Sirat Ibn Hisham 522
The names of the twelve nuqabāʾ and the completion of the account of al-ʿAqabah
[ كَلِمَةُ الْعَبَّاسِ بْنِ عُبَادَةَ فِي الْخَزْرَجِ قَبْلَ الْمُبَايَعَةِ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَحَدَّثَنِي عَاصِمُ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ قَتَادَةَ: أَنَّ الْقَوْمَ لَمَّا اجْتَمَعُوا لِبَيْعَةِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ الْعَبَّاسُ بْنُ عُبَادَةَ بْنِ نَضْلَةَ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ، أَخُو بَنِي سَالِمِ بْنِ عَوْفٍ: يَا مَعْشَرَ الْخَزْرَجِ، هَلْ تَدْرُونَ عَلَامَ تُبَايِعُونَ هَذَا الرَّجُلَ ؟ قَالُوا: نَعَمْ قَالَ: إنَّكُمْ تُبَايِعُونَهُ عَلَى حَرْبِ الْأَحْمَرِ وَالْأَسْوَدِ مِنْ النَّاسِ، فَإِنْ كُنْتُمْ تَرَوْنَ أَنَّكُمْ إذَا نُهِكَتْ أَمْوَالُكُمْ مُصِيبَةً، وَأَشْرَافُكُمْ قَتْلًا أَسْلَمْتُمُوهُ، فَمِنْ الْآنَ، فَهُوَ وَاَللَّهِ إنْ فَعَلْتُمْ خِزْيُ الدُّنْيَا وَالْآخِرَةِ، وَإِنْ كُنْتُمْ تَرَوْنَ أَنَّكُمْ وَافُونَ لَهُ بِمَا دَعَوْتُمُوهُ إلَيْهِ عَلَى نَهْكَةِ الْأَمْوَالِ وَقَتْلِ الْأَشْرَافِ، فَخُذُوهُ، فَهُوَ وَاَللَّهِ خَيْرُ الدُّنْيَا وَالْآخِرَةِ، قَالُوا: فَإِنَّا نَأْخُذُهُ عَلَى مُصِيبَةِ الْأَمْوَالِ، وَقَتْلِ الْأَشْرَافِ. فَمَا لَنَا بِذَلِكَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إنْ نَحْنُ وَفَّيْنَا ( بِذَلِكَ ) قَالَ: الْجَنَّةُ. قَالُوا: اُبْسُطْ يَدَكَ. فَبَسَطَ يَدَهُ فَبَايَعُوهُ وَأَمَّا عَاصِمُ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ قَتَادَةَ فَقَالَ: وَاَللَّهِ مَا قَالَ ذَلِكَ الْعَبَّاسُ إلَّا لِيَشُدَّ الْعَقْدَ لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ فِي أَعْنَاقِهِمْ. وَأَمَّا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ فَقَالَ: مَا قَالَ ذَلِكَ الْعَبَّاسُ إلَّا لِيُؤَخِّرَ الْقَوْمَ تَلِكَ اللَّيْلَةَ، رَجَاءَ أَنْ يَحْضُرَهَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ أُبَيِّ ابْنِ سَلُولَ، فَيَكُونَ أَقْوَى لِأَمْرِ الْقَوْمِ. فَاَللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ أَيَّ ذَلِكَ كَانَ. [ نَسَبُ سَلُولَ ] قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ سَلُولُ امْرَأَةٌ مِنْ خُزَاعَةَ، وَهِيَ أُمُّ أُبَيِّ بْنِ مَالِكِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ
Translation
✧ [The speech of al-ʿAbbās b. ʿUbādah among the Khazraj before the pledge] Ibn Isḥāq said: ʿĀṣim b. ʿUmar b. Qatādah narrated to me that when the people gathered for the pledge to the Messenger of God ﷺ, al-ʿAbbās b. ʿUbādah b. Naḍlah al-Anṣārī, brother of the Banū Sālim b. ʿAwf, said: "O assembly of the Khazraj, do you know on what basis you are pledging allegiance to this man?" They said: "Yes." He said: "You are pledging allegiance to him on war against the red and the black of mankind. If you think that when your wealth is exhausted as a calamity and your nobles are killed you will surrender him, then from now—for by God, if you do that, it is the disgrace of this world and the hereafter. But if you think that you will fulfill for him what you have summoned him to, despite the exhaustion of wealth and the killing of nobles, then take him, for by God, it is the best of this world and the hereafter." They said: "We take him on the calamity of wealth and the killing of nobles. What is for us in that, O Messenger of God, if we fulfill that?" He said: "Paradise." They said: "Stretch out your hand." He stretched out his hand and they pledged allegiance to him. As for ʿĀṣim b. ʿUmar b. Qatādah, he said: By God, al-ʿAbbās said that only to bind the covenant firmly for the Messenger of God ﷺ upon their necks. As for ʿAbd Allāh b. Abī Bakr, he said: al-ʿAbbās said that only to delay the people that night, hoping that ʿAbd Allāh b. Ubayy b. Salūl would attend it and thus strengthen the matter of the people. God knows best which of the two it was. [The lineage of Salūl] Ibn Hishām said: Salūl is a woman from Khuzāʿah, the mother of Ubayy b. Mālik b. al-Ḥārith.
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