Sirat Ibn Hisham 1615
The capture of Thumāmah b. Uthāl al-Ḥanafī and his conversion to Islam
أَسْرُ ثُمَامَةَ بْنِ أُثَالٍ الْحَنَفِيِّ وَإِسْلَامُهُ [ وَالسَّرِيَّةُ الَّتِي أَسَرَتْ ثُمَامَةَ بْنَ أُثَالٍ الْحَنَفِيَّ ] [ إِسْلَامُهُ ] بَلَغَنِي عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْمَقْبُرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي هَرِيرَةَ أَنَّهُ قَالَ: خَرَجَتْ خَيْلٌ لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ، فَأَخَذَتْ رَجُلًا مِنْ بَنِي حَنِيفَةَ، لَا يَشْعُرُونَ مَنْ هُوَ، حَتَّى أَتَوْا بِهِ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ؛ فَقَالَ: أَتَدْرُونَ مَنْ أَخَذْتُمْ؛ هَذَا ثُمَامَةُ بْنُ أُثَالٍ الْحَنَفِيُّ، أُحْسِنُوا إسَارَهُ وَرَجَعَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ إلَى أَهْلِهِ؛ فَقَالَ: اجْمَعُوا مَا كَانَ عِنْدَكُمْ مِنْ طَعَامٍ، فَابْعَثُوا بِهِ إلَيْهِ، وَأَمَرَ بِلِقْحَتِهِ أَنْ يُغْدَى عَلَيْهِ بِهَا وَيُرَاحُ فَجَعَلَ لَا يَقَعُ مِنْ ثُمَامَةَ مَوْقِعًا وَيَأْتِيهِ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَيَقُولُ أَسْلِمْ يَا ثُمَامَةُ، فَيَقُولُ: إيْهَا يَا مُحَمَّدُ، إنْ تَقْتُلْ تَقْتُلْ ذَا دَمٍ وَإِنْ تُرِدْ الْفِدَاءَ فَسَلْ مَا شِئْتُ، فَمَكَثَ مَا شَاءَ اللَّهُ أَنْ يَمْكُثَ؛ ثُمَّ قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ يَوْمًا: أَطْلِقُوا ثُمَامَةَ، فَلَمَّا أَطْلَقُوهُ خَرَجَ حَتَّى أَتَى الْبَقِيعَ، فَتَطَهَّرَ فَأَحْسَنَ طُهُورَهُ، ثُمَّ أَقْبَلَ فَبَايَعَ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ عَلَى الْإِسْلَامِ؛ فَلَمَّا أَمْسَى جَاءُوهُ بِمَا كَانُوا يَأْتُونَهُ مِنْ الطَّعَامِ، فَلَمْ يَنَلْ مِنْهُ إلَّا قَلِيلًا، وَبِاللِّقْحَةِ فَلَمْ يُصِبْ مِنْ حِلَابِهَا إلَّا يَسِيرًا فَعَجِبَ الْمُسْلِمُونَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ حِينَ بَلَغَهُ ذَلِكَ: مِمَّ تَعْجَبُونَ ؟ أَمِنْ رَجُلٍ أَكَلَ أَوَّلَ النَّهَارِ فِي مِعَى كَافِرٍ، وَأَكَلَ آخِرَ النَّهَارِ فِي مِعَى مُسْلِمٍ إنَّ الْكَافِرَ يَأْكُلُ فِي سَبْعَةِ أَمْعَاءٍ، وَإِنَّ الْمُسْلِمَ يَأْكُلُ فِي مِعًى وَاحِدٍ [ خُرُوجُهُ إلَى مَكَّةَ وَقِصَّتُهُ مَعَ قُرَيْشٍ ] قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: فَبَلَغَنِي أَنَّهُ خَرَجَ مُعْتَمِرًا، حَتَّى إذَا كَانَ بِبَطْنِ مَكَّةَ لَبَّى، فَكَانَ أَوَّلَ مَنْ دَخَلَ مَكَّةَ يُلَبِّي، فَأَخَذَتْهُ قُرَيْشٌ، فَقَالُوا: لَقَدْ اخْتَرْتُ عَلَيْنَا، فَلَمَّا قَدَّمُوهُ لِيَضْرِبُوا عُنُقَهُ؛ قَالَ قَائِلٌ مِنْهُمْ: دَعُوهُ فَإِنَّكُمْ تَحْتَاجُونَ إلَى الْيَمَامَةِ لِطَعَامِكُمْ، فَخَلُّوهُ، فَقَالَ الْحَنَفِيُّ فِي ذَلِكَ: وَمِنَّا الَّذِي لَبَّى بِمَكَّةَ مُعْلِنًا بِرَغْمِ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ فِي الْأَشْهُرِ الْحُرُمْ وَحُدِّثْتُ أَنَّهُ قَالَ لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ، حِينَ أَسْلَمَ، لَقَدْ كَانَ وَجْهُكَ أَبْغَضَ الْوُجُوهِ إلَيَّ، وَلَقَدْ أَصْبَحَ وَهُوَ أَحَبُّ الْوُجُوهِ إلَيَّ. وَقَالَ فِي الدِّينِ وَالْبِلَادِ مِثْلَ ذَلِكَ. ثُمَّ خَرَجَ مُعْتَمِرًا، فَلَمَّا قَدِمَ مَكَّةَ، قَالُوا: أَصَبَوْتُ يَا ثُمَامُ ؟ فَقَالَ: لَا، وَلَكِنِّي اتَّبَعْتُ خَيْرَ الدِّينِ، دِينَ مُحَمَّدٍ، وَلَا وَاَللَّهِ لَا تَصِلُ إلَيْكُمْ حَبَّةٌ مِنْ الْيَمَامَةِ حَتَّى يَأْذَنَ فِيهَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ. ثُمَّ خَرَجَ إلَى الْيَمَامَةِ، فَمَنَعَهُمْ أَنْ يَحْمِلُوا إلَى مَكَّةَ شَيْئًا، فَكَتَبُوا إلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ: إنَّكَ تَأْمُرُ بِصِلَةِ الرَّحِمِ، وَإِنَّكَ قَدْ قَطَعْتُ أَرْحَامَنَا، وَقَدْ قَتَلْتُ الْآبَاءَ بِالسَّيْفِ، وَالْأَبْنَاءَ بِالْجَوْعِ، فَكَتَبَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ إلَيْهِ أَنْ يُخَلِّي بَيْنَهُمْ وَبَيْنَ الْحَمْلِ.
Translation
✧ The capture of Thumāmah b. Uthāl al-Ḥanafī and his Islam [and the expedition that captured Thumāmah b. Uthāl al-Ḥanafī] [his Islam] It reached me from Abū Saʿīd al-Maqburī, from Abū Hurayrah, that he said: The cavalry of the Messenger of God ﷺ went out and captured a man from Banū Ḥanīfah, not knowing who he was, until they brought him to the Messenger of God ﷺ. He said: “Do you know whom you have captured? This is Thumāmah b. Uthāl al-Ḥanafī. Treat his captivity well.” The Messenger of God ﷺ then returned to his family and said: “Collect whatever food you have and send it to him.” He commanded that his milch-camel be brought to him morning and evening. It did not have the effect on Thumāmah that it might. The Messenger of God ﷺ would come to him and say: “Become a Muslim, O Thumāmah.” He would reply: “Ah, O Muḥammad, if you kill, you kill a man of blood; if you want ransom, ask whatever you wish.” He remained as long as God willed him to remain. Then one day the Prophet ﷺ said: “Release Thumāmah.” When they released him, he went out until he came to al-Baqīʿ, performed ablution, and did it well. Then he came forward and gave allegiance to the Prophet ﷺ upon Islam. When evening came, they brought him the food they used to bring, but he ate only a little of it, and the milch-camel, but he drank only a small amount of its milk. The Muslims were amazed at that. The Messenger of God ﷺ said when he heard of it: “Why are you amazed? Is it not a man who ate at the beginning of the day in the bowels of a disbeliever, and ate at the end of the day in the bowels of a Muslim? The disbeliever eats in seven bowels, and the Muslim eats in one bowel.” [His going out to Makkah and his story with Quraysh] Ibn Hishām said: It reached me that he went out to perform ʿumrah. When he was in the valley of Makkah, he raised his voice with the talbiyah, and he was the first to enter Makkah reciting the talbiyah. Quraysh seized him and said: “You have preferred others over us.” When they brought him forward to strike his neck, one of them said: “Leave him, for you need al-Yamāmah for your food.” So they released him. The Ḥanafī said about that: “And among us is the one who recited the talbiyah in Makkah openly, in spite of Abū Sufyān, in the sacred months.” I was told that he said to the Messenger of God ﷺ when he became a Muslim: “Your face was the most hateful of faces to me, and it has become the most beloved of faces to me.” He said the same about the religion and the land. Then he went out to perform ʿumrah. When he arrived in Makkah, they said: “Have you apostatized, O Thumāmah?” He said: “No, but I have followed the best religion, the religion of Muḥammad. By God, not a grain from al-Yamāmah will reach you until the Messenger of God ﷺ permits it.” Then he went to al-Yamāmah and prevented them from carrying anything to Makkah. They wrote to the Messenger of God ﷺ: “You command the maintenance of kin ties, but you have severed our kin ties and killed the fathers with the sword and the children with hunger.” So the Messenger of God ﷺ wrote to him to leave them free to carry food.
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