al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 5112
✧ Battle of the Confederates and Qurayzah
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وَقَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ: حَدَّثَنَا الْفَضْلُ بْنُ دُكَيْنٍ، حَدَّثَنَا يُوسُفُ بْنُ صُهَيْبٍ، عَنْ مُوسَى بْنِ أَبِي الْمُخْتَارِ، عَنْ بِلَالٍ، عَنْ حُذَيْفَةَ ؓ، قَالَ:
إِنَّ النَّاسَ تَفَرَّقُوا عَنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ لَيْلَةَ الْأَحْزَابِ، فَلَمْ يَبْقَ مَعَهُ إِلَّا اثْنَا عَشَرَ رَجُلًا، فَأَتَانِي رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ وَأَنَا جَاثِمٌ مِنَ الْبَرْدِ، فَقَالَ: يَا ابْنَ الْيَمَانِ، قُمْ فَانْطَلِقْ إِلَى عَسْكَرِ الْأَحْزَابِ فَانْظُرْ إِلَى حَالِهِمْ، قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، وَالَّذِي بَعَثَكَ بِالْحَقِّ مَا قُمْتُ إِلَيْكَ إِلَّا حَيَاءً مِنَ الْبَرْدِ، قَالَ: وَبَرْدِ الْحَرَّةِ وَبَرْدِ الصَّبَخَةِ، قَالَ ﷺ: انْطَلِقْ يَا ابْنَ الْيَمَانِ، فَلَا بَأْسَ عَلَيْكَ مِنْ بَرْدٍ وَلَا حَرٍّ حَتَّى تَرْجِعَ إِلَيَّ، قَالَ: فَانْطَلَقْتُ حَتَّى آتِيَ عَسْكَرَهُمْ فَوَجَدْتُ أَبَا سُفْيَانَ يُوقِدُ النَّارَ فِي عُصْبَةٍ حَوْلَهُ، وَقَدْ تَفَرَّقَ عَنْهُ الْأَحْزَابُ، فَجِئْتُ حَتَّى أَجْلِسَ فِيهِمْ، فَحَسَّ أَبُو سُفْيَانَ أَنَّهُ قَدْ دَخَلَ فِيهِمْ مِنْ غَيْرِهِمْ، فَقَالَ: لِيَأْخُذْ كُلُّ رَجُلٍ بِيَدِ جَلِيسِهِ، قَالَ: فَضَرَبْتُ بِيَمِينِي عَلَى الَّذِي عَنْ يَمِينِي فَأَخَذْتُ بِيَدِهِ، وَضَرَبْتُ بِشِمَالِي عَلَى الَّذِي عَنْ يَسَارِي فَأَخَذْتُ بِيَدِهِ، فَكُنْتُ فِيهِمْ هُنَيْهَةً، ثُمَّ قُمْتُ فَأَتَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ وَهُوَ قَائِمٌ يُصَلِّي، فَأَوْمَأَ إِلَيَّ بِيَدِهِ أَنِ ادْنُ، فَدَنَوْتُ مِنْهُ حَتَّى أَرْسَلَ عَلَيَّ مِنَ الثَّوْبِ الَّذِي كَانَ عَلَيْهِ لِيُدْفِئَنِي، فَلَمَّا فَرَغَ ﷺ مِنْ صَلَاتِهِ، قَالَ: يَا ابْنَ الْيَمَانِ، اقْعُدْ فَأَخْبِرِ النَّاسَ ؟ قَالَ: قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، تَفَرَّقَ النَّاسُ عَنْ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ، فَلَمْ يَبْقَ إِلَّا فِي عُصْبَةٍ تُوقِدُ النَّارَ، وَقَدْ صَبَّ اللهُ تَعَالَى عَلَيْهِمْ مِنَ الْبَرْدِ مِثْلَ الَّذِي صَبَّ عَلَيْنَا، وَلَكِنَّا نَرْجُو مِنَ اللهِ مَا لَا يَرْجُونَ
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Chain of narrators
- Abū Bakr
- al-Faḍl b. Dukayn
- Yūsuf b. Ṣuhayb
- Mūsá b. Abū al-Mukhtār
- Bilāl
- Ḥudhayfah
✧ The people dispersed from the Messenger of God ﷺ on the night of the confederates, and only twelve men remained with him. The Messenger of God ﷺ came to me while I was crouching from the cold and said: O Ibn al-Yaman, rise and go to the camp of the confederates and observe their situation. I said: O Messenger of God, by the One who sent you with the truth, I only rose to come to you out of shame from the cold. He said: The cold of the harrah and the cold of the sabkhah. He ﷺ said: Go, O Ibn al-Yaman, for no harm will befall you from cold or heat until you return to me. So I went until I came to their camp and found Abu Sufyan lighting a fire among a small group around him, and the confederates had dispersed from him. I came and sat among them. Abu Sufyan sensed that someone not of them had entered their midst, so he said: Let each man take the hand of his neighbor. I struck with my right hand on the one to my right and took his hand, and I struck with my left hand on the one to my left and took his hand. I remained among them for a little while, then I got up and came to the Messenger of God ﷺ while he was standing praying. He gestured to me with his hand to come close, so I drew near to him until he threw over me part of the garment he was wearing to warm me. When he ﷺ finished his prayer, he said: O Ibn al-Yaman, sit and tell the people. I said: O Messenger of God, the people have dispersed from Abu Sufyan, and only a small group remains lighting a fire. God Almighty has poured upon them cold like that which He poured upon us, but we hope from God what they do not hope.
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- Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
هذا حديث حسن وأصله في الصحيح وفي هذا زيادات
in المطالب العالية, p. 5112
Other narrations of this report
Musnad al-Bazzar 2919Musnad al-Bazzar 2920Musnad al-Bazzar 2946al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 4325
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- An eminent Companion (ṣaḥābī), among the earliest to accept Islamd. 36 AH, also said 35 AH, and al-Ṭabarī considered it an errorحُذَيْفَةُ بْنُ الْيَمَانِصحابي جليل من السابقينعن
- truthful (ṣadūq)بِلَالٍصدوقعن
- مُوسَى بْنِ أَبِي الْمُخْتَارِعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 151 and 160 AHيُوسُفُ بْنُ صُهَيْبٍثقةحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 218 AH, 219 AHالْفَضْلُ بْنُ دُكَيْنٍثقة ثبتحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of works (ṣāḥib taṣānīf)d. 235 AH, or 234 AHأَبُو بَكْرٍثقة حافظ ، صاحب تصانيف
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