The Life & Character of the Seal of Prophets (sa) - Volume II — Page 492
Seal of the Prophets - Volume II 492 Holy Prophet sa to spontaneously utter the words: ِ قَد ْ حَكَمْت َ بِحُكْم ِ اللّٰه “O Sa‘d! Your verdict seems to be a Divine Decree, which no one has the power to alter. ” 1 Upon saying these words, the Holy Prophet sa quietly stood up and returned to the city. At the time, his heart was grieved with the thought that a nation, which he greatly hoped would embrace Islām, was being deprived of faith and being sentenced to divine wrath and chastisement due to their evil deeds. It was perhaps on this occasion that the Holy Prophet sa uttered the following words with intense regret: ُ لَو ْ اٰمَن َ بِی ْ عَشَرَة ٌ مِن َ الْیَھُوْد ِ ل�َآمَنَت ْ بِی َ الْیَھُوْد “If only ten men (i. e. , ten influential men) had believed in me, I would have hoped to God that this entire nation would accept me and would have been saved from Divine punishment. ” 2 When the Holy Prophet sa was leaving, he instructed that the men be separated from the women and children of the Banū Quraiẓah. Hence, both these groups were brought into Madīnah separately and were gathered at two separate locations. In line with the instruction of the Holy Prophet sa , the Companions (many of whom perhaps remained hungry themselves) arranged for a large quantity of fruit to be brought to the Banū Quraiẓah for their consumption. It is written that the Jewish people spent the entire night eating fruit. 3 The following day, in the morning, the verdict of Sa‘d ra was to be put into effect. The Holy Prophet sa appointed a few able men to perform this task 1 * Ṣaḥīḥul-Bukhārī, Kitābul-Maghāzī, Bābu Marja‘in-Nabiyyi sa Minal-Aḥzābi. . . . . , Ḥadīth No. 4121 * Ṣaḥīḥu Muslim, Kitābul-Jihād Was-Siyar, Bābu Jawāzi Qitāli Man Naqaḍal-‘Ahda. . . . . , Ḥadīth No. 4597 2 * Ṣaḥīḥul-Bukhārī, Kitābu Manāqibi Anṣār, Bābu Ityānil-Yahūdin-Nabiyyi sa Ḥīna Qadimal-Madīnah, Ḥadīth No. 3941 3 Sharḥul-‘Allāmatiz-Zarqānī ‘Alal-Mawāhibil-Ladunniyyah, By Allāmah Shihābuddīn Al-Qusṭalānī, Volume 3, p. 86, Ghazwatu Banī Quraiẓah, Dārul-Kutubil-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut, Lebanon, First Edition (1996)