Minhaj as-Sunnah - Ibn Taimiya - (8/125)

Minhaj as-SunnahIbn Taimiya

Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—set out in the year of the conquest, and news of this reached Quraysh, Abū Sufyān ibn Harb, Hakīm ibn Hizām, and Budayl ibn Warqā’ went out seeking news of the Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace. They travelled until they reached Marr al-Zahrān, where they suddenly saw fires resembling the fires at ‘Arafah.

Abū Sufyān said, ‘What are these? They look just like (1) the fires at ‘Arafah!’

Budayl ibn Warqā’ replied, ‘The fires of Banū ‘Amr.’

Abū Sufyān said, ‘The people of ‘Amr are too few for that.’ Some of the guards of the Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—spotted them, caught up with them, seized them, and brought them to the Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace. Abū Sufyān then embraced Islam.

When he set out, he said to al-‘Abbās, ‘Keep (2) Abū Sufyān at the spur of the mountain (3) so that he can see the Muslims.’

Al-‘Abbās kept him there, and the tribes accompanying the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—began passing before Abū Sufyān, contingent after contingent (4). One contingent passed, and he asked, ‘‘Abbās, who are these?’

He replied, ‘[These are] (5) Ghifār.’

He said, ‘What have I to do with Ghifār?’ Then Juhaynah passed, and he said the same (6). Then the tribe of Sa‘d ibn Hudhaym passed, and he said

(1) (M): fa-ka’annahā (“so they look like…”). (2) Al-Bukhārī, 5/147: ihbis (“keep [him]”). (3) Ibn Hajar states in Fath al-Bārī, 8/8: “That is, the spur of the mountain.” (4) (M): katībatan ba‘da katībatin (“contingent after contingent”). (5) Hādhihi (“these”): found only in (B); it also appears in al-Bukhārī. (6) The phrase “Then the tribe of Sa‘d ibn Hudhaym passed, and he said the same” is omitted from (S) and (B). (N) and (M) read: “Then the tribe of Sa‘d ibn Hind passed…” The reading adopted is from al-Bukhārī.

اللَّهِ - صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - عَامَ الْفَتْحِ، فَبَلَغَ ذَلِكَ قُرَيْشًا، خَرَجَ أَبُو سُفْيَانَ بْنُ حَرْبٍ، وَحَكِيمُ بْنُ حِزَامٍ، وَبُدَيْلُ بْنُ وَرْقَاءَ يَلْتَمِسُونَ الْخَبَرَ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ - صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - فَأَقْبَلُوا يَسِيرُونَ حَتَّى أَتَوْا مَرَّ الظَّهْرَانِ، فَإِذَا هُمْ بِنِيرَانٍ كَأَنَّهَا نِيرَانُ عَرَفَةَ، فَقَالَ أَبُو سُفْيَانَ: مَا هَذِهِ، لَكَأَنَّهَا (١) نِيرَانُ عَرَفَةَ؟ فَقَالَ بُدَيْلُ بْنُ وَرْقَاءَ: نِيرَانُ بَنِي عَمْرٍو. فَقَالَ أَبُو سُفْيَانَ: عَمْرٌو أَقَلُّ مِنْ ذَلِكَ. فَرَآهُمْ نَاسٌ مِنْ حَرَسِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ - صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - فَأَدْرَكُوهُمْ، فَأَخَذُوهُمْ، فَأَتَوْا بِهِمْ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ - صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - فَأَسْلَمَ أَبُو سُفْيَانَ. فَلَمَّا سَارَ قَالَ لِلْعَبَّاسِ: " «أَمْسِكْ (٢) . أَبَا سُفْيَانَ عِنْدَ خَطْمِ الْجَبَلِ (٣) . حَتَّى يَنْظُرَ إِلَى الْمُسْلِمِينَ» " فَحَبَسَهُ الْعَبَّاسُ، فَجَعَلَتِ الْقَبَائِلُ تَمُرُّ مَعَ النَّبِيِّ - صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - كَتِيبَةً كَتِيبَةً (٤) . عَلَى أَبِي سُفْيَانَ، فَمَرَّتْ كَتِيبَةٌ، فَقَالَ: يَا عَبَّاسُ مَنْ هَذِهِ؟ قَالَ: [هَذِهِ] (٥) . غِفَارٌ. قَالَ: مَالِي وَلِغِفَارٍ؟ ثُمَّ مَرَّتْ جُهَيْنَةُ، فَقَالَ مِثْلَ ذَلِكَ (٦) . ثُمَّ مَرَّتْ سَعْدُ بْنُ هُذَيْمٍ، فَقَالَ

(١) م: فَكَأَنَّهَا (٢) الْبُخَارِيُّ ٥/١٤٧: احْبِسْ (٣) قَالَ ابْنُ حَجَرٍ (فَتْحِ الْبَارِي ٨/٨) : " أَيْ أَنْفِ الْجَبَلِ " (٤) م: كَتِيبَةً بَعْدَ كَتِيبَةٍ (٥) هَذِهِ: فِي (ب) فَقَطْ. وَهِيَ فِي " الْبُخَارِيِّ " (٦) : عِبَارَةُ " ثُمَّ مَرَّتْ سَعْدُ بْنُ هُذَيْمٍ فَقَالَ مِثْلَ ذَلِكَ " سَاقِطَةٌ مِنْ (س) ، (ب) . وَفِي (ن) ، (م) : ثُمَّ مَرَّتْ سَعْدُ بْنُ هِنْدٍ. . . . وَالْمُثْبَتُ مِنَ " الْبُخَارِيِّ "