Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 519-3b
✧ Qabath b. Ashim al-Laythi
"عَنْ قُبَاث بْنِ أَشْيَمَ قَالَ: شَهِدْتُ بَدْرًا مَعَ المُشْرِكِينَ، وَإنِّى لَانْظَرُ إِلَى قِلَّةِ أصْحَابِ مُحَمَّدٍ فِى عَيْنَىَّ وَكَثْرَةِ مَنْ مَعَنَا مِنَ الْخَيْلِ وَالرِّجَالِ، فَانْهَزَمْتُ فِيمَنِ انْهَزَمَ، فَلَقَدْ رَأَيْتنِى وَإنِّى لأَنْظُرُ إِلَى الْمُشْرِكِينَ فِى كُلِّ وَجْهٍ، وَإِنِّى لأَقُولُ فِى نَفْسِى: مَا رَأَيْتُ مِثْلَ هَذَا الأَمْرِ فَرَّ مِنْهُ إِلَّا النِّسَاءُ فَلَمَّا كَانَ بعد الخندق قُلْتُ: لَوْ قَدِمْتُ الْمَدِينَةَ فَنَظَرْتُ مَا يَقُولُ مُحَمَّدٌ وَقَدْ وَقَعَ فِى قَلْبِى الإِسْلَامُ فَقَدِمْتُ الْمَدِينَةَ فَسَأَلْتُ عَنْ رسُولِ الله ﷺ فَقَالُوا: هُوَ ذَاكَ فِى ظِلِّ الْمَسْجِدِ مَعَ مَلأٍ مِنْ أَصْحَابِهِ، فَأَتَيْتُهُ وَأَنَا لَا أَعْرِفُه مِنْ بَيْنِهِمْ، فَسَلَّمْتُ، فَقَالَ: يَا قَبَاثُ بْنَ أَشْيَمَ! أَنْتَ الْقَائِلُ يَوْمَ بَدْرٍ: مَا رَأَيْتُ مِثْلَ هَذَا الْيَوْمِ فَرَّ مِنْهُ إِلَّا النِّسَاءُ؟ فَقُلْتُ: أَشْهَدُ أَنَّكَ رَسُولُ الله، وَإِنَّ هَذَا الأَمْرَ مَا خَرَجَ مِنِّى إِلَى أَحَدٍ قَطُّ، وَمَا تَرَمْرَمْتُ بِهِ إِلَّا شَيْئًا حَدَّثْتُ بِهِ نَفْسِى، فَلَوْلَا أَنَّكَ نَبىُّ الله مَا أَطْلَعَكَ الله عَلَيْهِ، هَلُمَّ حَتَّى أُبَايِعَكَ، فَعَرضَ عَلَىَّ الإِسْلَامَ فَأَسْلَمْتُ".....
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Qubāth b. Ashyam
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"From Qubāth b. Ashyam, who said: I witnessed Badr with the polytheists, and I was looking at how few the companions of Muhammad were in my eyes, and how many horses and men were with us. So I fled among those who fled. I saw myself looking at the polytheists in every direction, and I said to myself: I have never seen the like of this affair, from which only women would flee. Then, after the Trench, I said: If only I went to Medina and saw what Muhammad says. Islam had fallen into my heart. So I came to Medina and asked about the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. They said: He is there, in the shade of the mosque, with a group of his companions. So I came to him, not knowing him from among them, and I greeted him with salām. He said: O Qubāth b. Ashyam! Are you the one who said on the day of Badr: I have never seen the like of this day, from which only women would flee? I said: I bear witness that you are the Messenger of Allah. This matter never went out from me to anyone at all, and I did not even whisper it, except what I told to myself. Had you not been the Prophet of Allah, Allah would not have informed you of it. Come, that I may pledge allegiance to you. So he presented Islam to me, and I accepted Islam.".....
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Notes
الواقدى، [كر] ابن عساكر في تاريخه
machine translationAl-Wāqidī; [Kar] Ibn ʿAsākir in his Tārīkh.
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