Sirat Ibn Hisham 988

Abū Sufyān's message to the Messenger conveyed by a caravan

[ كَفُّ صَفْوَانَ لِأَبِي سُفْيَانَ عَنْ مُعَاوَدَةِ الْكَرَّةِ ] قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ: أَنَّ أَبَا سُفْيَانَ بْنَ حَرْبٍ لَمَّا انْصَرَفَ يَوْمَ أُحُدٍ، أَرَادَ الرُّجُوعَ إلَى الْمَدِينَةِ، لِيَسْتَأْصِلَ بَقِيَّةَ أَصْحَابِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ، فَقَالَ لَهُمْ صَفْوَانُ بْنُ أُمَيَّةَ بْنِ خَلَفٍ: لَا تَفْعَلُوا، فَإِنَّ الْقَوْمَ قَدْ حَرِبُوا، وَقَدْ خَشِينَا أَنْ يَكُونَ لَهُمْ قِتَالٌ غَيْرُ الَّذِي كَانَ، فَارْجِعُوا، فَرَجَعُوا. فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ، وَهُوَ بِحَمْرَاءِ الْأَسَدِ، حِينَ بَلَغَهُ أَنَّهُمْ هَمُّوا بِالرَّجْعَةِ: وَاَلَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ، لَقَدْ سُوِّمَتْ لَهُمْ حِجَارَةٌ، لَوْ صُبِّحُوا بِهَا لَكَانُوا كَأَمْسِ الذَّاهِبِ

Translation

✧ [Ṣafwān’s restraining Abū Sufyān from renewing the attack] Ibn Hishām said: Abū ʿUbaydah narrated to us: When Abū Sufyān b. Ḥarb withdrew on the day of Uḥud, he intended to return to Madinah to exterminate the remainder of the companions of the Messenger of God ﷺ. Ṣafwān b. Umayyah b. Khalaf said to them: Do not do it, for the people have been provoked to war, and we fear that there may be fighting for them other than what took place. So return. And they returned. The Prophet ﷺ said, while he was at Ḥamrāʾ al-Asad, when news reached him that they had resolved to return: By Him in whose hand is my soul, stones were marked out for them; had they been met with them in the morning, they would have been like yesterday that has passed.

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