Al-W¥^idÏ's Asb¥b al-Nuz‰l - The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies ...
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Chapter 3: Surah <strong>Al</strong> ‘Imran<br />
his face. <strong>Al</strong>lah, ex<strong>al</strong>ted is He, then reve<strong>al</strong>ed (And was it so, when a disaster smote you) up to His saying (It<br />
is from yourselves…). He said: Because of the ransom you took’ ”.<br />
(Think not of those, who are slain in the way of <strong>Al</strong>lah, as dead…) [3:169].<br />
Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn Yahya> Abu Sa‘id Isma‘il ibn Ahmad <strong>al</strong>-Khil<strong>al</strong>i> ‘Abd<br />
<strong>Al</strong>lah ibn Zaydan ibn Yazid <strong>al</strong>-Bajli> Abu Kurayb> ‘Abd <strong>Al</strong>lah ibn Idris> Muhammad ibn Ishaq> Isma‘il<br />
ibn Abi Umayyah> Abu’l-Zubayr> Sa‘id ibn Jubayr> Ibn ‘Abbas who reported that the Messenger of <strong>Al</strong>lah,<br />
<strong>Al</strong>lah bless him and give him peace, said: “When your brothers were killed at Uhud, <strong>Al</strong>lah placed<br />
their spirits inside green birds which go to the rivers of Paradise and eat of its fruits and reach to lamps<br />
hanging in the shade of the Throne. When they tasted the wholesomeness of their food, drink and abode,<br />
they said: ‘Who would inform our brothers, on our beh<strong>al</strong>f, that we are being provided in Paradise, so that<br />
they do not shy away from Jihad or shirk away from war’ <strong>Al</strong>lah, glorious and majestic is He, said: ‘I will<br />
inform them on your beh<strong>al</strong>f ’, and so He reve<strong>al</strong>ed (Think not of those, who are slain in the way of <strong>Al</strong>lah,<br />
as dead. Nay, they are living. With their Lord they have provision)”. 48 This was related by <strong>al</strong>-Hakim in his<br />
Sahih from ‘Uthman ibn Abi Shaybah.<br />
Muhammad ibn ‘Abd <strong>al</strong>-Rahman <strong>al</strong>-Ghazi informed us> Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Hamdan> Hamid<br />
ibn Muhammad ibn Shu‘ayb <strong>al</strong>-B<strong>al</strong>khi> ‘Uthman ibn Abi Shaybah> ‘Abd <strong>Al</strong>lah ibn Idris and he related<br />
the narration. This was narrated by <strong>al</strong>-Hakim> ‘<strong>Al</strong>i ibn ‘Isa <strong>al</strong>-Hiri> Musaddid> ‘Uthman ibn Abi Shaybah.<br />
Abu Bakr <strong>al</strong>-Harithi informed us> Abu’l-Shaykh <strong>al</strong>-Hafiz> Ahmad ibn <strong>al</strong>-Husayn <strong>al</strong>-Hadhdha’> ‘<strong>Al</strong>i ibn<br />
<strong>al</strong>-Madini> Musa ibn Ibrahim ibn Bashir ibn <strong>al</strong>-Fakih <strong>al</strong>-Ansari> T<strong>al</strong>hah ibn Khirash> Jabir ibn ‘Abd<br />
<strong>Al</strong>lah who said: “<strong>The</strong> Messenger of <strong>Al</strong>lah, <strong>Al</strong>lah bless him and give him peace, once looked at me and<br />
said: ‘I see that you are worried, what is wrong’ I said: ‘My father was killed and left behind dependents<br />
and debts’. He said: ‘Sh<strong>al</strong>l I inform you: <strong>Al</strong>lah has never spoken to anyone except from behind a veil but<br />
has spoken to your father face to face, without a veil or messenger in between, and He said to him: ‘My<br />
slave, ask and you sh<strong>al</strong>l be given’. He said: ‘I ask you to take me back to the life of the world so that I get<br />
killed again for Your sake’. <strong>Al</strong>lah said to him: ‘It has <strong>al</strong>ready been decreed that they sh<strong>al</strong>l not go back to<br />
it’. He said: ‘<strong>The</strong>n inform those whom I have left behind’. And so <strong>Al</strong>lah, ex<strong>al</strong>ted is He, reve<strong>al</strong>ed (Think not<br />
of those, who are slain in the way of <strong>Al</strong>lah, as dead)”. 49<br />
Abu ‘Amr <strong>al</strong>-Qantari informed me among what he narrated to me in writing> Muhammad ibn <strong>al</strong>-<br />
Husayn> Muhammad ibn Yahya> Ishaq ibn Ibrahim> Waki‘> Sufyan> S<strong>al</strong>im <strong>al</strong>-Aftas> Sa‘id ibn Jubayr<br />
who said regarding the verse (Think not of those, who are slain in the way of <strong>Al</strong>lah, as dead. Nay, they are<br />
living): “When Hamzah ibn ‘Abd <strong>al</strong>-Mutt<strong>al</strong>ib and Mus‘ab ibn ‘Umayr were killed at the Battle of Uhud<br />
and saw the good with which they were provided, they said: ‘If only our brothers knew what we were<br />
given of good so that that their desire for Jihad increases’. And so <strong>Al</strong>lah, ex<strong>al</strong>ted is He, said: ‘I will inform<br />
them on your beh<strong>al</strong>f ’, and He reve<strong>al</strong>ed (Think not of those, who are slain in the way of <strong>Al</strong>lah, as dead. Nay,<br />
they are living) up to His saying (… and that <strong>Al</strong>lah wasteth not the wage of the believers) [3:171]”. 50<br />
Said Abu’l-Duha: “This verse was reve<strong>al</strong>ed specific<strong>al</strong>ly about those who were killed at the Battle of<br />
Uhud”.<br />
And a group of Qur’anic commentators mentioned that this verse was reve<strong>al</strong>ed about the martyrs of the<br />
Battle of Bi’r Ma‘unah whose story is well known; it was mentioned by Ibn Ishaq ibn Yasar in his book <strong>al</strong>-<br />
48<br />
Durr, :371; Tabari, :170-171; Qurtubi, :268.<br />
49<br />
Durr, :371-372; Tabari, :172; Qurtubi, :268.<br />
50<br />
Qurtubi, :269.<br />
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