Sirat Ibn Hisham 1609
The expedition of Abū ʿUbaydah b. al-Jarrāḥ to the seacoast
غَزْوَةُ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ بْنِ الْجَرَّاحِ إلَى سَيْفِ الْبَحْرِ [ نَفَادُ الطَّعَامِ وَخَبَرُ دَابَّةِ الْبَحْرِ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَحَدَّثَنِي عُبَادَةُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ بْنِ عِبَادَةَ بْنِ الصَّامِتِ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ جَدِّهِ عُبَادَةَ بْنِ الصَّامِتِ، قَالَ: بَعَثَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ سَرِيَّةً إلَى سِيفِ الْبَحْرِ، عَلَيْهِمْ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ بْنُ الْجَرَّاحِ، وَزَوَّدَهُمْ جِرَابًا مِنْ تَمْرٍ، فَجَعَلَ يَقُوتُهُمْ إيَّاهُ، حَتَّى صَارَ إلَى أَنْ يَعُدَّهُ عَلَيْهِمْ عَدَدًا. قَالَ: ثُمَّ نَفِدَ التَّمْرُ، حَتَّى كَانَ يُعْطَى كُلُّ رَجُلٍ مِنْهُمْ كُلَّ يَوْمٍ تَمْرَةً. قَالَ: فَقَسَمَهَا يَوْمًا بَيْنَنَا. قَالَ: فَنَقَصَتْ تَمْرَةٌ عَنْ رَجُلٍ، فَوَجَدْنَا فَقَدَهَا ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمَ. قَالَ: فَلَمَّا جَهَدَنَا الْجُوعُ أَخَرَجَ اللَّهُ لَنَا دَابَّةً مِنْ الْبَحْرِ، فَأَصَبْنَا مِنْ لَحْمِهَا وَوَدَكِهَا، وَأَقَمْنَا عَلَيْهَا عِشْرِينَ لَيْلَةً، حَتَّى سَمِّنَا وَابْتَلَلْنَا، وَأَخَذَ أَمِيرُنَا ضِلَعًا مِنْ أَضْلَاعِهَا، فَوَضَعَهَا عَلَى طَرِيقِهِ، ثُمَّ أَمَرَ بِأَجْسَمِ بَعِيرٍ مَعَنَا، فَحَمَلَ عَلَيْهِ أَجْسَمَ رَجُلٍ مِنَّا. قَالَ: فَجَلَسَ عَلَيْهِ، قَالَ: فَخَرَجَ مِنْ تَحْتِهَا وَمَا مَسَّتْ رَأْسُهُ. قَالَ: فَلَمَّا قَدِمْنَا عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَخْبَرْنَاهُ خَبَرَهَا، وَسَأَلْنَاهُ عَمَّا صَنَعْنَا فِي ذَلِكَ مِنْ أَكْلِنَا إيَّاهُ، فَقَالَ: رِزْقٌ رَزَقَكُمُوهُ اللَّهُ
Translation
✧ The expedition of Abū ʿUbaydah b. al-Jarrāḥ to the seashore [the exhaustion of food and the story of the sea creature] Ibn Isḥāq said: ʿUbādah b. al-Walīd b. ʿUbādah b. al-Ṣāmit narrated to me, from his father, from his grandfather ʿUbādah b. al-Ṣāmit, who said: The Messenger of God ﷺ sent a raiding party to the seashore, commanded by Abū ʿUbaydah b. al-Jarrāḥ, and he provisioned them with a sack of dates. He began rationing those dates to them, until it came to the point that he counted them out for them one by one. He said: Then the dates ran out, to the extent that each man among them was given a single date every day. He said: One day he divided them among us. He said: One date was missing for a man, and we felt its loss that day. He said: When hunger exhausted us, God brought out for us a creature from the sea, and we obtained of its meat and fat, and we stayed with it for twenty nights, until we grew fat and our bodies recovered moisture. Our commander took a rib from among its ribs, and set it up along his path. Then he ordered the largest camel among us to be brought, and he mounted the largest man among us upon it. He said: He sat upon it, and he passed beneath that rib without his head touching it. He said: When we came to the Messenger of God ﷺ, we told him its story and asked him about what we had done in that matter by eating it. He said: 'It is provision which God provided for you.'
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