al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 9210
✧ Mufaddal b. Muhammad al-Jundi
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حَدَّثَنَا مُفَضَّلٌ، نَا أَبُو حُمَةَ، ثَنَا أَبُو قُرَّةَ، عَنْ زَمْعَةَ بْنِ صَالِحٍ، عَنْ زِيَادِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ، عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ، أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ جَابِرَ بْنَ عَبْدِ اللهِ، يَقُولُ:
بَعَثَنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ مَعَ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ بْنِ الْجَرَّاحِ، وَنَحْنُ سِتُّمِائَةِ رَجُلٍ وَبِضْعَةَ عَشَرَ رَجُلًا، نَتَلَقَّى عِيرَ قُرَيْشٍ، فَمَا وَجَدَ لَنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ مِنْ زَادٍ إِلَّا جِرَابًا مِنْ تَمْرٍ، فَكَانَ يُعْطِينَا تَمْرَةً تَمْرَةً كُلَّ يَوْمٍ، نَمُصُّهَا وَنَشْرَبُ عَلَيْهَا مِنَ الْمَاءِ، فَوَجَدْنَا فَقْدَهَا حِينَ فَنِيَتْ، ثُمَّ أَقْبَلْنَا عَلَى الْخَبَطِ نَخْبِطُهُ بِعِصِيِّنَا، ثُمَّ نَسْتَفُّهُ وَنَشْرَبُ عَلَيْهِ الْمَاءَ، حَتَّى سُمِّينَا جَيْشَ الْخَبَطِ، فَمَرَرْنَا بِسَاحِلِ الْبَحْرِ، فَرَمَى الْبَحْرُ لَنَا بِدَابَّةٍ، يُقَالُ لَهَا: الْعَنْبَرُ، مِثْلُ الْكَثِيبِ، فَقَالَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ: مَيْتَةٌ لَا يَحِلُّ لَنَا، ثُمَّ قَالَ بَعْدُ: بَلْ نَحْنُ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ، وَنَحْنُ مُضْطَرُّونَ، فَأَكَلْنَا مِنْهَا نَحْوًا مِنْ نِصْفِ شَهْرٍ وَزِيَادَةٍ، وَوَشَقْنَا وَشْقًا كَثِيرًا، فَكُنَّا نَغْرِفُ مِنْ مَوْضِعِ عَيْنِهَا الْوَدَكَ بِالْجِرِارِ حَتَّى أَنْجَزْنَاهُ، ثُمَّ جَلَسَ فِي مَوْضِعِ عَيْنِهَا ثَلَاثَةَ عَشَرَ رَجُلًا مِنَّا، ثُمَّ أَخَذَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ ضِلَعًا مِنْ أَضْلَاعِهِ، فَأَقَامَهُ عَلَى طَرَفَيْهِ، وَأَمَرَ بِأَطْوَلِ بَعِيرٍ فِي الرَّكْبِ فَرَحَلَهُ، فَرَكِبَ عَلَيْهِ رَجُلٌ، فَأَجَازَ تَحْتَهُ مَا مَسَّ رَأْسَهُ، فَقَدِمْنَا عَلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فَقَالَ: هَلْ مَعَكُمْ مِنْهُ شَيْءٌ ؟ " فَقُلْنَا: نَعَمْ، فَقَالَ: " أَطْعِمُونَا مِنْهُ فَأَرْسَلْنَا إِلَيْهِ وَشِيقَةً، فَأَكَلَ مِنْهَا.
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Mufaḍḍal
- Abū Ḥumah
- Abū Qurrah
- Zamʿah b. Ṣāliḥ
- Ziyād b. Saʿd
- Abū al-Zubayr
- Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh
✧ The Messenger of God ﷺ sent us with Abu 'Ubaydah b. al-Jarrah, and we were six hundred and some odd men, to intercept a caravan of Quraysh. The Messenger of God ﷺ found no provision for us except a bag of dates. He would give us one date each day, which we would suck and then drink water over it. We felt its loss when it was exhausted. Then we turned to the leaves of trees, striking them with our sticks, then we would grind them and drink water over it, until we were called the Army of the Leaves. We passed by the seashore, and the sea cast up for us a creature called al-'anbar, like a large sand dune. Abu 'Ubaydah said: 'It is carrion, not lawful for us.' Then he later said: 'Rather, we are in the path of God, and we are compelled.' So we ate from it for about half a month and more, and we cut many strips from it. We would scoop the fat from the place of its eye with jars until we finished it. Then thirteen of our men sat in the place of its eye. Then Abu 'Ubaydah took one of its ribs, set it up on its two ends, ordered the tallest camel in the caravan, and had it saddled. A man rode on it and passed beneath the rib without his head touching it. We came to the Messenger of God ﷺ, and he said: 'Do you have any of it with you?' We said: 'Yes.' He said: 'Feed us from it.' We sent him a strip, and he ate from it.
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