The mockers were al-Walid bin al-Mughira, al-Aswad bin Abd Yaghuth al-Zuhri, al-Aswad bin al-Muttalib Abu Zamaa from the Banu Asad bin Abd al-Uzza, al-Harith bin Antala al-Sahmi, and al-As bin Waail. Jibreel came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ after he had complained about them.Jibreel showed him al-Walid, the father of Amr bin al-Mughira, and gestured toward his main artery.The Messenger of Allah ﷺ asked, "What have you done?"Jibreel replied, "I have taken care of him."Then he showed him al-Aswad bin al-Muttalib, and Jibreel gestured toward his eyes.He asked, "What have you done?"Jibreel said, "I have taken care of him."Then he showed him al-Aswad bin Abd Yaghuth al-Zuhri, and gestured toward his head.He asked, "What have you done?"Jibreel said, "I have taken care of him."Then he showed him al-Harith bin Antala al-Sahmi, and gestured toward his head, or he said toward his belly.He asked, "What have you done?"Jibreel said, "I have taken care of him."Then al-As bin Waail passed by him, and Jibreel gestured toward the sole of his foot.He asked, "What have you done?"Jibreel said, "I have taken care of him."As for al-Walid bin al-Mughira, he passed by a man from Khuza who was feathering an arrow, and the arrow struck his main artery and severed it.As for al-Aswad bin al-Muttalib, he went blind. Some say he simply went blind in this manner, while others say that he sat down under an acacia tree and began calling out, "My sons, will you not defend me? I have been killed!" They kept replying, "We see nothing." He kept saying, "My sons, will you not protect me? I am perishing. Here it is, piercing my eyes with thorns!" They kept replying, "We see nothing." He continued in that state until both of his eyes were blinded.As for al-Aswad bin Abd Yaghuth al-Zuhri, sores broke out on his head, and he died from them.As for al-Harith bin Antala, jaundice took hold of him in his belly until it came out of his mouth, and he died from it.As for al-As bin Waail, while he was going about one day, a thorny plant entered his head and filled it until he died from it.Another narrator said in this same hadith that he rode to Taif on a donkey, and the donkey crouched down on a thorny plant, so a thorn pierced the sole of his foot and killed him.
في قول الله عز وجل: {إنا كفينك المستهزين} [الحجر: ٩٥]
المستهزءون: الوليد بن المغيرة، والأسود بن عبد يغوث الزهري، والأسود بن المطلب أبو زمعة من بني أسد بن عبد العزي، والحارث بن عنطلة السهمي، والعاص بن وائل فأتاه جبريل عليه السلام شكاهم إليه رسول الله ﷺ فأراه الوليد أبا عمرو بن المغيرة فأوما جبريل عليه السلام إلى أبجله فقال ما صنعت؟ قال: كفيته، ثم أراه الأسود بن المطلب، فأومأ جبريل إلى عينيه فقال: ما صنعت؟ قال: كفيته، ثم أراه الأسود بن عبد يغوث الزهري، فأوما إلى رأسه، فقال: ما صنعت؟ قال: كفيته، ثم أراه الحارث بن عنطلة السهمي، فأومأ إلى رأسه أو قال إلى بطنه فقال: ما صنعت؟ قال: كفيته، ومر به العاص بن وائل فأوما إلى أخمصه، فقال: ما صنعت؟ قال: كفيته، فأما الوليد بن المغيرة فمر برجل من خزاعة وهو يريش نبلا له فأصاب أبجله فقطعها، وأما الأسود بن المطلب فعمي، فمنهم من يقول عمي هكذا، ومنهم من يقول: نزل تحت سمرة فجعل يقول يا بني ألا تدفعون عني قد قتلت فجعلوا يقولون: ما نرى شيئا، وجعل يقول: يا بني! ألا تمنعون عني، قد هلكت ها هو ذا أطعن بالشوك في عيني، فجعلوا يقولون: ما نرى شيئا! فلم يزل كذلك حتى عميت عيناه، وأما الأسود بن عبد يغوث الزهري فخرج في رأسه قروح فمات منها، وأما الحارث بن عنطلة فأخذه الماء الأصفر في بطنه حتى خرج من فيه فمات فيها، وأما العاص بن وائل فبينما هو كذلك يوما إذ دخل في رأسه شبرقة حتى امتلأت منها فمات منها وقال غيره في هذا الحديث: فركب إلى الطائف على حمار فربض على شبرقة فدخلت أخمص قدمه شوكة فقتلته.
Tabarani narrated it in Al-Awsat (5/515–516) and Bayhaqi in Al-Dalail (2/316–318), both of them through two different routes, from Sufyan bin Husayn, from Jafar bin Iyas, from Saeed bin Jubayr, from Ibn Abbas, and he mentioned it. Its chain is hasan because of Sufyan bin Husayn, for his narrations are hasan when they are not from Zuhri. Haythami mentioned it in Al-Majma (47) and attributed it to Tabarani, saying, "In it is Muhammad bin Abdul-Hakeem Nisaburi, whom I do not know, and the rest of its men are reliable." I say, but he has a corroborating narrator in Bayhaqi's version.As for Harith bin Antalah, also said to be Ghaytalah, which is his mother's name, he is Harith bin Qays Sahmi, attributed to his mother. Shaybi said, "They were seven." But the first account is the well-known one. This was stated by Hafiz bin Kathir in his Tafsir.