Sirat Ibn Hisham 1541
The arrival of Zayd al-Khayl in the delegation of Ṭayyiʾ
قُدُومُ زَيْدِ الْخَيْلِ فِي وَفْدِ طَيِّئٍ [ إِسْلَامُهُ وَمَوْتُهُ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَقَدِمَ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ وَفْدُ طَيِّئٍ، فِيهِمْ زَيْدُ الْخَيْلِ، وَهُوَ سَيِّدُهُمْ؛ فَلَمَّا انْتَهَوْا إلَيْهِ كَلَّمُوهُ، وَعَرَضَ عَلَيْهِمْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ الْإِسْلَامَ، فَأَسْلَمُوا، فَحَسُنَ إسْلَامُهُمْ؛ وَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ، كَمَا حَدَّثَنِي مَنْ لَا أَتَّهِمُ مِنْ رِجَالِ طَيِّئٍ؛ مَا ذُكِرَ لِي رَجُلٌ مِنْ الْعَرَبِ بِفَضْلِ، ثُمَّ جَاءَنِي، إلَّا رَأَيْتُهُ دُونَ مَا يُقَالُ فِيهِ، إلَّا زَيْدَ الْخَيْلِ: فَإِنَّهُ لَمْ يَبْلُغْ كُلَّ مَا كَانَ فِيهِ، ثُمَّ سَمَّاهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ زَيْدَ الْخَيْرِ وَقَطَعَ لَهُ فَيْدًا وَأَرَضِينَ مَعَهُ؛ وَكَتَبَ لَهُ بِذَلِكَ. فَخَرَجَ مِنْ عِنْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ رَاجِعًا إلَى قَوْمِهِ؛ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ: إنْ يَنْجُ زَيْدٌ مِنْ حُمَّى الْمَدِينَةِ فَإِنَّهُ قَالَ: قَدْ سَمَّاهَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ بِاسْمِ غَيْرِ الْحُمَّى، وَغَيْرِ أُمِّ مَلْدَمٍ فَلَمْ يَثْبُتْهُ - فَلَمَّا انْتَهَى مِنْ بَلَدِ نَجْدٍ إلَى مَاءٍ مِنْ مِيَاهِهِ، يُقَالُ لَهُ فَرَدَةَ، أَصَابَتْهُ الْحُمَّى بِهَا فَمَاتَ، وَلَمَّا أَحَسَّ زَيْدٌ بِالْمَوْتِ قَالَ: أَمُرْتَحِلٌ قَوْمِي الْمَشَارِقَ غُدْوَةً وَأُتْرَكُ فِي بَيْتٍ بِفَرَدَةَ مُنْجِدِ أَلَا رُبَّ يَوْمٍ لَوْ مَرِضْتُ لَعَادَنِي عَوَائِدُ مَنْ لَمْ يُبْرَ مِنْهُنَّ يَجْهَدُ فَلَمَّا مَاتَ عَمَدَتْ امْرَأَتُهُ إلَى مَا كَانَ مَعَهُ مِنْ كُتُبِهِ، الَّتِي قَطَعَ لَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ، فَحَرَّقَتْهَا بِالنَّارِ.
Translation
✧ The arrival of Zayd al-Khayl in the delegation of Ṭayyiʾ [his acceptance of Islam and his death] Ibn Isḥāq said: The delegation of Ṭayyiʾ came to the Messenger of God ﷺ, among them Zayd al-Khayl, who was their chief. When they reached him, they spoke with him, and the Messenger of God ﷺ offered them Islam, and they accepted Islam, and their Islam was good. The Messenger of God ﷺ said, as one of the men of Ṭayyiʾ whom I do not suspect narrated to me: 'No man of the Arabs was mentioned to me for excellence and then came to me, but I saw him less than what was said about him, except Zayd al-Khayl; indeed he did not attain all that was in him.' Then the Messenger of God ﷺ named him Zayd al-Khayr, and he granted him Fayd and lands with it, and wrote that for him. He departed from the Messenger of God ﷺ returning to his people. The Messenger of God ﷺ said: 'If Zayd escapes the fever of Madinah—' for he said: 'The Messenger of God ﷺ called it by a name other than fever and other than Umm Mildam, but it did not leave him—' And when he reached a water of the waters of Najd called Farda, the fever struck him there and he died. When Zayd sensed death, he said: Will my people depart eastward in the morning, And leave me in a house at Farda, going toward the highlands? Would that there were many a day when, had I fallen ill, there would have visited me Visitors from whom no recovery was hoped, toiling. When he died, his wife went to what was with him of his documents, which the Messenger of God ﷺ had granted him, and burned them in the fire.
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