al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 5091

Translation

✧ They gathered with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and he walked with them until he reached Baqi' al-Gharqad on a moonlit night. He said: Go forth in the name of Allah. O Allah, help them. Then the Messenger of Allah ﷺ returned to his house. They went on until they reached his fortress, meaning Ka'b b. al-Ashraf. Abu Na'ilah called out to him, and he came down to him while he was recently married. His wife said to him: You are a warrior, and a man of war does not come down at such an hour. He said to her: It is Abu Na'ilah. By Allah, if he found me sleeping, he would not wake me. She said: By Allah, I recognize evil in his voice. He said to her: If a young man is called to a thrust, he answers. So he came down to them, and they talked for a while. Then they said: If we walked to Shi'b al-'Ajuz and talked tonight, for we have not done that for a long time. He said: Yes. They went out walking. Then Abu Na'ilah felt his hand in the side of his head and said: I have never seen perfume as fragrant as tonight. Then he walked for a while, then repeated it until he was reassured. He put his hand into the side of his head and grabbed his hair, then said: Strike the enemy of Allah. Their swords fell upon him in confusion. The enemy of Allah screamed a scream, and no fortress remained but a fire was lit on it. Al-Harith's leg was injured. Muhammad b. Maslamah said: When I saw that the swords were not effective, I remembered a short sword in my scabbard. I took it and placed it on his navel and pressed on it until it reached his pubic area, and he fell. Then we left and took the road past Banu Umayyah, then Banu Qurayzah, then Bu'ath, then we traveled at night through the Harrah of al-'Urayd. Al-Harith was delayed and bleeding, so we stopped for him. Then we carried him until we came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ at the end of the night while he was praying. He came out to us, and we informed him of the killing of the enemy of Allah. He ﷺ spat on the wound of al-Harith, and we returned with him to his house. The people dispersed to their camps. When morning came, the Jews feared because of our attack on the enemy of Allah. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: Whoever you find of the men of the Jews, kill him. Muhayyisah b. Mas'ud jumped on Ibn Sunaynah, a man from the Jewish merchants, who used to trade with them and mix with them, and killed him. Huwayyisah b. Mas'ud, who was then a polytheist and older than him, began to beat him and say: O enemy of Allah, you killed him? By Allah, there is much fat in your belly from his wealth. He said: By Allah, a man ordered me to kill him, and if he ordered me to kill you, I would strike your neck. He said: By Allah, if Muhammad ordered you to kill me, would you kill me? He said: Yes, by Allah. He said: By Allah, a religion that has brought you to this is indeed amazing. Thus the first Islam of Huwayyisah came from the words of his brother. Muhayyisah composed poetry about that.

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• Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī

  هذا إسناد حسن متصل أخرج أحمد منه إلى قوله اللهم أعنهم فقط وهو المرفوع منه الموصول والباقي مدرج وله شاهد في الصحيح من حديث عمرو عن جابر رضي الله عنه

  in المطالب العالية, p. 5091

Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 2391al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 11586al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 2480

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbbās

   One of the Companions who narrated most prolifically (mukthirūn).d. 65 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, also said: 69 AH, also said: 70 AH; also said: 73 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابة
   عن
2. 2
   ʿIkrimah mawlá Ibn ʿAbbās

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), knowledgeable in Qurʾānic exegesis; the claim that Ibn ʿUmar called him a liar is not established, and no innovation is established from him.d. Ibn al-Madīnī said: 104 AH. Abū Saʿīd b. Yūnus and others said: 105 AH, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Abū ʿUmar al-Ḍarīr: 106 AH. Abū Maʿshar al-Madanī and others said: 107 AH. Also reported from al-Haytham b. ʿAdī, and Abū al-Ḥasan al-Madāʾinī, and Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn: 115 AH. And that is a mistake
   عِكْرِمَةَثقة ثبت عالم بالتفسير ، لم يثبت تكذيبه عن ابن عمر ، ولا تثبت عنه بدعة
   عن
3. 3
   Thawr b. Yazīd

   trustworthy (thiqah), firm (thabt), except that he held the Qadarī viewd. al-Tirmidhī said: 150 AH. From al-Haytham b. ʿAdī: 151 AH. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. ʿĪsā said: I was informed that he died in the year 152 AH. Ibn Saʿd and a group said: 153 AH. Yaḥyā b. Bukayr and others said: 155 AH
   ثَوْرُ بْنُ يَزِيدَثقة ثبت ، إلا أنه يرى القدر
   حدثني
4. 4
   Muḥammad b. Isḥāq

   Truthful (ṣadūq), he practiced concealment (yudallis), and was accused of Shiʿism (tashayyuʿ) and of belief in free will (qadar)d. ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said, and Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. ʿArafah: 150 AH, Muḥammad b. Saʿd said elsewhere: al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said: 151 AH, he said: and his son said: 150 AH. Aḥmad b. Khālid al-Wahbī said: 151 AH, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn said, and ʿAlī Ibn al-Madīnī, and Zakariyyā b. Yaḥyā al-Sājī: 152 AH, khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said: 153 AH, 152 AH
   مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ إِسْحَاقَصدوق يدلس ، ورمي بالتشيع والقدر
   سمعت
5. 5
   Jarīr b. Ḥāzim

   Trustworthy (thiqah), but there is weakness in his narrations from Qatādah, and he has errors (awhām) when he narrates from memoryd. 170 AH or 177 AH or 179 AH, also said: 167 AH
   أَبِيثقة ، لكن في حديثه عن قتادة ضعف ، وله أوهام إذا حدث من حفظه
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Wahb b. Jarīr

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 206 AH, or 207 AH
   وَهْبُ بْنُ جَرِيرٍثقة
   أخبرنا
7. 7
   Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm

   trustworthy, a memorizer, a mujtahid (thiqah ḥāfiẓ mujtahid)d. 237 AH, or 238 AH
   إِسْحَاقُثقة حافظ مجتهد

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