Al-Bidayah wa an-Nihayah - Ibn Kathir - (3/90)

Al-Bidayah wa an-NihayahIbn Kathir

Khadijah’s sister was seated on some leather goods she was selling. She called out to me, so I turned toward her while the Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—waited for me. She asked, “Does your companion(1) have any desire to marry Khadijah?”

ʿAmmār said: I went back to him and informed him, and he replied, “Indeed—by my life!” I then conveyed the words of the Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—to her, and she said, “Come to us early tomorrow morning.”

We came to them the next morning and found that they had slaughtered a cow, clothed Khadijah’s father in a fine robe, and dyed his beard yellow. She spoke to her brother, and he spoke to her father after giving him wine to drink. She mentioned the Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—his standing, and asked him to marry her to him; so he married Khadijah to him. They prepared food from the cow and we ate of it.

Khadijah’s father then fell asleep; when he awoke sober he said, “What is this robe, this yellowness(2), and this food?” The daughter who had spoken with ʿAmmār replied, “This is a robe with which Muhammad ibn ʿAbd Allah—your son-in-law—has clothed you, and a cow he gave you; we slaughtered it when you married him to Khadijah.”

He denied that he had married her to him and went out shouting until he reached the Ḥijr. The Banū Hāshim came out with the Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—followed him, and spoke with him. He said, “Where is this companion of yours whom you claim I have married to Khadijah?” The Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—came forward. When he saw him he said, “If I did marry her to him, then so be it; and if I did not, then I now marry her to him.”(3)

Al-Zuhrī, in his Sīrah, related that her father married her to him while intoxicated, and he narrates something similar to what has preceded; al-Suhaylī reported this.(4)

Al-Mawṣilī(5) said: The consensus is that her uncle ʿAmr ibn Asad is the one who married her to him.(6) This is also the position preferred by al-Suhaylī, who transmitted it(7) from Ibn ʿAbbās, and ʿĀ’ishah said: Khawilid had died before the Fijār war. He was the man who opposed Tubbaʿ when the latter sought to take the Black Stone to Yemen; Khawilid, together with a group of Quraysh, resisted him. Tubbaʿ then saw something in a dream that frightened him, so he desisted and left the Black Stone where it was.

Ibn Isḥāq, at the end of the Sīrah,(8) stated that her brother ʿAmr ibn Khawilid was the one who married her to the Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him. Allah knows best.

(1) In the manuscript and printed editions it reads “bi sahibik” (with your companion), but the reading preserved in Dalail al-Bayhaqi is the authentic one. (2) In Dalail al-Bayhaqi: al-naqiʿah, meaning the animal slaughtered by a man upon his marriage, cf. Lisan al-Arab (under “naqʿ”). (3) Its isnad is very weak, since Umar ibn Abi Bakr al-Mawsili is abandoned (matruk) and rejects hadith, as noted by Abu Hatim al-Razi (Al-Jarh wa al-Tadil, vol. 6, entry 524); see also Bishr. (4) al-Rawd, vol. 1, p. 214. (5) The report appears in Maʿrifah wa al-Tarikh, vol. 3, p. 253, in its lost section; it is transmitted from this source. (6) This statement of al-Mawsili is mentioned by al-Bayhaqi immediately after the above-cited report. (7) al-Rawd, vol. 1, p. 213, in similar wording. (8) Ibn Hisham, al-Sirah, vol. 2, p. 643.

أخت خَدِيجةَ وهي جالسةٌ على أَدَمٍ تبيعها، فنادتني، فانصرفتُ إليها ووقف لي رسولُ الله ﷺ فقالت: أما لصاحبك (١) هذا من حاجة في تزويج خديجة؟ قال عمار: فرجعتُ إليه فأخبرتُه فقال: "بلى لَعَمْري" فذكرتُ لها قولَ رسولِ الله ﷺ فقالتْ: اغْدُوا علينا إذا أصبحنا. فغدَوْنا عليهم، فوجدناهم قد ذبحوا بقرة، وألبسوا أبا خديجة حُلَّة، وصُفِّرَتْ لحيته، وكلَّمتْ أخاها، فكلَّم أباها وقد سُقي خمرًا، فذكرتْ له رسولَ الله ﷺ ومكانَهُ، وسألتهُ أن يزوِّجه، فزوَّجه خديجة، وصنعوا من البقرة طعامًا فأكلنا منه، ونام أبوها، ثم استيقظ صاحيًا، فقال: ما هذه الحُلَّة وما هذه الصُّفْرة (٢) وهذا الطعام؟ فقالت له ابنته التي كانت قد كلَّمتْ عمَّارًا: هذه حُلَّةٌ كساكها محمد بن عبد الله خَتَنُكَ، وبقرة أهداها لك، فذبحناها حين زوَّجْتَهُ خديجة. فأنكر أن يكون زوَّجه، وخرج يصيح حتى جاء الحِجر، وخرج بنو هاشم برسولِ الله ﷺ ، فجاؤوه فكلَّموه، فقال: أين صاحبُكم الذي تزعمون أني زوَّجْتُه خديجة؟ فبرز له رسولُ الله ﷺ ، فلما نظر إليه قال: إنْ كنتُ زوَّجْته فسبيل ذاك، وإنْ لم أكن فعلتُ فقد زوَّجته (٣) . وقد ذكره الزُّهري في سيره، أن أباها زوَّجها منه، وهو سكران، وذكر نحو ما تقدَّم. حكاه السُّهيلي (٤) . قال المَوْصلي (٥) : المجتمع عليه أنّ عمَّها عمرو بن أسد هو الذي زوَّجها منه (٦) . وهذا هو الذي رجَّحه السُّهيلي، وحكاه (٧) عن ابن عباس وعائشة قالت: وكان خويلد قد مات فبل الفِجار، وهو الذي نازع تُبَّعًا حين أراد أخْذَ الحَجَر الأسود إلى اليمن، فقام في ذلك خُويلد، وقام معه جماعةٌ من قريش، ثم رأى تُبَّعٌ في منامه ما رَوَّعَهُ، فنزع عن ذلك وترك الحَجَر الأسود مكانه. وذكر ابن إسحاق في آخر السيرة (٨) ، أن أخاها عمرو بن خُويلد هو الذي زوَّجها رسولَ الله ﷺ فالله أعلم.

= صوابه، والمحدثون يفتحون الزاي ويشددون الواو وهو تصحيف؛ وكانت الحزورة سوق مكة، وقد دخلت في المسجد لمَّا زيد فيه. معجم البلدان (٢/ ٢٥٥). (١) في ح، ط: بصاحبك، والمثبت من دلائل البيهقي. (٢) في دلائل البيهقي النقيعة، وهي ما ينحره الرجل إذا زُوِّج، كما في اللسان (نقع). (٣) إسناده ضعيف جدًا، فإن عمر بن أبي بكر الموصلي متروك ذاهب الحديث كما قال أبو حاتم الرازي (الجرح والتعديل ٦/ الترجمة ٥٢٤) (بشار). (٤) في الروض (١/ ٢١٤). (٥) الخبر في المعرفة والتاريخ (٣/ ٢٥٣) في القسم المفقود منه، وهو منقول عما هنا. (٦) قول الموصلي هذا ذكره البيهقي بعد سياق الخبر الآنف الذكر. (٧) في الروض (١/ ٢١٣) بألفاظ مقاربة. (٨) سيرة ابن هشام (٢/ ٦٤٣).