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

W E LIVES OF THE SAHABAH '@,@&% (Vol-1) 395
say, 0 Rasulullaah @%? What response should we make? The favour is from
Allaah and His Rasool @@." Rasulullaah @@ said, "By Allaah! You would be
speaking the truth and you would be believed in, if you were to say (to me), 'You
came to us as an outcast and we granted you shelter. You came to us as a
destitute person and we granted you financial assistance. You came to us as in
fear and we granted you security. YOU came to us as without any helpers and we
granted you the assistance you needed."' The Ansaar repeated, "The favour is
from Allaah and His Rasool m."
Rasulullaah @& then comforted them by saying, "0 Assembly of Ansaar! Do you
feel hurt because of some short-lived sprouts of this world that I have given to
some new Muslims whose hearts I intend winning over whereas I have left you to
the bounty of Islaam that Allaah has granted you? 0 Assembly of Ansaar! Does it
not please you to know that while other people return home with goats and
camels, you should return home with the Rasool oCAllaah @%? I swear by the
Being Who controls my life that if everyone walks a valley and the Ansaar walk
another valley, I shall walk the valley of the Ansaar. Had it not been for (the great
virtue of) Hijrah, I would have been a man from the Ansaar. 0 Allaah! Shower
Your mercy on the Ansaar, on the children of the Ansaar and the grandchildren of
the Ansaar."
The Ansaar then wept until their beards were soaked and they said, "We are
pleased with Allaah as our Rabb and with the distribution of Rasulullaah m."
Rasulullaah @@ then returned to his tent and the Ansaar dispersed. ( I)
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~adhrai Saa'ib bin Yazeed Saw narrates that as a gesture of goodwill,
~asulullbah distributed the booty received from the Hawaazin ii the Battle
of Hunayn amongst the Quraysh and others. This made the Ansaar upset. When
Rasulullaah heard about this, he went to the Ansaar where they were
staying and said, "Whoever is amongst the Ansaar (from other tribes) should go
to his tent." Thereafter, Rasulullaah @@& recited the Shahaadah, praised Allaah
and said, "0 Assembly of Ansaar! I have heard about your feelings concerning the
booty that I preferred to give others to win over their hearts and so that they
should participate in Jihaad after this day after Allaah has entered Islaam deep
into their hearts. 0 Assembly of Ansaar! Has Allaah not favoured you by granting
you Imaan, by granting you special virtue and by granting you the best of names,
namely the Ansaar (helpers) of (the Deen of) Allaah and the Ansaar (helpers) of
Allaah's Rasool w? Had it not been for (the great virtue of) Hijrah, I would have
been a man from the Ansaar. If everyone walks a valley and the Ansaar walk
another valley, I shall walk the valley of the Ansaar. Does it not please you to
(I) Ibn Is'haaq and Ahmad also narrating from Ibn Is'haaq. None else have narrated from this source,
which is authentic, as mentioned in A1 Bidaaya wan Nihaaya (Vo1.4 Pg.358). Haythami (Vol.10
Pg.30) has commented on the chain of narrators. Ibn Abi Shayba has also reported the narration
at length from Hadhrat Abu Sa'eed Khudri SiiISWj as quoted in Kanzul Ummaal (Vo1.7 Pg.135).
Bukhari has quoted a part from Hadhrat Abdullaah bin Zaid bin Aasim 8,- as quoted in Al
Bidaaya wan Nihaaya (Vo1.4 Pg.358). Ibn Abi Shayba has also quoted a part as reportid in Kanzul
Ummaal (Vol.7 Pg. 136).