Sirat Ibn Hisham 935
Incitement to fight the Messenger
[ مُشَاوَرَةُ الرَّسُولِ الْقَوْمَ فِي الْخُرُوجِ أَوْ الْبَقَاءِ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: فَإِنْ رَأَيْتُمْ أَنْ تُقِيمُوا بِالْمَدِينَةِ وَتَدْعُوهُمْ حَيْثُ نَزَلُوا، فَإِنْ أَقَامُوا أَقَامُوا بِشَرِّ مُقَامٍ، وَإِنْ هُمْ دَخَلُوا عَلَيْنَا قَاتَلْنَاهُمْ فِيهَا وَكَانَ رَأْيُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أُبَيٍّ ابْنِ سَلُولَ مَعَ رَأْيِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ، يَرَى رَأْيَهُ فِي ذَلِكَ، وَأَلَّا يَخْرَجَ إلَيْهِمْ، وَكَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَكْرَهُ الْخُرُوجَ، فَقَالَ رِجَالٌ مِنْ الْمُسْلِمِينَ، مِمَّنْ أَكْرَمَ اللَّهُ بِالشَّهَادَةِ يَوْمَ أُحُدٍ وَغَيْرِهِ، مِمَّنْ كَانَ فَاتَهُ بَدْرٌ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، اُخْرُجْ بِنَا إلَى أَعْدَائِنَا، لَا يَرَوْنَ أَنَّا جَبُنَّا عَنْهُمْ وَضَعُفْنَا ؟ فَقَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ أُبَيٍّ ابْنُ سَلُولَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، أَقِمْ بِالْمَدِينَةِ لَا تَخْرُجْ إلَيْهِمْ، فَوَاَللَّهِ مَا خَرَجْنَا مِنْهَا إلَى عَدُوٍّ لَنَا قَطُّ إلَّا أَصَابَ مِنَّا، وَلَا دَخَلَهَا عَلَيْنَا إلَّا أَصَبْنَا مِنْهُ، فَدَعْهُمْ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، فَإِنْ أَقَامُوا أَقَامُوا بِشَرِّ مَحْبِسٍ وَإِنْ دَخَلُوا قَاتَلَهُمْ الرِّجَالُ فِي وَجْهِهِمْ، وَرَمَاهُمْ النِّسَاءُ وَالصِّبْيَانُ بِالْحِجَارَةِ مِنْ فَوْقِهِمْ، وَإِنْ رَجَعُوا رَجَعُوا خَائِبِينَ كَمَا جَاءُوا. فَلَمْ يَزَلْ النَّاسُ بِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ، الَّذِينَ كَانَ مِنْ أَمْرِهِمْ حُبُّ لِقَاءِ الْقَوْمِ، حَتَّى دَخَلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ بَيْتَهُ، فَلَبِسَ لَأْمَتَهُ، وَذَلِكَ يَوْمَ الْجُمُعَةِ حَيْنَ فَرَغَ مِنْ الصَّلَاةِ. وَقَدْ مَاتَ فِي ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمِ رَجُلٌ مِنْ الْأَنْصَارِ يُقَالُ لَهُ: مَالِكُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو، أَحَدُ بَنِي النَّجَّارِ، فَصَلَّى عَلَيْهِ رَسُولُ ﷺ، ثُمَّ خَرَجَ عَلَيْهِمْ، وَقَدْ نَدِمَ النَّاسُ، وَقَالُوا: اسْتَكْرَهْنَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ، وَلَمْ يَكُنْ لَنَا ذَلِكَ. فَلَمَّا خَرَجَ عَلَيْهِمْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ، قَالُوا: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ: اسْتَكْرَهْنَاكَ وَلَمْ يَكُنْ ذَلِكَ لَنَا، فَإِنْ شِئْتَ فَاقْعُدْ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْكَ، فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ: مَا يَنْبَغِي لِنَبِيٍّ إذَا لَبِسَ لَأَمْتَهُ أَنْ يَضَعَهَا حَتَّى يُقَاتِلَ فَخَرَجَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ فِي أَلْفٍ مِنْ أَصْحَابِهِ. قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: وَاسْتَعْمَلَ ابْنَ أُمِّ مَكْتُومٍ عَلَى الصَّلَاةِ بِالنَّاسِ
Translation
✧ [Consultation of the Messenger with the people about going out or remaining] Ibn Isḥāq said: “If you think it best to remain in Madinah and leave them where they have camped, then if they stay, they stay in the worst place, and if they enter upon us, we will fight them in it.” The opinion of ʿAbd Allāh b. Ubayy b. Salūl agreed with the opinion of the Messenger of God ﷺ, he held his view on that, and that he should not go out to them. The Messenger of God ﷺ disliked going out. Then men of the Muslims, among those whom God honoured with martyrdom on the day of Uḥud and elsewhere, among those who had missed Badr, said: “O Messenger of God, lead us out to our enemies, lest they think that we have been cowardly towards them and weak?” ʿAbd Allāh b. Ubayy b. Salūl said: “O Messenger of God, stay in Madinah; do not go out to them. By God, we have never gone out of it against an enemy of ours but that he struck at us, and none has ever entered it upon us but that we struck at him. Leave them, O Messenger of God; for if they stay, they stay in the worst confinement, and if they enter, the men will fight them face to face, and the women and boys will throw stones at them from above; and if they withdraw, they will withdraw disappointed, just as they came.” The people whose desire was to meet the enemy kept pressing the Messenger of God ﷺ until the Messenger of God ﷺ entered his house and put on his coat of mail—that was on Friday when he had finished the prayer. On that day a man of the Anṣār named Mālik b. ʿAmr, one of the Banū al-Najjār, had died, and the Messenger ﷺ prayed over him, then went out to them. The people had regretted it and said: “We have pressed the Messenger of God ﷺ, and that was not for us to do.” When the Messenger of God ﷺ came out to them, they said: “O Messenger of God, we pressed you, and that was not for us to do; if you wish, stay, may God bless you.” The Messenger of God ﷺ said: “It is not fitting for a prophet, once he has put on his coat of mail, to take it off until he fights.” Then the Messenger of God ﷺ went out with a thousand of his companions. Ibn Hishām said: He appointed Ibn Umm Maktūm to lead the people in prayer.
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