22. THE OBJECTION TO THE FAIR DISTRIBUTION OF THE MESSENGER OF ALLAH BY SOME IGNORAMUSES FROM THE PEOPLE OF SCHISM AND HYPOCRISY
Al-Bukhari related on the authority of Abdullah who narrated: “When Allah’s Messenger, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, distributed the war booty of Hunain, a man from the Ansar said: ‘He (i.e. the Prophet), did not intend to please Allah in this distribution.’ So I came to the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and informed him of that (statement) whereupon the color of his face changed and he said: ‘May Allah bestow His Mercy on Moosa, for he was troubled with more than this, but he remained patient’.”
It is recorded in the Saheehain from the Hadith of Abu Sa’eed who narrated: “While we were with the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, when he was distributing (the booty), there came DhulKhuwaisirah, a man from the tribe of Bani Tameem, who said: ‘O Allah’s Messenger! Do justice.’ The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, said: ‘Woe to you, who could do justice if I were not to? I would be a desperate loser if I did not do justice.’ ‘Umar said: ‘O Allah’s Messenger! Allow me to chop his head off.’ The Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, said: ‘Leave him, for he has companions who pray and fast in such a way that you would consider your fasting negligible in comparison to theirs. They recite the Qur’an but it does not go beyond their throats (i.e. they do not act on it) and they will desert Islam as an arrowgoes through a victim’s body, so that the hunter, on looking at the arrow’s blade, would see nothing on it; he would look at its Rusaf (arrow head) and see nothing: he would look at its Nadiyy (arrow shaft) and see nothing, and he would look at its Qudhadh (arrow vanes) and see nothing (neither meat nor blood), for the arrow has been too fast even for the blood and excretions to smear. The sign by which they will be recognized is that among them will be a black man, one of his arms will resemble a woman’s breast or a lump of meat moving loosely. Those people will appear when there are differences among the people.’ I testify that I heard this narration from Allah’s Messenger and I testify that ‘Ali Ibn Abi Talib fought with such people, and I was in his company. He ordered that the man (described by the Prophet) should be looked for. The man was brought and I looked at him and noticed that he looked exactly as the Prophet described him.”
By: Ibn Katheer
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