Life of
sa
Muhammad
BY
HADRAT MIRZA BASHIRUDDIN
MAHMUD AHMADra
Page 114-128
RUMOUR OF PROPHET'Ssa DEATH REACHES MEDINA
RUMOUR OF PROPHET'Ssa DEATH
REACHES MEDINA
The rumour of the Prophet'ssa death and the
news of the dispersal of the Muslim army
reached Medina
Women and children ran madly towards Uhud
Many of them learnt the truth* from the
returning soldiers and went back.
* That the Holy Prophet (pbuh) was alive and well
RUMOUR OF PROPHET'Ssa
DEATH REACHES MEDINA
One woman of the tribe
of Banu Dinar went on
until she reached Uhud.
This woman had lost
her husband, father and
brother in the battle.
According to some
narrators, she had also
lost a son.
At (this sad news )
...she remained
unmoved and asked
again and again, "What
has the Prophetsa of
God done?“*
.. (one) returning
soldier.. told her, "As for
the Prophetsa, he is as
you wish, fully alive."
The woman rushed to ..
the Prophetsa, held his
mantle in her hand,
kissed it and said,
"My father and mother
be sacrificed to thee, O
Prophet of Godsa, if
thou livest, I care not
who else dies"
* An expression of grief, at hearing the sad news of death of a loved one
RUMOUR OF PROPHET'Ssa DEATH REACHES MEDINA
We can see, therefore, what fortitude and devotion did Muslims—both men and
women—display in this battle.
.. Prophetsa was returning to Medina, The cord of his dromedary was held
by Sa‘d bin Mu‘adhra, a chief of Medina.
Sa‘dra saw his own aged mother advancing to meet the returning party of
Muslims, … turning to the Prophetsa, (he) said, "Here, O Prophetsa, is my
mother."
The Prophetsa seeing her said, "Woman, I grieve over the loss of thy son."
"But," replied the devoted woman, "after I have seen you alive, I have
swallowed all my misfortunes."
Normally, grief eats up a human being, and here was an aged woman who
had lost her son, a staff for her old age. But she said that, instead of letting
her grief eat her up, she had eaten up her grief.
RUMOUR OF PROPHET'Ssa DEATH REACHES MEDINA
The Prophetsa reached Medina. In this battle, many Muslims were killed and
many wounded.
Still the battle cannot be said to have
ended in defeat for Muslims.
The incidents … above .. prove that
Uhud was as great a victory for
Muslims ….
Back in Medina, the Prophetsa returned to his mission.
He engaged himself again in
training and teaching his followers.
But as before, his work did not go
on uninterruptedly.
Jews of Medina
After Uhud, the Jews became more daring, …
Once the Prophetsa
was called to
decide a dispute
and he had to go
They would
to a Jewish
Muslim women
On another
publish foul abuse
were insulted in
occasion the Jews
fortress. The Jews
in verse, and
planned to drop a the streets. In one stoned a Muslim
..insult the
such incident a
girl and she died in
stone slab on him
Prophetsa and his
great pain.
and thus put an Muslim lost his life.
family.
end to his life. ...
The Jews later
admitted their foul
intrigue.
Jews of Medina
This behaviour of the Jews strained their relations with Muslims,.. (instead
of fighting with Jews) Muslims only turned them out of Medina
• One of the two Jewish tribes migrated to Syria.
• Of the other, some went to Syria and some settled in Khaibar, a wellfortified Jewish stronghold, to the north of Medina.
Alcohol is forbidden
In the interval of peace between Uhud and the
next battle, the world witnessed an outstanding
example of the influence of Islam on its
followers.
Arabs were confirmed
drunkards.
To drink five times a
day was in fashion in
every Arab home.
To wean such a people
from this deadly habit was
no easy matter
.. in the fourth year after
the Hijra the Prophetsa
received the command that
drinking had been
forbidden.
With .. this command,
drinking disappeared from
Muslim society.
Alcohol is forbidden
..when the revelation making drink unlawful was received,
the Prophetsa sent for a Companion and ordered him to
proclaim the new command in the streets of Medina.
In the house of an Ansari (a Muslim of Medina) a drinking party
was going on.. … In this condition they heard some one
proclaim that drinking had been forbidden by the Prophetsa
under a command of God.
One of the party stood up and said, "It looks like a
proclamation against drinking; let us find out if this is so.“
Another stood up, struck the earthen pot full of wine with
his staff, broke it to pieces and said, "First obey, then
inquire. It is enough that we have heard of such a
proclamation. ... It is rather our duty to let the wine flow
in the street and then inquire about the proclamation"
Drinking
disappeared
from the
entire Muslim
society after
this
proclamation.
No special
effort or
campaign was
needed to
bring about
this
revolutionary
change.
More Martyrdoms
What happened at Uhud was not liable to be easily forgotten.
… hostility against Muslims began to gather strength.
In the fourth year after the Hijra, two Arab tribes, the ‘Adl and the
Qara, sent their representatives to the Holy Prophetsa...
They requested the Prophetsa to send to them some Muslims .. to
teach them the New Religion
The Prophetsa ..sent ten Muslims to teach the tribes the tenets and
principles of Islam.
Actually this was an intrigue hatched by the Banu Lihyan, archenemy of Islam.
More Martyrdoms
When this
party
reached the
territory of
the Banu
Lihyan, their
escorts had
the news
delivered to
the
tribesmen
and invited
them to
arrest the
party or to
put them to
death.
On this vicious suggestion, two hundred armed men of the
Banu Lihyan set out in pursuit of the Muslim party and overtook
them at last at a spot called Raji‘.
An encounter took place between ten Muslims and two hundred
of the enemy. The Muslims were full of faith. The enemy was
without any.
When the disbelievers found the small party of Muslims
adamant, they launched their attack upon them. The party
fought without thought of defeat. Seven of the ten fell fighting.
(Later, disbelievers killed one of the remaining three men.) The
other two they took with them and sold them as slaves to the
Quraish of Mecca.
One of the two was Khubaibra, the other Zaidra.
More Martyrdoms
The purchaser of
Khubaibra wanted to
murder him ..to avenge
his own father, ..at Badr.
One day, Khubaibra .. was
holding the razor when a
child of the household
approached him out of
curiosity.
Khubaibra took the child
and put him on his knee.
The child's mother saw
this and became terrified.
She was convinced that
Khubaibra was going to
murder the child.
Khubaibra .. said, "Do you imagine I am
going to murder your child. … Muslims do
not play false."
More Martyrdoms
... At last the Meccans led Khubaibra to an open field to celebrate his murder in
public.
When the appointed moment came, Khubaibra asked for leave to say two rak‘ats
of prayer. The Quraish agreed last prayers to God in this world.
When he had finished praying, he said he wanted to continue, but did not do so
lest they should think he was afraid of dying.
Then he quietly submitted his neck to the executioner. As he did so, he hummed
the verses:
While I die a Muslim, I care not whether my headless body drops to the right or
to the left.
More Martyrdoms
Zaidra,
The second prisoner,
was also taken out to be
murdered
Zaidra replied proudly, “.. By
God, I would rather die, than
that the Prophetsa should
tread on a thorn in a street in
Medina."
Abu Sufyanra, chief of Mecca..
turned to Zaidra and asked,
"Would you not rather have
Muhammadsa in your place?
" Abu Sufyanra could not help
being impressed by such
devotion.
More Martyrdoms
About this time some people of Najd also approached the
Prophetsa for Muslims to teach them Islam.
The Prophetsa did not trust them. But Abu Bara’, chief of the
‘Amir tribe, …assured the Prophetsa that they would commit no
mischief.
The Prophetsa selected seventy Muslims who knew the Qur’an
by heart
When this party reached Bi’r Ma‘una one of them, Haram bin
Malhanra went to the chief of the ‘Amir tribe (a nephew of Bara’)
to give him the message of Islam
… a man … attacked Haramra with a lance. Haramra died on the
spot.
As the lance pierced through Haram'sra neck, he was heard
saying, "God is great. The Lord of the Ka‘ba is my
witness, I have attained my goal"
More Martyrdoms
• All but three of the seventy were murdered.
Then the tribal
chiefs, with the
assistance of
the two tribes
who had gone
to the
Prophetsa to
ask for Muslim
teachers and
some other
tribes, attacked
the Muslim
party.
• One of the survivors …had climbed a hill before the
encounter began. Two others had gone to a wood to
feed their camels.
•
• On returning from the wood they found sixty-six of
their companions lying dead on the field.
• ( one of them) …. sprang single-handed upon the
disbelievers and died fighting.
• The other was taken prisoner but was later
released in fulfilment of a vow which the tribal chief
had taken.
More Martyrdoms
The news of the two sad events,
in which about eighty Muslims
lost their lives as the result of a
mischievous intrigue, reached
Medina simultaneously.
These were no ordinary men who
were murdered. They were
bearers of the Qur’an.
They had been decoyed into enemy hands by a lie told in the name of
God and religion.
These facts proved conclusively that enmity to Islam was determined
and deep. On the other hand the zeal of Muslims for Islam was
equally determined and deep.