Sirat Ibn Hisham 1555
The Prophet's charge to Muʿādh when he sent him to Yemen
وَصِيَّةُ الرَّسُولِ مُعَاذًا حِينَ بَعَثَهُ إلَى الْيَمَنِ [ بَعْثُ الرَّسُولِ مُعَاذًا عَلَى الْيَمَنِ وَشَيْءٌ مِنْ أَمْرِهِ بِهَا ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَحَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ أَنَّهُ حُدِّثَ: أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ حِينَ بَعَثَ مُعَاذًا، أَوْصَاهُ وَعَهِدَ إلَيْهِ، ثُمَّ قَالَ لَهُ: يَسِّرْ وَلَا تُعَسِّرْ، وَبَشِّرْ وَلَا تُنَفِّرْ، وَإِنَّكَ سَتَقْدَمُ عَلَى قَوْمٍ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْكِتَابِ، يَسْأَلُونَكَ مَا مِفْتَاحُ الْجَنَّةِ؛ فَقُلْ: شَهَادَةُ أَنْ لَا إلَهَ إلَّا اللَّهُ وَحْدَهُ لَا شَرِيكَ لَهُ؛ قَالَ: فَخَرَجَ مُعَاذٌ، حَتَّى إذَا قَدِمَ الْيَمَنَ قَامَ بِمَا أَمَرَهُ بِهِ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ، فَأَتَتْهُ امْرَأَةٌ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْيَمَنِ، فَقَالَتْ: يَا صَاحِبَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ، مَا حَقُّ زَوْجِ الْمَرْأَةِ عَلَيْهَا ؟ قَالَ: وَيْحَكَ إنَّ الْمَرْأَةَ لَا تَقْدِرُ عَلَى أَنْ تُؤَدِّيَ حَقَّ زَوْجِهَا، فَأَجْهِدِي نَفْسَكَ فِي أَدَاءِ حَقِّهِ مَا اسْتَطَعْتُ، قَالَتْ: وَاَللَّهِ لَئِنْ كُنْتُ صَاحِبَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ إنَّكَ لَتَعْلَمُ مَا حَقُّ الزَّوْجِ عَلَى الْمَرْأَةِ. قَالَ: وَيْحَكَ لَوْ رَجَعْتُ إلَيْهِ فَوَجَدْتُهُ تَنْثَعِبُ مَنْخِرَاهُ قَيْحًا وَدَمًا، فَمَصَصْتُ ذَلِكَ حَتَّى تُذْهِبِيهِ مَا أَدَّيْتُ حَقَّهُ.
Translation
✧ The Messenger's charge to Muʿādh when he sent him to Yemen [The Messenger's sending Muʿādh over Yemen and something of his affair there] Ibn Isḥāq said: ʿAbd Allāh b. Abī Bakr related to me that he was told: When the Messenger of God ﷺ sent Muʿādh, he charged him and enjoined upon him, then said to him: "Make things easy, and do not make them difficult; give good tidings, and do not repel. You will come upon a people of the People of the Book who will ask you what is the key to Paradise; say: The testimony that there is no god but God alone, with no partner." He said: So Muʿādh departed until, when he arrived in Yemen, he undertook what the Messenger of God ﷺ had commanded him. A woman of the people of Yemen came to him and said: "O companion of the Messenger of God, what is the right of a woman's husband over her?" He said: "Woe to you! A woman is not able to fulfill the right of her husband, so exert yourself in fulfilling his right as much as you can." She said: "By God, if you are the companion of the Messenger of God ﷺ, you surely know what the right of the husband over the wife is." He said: "Woe to you! If I returned to him and found his nostrils pouring with pus and blood, and I sucked that until you made it go away, I would not have fulfilled his right."
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