Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 2-256b
"عن عمر قال: كَتَبَ حَاطبُ بْنُ (أَبِى) بلتعَة إلى أهل مكةَ بكتابٍ، فأَطْلَعَ الله عليهِ نبيَّهُ، فبعثَ عليًا والزبير في (أَثَرِ) الكتابِ، فأدركا المرأةَ على بعيرٍ فاستخرجاهُ من قرنهَا، فأتيَا بِه النبىَّ ﷺ فأرسلَ إلَى حاطبٍ قالَ: يا حاطبُ: أنت كتبتَ هذَا الكتاب؟ قال: نعم، (قال: ) فَما حمَلكَ على ذلكَ؟ قال: يَا رسول الله: أما والله إِنَّى لنا صحٌ لله ولرسولهِ، لكن كنتُ غريبًا في أهل مكة، وكان أهلى فيهم فخشيتُ أن يضْرِبُوا عليهم، فقلت اكتبُ كتابًا لا يضُرُّ الله ولا رسولَه شيئًا وعسى أن يكون منفعةً لأهلِى، فاخترطتُ سيفِى فقلتُ: أضربُ عنقهُ يا رسولَ الله؟ (لقد كفر) () فقال: وما يدريكَ يَا بْنَ الخطابِ أن يكونَ الله اطلعَ على هذِه العصابةِ من أهل بدر فقال: اعملوا ما شِئتم فقد غفرت لكم؟ ! ".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿMr
- Katab Ḥāṭb b. Abiá
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"From ʿUmar, who said: Ḥāṭib b. (Abī) Baltaʿah wrote a letter to the people of Mecca, and Allah informed His Prophet of it. So he sent ʿAlī and al-Zubayr after the letter, and they caught up with the woman on a camel and took it out from her braid. They brought it to the Prophet ﷺ, and he sent for Ḥāṭib and said: O Ḥāṭib, did you write this letter? He said: Yes. (He said:) What made you do that? He said: O Messenger of Allah, by Allah, I am sincere toward Allah and His Messenger, but I was a stranger among the people of Mecca, and my family was among them, and I feared that they would strike them. So I said: I will write a letter that will not harm Allah or His Messenger at all, and perhaps it will be of benefit to my family. So I drew my sword and said: Shall I strike his neck, O Messenger of Allah? (He has disbelieved.) () He said: What lets you know, O son of al-Khaṭṭāb, that Allah may have looked upon these people of Badr and said: Do what you wish, for I have forgiven you?!"
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البزار، وابن جرير، [ع] أبو يعلى والشاشى، [طس] الطبرانى في الأوسط [ك] الحاكم في المستدرك وابن مردويه، [ض] ضياء المقدسي في مختاره () وذكر البرقانى أن [م] مسلم أخرجه في بعض نسخه
machine translationAl-Bazzār and Ibn Jarīr; [ʿ] Abū Yaʿlā and al-Shāshī; [ṭs] al-Ṭabarānī in al-Awsaṭ; [k] al-Ḥākim in al-Mustadrak and Ibn Mardawayh; [ḍ] Ḍiyāʾ al-Maqdisī in his Mukhtārah (). Al-Barqānī mentioned that [m] Muslim narrated it in some of his copies.
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