Sirat Ibn Hisham 1607
The expedition of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAwf to Dūmat al-Jandal
غَزْوَةُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عَوْفٍ إلَى دَوْمَةِ الْجَنْدَلِ [ شَيْءٌ مِنْ وَعْظِ الرَّسُولِ لِقَوْمِهِ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَحَدَّثَنِي مَنْ لَا أَتَّهِمُ عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ أَبِي رَبَاحٍ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ رَجُلًا مِنْ أَهْلِ الْبَصْرَةِ يَسْأَلُ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِ عَنْ إرْسَالِ الْعِمَامَةِ مِنْ خَلْفِ الرَّجُلِ إذَا اعْتَمَّ،. قَالَ: فَقَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: سَأُخْبِرُكَ إنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ عَنْ ذَلِكَ بِعِلْمِ: كُنْتُ عَاشِرَ عَشَرَةِ رَهْطٍ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ فِي مَسْجِدِهِ: أَبُو بَكْرٍ، وَعُمَرُ، وَعُثْمَانُ، وَعَلِيٌّ، وَعَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ عَوْفٍ، وَابْنُ مَسْعُودٍ، وَمُعَاذُ بْنُ جَبَلٍ، وَحُذَيْفَةُ بْنُ الْيَمَانِ، وَأَبُو سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيُّ، وَأَنَا مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ، إذْ أَقْبَلَ فَتًى مِنْ الْأَنْصَارِ، فَسَلَّمَ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ، ثُمَّ جَلَسَ، فَقَالَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْكَ، أَيُّ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ أَفْضَلُ ؟ فَقَالَ: أَحْسَنُهُمْ خُلُقًا؛ قَالَ: فَأَيُّ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ أَكْيَسُ ؟ قَالَ: أَكْثَرُهُمْ ذِكْرًا لِلْمَوْتِ، وَأَحْسَنُهُمْ اسْتِعْدَادًا لَهُ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَنْزِلَ بِهِ، أُولَئِكَ الْأَكْيَاسُ. ثُمَّ سَكَتَ الْفَتَى، وَأَقْبَلَ عَلَيْنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَقَالَ: يَا مَعْشَرَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ، خَمْسُ خِصَالٍ إذَا نَزَلْنَ بِكُمْ وَأَعُوذُ بِاَللَّهِ أَنْ تُدْرِكُوهُنَّ: إنَّهُ لَمْ تَظْهَرْ الْفَاحِشَةُ فِي قَوْمٍ قَطُّ حَتَّى يُعْلِنُوا بِهَا إلَّا ظَهَرَ فِيهِمْ الطَّاعُونُ وَالْأَوْجَاعُ، الَّتِي لَمْ تَكُنْ فِي أَسْلَافِهِمْ الَّذِينَ مَضَوْا؛ وَلَمْ يَنْقُصُوا الْمِكْيَالَ وَالْمِيزَانَ إلَّا أُخِذُوا بِالسِّنِينَ وَشِدَّةِ الْمُؤْنَةِ وَجَوْرِ السُّلْطَانِ؛ وَلَمْ يَمْنَعُوا الزَّكَاةَ مِنْ أَمْوَالِهِمْ إلَّا مُنِعُوا الْقَطْرَ مِنْ السَّمَاءِ، فَلَوْلَا الْبَهَائِمُ مَا مُطِرُوا؛ وَمَا نَقَضُوا عَهْدَ اللَّهِ وَعَهْدَ رَسُولِهِ إلَّا سُلِّطَ عَلَيْهِمْ عَدُوٌّ مِنْ غَيْرِهِمْ، فَأَخَذَ بَعْضَ مَا كَانَ فِي أَيْدِيهِمْ؛ وَمَا لَمْ يَحْكُمْ أَئِمَّتُهُمْ بِكِتَابِ اللَّهِ وَتَجَبَّرُوا فِيمَا أَنَزَلَ اللَّهُ إلَّا جَعَلَ اللَّهُ بَأْسَهُمْ بَيْنَهُمْ
Translation
✧ The expedition of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAwf to Dūmat al-Jandal. [Something of the Messenger's admonition to his people] Ibn Isḥāq said: And one whom I do not suspect narrated to me from ʿAṭāʾ b. Abī Rabāḥ, who said: I heard a man from the people of al-Baṣrah asking ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb about sending the turban's tail behind a man when he puts it on. He said: So ʿAbd Allāh said: I shall inform you, if Allah wills, about that with knowledge. I was the tenth of ten men from the companions of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ in his mosque: Abū Bakr, ʿUmar, ʿUthmān, ʿAlī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAwf, Ibn Masʿūd, Muʿādh b. Jabal, Ḥudhayfah b. al-Yamān, Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, and I, with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, when a young man from the Anṣār came forward, greeted the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, then sat down, and said: O Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless you, which of the believers is best? He said: The one with the best character. He said: Then which of the believers is most astute? He said: The one who remembers death most, and the one who prepares best for it before it descends upon him. Those are the astute ones. Then the young man fell silent, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ turned to us and said: O company of Emigrants, five traits, if they befall you—and I seek refuge with Allah that you should ever meet them: Immorality never appears among a people to the point that they proclaim it openly, but that plague and diseases that were not present among their ancestors who passed away appear among them. They do not diminish the measure and the balance, but that they are seized by years of scarcity, severity of hardship, and the tyranny of the ruler. They do not withhold the zakāh from their wealth, but that rain from the sky is withheld from them; were it not for the beasts, they would not be given rain. They do not break the covenant of Allah and the covenant of His Messenger, but that an enemy from other than them is given power over them, and he seizes some of what was in their hands. And as long as their leaders do not judge by the Book of Allah and arrogate to themselves in what Allah has sent down, Allah will set their might among themselves.
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