The Life & Character of the Seal of Prophets (sa) – Volume III — Page 154
Seal of the Prophets - Volume III 154 Prophet sa with bittersweet feelings of delight and grief. 1 Grief because their brave leader, Abū Baṣīr, who was the hero of this account, remained deprived of paying respects to the Holy Prophet sa , and delighted due to the fact that they themselves reached the company of the Holy Prophet sa and were thus, granted deliverance from the bloodthirsty onslaughts of the Quraish. The interesting work of Abū Baṣīr and his companions spanned an era right after the Treaty of Ḥudaibiyyah for many months. During the course of this era, many other occurrences also took place, but with the intention of presenting the accounts relevant to the Treaty of Ḥudaibiyyah all together, we have mentioned it along with the Treaty of Ḥudaibiyyah, Two Allegations Levelled by Christian Historians Relevant to the Treaty of Ḥudaibiyyah There is perhaps not a single notable account in the life of the Holy Prophet sa which Christian historians have left without objection and the Treaty of Ḥudaibiyyah also comes under this principle. Putting aside various secondary and insignificant allegations, Christian writers have raised two objections with relation to the Treaty of Ḥudaibiyyah: The fact that the Holy Prophet sa excluded women from the conditions of the Treaty of Ḥudaibiyyah was not permissible in light of the conditions of the agreement because its words were general, wherein both men and women were included. With relevance to the account of Abū Baṣīr, the Holy Prophet sa broke the spirit of the agreement, rather, by indicating to Abū Baṣīr that instead of returning to Makkah he could establish a separate party and run his affairs independently. So, the Holy Prophet sa acted against this agreement. In response to these allegations, first and foremost, it should be remembered that this agreement was with the Quraish of Makkah and the Quraish of Makkah was such a people as were at war with the Holy Prophet sa from the very beginning. Furthermore, they were accustomed to criticising and raising objections against even the smallest of things. Even so, they were not a far off foreign people, rather, they were the people of the Holy Prophet sa , 1 * Sharḥul-‘Allāmatiz-Zarqānī ‘Alal-Mawāhibil-Ladunniyyah, By Allāmah Shihābuddīn Al-Qusṭalānī, Volume 3, pp. 216-217, Amrul-Ḥudaibiyyah, Dārul-Kutubil-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut, Lebanon, First Edition (1996) * Tārīkhul-Khamīs Fī Aḥwāli Anfasi Nafīs, By Ḥusain bin Muḥammad bin Ḥasan, Volume 2, p. 25, Ghazwatul-Ḥudaibiyyah, Mu’assasatu Sha‘bān, Beirut