Sirat Ibn Hisham 1493
The death of Dhū al-Bijādayn and the Messenger's standing over his burial
[ وَفَاةُ ذِي الْبِجَادَيْنِ وَقِيَامُ الرَّسُولِ عَلَى دَفْنِهِ ] قَالَ: وَحَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ التَّيْمِيُّ، أَنَّ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ مَسْعُودٍ كَانَ يُحَدِّثُ، قَالَ: قُمْتُ مِنْ جَوْفِ اللَّيْلِ، وَأَنَا مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ فِي غَزْوَةِ تَبُوكَ، قَالَ: فَرَأَيْتُ شُعْلَةً مِنْ نَارٍ فِي نَاحِيَةِ الْعَسْكَرِ، قَالَ: فَاتَّبَعْتهَا أَنْظُرُ إلَيْهَا، فَإِذَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ وَعُمَرُ، وَإِذَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ ذُو الْبِجَادَيْنِ الْمُزَنِيُّ قَدْ مَاتَ، وَإِذَا هُمْ قَدْ حَفَرُوا لَهُ، وَرَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ فِي حُفْرَتِهِ، وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ وَعُمَرُ يُدَلِّيَانِهِ إلَيْهِ، وَهُوَ يَقُولُ: أَدْنِيَا إلَيَّ أَخَاكُمَا، فَدَلَّيَاهُ إلَيْهِ، فَلَمَّا هَيَّأَهُ لِشِقِّهِ قَالَ: اللَّهُمَّ إنِّي أَمْسَيْتُ رَاضِيًا عَنْهُ، فَارْضَ عَنْهُ. قَالَ: يَقُولُ وَعَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ: يَا لَيْتَنِي كُنْتُ صَاحِبَ الْحُفْرَةِ [ سَبَبُ تَسْمِيَتِهِ ذَا الْبِجَادَيْنِ ] قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: وَإِنَّمَا سُمِّيَ ذَا الْبِجَادَيْنِ، لِأَنَّهُ كَانَ يُنَازِعُ إلَى الْإِسْلَامِ، فَيَمْنَعُهُ قَوْمُهُ مِنْ ذَلِكَ، وَيُضَيِّقُونَ عَلَيْهِ، حَتَّى تَرَكُوهُ فِي بِجَادِ لَيْسَ عَلَيْهِ غَيْرُهُ، وَالْبِجَادُ: الْكِسَاءُ الْغَلِيظُ الْجَافِي، فَهَرَبَ مِنْهُمْ إلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ، فَلَمَّا كَانَ قَرِيبًا مِنْهُ، شَقَّ بِجَادَهُ بِاثْنَيْنِ، فَاِتَّزَرَ بِوَاحِدِ، وَاشْتَمَلَ بِالْآخَرِ، ثُمَّ أَتَى رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ، فَقِيلَ لَهُ: ذُو الْبِجَادَيْنِ لِذَلِكَ، وَالْبِجَادُ أَيْضًا: الْمِسْحُ، قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: قَالَ امْرُؤُ الْقَيْسِ: كَأَنَّ أَبَانًا فِي عَرَانِينِ وَدْقِهِ كَبِيرُ أُنَاسٍ فِي بِجَادٍ مُزَمَّلِ
Translation
✧ The death of Dhū al-Bijādayn and the Messenger's standing at his burial. He said: Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. al-Ḥārith al-Taymī related to me that ʿAbd Allāh b. Masʿūd used to relate, saying: I arose in the depths of the night while I was with the Messenger of God ﷺ on the expedition of Tabūk. He said: I saw a flame of fire in a corner of the camp. He said: I followed it to look at it, and there were the Messenger of God ﷺ, Abū Bakr, and ʿUmar, and there was ʿAbd Allāh Dhū al-Bijādayn al-Muzanī, who had died, and they had dug a grave for him, and the Messenger of God ﷺ was in his grave, while Abū Bakr and ʿUmar were lowering him down to him, and he was saying: Hand down to me your brother. So they lowered him down to him. When he had laid him on his side, he said: O God, I have spent the evening well pleased with him, so be well pleased with him. He said: Ibn Masʿūd said: Would that I had been the one in the grave. The reason he was called Dhū al-Bijādayn: Ibn Hishām said: He was called Dhū al-Bijādayn because he was striving to embrace Islam, but his people prevented him from that and constrained him until they left him with only a bijād, and the bijād is a coarse, rough cloak. He fled from them to the Messenger of God ﷺ. When he drew near to him, he tore his bijād in two, wrapped his lower half with one piece, and threw the other over his shoulders. Then he came to the Messenger of God ﷺ, and so he was called Dhū al-Bijādayn for that reason. The bijād is also the hair-cloth. Ibn Hishām said: Imruʾ al-Qays said: As if Abān, in the tips of its rain-clouds, were a chief of men wrapped in a bijād.
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