Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Unays (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) sent me, Sayyiduna Abu Qatadah (may Allah be pleased with him), an ally of the Ansar, and Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Atik (may Allah be pleased with him) to Ibn Abi al-Huqayq to kill him. We set out and reached Khaybar at night. We sought out their doors one by one and locked them from outside, then gathered the keys and put them up high. Our companions climbed the date palms, and Abdullah bin Atik and I reached the staircase of Ibn Abi al-Huqayq. Abdullah bin Atik spoke, and Ibn Abi al-Huqayq said (to his wife): "May your mother lose you! This is Abdullah; where has he come from in this town? Get up and open the door, for at this hour a generous man is not turned away from the door." She got up, and I said to Abdullah bin Atik: "Go ahead." He drew his sword on them. His wife began to scream, so I drew my sword on her, but I remembered the saying of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) that he (peace and blessings be upon him) "forbade killing women and children," so I held back. Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Unays (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Then I entered his upper room and stood looking at his intense whiteness in the darkness of the house. When he saw me, he picked up a pillow and shielded himself with it. I wanted to raise the sword to strike him but could not, because the ceiling was low, so I thrust the sword into him and then came out. My companion asked: "Have you done it?" I said: "Yes." He went in and stood over him (to make sure). Then we came down the staircase, and Abdullah bin Atik fell on the stairs and said: "Oh, my leg! My leg is broken." I said to him: "Nothing has happened to your leg." I put down my bow and carried him; Abdullah was short and slight. Then I set him down, and his leg was fine. We went on until we joined our companions. Meanwhile the woman cried out: "Alas, a night raid!" and the people of Khaybar rose up in uproar. Then I remembered that my bow had been left on the staircase, and I said: "By Allah, I will certainly go back and fetch my bow." My companions said: "The people of Khaybar have risen up; you will be killed." I said: "I will not return without taking my bow." So I went back and saw that the people of Khaybar were in uproar, and the only words on their tongues were: "Who killed Ibn Abi al-Huqayq?" Whenever I looked at anyone's face, or anyone looked at mine, I too said what he was saying: "Who killed Ibn Abi al-Huqayq?" until I reached the staircase, climbed up with the people and took my bow, then joined my companions. We travelled by night and hid by day, and when we hid by day we would post a lookout to watch over us. When we came near Madinah, at al-Bayda', I was their lookout. Then I signalled to them with my garment, and they came down and set off running swiftly; I too came down after them and caught up with them, until we reached Madinah. My companions asked me: "Did you see something?" I said: "No, but I saw how exhausted you were, and I wanted fear to make you move quickly." We came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) while he (peace and blessings be upon him) was addressing the people, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "These faces have succeeded." We said: "O Messenger of Allah, may your face succeed." He (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "Did you kill him?" We said: "Yes." Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) sent for the sword with which he had been killed and said: "Here is his food, on the edge of the sword."
Hadith Referenceمسند أبي يعلى الموصلي / بقية من مسند عبد الله بن أنيس / 907
Hadith Gradingمحدثین:إسناده ضعيف
Hadith Takhrij«حکم الحدیث مسند ابی یعلی محققاً تنسیق حسين سليم أسد - مکتبہ شاملہ :قال حسين سليم أسد: إسناده ضعيف . » «قال سعيد بن محمد السناري: وقال الهيثمي: «فيه إبراهيم بن إسماعيل بن مجمع وهو ضعيف» «انفرد به المصنف من هذا الطريق ، مسند ابویعلیٰ ترقیم الاثری: 902»