The Life & Character of the Seal of Prophets (sa) - Volume II — Page 293
VII - Commencement of War with the Tribes of Najd and the Jews, the Marriage of Ḥaḍrat Fāṭimah and Ḥafṣah, and a Few Miscellaneous Incidents 293 companions managed to apprehend a bedouin named Jabbār, who belonged to the Banū Tha‘labah. The Companions took him captive and presented him before the Holy Prophet sa. When the Holy Prophet sa inquired of him as to the facts, it was ascertained that all of the people from the Banū Tha‘labah and Banū Maḥārib had secured themselves in the mountains, and they would not confront the Muslims in an open field. 1 With no other alternative, the Holy Prophet sa was compelled to order a return. Nonetheless, the benefit which was indeed derived from this Ghazwah was that the threat posed by the Banū Ghaṭafān at the time was temporarily averted. Jabbār, who had been taken captive at the hands of the Muslims happily became a Muslim by the preaching of the Holy Prophet sa , who assigned the task of training him to Bilāl ra. 2 After a stay of three days, the Holy Prophet sa returned to Madīnah. In light of various historical records, it is suggested that it was this very Ghazwah in which the incident took place where a bedouin leader threatened to attack the Holy Prophet sa with a sword, upon finding him alone and unmindful, but then upon becoming awe-stricken himself, he dropped the sword. 3 However, provided that this incident did not take place twice, it is ascertained from the Aḥādīth that this occurrence took place during the Ghazwah of Dhātur-Riqā‘, which according to authentic narrations took place in 7 A. H. 4 Marriage of Ummi Kulthūm ra - Rabī‘ul-Awwal 3 A. H. Ruqayyah, the daughter of the Holy Prophet sa and wife of Ḥaḍrat ‘Uthmān bin ‘Affān ra , has already been mentioned above. Upon her demise, the Holy Prophet sa gave another daughter named Ummi Kulthūm ra , who was older than Ḥaḍrat Fāṭimah ra but younger than Ruqayyah ra , to Ḥaḍrat ‘Uthmān ra in 1 * As-Sīratun-Nabawiyyah, By Abū Muḥammad ‘Abdul-Mālik bin Hishām, p. 513, Ghazwatu Dhī Amrin, Dārul-Kutubil-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut, Lebanon, First Edition (2001) * Aṭ-Ṭabaqātul-Kubrā, By Muḥammad bin Sa‘d, Volume 2, p. 266, Ghazwatu Rasūlillāhi sa Ghaṭafān, Dāru Iḥyā’it-Turāthil-‘Arabī, Beirut, Lebanon, First Edition (1996) 2 * As-Sīratun-Nabawiyyah, By Abū Muḥammad ‘Abdul-Mālik bin Hishām, p. 513, Ghazwatu Dhī Amrin, Dārul-Kutubil-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut, Lebanon, First Edition (2001) * Aṭ-Ṭabaqātul-Kubrā, By Muḥammad bin Sa‘d, Volume 2, p. 266, Ghazwatu Rasūlillāhi sa Ghaṭafān, Dāru Iḥyā’it-Turāthil-‘Arabī, Beirut, Lebanon, First Edition (1996) 3 * As-Sīratun-Nabawiyyah, By Abū Muḥammad ‘Abdul-Mālik bin Hishām, p. 513, Ghazwatu Dhī Amrin, Dārul-Kutubil-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut, Lebanon, First Edition (2001) * Aṭ-Ṭabaqātul-Kubrā, By Muḥammad bin Sa‘d, Volume 2, p. 266, Ghazwatu Rasūlillāhi sa Ghaṭafān, Dāru Iḥyā’it-Turāthil-‘Arabī, Beirut, Lebanon, First Edition (1996) 4 Ṣaḥīḥul-Bukhārī, Kitābul-Maghāzī, Bābu Ghazwati Dhātir-Riqā‘, Ḥadīth No. 4135