I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ in the market of Dhul-Majaz, wearing a red garment, and I heard him saying, "People, say 'There is no god but Allah' and you will succeed."A man was following him, throwing stones at him until his ankles and heels were bleeding, while saying, "People, do not obey this man, for he is a liar."I asked, "Who is this?"Someone replied, "This is the young man of the clan of Abdul-Muttalib."I asked, "And who is the one following him and pelting him with stones?"He said, "That is Abdul-Uzza, Abu Lahab."When Islam became prominent, we set out and stopped near Medina, and we had a woman in a litter with us. While we were sitting there, a man wearing two garments came up, greeted us, and asked, "Where have you come from?"We said, "From al-Rabadha."We had a camel with us, and he asked, "Will you sell this camel?"We said, "Yes."He asked, "For how much?"We said, "For such-and-such measures of dates."He took it without bargaining us down, saying, "I have taken it." Then he disappeared behind the walls of Medina.We began blaming each other, saying, "You handed over your camel to a man you do not even know."But the woman in the litter said, "Do not blame each other. I saw the face of a man who would never cheat you. I have never seen anything more closely resembling the full moon on the night of Badr than his face."In the evening, a man came to us, greeted us, and said, "I am the messenger of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. He says you may eat until you are full and measure out for yourselves until you have your full amount."So we ate until we were satisfied and measured out until we had our complete share.The next morning we entered Medina, and there was the Messenger of Allah ﷺ standing on the pulpit delivering a sermon, saying, "The hand that gives is the upper hand. Begin with those you are responsible for, your mother and father, your sister and brother, then those nearest to you and then those next nearest."A man stood and said, "Messenger of Allah, these people, the clan of Thalaba bin Yarbu, killed so-and-so in the days of ignorance. Take retribution from them on our behalf."The Messenger of Allah ﷺ raised his hands until I saw the whiteness of his armpits and said, "No mother commits a crime against her child. No mother commits a crime against her child."
رأيت رسول الله ﷺ في سوق ذي المجاز، وعليه حلة حمراء، فسمعته يقول: يا أيها الناس قولوا: لا إله إلا الله تفلحوا ورجل يتبعه يرميه بالحجارة، قد أدمى عرقوبيه وكعبيه، وهو يقول: يا أيها الناس لا تطيعوا هذا؛ فإنه كذاب. فقلت: من هذا؟ قيل: هذا غلام بني عبد المطلب. قلت: فمن هذا الذي يتبعه يرميه بالحجارة؟ قال: هذا عبد العزى أبو لهب. قال: فلما ظهر الإسلام خرجنا في ذلك حتى نزلنا قريبا من المدينة، ومعنا ظعينة لنا، فبينا نحن قعود، إذ أتانا رجل عليه ثوبان، فسلم، وقال: من أين أقبل القوم؟ قلنا من الربذة قال: ومعنا جمل. قال: أتبيعون هذا الجمل؟ قلنا: نعم. قال: بكم؟ قلنا: بكذا وكذا صاعا من تمر، قال: فأخذه ولم يستنقصنا قال: قد أخذته ثم توارى بحيطان المدينة، فتلاومنا فيما بيننا، فقلنا: أعطيتم جملكم رجلا لا تعرفونه. فقالت الظعينة: لا تلاوموا، فإني رأيت وجه رجل لم يكن ليحقركم، ما رأيت شيئا أشبه بالقمر ليلة البدر من وجهه، قال: فلما كان العشي أتانا رجل فسلم علينا، وقال: أنا رسول رسول الله ﷺ، يقول: إن لكم أن تأكلوا. حتى تشبعوا، وتكتالوا حتى تستوفوا قال: فأكلنا حتى شبعنا واكتلنا حتى استوفينا، قال: ثم قدمنا المدينة من الغد، فإذا رسول الله ﷺ قائم يخطب على المنبر، وهو يقول: يد المعطي العليا، وابدأ بمن تعول، أمك وأباك، وأختك وأخاك، وأدناك أدناك، فقام رجل فقال: يا رسول الله، هؤلاء بنو ثعلبة بن يربوع قتلوا فلانا في الجاهلية، فخذ لنا بثأرنا منه، فرفع رسول الله ﷺ يديه حتى رأيت بياض إبطيه وقال: ألا تجني أم على ولد ألا تجني أم على ولد.
Reported by Ibn Hibban (6562), Daraqutni (3/44–45), and Hakim (2/611–612), all from the hadith of Yazid bin Ziyad bin Abu Jaad, from Jami bin Shaddad, from Tariq bin Abdullah Muharibi, who related it at length. Nasai (4839) and Ibn Majah (2670) reported it in abbreviated form through this same route. See "The Crimes" chapter. Its chain of transmission is hasan because of Yazid bin Abu Jaad, whose hadith is hasan.On this subject there is also a report from Urwa bin Zubayr, who said, "When that fool scattered that dirt on the head of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ entered his house with the dirt still on his head. One of his daughters got up and began washing the dirt off him while she was crying, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to her, 'Do not cry, my little daughter, for Allah will protect your father.'" He said, and in between he was saying, "Quraysh never did anything to me that I disliked until Abu Talib died."This was reported by Ibn Ishaq, who said, "Hisham bin Urwa told me, from his father," and he related it. Sirat bin Hisham (1/416), and it is a mursal report.Ibn Ishaq said, "Hakeem bin Jubayr told me, from Saeed bin Jubayr, who said, 'I asked Abdullah bin Abbas, "Did the polytheists inflict such torment upon the companions of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ that they could be excused for abandoning their religion?"' He said, 'Yes, by Allah, they would beat one of them, starve him, and deprive him of water until he could not even manage to sit upright from the severity of the suffering that had befallen him, until he gave them whatever they demanded of him by way of recanting. They would say to him, "Are Lat and Uzza your gods besides Allah?" and he would say, "Yes." Even a dung beetle might pass by them, and they would say to him, "Is this beetle your god besides Allah?" and he would say, "Yes," ransoming himself from the hardship they were inflicting on him.'" See Sirat bin Hisham (1/320).Among those who openly displayed injustice toward the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and his companions were Utbah bin Rabia, his brother Shayba bin Rabia, Uqbah bin Abu Muayt, Abu Sufyan bin Harb and his son Hanzala, Hakam bin Abu As bin Umaya and his brother Muawiya, Aswad bin Muttalib and his son Zama, Abu Bakhtari bin Hisham, Walid bin Mughira, As bin Waail, Munabbih bin Hajjaj and his brother Nabih, Umaya bin Khalaf and his brother Ubayy, and others. See Al-Durar fi Ikhtisar Al-Maghazi wal-Siyar (pp. 44–46) by Ibn Abdul-Barr.