The Life & Character of the Seal of Prophets (sa) - Volume II — Page 370
Seal of the Prophets - Volume II 370 of Bukhārī) and attacked this small and helpless community of Muslims. 1 When the Muslims saw these bloodthirsty beasts racing towards them, they said, “We have no quarrel with you. We have only come with an assignment from the Holy Prophet sa ; we have not come to fight,” but they did not listen to a word and murdered them all. 2 Among the Companions who were present at the time, only one individual was spared, who had a limp, and had managed to climb to the top of a mountain. 3 The name of this Companion was Ka‘b bin Zaid ra. From various narrations it is ascertained that the disbelievers attacked him as well, due to which he was wounded. The disbelievers left him for dead, but in actuality there was still life in him and he survived. 4 Two individuals from among this community of Companions had separated from the group at the time in order to graze their camels, etc. , and their names were ‘Amr bin Umayyah Ḍamrī ra and Mundhir bin Muḥammad ra. When they looked towards their camp, lo and behold, they sighted flocks of birds flying about overhead. They understood these desert signs well and immediately deduced that a battle had taken place. When they returned, this atrocity of carnage and massacre perpetrated by the ruthless disbelievers lay before their eyes. Upon sighting this scene from afar, they consulted one another as to what should be done. One suggested that they should escape immediately and reach Madīnah in order to inform the Holy Prophet sa. The other one, however, did not accept this proposal and said, “I shall not flee from where our Amīr, Mundhir bin ‘Amr ra has been martyred. ” Hence, he proceeded forward and was martyred in battle. 5 The other, whose name was ‘ Amr bin Umayyah Ḍamrī ra was taken captive by the disbelievers. 6 They would have perhaps murdered him as well, but when they found out that he was from the Muḍar tribe, according to the custom of Arabia, ‘Āmir bin Ṭufail cut off his 1 * As-Sīratun-Nabawiyyah, By Abū Muḥammad ‘Abdul-Mālik bin Hishām, p. 602, Ḥadīthu Bi’ri Ma‘ūnah Fī Ṣafarin Sanata Arba‘in, Dārul-Kutubil-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut, Lebanon, First Edition (2001) * Aṭ-Ṭabaqātul-Kubrā, By Muḥammad bin Sa‘d, Volume 2, p. 275, Sariyyah Al-Mundhir bin ‘Amr, Dāru Iḥyā’it-Turāthil-‘Arabī, Beirut, Lebanon, First Edition (1996) 2 Ṣaḥīḥul-Bukhārī, Kitābul-Maghāzī, Bābu Ghazwatir-Rajī‘. . . . . , Ḥadīth No. 4088 3 Ṣaḥīḥul-Bukhārī, Kitābul-Maghāzī, Bābu Ghazwatir-Rajī‘. . . . . , Ḥadīth No. 4091 4 * As-Sīratun-Nabawiyyah, By Abū Muḥammad ‘Abdul-Mālik bin Hishām, p. 602, Ḥadīthu Bi’ri Ma‘ūnah Fī Ṣafarin Sanata Arba‘in, Dārul-Kutubil-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut, Lebanon, First Edition (2001) * Aṭ-Ṭabaqātul-Kubrā, By Muḥammad bin Sa‘d, Volume 3, p. 269, Aṭ-Ṭabaqatul-Ūlā Minal-Badriyyina Minal-Anṣār / Ka‘b bin Zaid, Dāru Iḥyā’it-Turāthil-‘Arabī, Beirut, Lebanon, First Edition (1996) 5 As-Sīratun-Nabawiyyah, By Abū Muḥammad ‘Abdul-Mālik bin Hishām, p. 602, Ḥadīthu Bi’ri Ma‘ūnah Fī Ṣafarin Sanata Arba‘in, Dārul-Kutubil-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut, Lebanon, First Edition (2001) 6 Ṣaḥīḥul-Bukhārī, Kitābul-Maghāzī, Bābu Ghazwatir-Rajī‘. . . . . , Ḥadīth No. 4094