Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ - Shams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi - (سيرة 2/234)

Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

—that being the Expedition of Tabuk. He went on to relate the remainder of the report, and it is agreed upon.

He also said: ʿUthmān b. ʿAṭāʾ al-Khurasānī transmitted from his father, from ʿIkrimah, from Ibn ʿAbbās regarding the Expedition of Tabuk: “The Prophet ﷺ ordered the Muslims to give charity and to spend in the path of Allah. Some gave seeking His reward, while others gave without such intention. A number of poor Muslims were provided mounts, yet some were still left without.

The most outstanding gift that day was that of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAwf, who donated two hundred uqiyyahs. ʿUmar donated one hundred uqiyyahs, and ʿĀṣim al-Anṣārī gave ninety wasqs of dates. The Prophet ﷺ asked ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, “Have you left anything for your family?” He replied, “Yes—more and better than what I have given.” The Prophet asked, “And what is that?” He answered, “What Allah and His Messenger have promised of provision and goodness.”

Ibn Isḥāq said: Then some men came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ— they were the ones later called ‘the Weepers.’ They were seven in all, among them from the Anṣār: Sālim b. ʿUmayr, ʿAlbah b. Zayd, Abū Laylā ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Kaʿb, ʿAmr b. al-Ḥammām b. al-Jamūḥ, and ʿAbd Allāh b. al-Mughaffal (some say: ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAmr al-Muzanī), together with Haram b. ʿAbd Allāh and al-ʿIrbāḍ b. Sāriyah al-Fazārī. Needy as they were, they asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ for mounts, but he said,

“I do not have any mounts to carry you upon,” so “they turned away, their eyes overflowing with tears in sorrow that they could not find anything to spend” (Qur’an 9:92).

It reached me that Yāmīn b. ʿAmr then met Abū Laylā and ʿAbd Allāh b. al-Mughaffal while they were weeping. He asked, “What makes you weep?” They replied, “We came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ for a mount, but he had nothing to carry us upon, and we ourselves have nothing to help us set out.” So he gave them his pack camel, which they mounted, and supplied them with a little milk.

As for ʿAlbah b. Zayd, he went out in the night, prayed as long as Allah willed, and then wept,

وهي غزوة تبوك. وذكر الحديث. متفق عليه. وقال: وروى عثمان بن عطاء الخراساني، عن أبيه، عن عكرمة، عن ابن عباس، في غزوة تبوك، قال: أمر النبي ﷺ المسلمين بالصدقة والنفقة في سبيل الله، فأنفقوا احتسابا، وأنفق رجال غير محتسبين. وحمل رجال من فقراء المسلمين، وبقي أناس. وأفضل ما تصدق به يومئذ أحد عبد الرحمن بن عوف؛ تصدق بمائتي أوقية، وتصدق عمر بمائة أوقية، وتصدق عاصم الأنصاري بتسعين وسقا من تمر. وقال النبي ﷺ لعبد الرحمن: "هل تركت لأهلك شيئا"؟ قال: نعم، أكثر مما أنفقت وأطيب. قال: كم؟ ما وعد الله ورسوله من الرزق والخير، ﵁. وقال ابن إسحاق: ثم إن رجالا أتوا رسول الله ﷺ وهم البكاؤون، وهم سبعة منهم من الأنصار، سالم بن عمير، وعلبة بن زيد، وأبو ليلى عبد الرحمن بن كعب، وعمرو بن الحمام بن الجموح، وعبد الله بن المغفل؛ وبعضهم يقول: عبد الله بن عمرو المزني؛ وهرم بن عبد الله، والعرباض بن سارية الفزاري. فاستحملوا رسول الله ﷺ، وكانوا أهل حاجة فقال: ﴿لا أَجِدُ مَا أَحْمِلُكُمْ عَلَيْهِ تَوَلَّوْا وَأَعْيُنُهُمْ تَفِيضُ مِنَ الدَّمْعِ حَزَنًا أَلّا يَجِدُوا مَا يُنْفِقُونَ﴾ [التوبة: ٩٢] ، فبلغني أن يامين بن عمرو، لقي أبا ليلى وعبد الله بن مغفل وهما يبكيان، فقال: ما يبكيكما؟ فقالا: جئنا رسول الله ﷺ ليحملنا، فلم نجد عنده ما يحملنا، وليس عندنا ما نتقوى به على الخروج، فأعطاهما ناضحا له فارتحلاه وزودهما شيئا من لبن. وأما علبة بن زيد فخرج من الليل فصلى ما شاء الله، ثم بكى،