![]() ![]() Why don't we take our swords and join the Messenger of God, peace be on him? Maybe, God will bless us with martyrdom beside His Prophet." What are we waiting for? We both have only a short time to live. As the fighting grew fiercer, al-Yaman said to his friend: "You have no father (meaning you have no cares). This was because they were both quite old. A rather different fate, however, awaited his father.īefore the battle, the Prophet, peace be on him, left alYaman, Hudhayfah's father, and Thabit ibn Waqsh with the other non-combatants including women and children. The pressure on Hudhayfah during the battle was great but he acquitted himself well and emerged safe and sound. Hudhayfah participated in the Battle of Uhud with his father. He said that we should ignore the undertaking and seek God's help against them." "When we came to the Prophet we told him about our undertaking to the Quraysh and asked him what should we do. They allowed us to go only after they extracted from us an undertaking not to help Muhammad against them and not to fight along with them. We insisted that we only wanted to go to Madinah. We told them we were going to Madinah and they asked whether we intended to meet Muhammad. The disbelieving Quraysh met us and asked where we were going. Explaining why he missed the Battle of Badr, he said: "I would not have missed Badr if my father and I had not been outside Madinah. He participated in all the military engagements except Badr. O Rasulullah," decided Hudhayfah.Īt Madinah, after the Hijrah, Hudhayfah became closely attached to the Prophet. ![]() Choose whichever is dearer to you," replied the Prophet. "If you wish you may consider yourself among the muhajirin, or if you wish you may consider yourself one of the Ansar. He eventually journeyed to Makkah, met the Prophet and put the question to him, "Am I a muhajir or am I an Ansari, O Rasulullah?" The more he heard, the more his affection for the Prophet grew and the more he longed to meet him. From an early age, he was keen on following whatever news there was about him. He therefore became a Muslim before meeting the Prophet, peace be upon him. Hudhayfah grew up in a Muslim household and was taught by both his mother and father who were among the first persons from Yathrib to enter the religion of God. That was before the Prophet migrated to Yathrib. When the rays of Islam began to radiate over the Arabian peninsula, a delegation from the Abs tribe, which included al-Yaman, went to the Prophet and announced their acceptance of Islam. This was how Hudhayfah had a Makkan origin but a Yathribite upbringing. The restrictions on his returning to Makkah were eventually lifted and he divided his time between Makkah and Yathrib but stayed more in Yathrib and was more attached to it. He had settled down in Yathrib, becoming an ally (halif) of the Banu al-Ash-hal and marrying into the tribe. He had killed someone and had been forced to leave Makkah. His father, al-Yaman was a Makkan from the tribe of Abs. How did Hudhayfah come to have this choice'? ![]() With these words, the Prophet, peace be upon him, addressed Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman when he met him for the first time in Makkah. "If you wish you may consider yourself among the Muhajirin or, if you wish, you may consider yourself one of the Ansar.
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