Mukhtasar Bukhari

Sayyiduna Salamah bin Akwa’ (may Allah be pleased with him) says: We set out at night with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) during the expedition of Khaybar. Someone said to Sayyiduna ‘Amir (may Allah be pleased with him), “O ‘Amir! Why don’t you recite some poetry for us?” Sayyiduna ‘Amir (may Allah be pleased with him) was a poet. He dismounted from his ride and began to recite poetry to the people, saying:

“O Allah! If it were not for You, we would not have been guided,
Nor given charity, nor prayed.
Forgive us for our shortcomings in obeying You,
We sacrifice ourselves for You,
And if we fight, keep our feet firm,
And send down tranquility upon us.
When someone calls us to injustice, we will refuse,
The disbelievers have raised a clamor and called for help against us.”

The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: “Who is this reciting poetry to urge the camels on?” The people said, “‘Amir bin Akwa’ (may Allah be pleased with him).” So he (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: “May Allah have mercy on him.” A man (Sayyiduna ‘Umar, may Allah be pleased with him) said, “O Prophet of Allah, (Paradise or martyrdom) has become obligatory for ‘Amir. Why did you not let us benefit from him as well?” Then we reached Khaybar and besieged the people of Khaybar. Meanwhile, we suffered severe hunger. Then Allah granted victory to the Muslims over Khaybar.

On the day of victory, the Muslims lit fires in the evening (everyone began to cook food). The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) asked: “What is this fire, and what are you cooking under it?” The people replied, “Under meat.” He (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) asked: “Meat of which animal?” They replied, “Domestic donkeys.” He (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: “Throw it away and break the pots.” Someone said, “Should we throw it away and wash the pots?” He (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: “Do so.”

Then, when the ranks were formed to face the enemy, Sayyiduna ‘Amir (may Allah be pleased with him) had a short sword. He struck at the leg of a Jew, but the tip of the sword turned back and struck Sayyiduna ‘Amir’s own knee, and Sayyiduna ‘Amir (may Allah be pleased with him) was martyred from that wound.

(The narrator) says: When everyone returned, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) saw me sad, so he took my hand and asked: “How are you?” I replied, “May my parents be sacrificed for you! People say that ‘Amir’s deeds have been lost (because he killed himself).” The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: “Whoever said that is lying. ‘Amir will have a double reward.” And he joined his two fingers together and said: “‘Amir (may Allah be pleased with him) was striving and fighting. No Arab has walked the earth like ‘Amir. There are very few Arabs living in Madinah like him.” And in another narration it is stated: “No Arab like ‘Amir has been born in Madinah.”

´Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) says that` the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) arrived at Khaybar at night. (This hadith has already been mentioned in the Book of Prayer under the chapter: The narrations that are mentioned regarding the thigh...) In this narration, it is further mentioned that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) killed those among them who fought and took their women and children captive.

Narrated Abu Musa Al-Ash'ari (may Allah be pleased with him): When the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) attacked Khaybar, (on the way) the people climbed a high place and began to call out loudly: "Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, La ilaha illallah." So the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "Be gentle with yourselves (and do not shout), for you are not calling upon one who is deaf or absent, but you are calling upon the One who hears and is very near, and He is with you." (At that time) I was right behind the riding animal of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him). He heard me reciting: "La hawla wa la quwwata illa billah." Then he said: "O Abdullah bin Qais!" (This is the real name of Abu Musa Al-Ash'ari, may Allah be pleased with him.) I said: "Labbaik, O Messenger of Allah! (I am present, O Messenger of Allah!)" So the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "Shall I not tell you a phrase which is one of the treasures of Paradise?" I said: "Certainly, O Messenger of Allah! Please tell me, may my parents be sacrificed for you." The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "(That phrase is) La hawla wa la quwwata illa billah."

Sayyiduna Sahl bin Sa’d Sa’idi (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) and the polytheists confronted each other (on the day of Khaybar) and both sides fought. When the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) returned to his army and the disbelievers to theirs, there was a man among the companions of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) who would not leave any single polytheist but would go after him and strike him with his sword. The people said, “Today he has done such deeds that none of us could do (he killed many disbelievers).” The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: “He is from the people of Hell.” One of the Muslims said, “I will stay with him.” So he stayed with him; wherever he stopped, he would stop, and when he ran, he would run with him. (The narrator said:) Eventually, that man was severely wounded and hastened his death; he placed the handle of his sword on the ground and the tip between his chest, then leaned with all his weight on it and killed himself. So the other man came to the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) and said, “I bear witness that you are truly the Messenger of Allah.” The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) asked: “How is that?” He replied, “O Messenger of Allah! Just now you declared that man to be from the people of Hell, and your statement was hard on the people, so I thought I should go and see his condition and inform the people about it. So I followed him, and then he was severely wounded, and to hasten his death, he placed the handle of his sword on the ground and the tip against his chest, then leaned with all his weight on it and killed himself.” Upon hearing this, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: “A person may do the deeds of the people of Paradise in the eyes of the people, yet he is from the people of Hell; and a person may do the deeds of the people of Hell in the eyes of the people, yet he is from the people of Paradise.”

And in another narration (Abu Huraira, may Allah be pleased with him, is also the narrator), he said: Then the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "O so-and-so! Stand up and announce that no one will enter Paradise except a believer, and Allah, the Exalted, also supports the religion through a wicked person."

Narrated from Sayyiduna Salamah bin Akwa’ (may Allah be pleased with him): On the day of Khaybar (the Battle of Khaybar), I received an injury on my shin, so I came to the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him). He blew over it three times, and after that, I never felt any pain from it until today.

`Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) says that` the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) stayed for three nights between Madinah and Khaybar, and during these nights he spent the wedding night with Umm al-Mu’minin Safiyyah (may Allah be pleased with her). Then I invited people to the wedding feast (walimah) of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). There was neither bread nor meat in it; there was only this, that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered Sayyiduna Bilal (may Allah be pleased with him) to spread a dining cloth. The dining cloth was spread, and then dates, cheese, and clarified butter were placed on it. Then the Muslims began to discuss among themselves whether Safiyyah was among the Mothers of the Believers or a slave woman. Then they themselves said: If the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) makes her observe hijab, she will be among the Mothers of the Believers, and if he does not make her observe hijab, she will remain a slave woman. So when the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) set out, he made a place for Umm al-Mu’minin Safiyyah (may Allah be pleased with her) to sit behind him and drew a curtain (for her).

It is narrated from Amir al-Mu'minin Sayyiduna Ali bin Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) on the day of Khaybar (the Battle of Khaybar) forbade temporary marriage with women and eating the meat of donkeys.

Narrated Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) on the day of Khaybar gave two shares to the horse and one share to the foot soldier from the spoils of war.

`Sayyiduna Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) says:` When we were in Yemen, news reached us that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) had left Makkah, so we also set out to migrate towards him (peace be upon him). I and my two brothers, Abu Burdah and Abu Rahm, were with me; I was the youngest of them, and fifty-three (53) men from my people accompanied us. So, we all boarded a ship. By chance, this ship reached the land of the Negus, the king of Abyssinia. There we met Sayyiduna Ja’far bin Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him). We stayed with him, then we all set out together and reached the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) when he had already conquered Khaybar. Other people began to say to us, the people of the ship, that in migration, we have preceded you. And Sayyidah Asma bint Umais (may Allah be pleased with her), who had come with us, went as a guest to Umm al-Mu’minin Hafsah (may Allah be pleased with her), and she too had migrated with the emigrants to the land of the Negus. Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) came to Umm al-Mu’minin Hafsah (may Allah be pleased with her) while Sayyidah Asma bint Umais (may Allah be pleased with her) was present with her. Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) saw Asma and asked, “Who is this?” Umm al-Mu’minin Hafsah (may Allah be pleased with her) replied, “This is Asma bint Umais.” He said, “The one who went to the land of Abyssinia and has now come by sea?” Asma (may Allah be pleased with her) said, “Yes, I am she.” Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said, “We have preceded you in migration, so we have more right to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) than you.” Hearing this, she became angry and said: “By Allah! Never! You were with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), he would feed your hungry and advise your ignorant, and we were in the land of strangers and enemies, which is Abyssinia, and all these hardships of ours were in the way of Allah and His Messenger. By Allah! Eating and drinking is forbidden for me until I mention your words to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him). We were harmed and were always in fear. Soon I will mention this to the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) and ask him.” By Allah! I will neither lie nor be crooked nor say more than this.” When the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) arrived, Sayyidah Asma (may Allah be pleased with her) said, “O Prophet of Allah! Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) has said such and such.” The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) asked, “What did you reply to him?” She said, “I replied to him in such and such a way.” The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said, “No one has more right than you, for Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) and his companions have one migration, and you, the people of the ship, have two migrations.”

Narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) said: I recognize the voices of the Ash‘ari people when they recite the Qur’an in their homes at night in Madinah, and by the sound of their recitation at night I recognize their dwellings, even though I have not seen the places where they stayed during the day. And among them is a wise man, that when he meets the cavalry of the disbelievers or the enemy, he says to them: My companions command you to wait (to fight) for them.

Narrated Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him): We came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) after the conquest of Khaybar, so he gave us a share (from the spoils of Khaybar), and he did not give a share to anyone else who was not present at the time of the conquest.