War of the confederated

420. Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Abu Nasr, from Hisham Bin Saalim, from Abaan Bin Usmaan, from the one who narrated to him, who has narrated the following: Abu Abdullah عليه الصلاة والسلام has said: ‘The Rasool Allah صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم stood upon the mound on which is the Masjid Al-Fatah during the military expedition of Al-Ahzaab is (built), on a dark cold night. So he صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم said: ‘Who will go and bring their news to us, and the Paradise will be for him’. No one stood up. He صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم then repeated it. Still no one stood up’. Abu Abdullah عليه الصلاة والسلام said, with a hand gesture: ‘What the people wanted was something higher than the Paradise’. Then he صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم said; ‘Who is this?’ He said, ‘Huzeyfa’. So he صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم said; ‘Did you not hear my صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم words since the night and I صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم have been speaking? Come closer’. So Huzeyfa stood up and he was saying, ‘It was neither the cold nor the harm which prevented me, may I be sacrificed for you صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم’. So the Rasool Allah صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم said: ‘Go to them until you can hear their speech, and come to me صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم with their news’. So when he went, the Rasool Allah صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم said; ‘Our Allah عز وجل! Protect him from his front, and from his back, and from his right, and from his left, until he returns’. And the Rasool Allah صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم said to him; ‘O Huzeyfa, do not narrate anything until you come to me صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم’. So he took his sword, and his bow, and his shield. Huzeyfa said, ‘I went out and I was not affected by the cold weather, I passed by the Door of the Ditch (Baab Al-Khandaq) which had been overcome by the Believers from the Infidels’. So when Huzayfa left, the Rasool Allah صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم arose and called out: ‘وَ نَادَى يَا صَرِيخَ الْمَكْرُوبِينَ وَ يَا مُجِيبَ الْمُضْطَرِّينَ اكْشِفْ هَمِّي وَ غَمِّي وَ كَرْبِي فَقَدْ تَرَى حَالِي وَ حَالَ أَصْحَابِي’ ‘O Helper of the afflicted, and O Responder to the distressed, Uproot my صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم stress, and my صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم grief, and my صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم affliction, for You عز وجل can See my صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم condition, and the condition of my صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم companions!’ So Jibraeel عليه السلام descended unto him صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم and said; ‘O Rasool Allah صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم! Verily Allah عز وجل has Heard your صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم speech, and your صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم supplication, and has Answered you صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم, and Suffices for you صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم against your صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم enemies’. So the Rasool Allah صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم went down on his صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم knees, and extended his صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم hands, and shed tears from his صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم eyes, then said: ‘شُكْراً شُكْراً كَمَا رَحِمْتَنِي وَ رَحِمْتَ أَصْحَابِي’ ‘Thank You عز وجل, thank You عز وجل for being Merciful to me صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم and to my صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم companions’. Then the Rasool Allah صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم said: ‘Allah عز وجل has Sent upon them a wind from the sky to the world in which was gravel, and a wind from the fourth sky in which was a rock’. Huzeyfa said, ‘I went out and I saw that the people had lit many fires. And the first soldier of Allah عز وجل, a wind in which was gravel, struck them. So it did not leave any of their fires except that it extinguished it, no tent except that it uprooted it, and no spear except that it flung it away, to the extent that they were defending themselves against the gravel with their shields and we could hear the sound of the gravel striking the shields’. Huzayfa sat down in between two men from the Polytheists. Iblees (la) stood up in the form of an obedient man among the Polytheists. He (la) said, ‘O you people! You all have encamped in an area besides this sorcerer and the liar. Indeed! Nothing from his صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم matters has been forgotten. It has not been a good year. The shoes and the hooves have been destroyed. So return, and every man from among you should look at the one who is seated next to him’. Huzayfa said, ‘So I looked on my right and tapped on his shoulder and said, ‘Who are you?’ He said, ‘Muawiya’. So I said to the one who was on my left, ‘Who are you?’ He said, ‘Suhayl Bin Amro’. Huzayfa said, ‘And the greater soldier of Allah عز وجل arrived. So Abu Sufyan arose to be on his camel, then shouted among the Qureysh, ‘The safety, the safety!’ And Talha Al-Azdy said, ‘Muhammad صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم has increased your injuries!’ Then he climbed upon his camel and shouted among the Clan of Ashja’a, ‘The safety, the safety!’ And Uyayna Bin Hasan acted similarly. Then Al-Haris Bin Awf Al-Muzny acted similarly. Then Al-Aqra’a Bin Habis acted similarly. And so the confederated tribes (Al-Ahzaab) went away’. And Huzayfa returned to the Rasool Allah صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم and informed him صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم of the news. And Abu Abdullah عليه الصلاة والسلام said: ‘It had resembled the Day of Judgement for them’.