The Life & Character of the Seal of Prophets (sa) – Volume III — Page 152
Seal of the Prophets - Volume III 152 “Woe to his mother (in the idiom of the arabs, these words are used to reproach someone or express astonishment), this man is kindling the fire of war. If only there was someone to control him. ” 1 When Abū Baṣīr heard these words, he understood that in any case, the Holy Prophet sa would order him to go back due to the treaty. In relation to this, the words of Bukhārī are: 2 ْ فَلَمَّا سَمِع َ ذٰلِك َ عَرَف َ اَنَّه ٗ سَیَرُدُّه ٗ اِلَیْھِم Upon this, he quietly left from there, and instead of going to Makkah, where he foresaw both his physical and spiritual deaths, he reached Saiful- Baḥr towards the coast of the Red Sea. When the other weaker and hidden Muslims of Makkah found out that Abū Baṣīr has setup a separate abode, they slowly began to leave Makkah and reached Saiful-Baḥr. Among them was Abū Jandal as well, who was the son of the chieftain of Makkah, Suhail bin ‘Amr, and about whom we have already read that the Holy Prophet sa sent him back from Ḥudaibiyyah. Gradually, these people approximately reached 70 in number, 3 or as per some narrations, 300. 4 In this manner, it was as if, in addition to Madīnah, a second Islāmic sovereignty also came into being, which in terms of religion was under the Holy Prophet sa , but was separate and independent in terms of government. On the one hand, the existence of an independent political system within the region of Ḥijāz was dangerous for the Quraish, and on the other, the Muhājirīn of Saiful-Baḥr were deeply wounded by the Quraish of Makkah. For this reason, after only a short while, relations between these Muhājirīn of Saiful-Baḥr and the Quraish of Makkah, took on a form almost 1 * Ṣaḥīḥul-Bukhārī, Kitābush-Shurūṭ, Bābush-Shurūṭi Fil-Jihādi. . . , Ḥadīth No. 2731-2732 * Sunanu Abī Dāwūd, Kitābul-Jihād, Bābu Fī Ṣulḥil-‘Aduwwi, Ḥadīth No. 2765 2 Ṣaḥīḥul-Bukhārī, Kitābush-Shurūṭ, Bābush-Shurūṭi Fil-Jihādi. . . , Ḥadīth No. 2731-2732 3 As-Sīratun-Nabawiyyah, By Abū Muḥammad ‘Abdul-Mālik bin Hishām, p. 690, Amrul-Ḥudaibiyyati Fī Ākhiri Sanati Sittin/Mā Jarā ‘Alaihi Amru Qaumim-Minal-Mustaḍ‘afīna Ba‘daṣ-Ṣulḥi, Dārul- Kutubil-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut, Lebanon, First Edition (2001) 4 * Ar-Rauḍul-Unufi Fī Tafsīris-Sīratin-Nabawiyyati libni Hishām, By Abul-Qāsim ‘Abdur-Raḥmān bin ‘Abdillāh bin Aḥmad, Volume 4, p. 59, Mā Jarā ‘Alaihi Amru Qaumim-Minal-Mustaḍ‘afīna Ba‘daṣ- Ṣulḥi/Abū Baṣīr Fī Zumalā’ihī Fil-‘Īṣ, Dārul-Kutubil-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut, Lebanon, First Edition * Sharḥul-‘Allāmatiz-Zarqānī ‘Alal-Mawāhibil-Ladunniyyah, By Allāmah Shihābuddīn Al-Qusṭalānī, Volume 3, p. 216, Amrul-Ḥudaibiyyah, Dārul-Kutubil-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut, Lebanon, First Edition (1996)