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Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

—to follow you and to gain my share alongside you.”

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to him, “Do you believe in Allah and His Messenger?”

He replied, “No.”

The Prophet said, “Then turn back, for we do not seek assistance from a polytheist.”

He caught up with him again at al-Shajarah and repeated the same request.

A third time he caught up with him at al-Bayḍāʾ, whereupon the Prophet asked, “Do you believe in Allah and His Messenger?”

He answered, “Yes.”

The Prophet said, “Then proceed.” (1)

Al-Wāqidī said: He was Khubaib ibn Yasaf. His acceptance of Islam was delayed until the Messenger of Allah ﷺ set out for Badr, whereupon he caught up with him, embraced Islam, and was present at Badr and at Uḥud.

He added: Khubaib died during the caliphate of ʿUthmān, and his line has died out. (2)

It is also said that his father’s name was Isāf ibn ʿAdī; that is how Ibn Abī Ḥātim recorded it.

Our shaykh al-Dimyāṭī (3) said: He is the one who killed Abū ʿUqbah al-Ḥārith ibn ʿĀmir. That, our shaykh maintained, corrects what appears in Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī regarding the martyr Khubaib ibn ʿAdī, which states that he killed al-Ḥārith on the day of Badr and that al-Ḥārith’s clan killed him after taking him captive.

That Khubaib is Khubaib ibn ʿAdī ibn Mālik of the Aws, and I have not found him listed among the participants at Badr.

(1) Reported by Ahmad, 6/67 and 6/149; Muslim, no. 1817, Book of Jihad, chapter: The disapproval of seeking the help of a non-Muslim in battle; Abu Dawud, no. 2732, Book of Jihad, chapter: On granting a share to a polytheist; al-Tirmidhi, no. 1858, Book of Expeditions, chapter: May the ahl al-dhimma take part in Muslim campaigns and receive spoils?; Ibn Majah, no. 2832, Book of Jihad, chapter: Seeking assistance from polytheists; and al-Darimi, 2/233, chapter on the Prophet’s statement, “We do not seek help from a polytheist.” (2) Reported by Ibn Saad, 3/2/86. (3) The author gives his biography in his Mashyakha, folio 87: ʿAbd al-Muʾmin ibn Khalaf ibn Abi al-Hasan ibn Sharaf, the erudite scholar, the authority, Sharaf al-Din Abu Muhammad al-Dimyati, a Shafiʿi, counted among the foremost imams and the last of the great hadith critics. Born in 613 AH/1216-17 CE, he studied in Dumyat, mastered fiqh, then pursued hadith, travelling to learn from numerous shaykhs in Damascus, Harran, Mosul and the two Sanctuaries. He produced precise works on hadith, rarities of transmission, and jurisprudence, and died in Cairo in 705 AH/1305-6 CE.

لأَتَّبِعَكَ، وَأُصِيْبَ مَعَكَ. فَقَالَ لَهُ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ: (أَتُؤْمِنُ بِاللهِ وَرَسُوْلِهِ؟) . قَالَ: لاَ. قَالَ: (فَارْجِعْ، فَلَنْ نَسْتَعِيْنَ بِمُشْرِكٍ) . ثُمَّ أَدْرَكَهُ بِالشَّجَرَةِ، فَقَالَ مِثْلَ مَقَالَتِهِ. ثُمَّ أَدْرَكَهُ بِالبَيْدَاءِ، فَقَالَ: (أَتُؤْمِنُ بِاللهِ وَرَسُوْلِهِ؟) . قَالَ: نَعَمْ. قَالَ: (انْطَلِقْ (١)) . قَالَ الوَاقِدِيُّ: هُوَ خُبَيْبُ بنُ يِسَافٍ، تَأَخَّرَ إِسْلاَمُهُ حَتَّى خَرَجَ رَسُوْلُ اللهِ ﷺ إِلَى بَدْرٍ، فَلَحِقَهُ، فَأَسْلَمَ، وَشَهِدَ بَدْراً وَأُحُداً. قَالَ: وَتُوُفِّيَ فِي خِلاَفَةِ عُثْمَانَ، وَقَدِ انْقَرَضَ وَلَدُهُ (٢) . وَيُقَالُ فِي أَبِيْهِ: إِسَافُ بنُ عَدِيٍّ. كَذَا سَمَّاهُ: ابْنُ أَبِي حَاتِمٍ. وَقَالَ شَيْخُنَا الدِّمْيَاطِيُّ (٣) : هُوَ الَّذِي قَتَلَ أَبَا عُقْبَةَ الحَارِثَ بنَ عَامِرٍ. كَذَا قَالَ شَيْخُنَا، وَخَطَّأَ مَا فِي (صَحِيْحِ البُخَارِيِّ) فِي مَصْرَعِ خُبَيْبِ بنِ عَدِيٍّ الشَّهِيْدِ، مِنْ أَنَّهُ قَتَلَ الحَارِثَ يَوْمَ بَدْرٍ، فَقَتَلَهُ آلُ الحَارِثِ لَمَّا أَسَرُوْهُ بِهِ. وَهُوَ خُبَيْبُ بنُ عَدِيِّ بنِ مَالِكٍ مِنَ الأَوْسِ، وَلَمْ أَجِدْهُ مَذْكُوْراً فِي البَدْرِيِّيْنَ ﵁.

(١) أخرجه أحمد ٦ / ٦٧، ١٤٩، ومسلم (١٨١٧) في الجهاد: باب كراهية الاستعانة في الغزو بكافر، وأبو داود (٢٧٣٢) في الجهاد: باب في المشرك يسهم له، والترمذي (١٨٥٨) في السير: باب في أهل الذمة يغزون مع المسلمين هل يسهم لهم؟، وابن ماجه (٢٨٣٢) في الجهاد: باب: الاستعانة بالمشركين، والدارمي ٢ / ٢٣٣: باب قوله ﷺ: إنا لا نستعين بمشرك. (٢) أخرجه ابن سعد ٣ / ٢ / ٨٦. (٣) ترجمه المؤلف في مشيخته، ورقة ٨٧ فقال: عبد المؤمن بن خلف بن أبي الحسن بن شرف. العلامة، الحجة، شرف الدين أبو محمد الدمياطي، الشافعي، أحد الأئمة الاعلام، وبقية نقاد الحديث. ولد سنة (٦١٣) واشتغل بدمياط، وأتقن الفقه، ثم طلب الحديث، ورحل وسمع من عدة أشياخ بدمشق، وبحران، والموصل، والحرمين. وله تصانيف متقنة في الحديث والعوالي، والفقه، توفي سنة (٧٠٥) بالقاهرة.