Hadith / Musnad Abu Ya'la al-Mawsili / 5:21

Musnad Abu Ya'la al-Mawsili 5:21

From the Musnad of al-Zubayr ibn al-Awwam (RA)

من مسند الزبير بن العوام

Hadith 5:21

Abu Khaythama narrated to us, Sulayman ibn Dawud narrated to us, Ibn Abi al-Zinad informed me, from Hisham ibn Urwah, from Urwah, my father informed me—al-Zubayr—that when it was the day of Uhud, a woman came running until she almost overlooked the slain. The Prophet (peace be upon him) disliked that she should see them, so he said, "The woman! The woman!" Al-Zubayr said: I suspected that it was my mother, Safiyyah. I went out running toward her and caught up with her before she reached the slain. She struck me in my chest—and she was a strong woman—and said, "Away with you, may you have no mother!" I said, "Indeed, the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) has commanded you [to stop]." She stopped and brought out two garments she had with her. She said, "These are two garments I brought for my brother Hamzah." Then, beside him was a man from the Ansar who had been killed, and it had been done to him as it had been done to Hamzah. We felt embarrassment and shame that Hamzah should be shrouded in two garments while the Ansari had no shroud. So we said, "One garment for Hamzah and one garment for the Ansari." We measured them, and one of them was larger than the other, so we drew lots between them, and each of them was placed in the garment that fell to him.

حدثنا أبو خيثمة حدثنا سليمان بن داود أخبرني بن أبي الزناد عن هشام بن عروة عن عروة أخبرني أبي الزبير * أنه لما كان يوم أحد أقبلت أمرأة تسعى حتى كادت تشرف على القتلى قال فكره النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم أن تراهم فقال المرأة المرأة قال الزبير فتوسمت أنها أمي صفية قال فخرجت أسعى إليها فأدركتها قبل أن تنتهي إلى القتلى قال فلكمت في صدري وكانت امرأة جلدة وقالت إليك لا أم لك قال فقلت إن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم عزم عليك قال فوقفت وأخرجت ثوبين معها فقالت هذان ثوبان جئت بهما لأخي حمزة فإذا إلى جنبه رجل من الأنصار قتل قد فعل به كما فعل بحمزة فوجدنا غضاضة وحياء أن يكفن حمزة في ثوبين والأنصاري لا كفن له فقلنا لحمزة ثوب وللأنصاري ثوب فقدرناهما فكان أحدهما أكبر من الآخر فأقرعنا بينهما فجعل كل منهما في الثوب الذي صار له