Sirat Ibn Hisham 921
His denial of the report brought by the Messenger's two envoys about the killing of some of the polytheists
مُقْتَلُ كَعْبِ بْنِ الْأَشْرَفِ [ اسْتِنْكَارُهُ خَبَرَ رَسُولَيْ الرَّسُولِ بِقَتْلِ نَاسٍ مِنْ الْمُشْرِكِينَ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَكَانَ مِنْ حَدِيثِ كَعْبِ بْنِ الْأَشْرَفِ: أَنَّهُ لَمَّا أُصِيبَ أَصْحَابُ بَدْرٍ، وَقَدِمَ زَيْدُ بْنُ حَارِثَةَ إلَى أَهْلِ السَّافِلَةِ، وَعَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ رَوَاحَةَ إلَى أَهْلِ الْعَالِيَةِ بَشِيرَيْنِ، بَعَثَهُمَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ إلَى مَنْ بِالْمَدِينَةِ مِنْ الْمُسْلِمِينَ بِفَتْحِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ عَلَيْهِ، وَقُتِلَ مَنْ قُتِلَ مِنْ الْمُشْرِكِينَ. كَمَا حَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُغِيثِ بْنِ أَبِي بُرْدَةَ الظَّفَرِيُّ، وَعَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ أَبِي بَكْرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَزْمٍ، وَعَاصِمُ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ قَتَادَةَ، وَصَالِحُ بْنُ أَبِي أُمَامَةَ بْنِ سَهْلٍ، كُلٌّ قَدْ حَدَّثَنِي بَعْضَ حَدِيثِهِ، قَالُوا: قَالَ كَعْبُ بْنُ الْأَشْرَفِ، وَكَانَ رَجُلًا مِنْ طَيِّئٍ، ثُمَّ أَحَدَ بَنِي نَبْهَانَ، وَكَانَتْ أُمُّهُ مِنْ بَنِي النَّضِيرِ، حِينَ بَلَغَهُ الْخَبَرُ: أَحَقٌّ هَذَا ؟ أَتَرَوْنَ مُحَمَّدًا قَتَلَ هَؤُلَاءِ الَّذِينَ يُسَمَّى هَذَانِ الرَّجُلَانِ - يَعْنِي زَيْدًا وَعَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ رَوَاحَةَ - فَهَؤُلَاءِ أَشْرَافُ الْعَرَبِ وَمُلُوكُ النَّاسِ، وَاَللَّهِ لَئِنْ كَانَ مُحَمَّدٌ أَصَابَ هَؤُلَاءِ الْقَوْمَ، لَبَطْنُ الْأَرْضِ خَيْرٌ مِنْ ظَهْرِهَا.
Translation
✧ The Killing of Kaʿb b. al-Ashraf [His rejection of the news brought by the Messenger's two messengers of the killing of some polytheists] Ibn Isḥāq said: Regarding the account of Kaʿb b. al-Ashraf: when the companions of Badr were struck down, and Zayd b. Ḥārithah came to the people of the lower part and ʿAbd Allāh b. Rawāḥah to the people of the upper part as bearers of good news—the Messenger of Allah ﷺ had sent them both to the Muslims in Madinah with the victory that Allah, Mighty and Majestic, had granted him, and with the killing of those polytheists who were killed—as ʿAbd Allāh b. al-Mughīth b. Abī Burdah al-Ẓafarī, ʿAbd Allāh b. Abī Bakr b. Muḥammad b. ʿAmr b. Ḥazm, ʿĀṣim b. ʿUmar b. Qatādah, and Ṣāliḥ b. Abī Umāmah b. Sahl narrated to me, each of them having narrated to me part of his account, they said: Kaʿb b. al-Ashraf—who was a man from Ṭayyiʾ, then one of the Banū Nabhān, and whose mother was from the Banū al-Naḍīr—said, when the news reached him: "Is this true? Do you think that Muḥammad killed these ones whom these two men—meaning Zayd and ʿAbd Allāh b. Rawāḥah—name? These are the nobles of the Arabs and the kings of the people. By Allah, if Muḥammad has struck down these people, then the belly of the earth is better than its back."
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