Sirat Ibn Hisham 252
What b. Jaḥsh used to do to the Muslims in Abyssinia after his conversion to Christianity
[ مَا كَانَ يَفْعَلُهُ ابْنُ جَحْشٍ بَعْدَ تَنَصُّرِهِ بِمُسْلِمِي الْحَبَشَةِ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: فَحَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ الزُّبَيْرِ، قَالَ: كَانَ عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ جَحْشٍ حِينَ تَنَصَّرَ يَمُرُّ بِأَصْحَابِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ، وَهُمْ هُنَالِكَ مِنْ أَرْضِ الْحَبَشَةِ، فَيَقُولُ: فَقَّحْنَا وَصَأْصَأْتُمْ، أَيْ أَبْصَرْنَا وَأَنْتَمِ تَلْتَمِسُونَ الْبَصَرَ، وَلَمْ تُبْصِرُوا بَعْدُ. وَذَلِكَ أَنَّ وَلَدَ الْكَلْبِ إذَا أَرَادَ أَنْ يَفْتَحَ عَيْنَيْهِ لِيَنْظُرَ، صَأْصَأَ لِيَنْظُرَ. وَقَوْلُهُ: فَقَّحَ: فَتَّحَ عَيْنَيْهِ. [ زَوَاجُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ مِنْ امْرَأَةِ ابْنِ جَحْشٍ بَعْدَ مَوْتِهِ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَخَلَفَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ بَعْدَهُ عَلَى امْرَأَتِهِ أُمِّ حَبِيبَةَ بِنْتِ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ بْنِ حَرْبٍ. قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَحَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ حُسَيْنٍ: أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ بَعَثَ فِيهَا إلَى النَّجَاشِيِّ عَمْرَو بْنَ أُمَيَّةَ الضَّمْرِيَّ، فَخَطَبَهَا عَلَيْهِ النَّجَاشِيُّ، فَزَوَّجَهُ إيَّاهَا، وَأَصْدَقَهَا عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَرْبَعَ ماِئَةِ دِينَارٍ. فَقَالَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ: مَا نَرَى عَبْدَ الْمَلِكِ بْنَ مَرْوَانَ وَقَفَ صَدَاقَ النِّسَاءِ عَلَى أَرْبَعِ ماِئَةِ دِينَارٍ إلَّا عَنْ ذَلِكَ. وَكَانَ الَّذِي أَمْلَكَهَا النَّبِيَّ ﷺ خَالِدُ بْنُ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْعَاصِ. [ تَنَصُّرُ ابْنِ الْحُوَيْرِثِ، وَذَهَابُهُ إلَى قَيْصَرَ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَأَمَّا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ الْحُوَيْرِثِ فَقَدِمَ عَلَى قَيْصَرَ مَلِكِ الرُّومِ، فَتَنَصَّرَ وَحَسُنَتْ مَنْزِلَتُهُ عِنْدَهُ. قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: وَلِعُثْمَانَ بْنِ الْحُوَيْرِثِ عِنْدَ قَيْصَرَ حَدِيثٌ، مَنَعَنِي مِنْ ذِكْرِهِ مَا ذَكَرْتُ فِي حَدِيثِ حَرْبِ الْفِجَارِ
Translation
✧ Ibn Isḥāq said: Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar b. al-Zubayr related to me, saying: When ʿUbayd Allāh b. Jaḥsh had become a Christian, he used to pass by the companions of the Messenger of God ﷺ while they were there in the land of Abyssinia, and he would say: “We have opened our eyes, but you are barely opening yours,” that is, we have seen clearly, while you are still seeking sight and have not yet seen. That is because a puppy, when it wants to open its eyes to look, peeps with them before it can see. His saying “faqqaḥa” means “he opened his eyes wide.” Ibn Isḥāq said: After him the Messenger of God ﷺ married his wife, Umm Ḥabībah bt. Abī Sufyān b. Ḥarb. Ibn Isḥāq said: Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Ḥusayn related to me that the Messenger of God ﷺ sent concerning her to the Negus ʿAmr b. Umayyah al-Ḍamrī, and the Negus asked for her hand on his behalf and married her to him, and he gave her as a dower on behalf of the Messenger of God ﷺ four hundred dinars. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī said: We do not think that ʿAbd al-Malik b. Marwān set the dower of women at four hundred dinars except on account of that. The one who gave her in marriage to the Prophet ﷺ was Khālid b. Saʿīd b. al-ʿĀṣ. Ibn Isḥāq said: As for ʿUthmān b. al-Ḥuwayrith, he went to Caesar, the king of Byzantium, became a Christian, and his standing with him became good. Ibn Hishām said: Concerning ʿUthmān b. al-Ḥuwayrith there is a story with Caesar, which I have refrained from mentioning for the same reason I mentioned in the account of the war of al-Fijār.
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