Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ - Shams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi - (راشدون/144)

Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr said: “After Hunayn and Ṭāʾif there was not an Arab left but that he had embraced Islam—some presented themselves and others did not. Abū Kharāsh was among those who accepted the faith, and his Islam was sound.”

He died during ʿUmar’s caliphate. A party of pilgrims visited him, so he walked to the water-source to draw some for them, whereupon a snake bit him. He hurried back, set before them the water, a sheep, and a cooking pot, and said nothing about what had happened to him. When morning came he was at the point of death, and they did not depart until they had buried him.

Abū Laylā al-Māzinī—whose name was ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Kaʿb ibn ʿAmr—fought at Uḥud and every battle thereafter. He was one of the “weepers” about whom the verse was revealed: “they turned away while their eyes overflowed with tears, grieving that they could not find anything to spend” (At-Tawbah 9:92).

Abū Miḥjan al-Thaqafī—there are several opinions about his given name—came with the delegation of Thaqīf and entered Islam. He transmitted no hadith. He was the foremost horseman of Thaqīf in his time, yet he had long been addicted to wine. Abū Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) still employed his services, and he was lashed repeatedly. ʿUmar banished him to an island, but he escaped and joined Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ at al-Qādisiyyah. ʿUmar wrote to Saʿd, who therefore confined him. On the day of Qas al-Nāṭif, when the fighting grew intense, Abū Miḥjan asked Saʿd’s wife to undo his fetters and lend him one of Saʿd’s horses, promising that, if he survived, he would return to the chains. She released him, supplied him with a mount, and he fought with distinguished courage, then came back to his shackles.

Ibn Jarīr said: “It has reached me that he was subjected to the prescribed punishment for wine seven times.”

Ayyūb reported from Ibn Sīrīn: Abū Miḥjan was repeatedly flogged for drinking wine. When the lashings became too many they imprisoned him. On the day of al-Qādisiyyah he saw the battle in progress, spoke to Saʿd’s umm walad, who released him and gave him a horse and arms, and he kept charging at a man

قال ابن عبد البر: لم يبق عربي بعد حنين والطائف إلا أسلم، فمنهم من قدم ومنهم من لم يقدم، وأسلم أبو خراش وحسن إسلامه. وتوفي زمن عمر، أتاه حجاج فمشى إلى الماء ليملأ لهم فنهشته حية، أقبل مسرعا فأعطاهم الماء وشاة وقدرا ولم يعلمهم بما تم له، ثم أصبح وهو في الموت، فلم يبرحوا حتى دفنوه. أبو ليلى المازني، واسمه عبد الرحمن بن كعب بن عمرو. شهد أحدا وما بعدها، وكان أحد البكائين الذين نزل فيهم: ﴿تَوَلَّوْا وَأَعْيُنُهُمْ تَفِيضُ مِنَ الدَّمْعِ حَزَنًا أَلّا يَجِدُوا مَا يُنْفِقُونَ﴾ [التوبة: ٩٢] . أبو محجن الثقفي: في اسمه أقوال قدم مع وفد ثقيف فأسلم، ولا رواية له، وكان فارس ثقيف في زمانه إلا أنه كان يدمن الخمر زمان وكان أبو بكر ﵁ يستعين به وقد جلد مرارا، وحتى إن عمر نفاه إلى جزيرة، فهرب ولحق بسعد بن أبي وقاص بالقادسية، فكتب عمر إلى سعد فحبسه. فلما كان يوم قس الناطف، والتحم القتال سأل أبو محجن من امرأة سعد أن تحل قيده وتعطيه فرسا لسعد، وعاهدها إن سلم أن يعود إلى القيد، فحلته وأعطته فرسا فقاتل وأبلى بلاء جميلا ثم عاد إلى قيده. قال ابن جرير: بلغني أنه حد في الخمر سبع مرات. وقال أيوب، عن ابن سيرين، قال: كان أبو محجن لا يزال يجلد في الخمر، فلما أكثر سجنوه، فلماكان يوم القادسية رآهم فكلم أم ولد سعد فأطلقته وأعطته فرسا وسلاحا، فجعل لا يزال يحمل على رجل