Sirat Ibn Hisham 1653
ʿUmar’s sermon at the pledge of allegiance to Abū Bakr
[ تَعْرِيفٌ بِالرَّجُلَيْنِ اللَّذَيْنِ لَقِيَا أَبَا بَكْرٍ وَعُمَرَ فِي طَرِيقِهِمَا إلَى السَّقِيفَةِ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: قَالَ الزُّهْرِيُّ أَخْبَرَنِي عُرْوَةُ بْنُ الزُّبَيْرِ أَنَّ أَحَدَ الرَّجُلَيْنِ اللَّذَيْنِ لَقَوْا مِنْ الْأَنْصَارِ حِينَ ذَهَبُوا إلَى السَّقِيفَةِ عُوَيْمُ بْنُ سَاعِدَةَ، وَالْآخَرُ مَعَنُ بْنُ عَدِيٍّ، أَخُو بَنِي الْعَجْلَانِ. فَأَمَّا عُوَيْمُ بْنُ سَاعِدَةَ، فَهُوَ الَّذِي بَلَغَنَا أَنَّهُ قِيلَ لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ مَنْ الَّذِينَ قَالَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ لَهُمْ: فِيهِ رِجَالٌ يُحِبُّونَ أَنْ يَتَطَهَّرُوا وَاللَّهُ يُحِبُّ الْمُطَّهِّرِينَ ؟ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ: نِعْمَ الْمَرْءُ مِنْهُمْ عُوَيْمُ بْنُ سَاعِدَةَ؛ وَأَمَّا مَعْنُ بْنُ عَدِيٍّ، فَبَلَغَنَا أَنَّ النَّاسَ بَكَوْا عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ حِينَ تَوَفَّاهُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ، وَقَالُوا: وَاَللَّهِ لَوَدِدْنَا أَنَّا مُتْنَا قَبْلَهُ، إنَّا نَخْشَى أَنْ نَفْتَتِنَ بَعْدَهُ. قَالَ مَعَنُ بْنُ عَدِيٍّ: لَكِنِّي وَاَللَّهِ مَا أُحِبُّ أَنِّي مُتُّ قَبْلَهُ حَتَّى أُصَدِّقَهُ مَيِّتًا كَمَا صَدَّقْتُهُ حَيًّا؛ فَقُتِلَ مَعَنٌ يَوْمَ الْيَمَامَةِ شَهِيدًا فِي خِلَافَةِ أَبِي بَكْرٍ، يَوْمَ مُسَيْلِمَةَ الْكَذَّابِ
Translation
✧ [Introduction concerning the two men whom Abū Bakr and ʿUmar met on their way to the Saqīfah] Ibn Isḥāq said: al-Zuhrī said: ʿUrwah b. al-Zubayr reported to me that one of the two men of the Anṣār whom they met when they went to the Saqīfah was ʿUwaym b. Sāʿidah, and the other was Maʿn b. ʿAdī, the brother of the Banū al-ʿAjlān. As for ʿUwaym b. Sāʿidah, it is he about whom we have heard that it was said to the Messenger of God ﷺ: 'Who are those of whom God, Mighty and Majestic, said: In it are men who love to purify themselves, and God loves those who purify themselves?' The Messenger of God ﷺ said: 'An excellent man among them is ʿUwaym b. Sāʿidah.' As for Maʿn b. ʿAdī, we have heard that the people wept over the Messenger of God ﷺ when God, Mighty and Majestic, caused him to die, and they said: 'By God, we wish that we had died before him; we fear that we shall be tempted after him.' Maʿn b. ʿAdī said: 'But by God, I do not wish that I had died before him, so that I might affirm him dead as I affirmed him living.' Maʿn was killed on the day of al-Yamāmah as a martyr during the caliphate of Abū Bakr, on the day of Musaylimah the liar.
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