Arabic (Original)
حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ جَدِّهِ عَلْقَمَةَ بْنِ وَقَّاصٍ قَالَ أَخْبَرَتْنِي عَائِشَةُ قَالَتْ خَرَجْتُ يَوْمَ الْخَنْدَقِ أَقْفُو آثَارَ النَّاسِ قَالَتْ فَسَمِعْتُ وَئِيدَ الْأَرْضِ وَرَائِي يَعْنِي حِسَّ الْأَرْضِ قَالَتْ فَالْتَفَتُّ فَإِذَا أَنَا بِسَعْدِ بْنِ مُعَاذٍ وَمَعَهُ ابْنُ أَخِيهِ الْحَارِثُ بْنُ أَوْسٍ يَحْمِلُ مِجَنَّهُ قَالَتْ فَجَلَسْتُ إِلَى الْأَرْضِ فَمَرَّ سَعْدٌ وَعَلَيْهِ دِرْعٌ مِنْ حَدِيدٍ قَدْ خَرَجَتْ مِنْهَا أَطْرَافُهُ فَأَنَا أَتَخَوَّفُ عَلَى أَطْرَافِ سَعْدٍ قَالَتْ وَكَانَ سَعْدٌ مِنْ أَعْظَمِ النَّاسِ وَأَطْوَلِهِمْ قَالَتْ فَمَرَّ وَهُوَ يَرْتَجِزُ وَيَقُولُ لَيْتَ قَلِيلًا يُدْرِكُ الْهَيْجَا جَمَلْ مَا أَحْسَنَ الْمَوْتَ إِذَا حَانَ الْأَجَلْ قَالَتْ فَقُمْتُ فَاقْتَحَمْتُ حَدِيقَةً فَإِذَا فِيهَا نَفَرٌ مِنْ الْمُسْلِمِينَ وَإِذَا فِيهِمْ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ وَفِيهِمْ رَجُلٌ عَلَيْهِ سَبْغَةٌ لَهُ يَعْنِي مِغْفَرًا فَقَالَ عُمَرُ مَا جَاءَ بِكِ لَعَمْرِي وَاللَّهِ إِنَّكِ لَجَرِيئَةٌ وَمَا يُؤْمِنُكِ أَنْ يَكُونَ بَلَاءٌ أَوْ يَكُونَ تَحَوُّزٌ قَالَتْ فَمَا زَالَ يَلُومُنِي حَتَّى تَمَنَّيْتُ أَنَّ الْأَرْضَ انْشَقَّتْ لِي سَاعَتَئِذٍ فَدَخَلْتُ فِيهَا قَالَتْ فَرَفَعَ الرَّجُلُ السَّبْغَةَ عَنْ وَجْهِهِ فَإِذَا طَلْحَةُ بْنُ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ فَقَالَ يَا عُمَرُ وَيْحَكَ إِنَّكَ قَدْ أَكْثَرْتَ مُنْذُ الْيَوْمَ وَأَيْنَ التَّحَوُّزُ أَوْ الْفِرَارُ إِلَّا إِلَى اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ قَالَتْ وَيَرْمِي سَعْدًا رَجُلٌ مِنْ الْمُشْرِكِينَ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ يُقَالُ لَهُ ابْنُ الْعَرِقَةِ بِسَهْمٍ لَهُ فَقَالَ لَهُ خُذْهَا وَأَنَا ابْنُ الْعَرَقَةِ فَأَصَابَ أَكْحَلَهُ فَقَطَعَهُ فَدَعَا اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ سَعْدٌ فَقَالَ اللَّهُمَّ لَا تُمِتْنِي حَتَّى تُقِرَّ عَيْنِي مِنْ قُرَيْظَةَ قَالَتْ وَكَانُوا حُلَفَاءَهُ وَمَوَالِيَهُ فِي الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ قَالَتْ فَرَقَى كَلْمُهُ وَبَعَثَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ الرِّيحَ عَلَى الْمُشْرِكِينَ فَكَفَى اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ الْقِتَالَ وَكَانَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ قَوِيًّا عَزِيزًا فَلَحِقَ أَبُو سُفْيَانَ وَمَنْ مَعَهُ بِتِهَامَةَ وَلَحِقَ عُيَيْنَةُ بْنُ بَدْرٍ وَمَنْ مَعَهُ بِنَجْدٍ وَرَجَعَتْ بَنُو قُرَيْظَةَ فَتَحَصَّنُوا فِي صَيَاصِيهِمْ وَرَجَعَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ إِلَى الْمَدِينَةِ فَوَضَعَ السِّلَاحَ وَأَمَرَ بِقُبَّةٍ مِنْ أَدَمٍ فَضُرِبَتْ عَلَى سَعْدٍ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ قَالَتْ فَجَاءَهُ جِبْرِيلُ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَام وَإِنَّ عَلَى ثَنَايَاهُ لَنَقْعُ الْغُبَارِ فَقَالَ أَقَدْ وَضَعْتَ السِّلَاحَ وَاللَّهِ مَا وَضَعَتْ الْمَلَائِكَةُ بَعْدُ السِّلَاحَ اخْرُجْ إِلَى بَنِي قُرَيْظَةَ فَقَاتِلْهُمْ قَالَتْ فَلَبِسَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ لَأْمَتَهُ وَأَذَّنَ فِي النَّاسِ بِالرَّحِيلِ أَنْ يَخْرُجُوا فَخَرَجَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَمَرَّ عَلَى بَنِي غَنْمٍ وَهُمْ جِيرَانُ الْمَسْجِدِ حَوْلَهُ فَقَالَ مَنْ مَرَّ بِكُمْ فَقَالُوا مَرَّ بِنَا دِحْيَةُ الْكَلْبِيُّ وَكَانَ دِحْيَةُ الْكَلْبِيُّ تُشْبِهُ لِحْيَتُهُ وَسِنُّهُ وَوَجْهُهُ جِبْرِيلَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَام فَقَالَتْ فَأَتَاهُمْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَحَاصَرَهُمْ خَمْسًا وَعِشْرِينَ لَيْلَةً فَلَمَّا اشْتَدَّ حَصْرُهُمْ وَاشْتَدَّ الْبَلَاءُ قِيلَ لَهُمْ انْزِلُوا عَلَى حُكْمِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَاسْتَشَارُوا أَبَا لُبَابَةَ بْنَ عَبْدِ الْمُنْذِرِ فَأَشَارَ إِلَيْهِمْ أَنَّهُ الذَّبْحُ قَالُوا نَنْزِلُ عَلَى حُكْمِ سَعْدِ بْنِ مُعَاذٍ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ انْزِلُوا عَلَى حُكْمِ سَعْدِ بْنِ مُعَاذٍ فَنَزَلُوا وَبَعَثَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ إِلَى سَعْدِ بْنِ مُعَاذٍ فَأُتِيَ بِهِ عَلَى حِمَارٍ عَلَيْهِ إِكَافٌ مِنْ لِيفٍ قَدْ حُمِلَ عَلَيْهِ وَحَفَّ بِهِ قَوْمُهُ فَقَالُوا يَا أَبَا عَمْرٍو حُلَفَاؤُكَ وَمَوَالِيكَ وَأَهْلُ النِّكَايَةِ وَمَنْ قَدْ عَلِمْتَ قَالَتْ وَأَنَّى لَا يُرْجِعُ إِلَيْهِمْ شَيْئًا وَلَا يَلْتَفِتُ إِلَيْهِمْ حَتَّى إِذَا دَنَا مِنْ دُورِهِمْ الْتَفَتَ إِلَى قَوْمِهِ فَقَالَ قَدْ آنَ لِي أَنْ لَا أُبَالِيَ فِي اللَّهِ لَوْمَةَ لَائِمٍ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو سَعِيدٍ فَلَمَّا طَلَعَ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ قُومُوا إِلَى سَيِّدِكُمْ فَأَنْزَلُوهُ فَقَالَ عُمَرُ سَيِّدُنَا اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ قَالَ أَنْزِلُوهُ فَأَنْزَلُوهُ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ احْكُمْ فِيهِمْ قَالَ سَعْدٌ فَإِنِّي أَحْكُمُ فِيهِمْ أَنْ تُقْتَلَ مُقَاتِلَتُهُمْ وَتُسْبَى ذَرَارِيُّهُمْ وَتُقْسَمَ أَمْوَالُهُمْ وَقَالَ يَزِيدُ بِبَغْدَادَ وَيُقْسَمُ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ لَقَدْ حَكَمْتَ فِيهِمْ بِحُكْمِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ وَحُكْمِ رَسُولِهِ قَالَتْ ثُمَّ دَعَا سَعْدٌ قَالَ اللَّهُمَّ إِنْ كُنْتَ أَبْقَيْتَ عَلَى نَبِيِّكَ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مِنْ حَرْبِ قُرَيْشٍ شَيْئًا فَأَبْقِنِي لَهَا وَإِنْ كُنْتَ قَطَعْتَ الْحَرْبَ بَيْنَهُ وَبَيْنَهُمْ فَاقْبِضْنِي إِلَيْكَ قَالَتْ فَانْفَجَرَ كَلْمُهُ وَكَانَ قَدْ بَرِئَ حَتَّى مَا يُرَى مِنْهُ إِلَّا مِثْلُ الْخُرْصِ وَرَجَعَ إِلَى قُبَّتِهِ الَّتِي ضَرَبَ عَلَيْهِ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَتْ عَائِشَةُ فَحَضَرَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ وَعُمَرُ قَالَتْ فَوَالَّذِي نَفْسُ مُحَمَّدٍ بِيَدِهِ إِنِّي لَأَعْرِفُ بُكَاءَ عُمَرَ مِنْ بُكَاءِ أَبِي بَكْرٍ وَأَنَا فِي حُجْرَتِي وَكَانُوا كَمَا قَالَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ { رُحَمَاءُ بَيْنَهُمْ } قَالَ عَلْقَمَةُ قُلْتُ أَيْ أُمَّهْ فَكَيْفَ كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَصْنَعُ قَالَتْ كَانَتْ عَيْنُهُ لَا تَدْمَعُ عَلَى أَحَدٍ وَلَكِنَّهُ كَانَ إِذَا وَجِدَ فَإِنَّمَا هُوَ آخِذٌ بِلِحْيَتِهِ.
English Translation
Yazid narrated to us: Muhammad ibn Amr informed us, from his father, from his grandfather Alqamah ibn Waqqas, who said: A'ishah informed me, saying: "I went out on the day of the Trench, following the tracks of the people." She said: "Then I heard the tread of the earth behind me" - meaning the sound of footsteps on the ground - "so I turned, and there was Sa'd ibn Mu'adh, with his nephew al-Harith ibn Aws accompanying him, carrying his shield." She said: "So I sat down on the ground, and Sa'd passed by, wearing an iron coat of mail from which his limbs protruded - I feared for Sa'd's exposed limbs." She said: "Sa'd was one of the largest and tallest of men." She said: "He passed by reciting rajaz verse, saying: 'Would that a little more time might witness the battle... how fine is death when the appointed time has come.'" She said: "So I got up and slipped into a garden, and there were a group of Muslims in it, among them Umar ibn al-Khattab, and among them a man wearing a helmet, and Umar said: 'What brought you here? By my life, by Allah, you are indeed bold! What assures you that there might not be calamity or a rout?'" She said: "He kept blaming me until I wished the earth would split open for me at that moment so I could enter into it." She said: "Then the man raised the helmet from his face, and there was Talhah ibn Ubaydullah, and he said: 'O Umar, woe to you, you have said much today - and where is the rout or fleeing except to Allah, Mighty and Sublime?'" She said: "And a man from the polytheists of Quraysh, called Ibn al-Ariqah, shot an arrow at Sa'd, saying: 'Take this - I am Ibn al-Ariqah' - and it struck his medial arm vein and severed it. Sa'd then supplicated Allah, Mighty and Sublime, saying: 'O Allah, if You have preserved for Your Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, any remaining war with Quraysh, then preserve me for it; and if You have ended the war between him and them, then take my soul to You.'" She said: "And they [Banu Qurayzah] were his allies and clients in the Age of Ignorance." She said: "So his wound closed up, and Allah, Mighty and Sublime, sent the wind against the polytheists, and Allah, Mighty and Sublime, spared the believers the fighting, and Allah, Mighty and Sublime, was ever powerful and mighty. So Abu Sufyan and those with him withdrew to Tihamah, and Uyaynah ibn Badr and those with him withdrew to Najd, and Banu Qurayzah returned and fortified themselves in their strongholds, and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, returned to Madinah and laid down his weapons, and ordered a leather tent to be pitched, and it was pitched over Sa'd in the mosque." She said: "Then Gabriel, peace be upon him, came to him, with the dust of battle still upon his front teeth, and said: 'Have you laid down your weapons? By Allah, the angels have not yet laid down their weapons! Go out to Banu Qurayzah and fight them.'" She said: "So the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, put on his armor and had it announced among the people to set out, and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, went out and passed by Banu Ghanm, who were the neighbors of the mosque around it, and he said: 'Who passed by you?' They said: 'Dihyah al-Kalbi passed by us' - and Dihyah al-Kalbi's beard, age, and face resembled Gabriel, peace be upon him." She said: "So the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, came to them and besieged them for twenty-five nights. When the siege grew intense upon them and the hardship grew severe, it was said to them: 'Come down to the judgment of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him.' So they consulted Abu Lubabah ibn Abd al-Mundhir, and he signaled to them that it meant slaughter. They said: 'We will come down to the judgment of Sa'd ibn Mu'adh.' The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: 'Come down to the judgment of Sa'd ibn Mu'adh.' So they came down, and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, sent for Sa'd ibn Mu'adh, and he was brought on a donkey with a saddle of palm fiber, having been placed upon it, with his people surrounding him. They said: 'O Abu Amr, your allies and your clients, and the people of past benefit, and those whom you know.'" She said: "And he did not return anything to them, nor turn to them at all, until, when he drew near their dwellings, he turned to his people and said: 'The time has come for me not to fear, in the cause of Allah, the blame of any blamer.'" [Abu Sa'id said:] "So when he came upon the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, he said: 'Rise for your master and bring him down.' Umar said: 'Our master is Allah, Mighty and Sublime.' He said: 'Bring him down,' so they brought him down. The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: 'Pass judgment concerning them.' Sa'd said: 'Then I judge concerning them that their fighting men be killed, their offspring taken captive, and their wealth divided' - and Yazid said, in Baghdad, 'and distributed' - The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: 'You have indeed judged concerning them with the judgment of Allah, Mighty and Sublime, and the judgment of His Messenger.'" She said: "Then Sa'd supplicated, saying: 'O Allah, if You have kept remaining for Your Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, anything of the war with Quraysh, then keep me alive for it; and if You have ended the war between him and them, then take my soul to You.'" She said: "So his wound burst open again - though it had healed until nothing of it could be seen but something like a small scab - and he returned to his tent, which the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, had pitched over him." A'ishah said: "So the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, Abu Bakr, and Umar attended him." She said: "By Him in whose hand is the soul of Muhammad, I could indeed distinguish the weeping of Umar from the weeping of Abu Bakr, while I was in my chamber; and they were, as Allah, Mighty and Sublime, said, {'Merciful among themselves'}." Alqamah said: "I said: 'O Mother, how then did the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, behave [at such times]?' She said: 'His eye never shed tears for anyone, but when he was moved [with grief], he would take hold of his beard.'"