Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

the second year of the Hegira. The Muslim fighters left the city of
Medîna on the twelfth day of the month of Ramadân. They stayed
at Badr for three nights. They returned to Medîna nineteen days
later. In this ghazâ (holy war) the enemy army was about a
thousand strong. They all wore armours of iron. There were a
hundred horsemen and seven hundred camel-riders among them.
Mus’ab bin Umayr was carrying the white banner of the
Muhâjirs. [1] Abû ’Azîz, Mus’ab’s brother; ’Abdurrahmân bin Abû
Bakr Siddîq; Hadrat Abû Huzayfa’s father Utba, his brother
Walid, his uncle, Shayba, Hadrat ’Alî’s brother; Uqayl, his uncle
’Abbâs; his uncle Hâris’s sons, Abû Sufyân and Nawfal; and
Rasûlullah’s son-in-law Abul Âs bin Rabî were in the enemy army.
Seventy of the unbelievers were killed. And seventy were
captured. The Muslim army consisted of three hundred and
thirteen soldiers, eight of whom were on duty elsewhere. Three
hundred and five people took part in the war. Sixty-four of them
were from the Muhâjirs. There were three horsemen and seventy
camel-riders. Fourteen people, six of whom from the Muhâjirs,
became martyrs. The names of the three hundred and thirteen
people are written in the book entitled Asmâ-i-Ahl-i-Badr-ikirâm,
by ’Abd-ur-Rahmân Qabânî, and in the book entitled
Jâliyat-ul-Akdâr, by Hadrat Khâlid-i Baghdâdi.]
Third Preface: It is possible, and an experienced fact, too, that
Prophets ‘salawâtullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaihim ajma’în’ err and forget. As
it is related in the hadîth of Zulyadayn, once Rasûlullah ‘sall-
Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ made the final salâm after the second
rak’at of a prayer of namâz that was fard and which consisted of
four rak’ats. Zulyadayn said: “O Rasûlallah! You performed only
two rak’ats of the namaz. I wonder if you forgot (that it was of four
rak’ats)?” It being realized that Zulyadayn was right, Rasûlullah
got up and performed two more rak’ats and then performed the
sajda-i sahw. While it is possible for him to forget when he is not
sick and he does not have any trouble whatsoever but only as a
requirement of being human, it must certainly be possible for him
to talk without thinking, unwillingly during his illness of death,
when he is suffering severe pains, which is a requirement of being
[1] The Muhâjirîn-i-kirâm, Believers who migrated to Medîna-imunawwara
during the oppressions and persecutions inflicted on
them by the time’s Meccan polytheists. Please review the eighteenth
chapter of the current book and also scan the second chapter of the
sixth fascicle of Endless Bliss.
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