Al-Bidayah wa an-Nihayah - Ibn Kathir - (4/215)

Al-Bidayah wa an-NihayahIbn Kathir

On the authority of Hishām, from ʿUrwah, who said: My father, al-Zubayr, told me that on the Day of Uḥud a woman came hurrying forward. When she was about to look out over the slain, the Prophet ﷺ disliked that she should see them and said, “The woman, the woman!”
Al-Zubayr continued: I realized it was my mother Ṣafiyyah, so I rushed toward her and reached her before she got to the dead. She struck me in the chest—for she was a resolute woman—and said, “Away with you; may you find no ground to stand on!”
I said, “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ has strictly ordered you.” She stopped, then produced two cloths she had brought and said, “These two garments are for my brother Ḥamzah. News of his killing has reached me, so shroud him in them.”
We brought the two garments intending to wrap Ḥamzah in them, but beside him lay an Anṣārī who had been treated as Ḥamzah had been. We felt it improper and shameful to shroud Ḥamzah in two garments while the Anṣārī had none. So we said, “One cloth for Ḥamzah and one for the Anṣārī.” We measured them and found one larger than the other, so we drew lots between them and shrouded each man in the cloth that fell to him. (1)

Heading: The funeral prayer over Ḥamzah and the martyrs of Uḥud

Ibn Isḥāq (2) said: Someone I do not suspect narrated to me, from Miqsam, from Ibn ʿAbbās, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ ordered that Ḥamzah be covered with a cloak, then prayed over him and pronounced seven takbīrs. The slain were then brought and placed near Ḥamzah, and he prayed over them and over him with them, until he had prayed for him seventy-two times. This report is singular and its chain is weak.

Al-Suhaylī (3) said: None of the scholars of the major centers has adopted this view.

Imām Aḥmad (4) said: ʿAffān related to us; Ḥammād related to us; ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib related to us, from al-Shaʿbī, from Ibn Masʿūd, who said: On the Day of Uḥud the women stood behind the Muslims finishing off the wounded among the idolaters. Had I sworn that day, I would have hoped to be truthful in saying that none of us desired the worldly life—until Allah revealed: “Among you are those who desire the world, and among you are those who desire the Hereafter; then He turned you back from them so that He might test you” (Āl ʿImrān 3:152).

When the Companions of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ disobeyed what they had been commanded, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was left with [only nine]: seven from the Anṣār and two (5) from Quraysh, and he was the tenth of them. When they pressed upon him he said, “May Allah have mercy on the man who drives them away from us!”
(He said: A man from the Anṣār then stood and fought for a while until he was killed. When they pressed upon him again he said, “May Allah have mercy on the man who drives them away from us!”) (6)
He kept saying this until the seven were killed, whereupon the Messenger of Allah ﷺ—

(1) In manuscripts A and T it reads “alladhi ṭāra lahu,” i.e. “what was decreed for him.” In al-Musnad it appears as “alladhi ṣār lahu.” (2) See Sirat Ibn Hisham, vol. 2, p. 97. (3) See al-Rawd al-Anf, vol. 6, p. 42. (4) Reported by Ahmad in al-Musnad (vol. 1, p. 463); its isnad is weak. (5) In manuscript T: “wa ithnayn” (“and two”). (6) The text within parentheses is omitted in manuscript T.

عن هشامٍ، عن عروة قال: أخبرني أبي الزُّبيرُ أنه لمّا كان يوم أحدٍ أقبلت امرأةٌ تسعى، حتى إذا كادت أن تشرف على القتلى. قال: فكره النبيّ ﷺ أن تراهم، فقال: "المرأةَ المرأة" . قال الزُّبير: فتوسّمت أنّها أمي صفية، قال: فخرجت أسعى إليها، فأدركتها قبل أن تنتهي إلى القتلى، قال: فلدمت في صدري، وكانت امرأةً جلدة، قالت: إليك، لا أرض لك. قال: فقلت: إن رسول اللَّه ﷺ عزم عليك. قال: فوقفت، وأخرجت ثوبين معها، فقالت: هذان ثوبان جئت بهما لأخي حمزة، فقد بلغني مقتله، فكفّنوه فيهما. قال: فجئنا بالثوبين لنكفِّن فيهما حمزة، فإذا إلى جنبه رجلٌ من الأنصار قتيلٌ، قد فُعل به كما فعل بحمزة. قال: فوجدنا غضاضةً وحياءً أن نكفِّن حمزة في ثوبين والأنصاريّ لا كفن له، فقلنا: لحمزة ثوبٌ وللأنصاريّ ثوبٌ، فقدّرناهما فكان أحدهما أكبر من الآخر، فأقرعنا بينهما، فكفّنّا كلّ واحدٍ منهما في الثوب الذي طار له (١) . ذكر الصلاة على حمزة وقتلى أُحدٍ قال ابن إسحاق (٢) : وحدّثني من لا أتّهم، عن مقسمٍ، عن ابن عباسٍ قال: أمر رسول اللَّه ﷺ بحمزة فسجّي ببردةٍ، ثم صلّى عليه فكبّر سبع تكبيراتٍ، ثم أُتي بالقتلى يوضعون إلى حمزة، فصلّى عليهم وعليه معهم، حتى صلّى عليه ثنتين وسبعين صلاةً. وهذا غريبٌ وسنده ضعيفٌ. قال السّهيليّ (٣) : ولم يقل به أحدٌ من علماء الأمصار. وقد قال الإمام أحمد (٤) : ثنا عفَّان، ثنا حمّادٌ، ثنا عطاء بن السَّائب، عن الشّعبيّ، عن ابن مسعودٍ قال: إن النساء كنّ يوم أُحدٍ خلف المسلمين يجهزن على جرحى المشركين، فلو حلفتُ يومئذٍ رجوت أن أبرّ: إنه ليس أحدٌ منا يريد الدنيا، حتى أنزل اللَّه: ﴿مِنْكُمْ مَنْ يُرِيدُ الدُّنْيَا وَمِنْكُمْ مَنْ يُرِيدُ الْآخِرَةَ ثُمَّ صَرَفَكُمْ عَنْهُمْ لِيَبْتَلِيَكُمْ﴾ [آل عمران: ١٥٢] . فلمّا خالف أصحاب رسول اللَّه ﷺ وعصوا ما أُمروا به، أُفرد رسول اللَّه ﷺ في [تسعة] ؛ سبعةٍ من الأنصار ورجلين (٥) من قريشٍ، وهو عاشرهم، فلمّا رهِقوه قال: "رحم اللَّه رجلًا ردّهم عنَّا" . (قال: فقام رجلٌ من الأنصار فقاتل ساعةً حتى قتل، فلما رهِقوه أيضًا قال: "رحم اللَّه رجلًا ردّهم عنا" ) (٦) . فلم يزل يقول ذا حتى قتل السبعة، فقال رسول اللَّه ﷺ

(١) كذا في (أ) و (ط): "الذي طار له" أي قدر له. وفي "المسند": "الذي صار له". (٢) انظر "السيرة النبوية" لابن هشام (٢/ ٩٧). (٣) انظر "الروض الأنف" (٦/ ٤٢). (٤) رواه أحمد في "المسند" (١/ ٤٦٣)، وإسناده ضعيف. (٥) في (ط): "واثنين". (٦) ما بين القوسين سقط من (ط).