Hadith 36

at spread in Makkah. The Muslims were suppressed and the Polytheists manifested happiness and cheerfulness. The news reached Al-Abbas Bin Abdul Muttalib, and he was injured and was not able to stand, then he went the slave to Al-Hajjaj, ‘Woe be unto you! What is what you have come with, and what is that you are saying? Allah-azwj has not Promised good from what you have come with’. Al-Hajjaj said, ‘Convey the greeting to Abu Al-Fazal and tell him to vacate one of his house for Utba, for the news is upon what he will be cheered with’. He said, ‘His slave came. When he reached the door, he said, ‘Receive good news O Abu Al-Fazal! ’ Al-Abbas leapt in happiness until he kissed between his eyes. He informed him with what Al-Hajjaj had said, and he freed him. Then Al-Hajjaj came and he informed him that Rasool-Allah-saww had conquered Khyber and seized their wealth as was booty, and the shares of Allah-azwj the Exalted had Flowed in their wealth, and Rasool-Allah-saww had selected Safiya and take her for himself-saww, and give her a choice between that he-saww frees her and she becomes his-saww wife or she joins up with her family. She chose that he-saww frees her and become his-saww wife. But I have come her for the wealth of mine over there, I wanted to gather it. I went with it and sought permission of Rasool-Allah-saww, and he-saww permitted for me that I can say whatever I like. So conceal upon me for three (days), then mentioned whatever comes to you’. His wife gather whatever was with her, from the ornaments and chattels and handed it over to him, then rolled it. When it was after three (days) Al-Abbas came to the wife of Al-Hajjaj and said, ‘What has your husband done? ’ She informed him that he had gone on such and such day. And she said, ‘May Allah-azwj not Make you grieve, O Abu Al-Fazal! It has been grievous upon us that which has reached you’. He said, ‘Yes, May Allah-azwj not Make me grieve, and he did not happen to praise Allah-azwj except what is beloved to us. Allah-azwj has Conquered Khyber for Rasool-Allah-saww, and Rasool-Allah-saww chose Safiya for himself-saww. So if there was a need for you regarding your husband, then join up with me’. She said, ‘By Allah-azwj, I thought you were sincere’. He said, ‘By Allah-azwj, I am sincere and the matter is upon what I have informed you’. Then he went until he came to the gathering of Quraysh and they said when he passed by them, ‘May you not be hit by except goodness, O Abu Al-Fazal’. He said, ‘Nothing hits me except for goodness by the praise of Allah-azwj. Al-Hajjaj informed me that Khyber has been Conquered by Allah-azwj for His-azwj Rasool-saww, and the shares of Allah-azwj have flowed in it, and Rasool-Allah-saww selected Safiya for himself-saww, and he had asked me to conceal it on his behalf for three (days), and rather he had come to take his wealth and whatever was for him from anything over here, then he went’. He said, ‘Thus Allah-azwj Returned the depression which was with the Muslims to be upon the Polytheists, and the ones who had entered his house came out depressed until they came to Al-Abbas. He informed them the news, and the Muslims were cheered, and Allah-azwj Returned whatever depression or anguish or grief they had to be upon the Polytheists’’. [37] (This is not a Hadith)