49. THE ARRIVAL OF THE DELEGATION OF TAYY’ ALONG WITH ZAID AL-KHAIL
Ibn Ishaq related the delegation of Tayy’ which included Zaid Al-Khail who was their leader. When they reached Allah’s Messenger, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, they had a discussion with him and he presented Islam to them, which they accepted and became good Muslims. As related to me by an impeccable source from the people of Tayy’, Allah’s Messenger, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, said to them: “The Arabs are never exact at estimating people. They have never told me about the virtues of a man correctly; for when I see the man concerned I realize that they have overestimated him except Zaid Al-Khail, when I met him I knew that they had underestimated him.” Allah’s Messenger, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, nicknamed him Zaid Al-Khair and apportioned to him Fade and two other pieces of land with it and wrote a document for him concerning that.
He left the presence of Allah’s Messenger, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, to return to his people. Allah’s Messenger, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, said: “If Zaid survives the fever of Madinah, then he would not (be blemished).” Ibn Ishaq added: When he got to a part of the territory of Najd by one of its oases called Fardah, he was gripped by fever and he died there. When he felt the pangs of death, he said:
Are my people departing toward the East in the early morning? While I am left alone in the house by (the spring of) Fardah at Najd How many days have gone by when I took ill and I was visited by the visitors Whoever (from them) is not righteous will toil. When he died, his wife, due to her ignorance, paucity of intelligence and piety, burned the document written for him by Allah’s Messenger, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. I say: It is recorded in the Saheehain on the authority of Abu Sa’eed that ‘Ali Ibn Abi Talib sent to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, from Yemen some gold alloyed with clay in a leather bag dyed in the leaves of Mimosa. He distributed it among four men: Zaid Al-Khail, ‘Alqama Ibn Ulathah, Aqra’ Ibn Habis and ‘Uyainah Ibn Badr.
By: Ibn Katheer
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