Sirat Ibn Hisham 946
The slaying of Ḥamzah
[ قَتْلُ وَحْشِيٍّ لَمُسَيْلِمَةَ ] فَلَمَّا خَرَجَ الْمُسْلِمُونَ إلَى مُسَيْلِمَةَ الْكَذَّابِ صَاحِبِ الْيَمَامَةِ خَرَجْتُ مَعَهُمْ، وَأَخَذْتُ حَرْبَتِي الَّتِي قَتَلْتُ بِهَا حَمْزَةَ، فَلَمَّا الْتَقَى النَّاسُ رَأَيْتُ مُسَيْلِمَةَ الْكَذَّابَ قَائِمًا فِي يَدِهِ السَّيْفَ، وَمَا أَعْرِفُهُ، فَتَهَيَّأْتُ لَهُ، وَتَهَيَّأَ لَهُ رَجُلٌ مِنْ الْأَنْصَارِ مِنْ النَّاحِيَةِ الْأُخْرَى، كِلَانَا يُرِيدُهُ، فَهَزَزْتُ حَرْبَتِي حَتَّى إذَا رَضِيتُ مِنْهَا دَفَعْتُهَا عَلَيْهِ، فَوَقَعَتْ فِيهِ، وَشَدَّ عَلَيْهِ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ فَضَرَبَهُ بِالسَّيْفِ، فَرَبُّكَ أَعْلَمُ أَيُّنَا قَتَلَهُ، فَإِنْ كُنْتُ قَتَلْتَهُ، فَقَدْ قَتَلْتُ خَيْرَ النَّاسِ بَعْدَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ، وَقَدْ قَتَلْتُ شَرَّ النَّاسِ. قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَحَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْفَضْلِ، عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ يَسَارٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِ، وَكَانَ قَدْ شَهِدَ الْيَمَامَةَ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ يَوْمئِذٍ صَارِخًا يَقُولُ: قَتَلَهُ الْعَبْدُ الْأَسْوَدُ. [ خَلْعُ وَحْشِيٍّ مِنْ الدِّيوَانِ ] قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: فَبَلَغَنِي أَنَّ وَحْشِيًّا لَمْ يَزَلْ يُحَدُّ فِي الْخَمْرِ حَتَّى خُلِعَ مِنْ الدِّيوَانِ، فَكَانَ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ يَقُولُ: قَدْ عَلِمْتُ أَنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى لَمْ يَكُنْ لِيَدَعَ قَاتِلَ حَمْزَةَ
Translation
✧ [THE KILLING OF MUSAYLIMAH BY WAḤSHĪ] When the Muslims went forth against Musaylimah the liar, the man of al-Yamāmah, I went out with them, and I took my spear with which I had killed Ḥamzah. When the people met, I saw Musaylimah the liar standing with a sword in his hand, and I did not know him. I prepared myself for him, and a man from the Anṣār prepared himself for him from the other side—both of us wanted him. I shook my spear until, when I was satisfied with it, I thrust it at him, and it struck him. The Anṣārī attacked him and struck him with the sword. Your Lord knows best which of us killed him. If I killed him, then I have killed the best of people after the Messenger of God ﷺ, and I have killed the worst of people. Ibn Isḥāq said: ʿAbd Allāh b. al-Faḍl related to me, from Sulaymān b. Yasār, from ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb, who had witnessed al-Yamāmah. He said: I heard a crier on that day saying: 'The black slave killed him.' [THE DISMISSAL OF WAḤSHĪ FROM THE REGISTER] Ibn Hishām said: It reached me that Waḥshī did not cease to be punished for wine-drinking until he was dismissed from the register. And ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb used to say: 'I knew that God Most High would not leave the killer of Ḥamzah.'
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