IMAM A130 AL-FIDA' ISMA?L IBN KATH~R^47They sent back Sahl b. Baydz' well pleased, and Aha Bakr and Muhammad were
delighted by it.
When was it that other clans helped out in our affairs, though of old, before that,
we have been well liked?
In former times we never acquiesced in injustice, and achieved our aims without
using violence.
0 Tribe of Qusayy, will you not consider, and do you want what tomorrow will
bring?
The relationship between you and me is lie the saying, '0 Mt. Aswad, you could
explain it, if only you spoke."'
Al-Suhayli stated, "Aswad is the name of a mountain where a man was killed
without anyone discovering his murderer. And so the relatives of the dead
man recited the line, '0 Mt. Aswad, you could explain it, if only you spoke.'
That is, '0 Mt. Aswad, if you spoke you could explain to us who it was killed
him."'
At this point Ibn Ishzq quoted poetry of Hassan in praise of al-Mu'tim b.
'Adi and Hish&n b. 'Amr for their having torn up that damnable, sinful and
iniquitous document.
And here too al-Umawi quoted many lines of verse, whereas we have thought
what Ibn Ishaq transmitted to be sufficient.
Al-Wzqidi stated, 'LI asked Muhammad h. Salih and 'Abd al-Rahmm b. 'Abd
alLCAziz, 'When did the Banii Hahim come out from the enclave?' They replied,
'In the tenth year, after the beginning of the mission that is, three years before
the migration."'
I add that in that year, following their release, Abii Talih, uncle of the
Messenger of God (SAAS) died, as also did his wife Khadija, daughter of
Khnwaylid, God bless her. An account of all this will come hereafter, if God,
Almighty is He, so wishes.
Muhammad b. Ishaq related, following the account of the revocation of the
document, many stories involving the enmity of Quraysh for the Messenger of
God (SAAS), and how the Arab tribes and those making the lesser or the full
pilgrimage to Mecca, or coming for some other reason, were driven away from
(Muhammad by the enemy). He also recounted how God made miracles happen
through him to give proof of the veracity of the signs and guidance he brought,
as well as to put to the lie the charges they were making against hi of immorality,
aggressiveness, deception and trickery, and accusations that he was mad, a
magician, a soothsayer or a forger. But God was to give him victory.
Ihn Ishaq then related the story of al-Tufayl b. 'Amr al-Dawsi, but with an
incomplete chain of authorities.