Hayatus Sahabah - The Lives of the Sahabah - Part 1 of 3

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THE L.lVES OF THE SAHABAH '-3 (Vol-I) 173
him. After narrating this incident, Hadhrat Umar %X%!23 says that he later carried
out numerous good deeds to make amends for this behaviour.
After the treaty had been written, Rasulullaah &%% instructed the Sahabah
to slaughter their animals and to shave off their hair (an indication that
they were to return without pgforming Umrah). The narrator of the Hadith says,
"By Allaah! No one stood up to do this even though Rasulullaah thrice
repeated the instruction (because they all hpped that he would perhaps
reconsider the situation)." When he saw that no one was prepared to cany out
the command, he went to (his tent where he met) his wife Hadhrat Umm
Salma GEW%. When he informed her of the difficulty he was having, she said,
"0 Nabi of Allaah! Why do you rather not do this? Go out there without
speaking a word to anyone, slaughter your animal, call for someone to shave
your hatr and have it shaved off." Rasulullaah @@ then went out and did
accordingly. He slaughtered his animal, called for someone to shave off his hair
and had it shaved off. When the Sahabah i4.?%&% saw this, they all stood up,
slaughtered their animals and started shaving each others' hair. In fact, they were
so sad that it appeared that they could almost kill each other out of grief.
Thereafter, some Muslim women arrived there (to join the Muslims) and the
following verse of the Qur'aan was revealed:
0 you who have Imaan! When Mu'mineen women come to you (in a
Muslim count@ as immigrants, ' then (instead of sending them back)
examine them (test whether they are sincere Muslims). (Of course, you
can on/y judge the sincerity of their Zmaan superficial& because only)
Allaah best knows the (true) condition of their Imaan. If (after
examining them,) youdetermine that they really are Mu'mineen women
(and not impostors), then do not return them to the Kuffaar. Neither
are these women lawful (as wives) for the Kuffaar men nor are the
Kuffaar men lawful (as husbands) for these women. Return to them (to
their Kuffaar.husbands) what they have spent (as dowry because the
marriage has terminated). (ThereaAer,) There is no harm if you (Muslim
men) marry these women when you give them their dowry. (0 Muslim
husbands? Do not stubbornly cling to your Kuffaar wives (who do no
Want to &rCept Zslaam aftery0~ have accepted). {SurahMumtahina,verse 101