Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: We set out with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). When we reached the place "Usfan", the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The spies of the polytheists are now at the place 'Dajnan'. Which of you knows the route of 'al-Hanzal'?" In the evening the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Is there anyone who will dismount and run ahead of the riders?" A man said: "O Messenger of Allah! I will do it." That man dismounted, and stones came in his way which were hurting him, and trees came which were clinging to his clothes. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Mount up!" Then another man dismounted, and the stones began to hurt him too and the trees began to catch on his clothes too, so the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Mount up!" Then we came upon a path until we reached a mountain pass called "al-Hanzal". The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The likeness of this pass is like that gate through which the Children of Israel entered, when it was said to them: 'Enter this gate in a state of prostration and say "Hittah" (relieve us of our burdens); We will forgive you your sins.' Whoever passes through this pass tonight will be forgiven." So the people began to move quickly and cross it. The last person to cross through it was Sayyiduna Qatadah bin al-Nu'man (may Allah be pleased with him), who was the furthest behind of the people. The narrator says: The people began to help one another mount, until we caught up with one another. The narrator says: Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) halted, and we halted as well.
Al-Bazzar recorded it, and its narrators are thiqat (trustworthy).
Sayyiduna Jundub bin Najiyah (may Allah be pleased with him) (the narrator is in doubt; perhaps the words are:) Sayyiduna Najiyah bin Jundub (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: When we were at the place "al-Ghamim", the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) received news about Quraysh that they had sent Khalid bin al-Walid with some horsemen to confront the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did not like to fight them, because he was compassionate towards them. He said: "Is there anyone who can take us off the road?" I said: "May my father be sacrificed for you! I will do it." Then I took those people along another route which was difficult to pass and had mountain passes in it, until, when we came to level ground, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) halted at the place "al-Hudaybiyah". It was a well that had dried up. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) took out one or two arrows from his quiver, put his blessed saliva into it, then he supplicated, and springs gushed forth from it, until I was thinking (the narrator is in doubt; perhaps the words are:) we were thinking that if we wished, we could take water from it with our hands.
Al-Tabarani recorded it; its chain contains Musa bin Ubaydah, who is da'if (weak).
Muhammad bin Ishaq narrates: On the day of al-Hudaybiyah, the person who went down into the well with the arrow of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was Sayyiduna Najiyah bin Jundub bin Umayr bin Ma'mar bin Hazim bin Amr bin Wathilah bin Sahm bin Mazin bin Salaman bin Aslam bin Afsa bin Harithah, who used to drive the camels of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him).
Al-Tabarani recorded it, and its narrators are thiqat (trustworthy).
Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: On the day of al-Hudaybiyah, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Do not light fires at night." After that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Light fires and do as you wish, for no people (or enemy) after you will attain your sa' or your mudd."
Ahmad recorded it, and its narrators are thiqat (trustworthy).
Yazid bin Malik narrates from his father that he was present with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) on the Day of the Tree (that is, at the Treaty of al-Hudaybiyah) and on the day of the sacrificial animals, when they were held back before reaching their place. A man from the polytheists said: "O Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him)! What has prompted you to bring these people against us while we dislike it?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "These people are better than you and your forefathers. They believe in Allah Almighty and the Last Day. By the One in whose Hand of Power is my soul, Allah Almighty is pleased with them."
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Kabir and al-Mu'jam al-Awsat; its chain contains Ishaq bin Idris, who is matruk (abandoned).
Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mughaffal al-Muzani (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: We were with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) at al-Hudaybiyah at the foot of a tree; this is the occasion which Allah Almighty has mentioned in the Qur'an. The branches of the tree were touching the back of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). Sayyiduna Ali bin Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him) and Suhayl bin Amr (the representative of the polytheists) were in front of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him): "Write: 'Bismillah al-Rahman al-Rahim (In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful).'" Suhayl took hold of the hand of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: "We do not know the words 'al-Rahman' and 'al-Rahim'. Have it written in the way that is familiar to us." So the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Write: 'Bismika Allahumma (In Your name, O Allah).'" Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) wrote it. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Write: 'This is the agreement which Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), the Messenger of Allah, is making with the people of Makkah.'" Suhayl bin Amr took hold of his hand and said: "We would be wronging you if you were His Messenger. Write in the way that is familiar to us." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Write that this is the agreement which Muhammad bin Abdullah bin Abd al-Muttalib is making; and I am, besides, the Messenger of Allah." Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) wrote it. While these people were still there, thirty young men came out to us, carrying weapons, and they confronted us. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) prayed against them, and Allah Almighty seized their sight. We got up and went to them, and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Have you come under anyone's covenant? Has anyone granted you protection?" They replied: "No." So the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) let them go, and Allah Almighty revealed this verse: "It is He who withheld their hands from you and your hands from them near Makkah (at al-Hudaybiyah), after He had given you victory over them; and Allah sees whatever you do."
Ahmad recorded it, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.
Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) says: "Regard your own opinion as suspect in matters of religion!" Then he mentioned the whole hadith about al-Hudaybiyah, in which, further on, are these words: "When the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) had the agreement between himself and the people of Makkah written, he said: 'Write: Bismillah al-Rahman al-Rahim (In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful).' The disbelievers said: 'If we considered this to be right, we would have affirmed it; but write as it used to be written before: Bismika Allahumma (In Your name, O Allah).' The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) agreed to this, and I did not accept it, until the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to me: 'O Umar! You see that I have agreed, and you still refuse?' Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) says: Then I agreed." (Allamah al-Haythami says:) I say: The hadith narrated from Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) is mentioned in the "Sahih", but without this wording.
Al-Bazzar recorded it, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.
Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) narrates: On the occasion of al-Hudaybiyah, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) called the people to give the pledge of allegiance. Abu Sinan bin Mihsan stood up and said: "O Messenger of Allah! I will pledge allegiance to you on what is in my heart." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "What is in your heart?" He said: "That I keep fighting with my sword in front of you until Allah Almighty grants you victory, or I am martyred." So he pledged allegiance to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) on that, and the people too pledged allegiance in the manner of the pledge of Sayyiduna Abu Sinan (may Allah be pleased with him).
Al-Tabarani recorded it; its chain contains Abd al-Aziz bin Imran, who is matruk (abandoned).
Ata' bin Abi Rabah narrates: I asked Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both): "Were you present with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) at the Pledge of Ridwan?" He replied: "Yes." I asked: "What was the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) wearing at that time?" He said: "A shirt made of cotton, a padded cloak, a sheet and a sword. I saw Sayyiduna al-Nu'man bin Muqarrin al-Muzani (may Allah be pleased with him) standing at the head of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), lifting the branches of the tree from his head, while the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was taking the pledge from the people." (Allamah al-Haythami says:) I say: A hadith about al-Hudaybiyah is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both), but it is other than this narration.
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat; its chain contains Isma'il bin Yahya bin Abdullah al-Taymi, who is da'if (weak).
Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mughaffal (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: I was one of those people whom Allah Almighty has mentioned (in this verse) (the saying of the Exalted): "I do not find (an extra animal) to give you to ride on." He said: I was holding the branches of the tree under which the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was taking the pledge from the people; I was shading him. The narrator says: We pledged allegiance to him on the condition that we would not flee.
Al-Tabarani recorded it. Its chain is jayyid (good), except that al-Rabi' bin Anas stated that it is narrated from Abu al-Aliyah or from someone other than him.
Sayyiduna Abdullah bin al-Sa'ib (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: In the year of al-Hudaybiyah, when Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) told the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) that Suhayl had been sent by his people to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) to settle with him that he would go back this year, and that next year they would vacate it (Makkah) for him for three days, he said: "Suhayl (is coming); now the matter will become sahl (that is, easy) for you."
Al-Tabarani recorded it; its chain contains Mu'ammal bin Wahb al-Makhzumi, from whom only his son Abdullah narrates, and he has been declared trustworthy; the rest of its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.
Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) says: At al-Hudaybiyah, a truce of four years was made between the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and the people of Makkah.
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat, and its narrators are thiqat (trustworthy).
Ibn Shihab narrates: When the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) gave the command for the Umrah of al-Qada', he ordered his Companions: "Uncover your shoulders, and walk briskly in the circumambulation (tawaf)." The aim of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was to show the polytheists their strength and power, and to outmanoeuvre them as far as he could. So the men, women and children of the people of Makkah gathered and began to watch the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and his Companions while they were circumambulating the House. At that time Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Rawahah (may Allah be pleased with him), with his sword hung from his shoulder, was reciting this rajaz in front of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "O sons of the disbelievers! Clear his (that is, the Prophet's (peace and blessings be upon him)) way. I bear witness that he is His (that is, Allah Almighty's) Messenger. The Most Merciful has revealed this in His revealed word, which (the word of the Most Merciful) is in scriptures recited to His Messenger. So today we will strike you on the basis of its (the Qur'an's) interpretation, just as before we struck you on the basis of its revelation: a blow that will sever the head from the body and make a friend heedless of his friend." Some of the nobles of the polytheists were not present there; out of their anger, envy and conceit they disliked seeing the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and they went off to the outskirts of Makkah. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) performed his rites and stayed there for three days.
Al-Tabarani recorded it, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.