Sirat Ibn Hisham 1597
The expedition of Ghālib b. ʿAbd Allāh to the land of Banū Murrah
غَزْوَةُ غَالِبِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ أَرْضَ بَنِي مُرَّةَ [ مَقْتَلُ مِرْدَاسٍ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَغَزْوَةُ غَالِبِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْكَلْبِيِّ - كَلْبِ لَيْثٍ - أَرْضَ بَنِي مُرَّةَ، فَأَصَابَ بِهَا مِرْدَاسَ بْنَ نَهِيكٍ، حَلِيفًا لَهُمْ مِنْ الْحُرْقَةِ، مِنْ جُهَيْنَةَ، قَتَلَهُ أُسَامَةُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ، وَرَجُلٌ مِنْ الْأَنْصَارِ. قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: الْحُرْقَةُ، فِيمَا حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ. قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَكَانَ مِنْ حَدِيثِهِ عَنْ أُسَامَةَ بْنِ زَيْدٍ، قَالَ: أَدْرَكْتُهُ أَنَا وَرَجُلٌ مِنْ الْأَنْصَارِ، فَلَمَّا شَهَرْنَا عَلَيْهِ السِّلَاحَ، قَالَ: أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إلَهَ إلَّا اللَّهُ. قَالَ: فَلَمْ نَنْزِعْ عَنْهُ حَتَّى قَتَلْنَاهُ؛ فَلَمَّا قَدِمْنَا عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَخْبَرْنَاهُ خَبَرَهُ؛ فَقَالَ: يَا أُسَامَةُ، مَنْ لَكَ بِلَا إلَهَ إلَّا اللَّهُ ؟ قَالَ: قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، إنَّهُ إنَّمَا قَالَهَا تَعَوُّذًا بِهَا مِنْ الْقَتْلِ. قَالَ: فَمَنْ لَكَ بِهَا يَا أُسَامَةُ ؟ قَالَ: فَوَاَلَّذِي بَعَثَهُ بِالْحَقِّ مَا زَالَ يُرَدِّدُهَا عَلَيَّ حَتَّى لَوَدِدْتُ أَنَّ مَا مَضَى مِنْ إسْلَامِي لَمْ يَكُنْ، وَأَنِّي كُنْتُ أَسْلَمْتُ يَوْمئِذٍ، وَأَنِّي لَمْ أَقْتُلْهُ؛ قَالَ: قُلْتُ: أَنْظِرْنِي يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، إنِّي أُعَاهِدُ اللَّهَ أَنْ لَا أَقْتُلَ رَجُلًا يَقُولُ لَا إلَهَ إلَّا اللَّهُ أَبَدًا، قَالَ: تَقُولُ بَعْدِي يَا أُسَامَةُ؛ قَالَ: قُلْتُ بَعْدَكَ.
Translation
✧ The expedition of Ghālib b. ʿAbd Allāh to the land of Banū Murrah [the killing of Mirdās]. Ibn Isḥāq said: And the expedition of Ghālib b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Kalbī—Kalb of Layth—to the land of Banū Murrah. He seized there Mirdās b. Nahīk, an ally of theirs from al-Ḥuraqah, of Juhaynah. Usāmah b. Zayd and a man from the Anṣār killed him. Ibn Hishām said: Al-Ḥuraqah, according to what Abū ʿUbaydah narrated to me. Ibn Isḥāq said: And part of his account from Usāmah b. Zayd, who said: I and a man from the Anṣār caught up with him, and when we brandished our weapons against him, he said, “I bear witness that there is no god but God.” He said: But we did not desist from him until we killed him. When we came to the Messenger of God ﷺ, we told him his story, and he said, “O Usāmah, who will answer for you regarding ‘There is no god but God’?” I said, “O Messenger of God, he only said it to seek protection from being killed.” He said, “Who will answer for you regarding it, O Usāmah?” He said: By the One who sent him with the truth, he kept repeating it to me until I wished that what had passed of my Islam had not been, and that I had only become a Muslim that day, and that I had not killed him. I said, “Give me respite, O Messenger of God, for I pledge to God that I will never kill a man who says ‘There is no god but God’ ever again.” He said, “You say this after I am gone, O Usāmah?” I said, “After you are gone.”
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