صحيح البخاري
Bukhari
كتاب المغازيThe Book of Al- Maghazi
بَابُ غَزْوَةِ الْحُدَيْبِيَةِ:Chapter. The Ghazwa of Al- Hudaibiya.
Hadith 4165
اُردوEn
حَدَّثَنَا قَبِيصَةُ , حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ , عَنْ طَارِقٍ , قَالَ : ذُكِرَتْ عِنْدَ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيِّبِ الشَّجَرَةُ , فَضَحِكَ فَقَالَ : أَخْبَرَنِي أَبِي , وَكَانَ شَهِدَهَا .
Narrated Tariq: (The tree where the Ridwan Pledge of allegiance was taken by the Prophet) was mentioned before Sa`id bin Al-Musaiyab. On that he smiled and said, "My father informed me (about it) and he had witnessed it (i.e. the Pledge) ."
Explanation & Benefits
Shaykh Abdul Sattar al-Hammad
Hadith Commentary:
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The tree under which the Pledge of Ridwan (Bay‘at al-Ridwan) took place was crooked and was called Hadba’, and it is after this tree that Hudaybiyyah is named.
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Abdullah ibn ‘Umar radi Allahu anhu, agreeing with Musayyib ibn Hazn radi Allahu anhu, also stated that when we came for ‘umrah the following year, even the person who had witnessed the pledge under the tree could not identify it.
This too was a mercy from Allah Ta‘ala.
(Sahih al-Bukhari, al-Jihad wa’l-Siyar, Hadith: 2958)
Since the Pledge of Ridwan, which was full of goodness and blessings, took place under this tree, there was a fear that people might fall into tribulation because of it, so its location was concealed from people’s sight.
If it had remained, there was a danger that, out of extreme reverence, people would begin to worship it, just as the ignorant behave with places of lesser significance.
People associate beliefs of good or evil with such things.
It was for this very reason that Ibn ‘Umar radi Allahu anhu said that its being hidden from people’s sight was also a mercy from Allah.
(Fath al-Bari: 6/143)
However, Hafiz Ibn Hajar rahimahullah writes that Sa‘id ibn al-Musayyib’s statement that people could not recognize the place the following year does not indicate that its identification was completely lost and that people had no knowledge of it at all, because earlier Imam al-Bukhari rahimahullah narrated from Jabir radi Allahu anhu that, “If I could see today, I would surely show you the place of the tree.” This shows that he recognized the exact location of the tree.
Ibn Sa‘d, with a sound chain, has stated that when ‘Umar radi Allahu anhu learned that people were coming to the tree, staying there, and performing prayers, he rebuked them and forbade them from doing so, then ordered the tree to be cut down. This order was carried out, and the tree was cut down, after which its location became hidden from people’s sight.
(al-Tabaqat al-Kubra by Ibn Sa‘d: 2/100; and Fath al-Bari: 7/558)
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It should be noted that people had built a mosque under this tree and would pray there for the sake of seeking blessings (tabarruk). Since there is no allowance for such forms of seeking blessings in Islam, it was therefore abolished.
And Allah knows best.
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The tree under which the Pledge of Ridwan (Bay‘at al-Ridwan) took place was crooked and was called Hadba’, and it is after this tree that Hudaybiyyah is named.
➋
Abdullah ibn ‘Umar radi Allahu anhu, agreeing with Musayyib ibn Hazn radi Allahu anhu, also stated that when we came for ‘umrah the following year, even the person who had witnessed the pledge under the tree could not identify it.
This too was a mercy from Allah Ta‘ala.
(Sahih al-Bukhari, al-Jihad wa’l-Siyar, Hadith: 2958)
Since the Pledge of Ridwan, which was full of goodness and blessings, took place under this tree, there was a fear that people might fall into tribulation because of it, so its location was concealed from people’s sight.
If it had remained, there was a danger that, out of extreme reverence, people would begin to worship it, just as the ignorant behave with places of lesser significance.
People associate beliefs of good or evil with such things.
It was for this very reason that Ibn ‘Umar radi Allahu anhu said that its being hidden from people’s sight was also a mercy from Allah.
(Fath al-Bari: 6/143)
However, Hafiz Ibn Hajar rahimahullah writes that Sa‘id ibn al-Musayyib’s statement that people could not recognize the place the following year does not indicate that its identification was completely lost and that people had no knowledge of it at all, because earlier Imam al-Bukhari rahimahullah narrated from Jabir radi Allahu anhu that, “If I could see today, I would surely show you the place of the tree.” This shows that he recognized the exact location of the tree.
Ibn Sa‘d, with a sound chain, has stated that when ‘Umar radi Allahu anhu learned that people were coming to the tree, staying there, and performing prayers, he rebuked them and forbade them from doing so, then ordered the tree to be cut down. This order was carried out, and the tree was cut down, after which its location became hidden from people’s sight.
(al-Tabaqat al-Kubra by Ibn Sa‘d: 2/100; and Fath al-Bari: 7/558)
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It should be noted that people had built a mosque under this tree and would pray there for the sake of seeking blessings (tabarruk). Since there is no allowance for such forms of seeking blessings in Islam, it was therefore abolished.
And Allah knows best.
Source: Hidayat al-Qari: Commentary on Sahih Bukhari, Urdu, Page: 4165
