: There was a group of hypocrites, among them Wadīʿah b. Thābit, brother of the Banū ʿAmr b. ʿAwf, and among them a man from Ashjaʿ, an ally of the Banū Salimah, called Mukhashshin b. Ḥumayyir — Ibn Hishām said: It is also said Makhshī — pointing towards the Messenger of God ﷺ while he was setting out to Tabūk, and some of them said to one another: Do you reckon fighting the warriors of Banū al-Aṣfar is like the Arabs fighting one another? By God, it is as if we can already see you tomorrow fettered in ropes — spreading alarm and terror among the believers. Then Mukhashshin b. Ḥumayyir said: By God, I wish I could bargain that each man of us be given a hundred lashes, and that we might escape having a Qurʾān revealed about us because of this speech of yours. And the Messenger of God ﷺ — as has reached me — said to ʿAmmār b. Yāsir: Catch up with the people, for they have been scorched. Ask them about what they said; if they deny it, then say: Yes, you said such-and-such. So ʿAmmār went to them and said that to them. Then they came to the Messenger of God ﷺ to make excuses to him. Wadīʿah b. Thābit said, while the Messenger of God ﷺ was standing by his she-camel, and he began to say while holding its girth: O Messenger of God, we were only indulging in idle talk and jesting. Then God, mighty and glorious, revealed: And if you ask them, they will surely say: We were only indulging in idle talk and jesting. And Mukhashshin b. Ḥumayyir said: O Messenger of God, my name and the name of my father have held me back. It was as if the one pardoned in this verse was Mukhashshin b. Ḥumayyir. So he named himself ʿAbd al-Raḥmān and asked God, exalted, to kill him as a martyr in a place unknown. He was killed on the day of al-Yamāmah, and no trace of him was found.
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