Qāʿidah fī Libās al-Nabī - Ibn Taimiya - (34)

The Coat of Mail
53 – In Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī (1) it is related from Ibn ʿAbbās that on the day of Badr, while the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was inside a pavilion, he supplicated: “O Allah, I implore You by Your covenant and Your promise. O Allah, if You will, You will no longer be worshipped after today.”
Abū Bakr thereupon took his hand and said, “That is enough, O Messenger of Allah; you have pleaded earnestly with your Lord,” and the Prophet was wearing his coat of mail.
He then came out reciting: “The host will be routed and will turn their backs in flight. Indeed, the Hour is their appointed time, and the Hour will be more calamitous and more bitter.” (Q 54:45-46)
54 – The compilers of the Sunan (2) report that on the day of Uḥud the Prophet ﷺ wore two coats of mail, one over the other.
55 – In the two Ṣaḥīḥs (3) it is narrated from Sahl ibn Saʿd (A) that, when he was asked about the Prophet’s wound on the day of Uḥud, he replied: “The face of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was injured, his incisor tooth was broken, and the bayḍah (helmet) was shattered upon his head.”

(1) Al-Bukhari, no. 2915. (2) Musnad Ahmad 3/449; Abu Dawud, no. 2590; al-Nasa’i, al-Kubra, no. 8583; al-Bayhaqi 9/46; Abu Ya‘la, no. 660; and al-Tabarani, al-Kabir, no. 6669, all on the authority of al-Sa’ib b. Yazid. The phrase “zahara yawma Uhud bayna dir‘ayn” means that he put one coat of mail over another; the verb tazahur denotes mutual support and assistance (see Awn al-Ma‘bud, 7/253). Ibn al-Qayyim notes in Zad al-Ma‘ad, 1/130, that the Prophet possessed seven coats of mail. (3) Al-Bukhari, no. 2911; Muslim, no. 1790/101. (A) The manuscript reads “Asad”; the correction to the proper name is taken from the two Sahihs.

الدرع ٥٣- وفي "صحيح البخاري" (١) عن ابن عباس قال: قال رسول الله ﷺ يوم بدر وهو في قُبَّةٍ: "اللهم إني أنشدك عهدك ووعدك، اللهم إن شئت لم تُعْبَدْ بعد اليوم". فأخذ أبو بكر بيده، فقال: حسبك يا رسول الله، فقد ألححت على ربك، وهو في "الدِّرْعِ". فخرج وهو يقول: ﴿سَيُهْزَمُ الْجَمْعُ وَيُوَلُّونَ الدُّبُرَ * بَلِ السَّاعَةُ مَوْعِدُهُمْ وَالسَّاعَةُ أَدْهَى وَأَمَرُّ﴾ (القمر:٤٥، ٤٦) . ٥٤- وروى "أهل السنن" (٢) : أن النبي ﷺ ظاهَرَ يوم أحد بين دِرْعَين. ٥٥- وفي "الصحيحين" (٣) عن سهل بن سعد (أ) أنه سئل عن جرح النبي ﷺ يوم أحد؟ فقال: جرح وجه رسول الله ﷺ وكسرت رَبَاعِيَتُهُ، وهُشِمَتْ "الْبَيْضَةُ" على رأسه.

(١) البخاري (٢٩١٥) . (٢) أحمد (٣/٤٤٩) وأبو داود (٢٥٩٠) والنسائي في الكبرى (٨٥٨٣) والبيهقي (٩/٤٦) وأبو يعلى (٦٦٠) والطبراني في الكبير (٦٦٦٩) من حديث السائب بن يزيد. "ظاهر يوم أحد بين درعين": أي لبس أحدهما فوق الآخر، والتظاهر بمعنى التعاون والتساعد" "عون المعبود" (٧/٢٥٣) وذكر ابن القيم "في الزاد" (١/١٣٠) أنه ﷺ كان له سبعة أدرع. (٣) البخاري (٢٩١١) ومسلم (١٧٩٠) (١٠١) . = ------- (أ) في الأصل: "أسعد" والتصويب من الصحيحين.