Sirat Ibn Hisham 589
The brotherhood between the emigrants and the ansar
[ بِمَوْتِهِ كَانَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ نَقِيبًا لِبَنِي النَّجَّارِ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَحَدَّثَنِي عَاصِمُ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ قَتَادَةَ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ: أَنَّهُ لَمَّا مَاتَ أَبُو أُمَامَةَ، أَسْعَدُ بْنُ زُرَارَةَ، اجْتَمَعَتْ بَنُو النَّجَّارِ إلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ، وَكَانَ أَبُو أُمَامَةَ نَقِيبَهُمْ، فَقَالُوا لَهُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، إنَّ هَذَا قَدْ كَانَ مِنَّا حَيْثُ قَدْ عَلِمْتَ، فَاجْعَلْ مِنَّا رَجُلًا مَكَانَهُ يُقِيمُ مِنْ أَمْرِنَا مَا كَانَ يُقِيمُ، فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ لَهُمْ: أَنْتُمْ أَخْوَالِي، وَأَنَا بِمَا فِيكُمْ، وَأَنَا نَقِيبُكُمْ؛ وَكَرِهَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَنْ يَخُصَّ بِهَا بَعْضَهُمْ دُونَ بَعْضٍ فَكَانَ مِنْ فَضْلِ بَنِي النَّجَّارِ الَّذِي يَعُدُّونَ عَلَى قَوْمِهِمْ، أَنْ كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ نَقِيبَهُمْ
Translation
✧ [By his death the Prophet ﷺ became the naqīb of the Banū al-Najjār] Ibn Isḥāq said: ʿĀṣim b. ʿUmar b. Qatādah al-Anṣārī related to me that when Abū Umāmah, Asʿad b. Zurārah, died, the Banū al-Najjār gathered before the Messenger of God ﷺ —Abū Umāmah had been their naqīb— and said to him, “O Messenger of God, this man was among us as you have known, so appoint a man from us in his place to carry out our affairs as he used to do.” The Messenger of God ﷺ said to them, “You are my maternal uncles, and I am one of you, and I am your naqīb”; the Messenger of God ﷺ disliked favoring some of them over others in that matter. Thus it was among the merits the Banū al-Najjār boast of over their people that the Messenger of God ﷺ was their naqīb.
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