We were sitting with Hudhayfah when a man said, "If I had lived in the time of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, I would have fought alongside him and exerted myself."Hudhayfah replied, "Would you really have done so? Let me tell you what we went through with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ on the night of the Confederates. A fierce wind and bitter cold overtook us, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, 'Is there no man who will bring me news of the enemy? Allah will make him my companion on the Day of Resurrection.' We remained silent and not one of us answered him.Then he said again, 'Is there no man who will bring us news of the enemy? Allah will make him my companion on the Day of Resurrection.' We remained silent and not one of us answered him.Then he said a third time, 'Is there no man who will bring us news of the enemy? Allah will make him my companion on the Day of Resurrection.' We remained silent and not one of us answered him.So he said, 'Get up, Hudhayfah, and bring us news of the enemy.' Once he had called me by my name, I had no choice but to rise. He said, 'Go and bring me news of the enemy, but do not alarm them against me.'When I left his presence, it felt as though I were walking in a warm bath until I reached them. I saw Abu Sufyan warming his back at the fire. I placed an arrow on the bow and was about to shoot him, but I remembered the words of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, 'Do not alarm them against me.' Had I shot, I would have hit him. So I turned back, again walking as though through a warm bath.When I came to him and reported the news of the enemy and finished, I felt the cold. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ dressed me in the spare part of a cloak he was wearing while praying in it, and I kept on sleeping until morning. When morning came, he said, 'Get up, sleeper.'"
حدثنا زهير بن حرب وإسحق بن إبراهيم جميعا عن جرير قال زهير حدثنا جرير عن الأعمش
كنا عند حذيفة فقال رجل لو أدركت رسول الله ﷺ قاتلت معه وأبليت فقال حذيفة أنت كنت تفعل ذلك لقد رأيتنا مع رسول الله ﷺ ليلة الأحزاب وأخذتنا ريح شديدة وقر فقال رسول الله ﷺ ألا رجل يأتيني بخبر القوم جعله الله معي يوم القيامة فسكتنا فلم يجبه منا أحد ثم قال ألا رجل يأتينا بخبر القوم جعله الله معي يوم القيامة فسكتنا فلم يجبه منا أحد ثم قال ألا رجل يأتينا بخبر القوم جعله الله معي يوم القيامة فسكتنا فلم يجبه منا أحد فقال قم يا حذيفة فأتنا بخبر القوم فلم أجد بدا إذ دعاني باسمي أن أقوم قال اذهب فأتني بخبر القوم ولا تذعرهم علي فلما وليت من عنده جعلت كأنما أمشي في حمام حتى أتيتهم فرأيت أبا سفيان يصلي ظهره بالنار فوضعت سهما في كبد القوس فأردت أن أرميه فذكرت قول رسول الله ﷺ ولا تذعرهم علي ولو رميته لأصبته فرجعت وأنا أمشي في مثل الحمام فلما أتيته فأخبرته بخبر القوم وفرغت قررت فألبسني رسول الله ﷺ من فضل عباءة كانت عليه يصلي فيها فلم أزل نائما حتى أصبحت فلما أصبحت قال قم يا نومان