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al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 4847

✧ What the sea threw

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أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ مُقَدَّمٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُعَاذُ بْنُ هِشَامٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ

بَعَثَنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ مَعَ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ وَنَحْنُ ثَلَاثُمِائَةٍ وَبِضْعَةَ عَشَرَ وَزَوَّدَنَا جِرَابًا مِنْ تَمْرٍ فَأَعْطَانَا قَبْضَةً قَبْضَةً فَلَمَّا أَنْ جُزْنَاهُ أَعْطَانَا تَمْرَةً تَمْرَةً حَتَّى إِنْ كُنَّا لَنَمُصُّهَا كَمَا يَمُصُّ الصَّبِيُّ وَنَشْرَبُ عَلَيْهَا مِنَ الْمَاءِ فَلَمَّا فَقَدْنَاهَا وَجَدْنَا فَقْدَهَا حَتَّى إِنْ كُنَّا لَنَخْبِطُ الْخَبَطَ بِعِصِيِّنَا فَنَشُقُّهُ ثُمَّ نَشْرَبُ عَلَيْهِ مِنَ الْمَاءِ حَتَّى سُمِّينَا جَيْشَ الْخَبَطِ ثُمَّ أَخَذْنَا السَّاحِلَ فَإِذَا دَابَّةٌ مِثْلُ الْكَثِيبِ يُقَالُ لَهُ الْعَنْبَرُ فَقَالَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ مَيْتَةٌ لَا تَأْكُلُوهُ ثُمَّ قَالَ جَيْشُ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ وَفِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ وَنَحْنُ مُضْطَرُّونَ كُلُوا بِاسْمِ اللهِ فَأَكَلْنَا مِنْهُ وَجَعَلْنَا مِنْهُ وَشِيقَةً قَالَ وَلَقَدْ جَلَسَ فِي مَوْضِعِ عَيْنِهِ ثَلَاثَةَ عَشَرَ رَجُلًا قَالَ وَأَخَذَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ ضِلْعًا مِنْ أَضْلَاعِهِ فَرَحَلَ بِهِ أَجْسَمُ بَعِيرٍ مِنْ أَبَاعِرِ الْقَوْمِ فَأَجَازَ تَحْتَهُ فَلَمَّا قَدِمْنَا عَلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ «مَا حَبَسَكُمْ؟» قُلْنَا كُنَّا تَتَبَّعْنَا عِيرَاتِ قُرَيْشٍ وَذَكَرْنَا لَهُ أَمْرَ الدَّابَّةِ فَقَالَ «ذَاكَ رِزْقٌ رَزَقَكُمُوهُ اللهُ أَمَعَكُمْ مِنْهُ شَيْءٌ؟» قَالَ قُلْنَا نَعَمْ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Muḥammad b. ʿUmar b. ʿAlī b. Muqaddam
  2. Muʿādh b. Hishām from my father
  3. Abū al-Zubayr
  4. Jābir

✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ sent us with Abu 'Ubaydah, and we were three hundred and some odd, and he provided us with a sack of dates, giving us a handful at a time. When we had traveled some distance, he gave us one date at a time, until we would suck on it as a baby sucks, and drink water with it. When we lost it, we felt its loss, until we would beat the leaves off trees with our sticks and then drink water over them, so we were called the Army of Leaves. Then we took the coastal route, and there was a creature like a huge sand dune called anbar (sperm whale). Abu 'Ubaydah said, "It is dead meat, do not eat it." Then he said, "We are the army of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and in the path of Allah, and we are in dire need. Eat in the name of Allah." So we ate from it and made strips of dried meat from it. He said, "Thirteen men sat in the socket of its eye." He said, "Abu 'Ubaydah took one of its ribs and set it up, and the largest camel of the people passed under it." When we came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, he said, "What delayed you?" We said, "We were pursuing the caravans of Quraysh," and we told him about the creature. He said, "That was provision Allah provided for you. Do you have any of it with you?" We said, "Yes."

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