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An incident of "Istighatha"

(Asking help from Huzoor proof from his Seerah)

Using Intermediaries And Intercessors

by Gibril Fuad Haddad2006-03-02

In SP AH wrote:

One night, the Prophet of Allah may Allah bless him and grant him peace - was in his houseand was heard to proclaim `I am here!' three times and `You have been granted help' also threetimes. Umm al- Mu'minin, Maymunah - may Allah be well pleased with her - asked the Prophet- may Allah bless him and grant him peace - whom he had been talking to since there was noone present. He may Allah bless him and grant him peace - replied, I was talking to a personcalled Rajiz from the tribe of Bani Ka'ab. He asked for help from me against the Quraysh.' Umm

al- Mu'minin, Maymunah - may Allah be well pleased with her - said that when she finished fajrprayer the next morning, she heard Rajiz calling out in the streets of Madina: "Ya Rasul Allah!Help us and call the servants of Allah to help us."

Shaykh Yusuf al-Nabhani, Allah have mercy on him, cites two hadiths in this respect with theirfull wording in the chapter of the Prophet's `ilm al-ghayb in his encyclopedia of the Propheticmiracles, Hujjat Allah `ala al-Alamin bi-Mu`jizat Sayyid al-Mursalin (p. 493):

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defeated the Khuz`a and looted them, violating the terms of the solemn pact to which they hadagreed with the Messenger of Allh, upon him blessings and peace, by warring with theKhuz`a, his formal allies, `Amr ibn Slim al-Khuz`, one of the Ban Ka`b there, rode out untilhe came to see the Messenger of Allh, upon him blessings and peace, in al-Madna. His cominggave the impetus for the conquest of Makka.(3) He stood before the Prophet upon him

blessings and peace, as the latter sat in the Mosque, in full sight of the people, and declaimed:

Lord! I am appealing to Muh.ammadby the time-honored pact of both our fathers.(4)

You(5) were a father and we a son;then we entered Islm and remained loyal.

Help us, and may Allh help you always!Summon His servants, they shall come in arms,

Among them, the Prophet mobilized--

if he is wronged, his face glowers.

In his legion he marches, a sea, foaming.Quraysh broke its treaty with you!

They violated the truce they pledged you,made me as good as dead and buried!(6)

They claimed I could not call on anyonealthough they are meaner and less by far!

They snared us at Watr during our vigilsand slew us as we bowed and prostrated.(7)

NOTES

(1) Ibn H.ajar in al-Is.ba (4:631) mentions another wording, "invoking my mercy

(yastarh.imun)."

(2) Narrated from Maymna by al-T.abarn in the Kabr (23:433-434 1052) and S.aghr(2:167-169 968) and al-Taym in his Dal'il (p. 73-74 59), both with a slightly weak chainbecause of Yah.y ibn Sulaymn ibn Nad.la al-Madn cf. al-Haytham (6:163-164) although Ibn`Ad in al-Kmil (7:255 2156) said "he narrated reports from Mlik and the Madinans, most ofwhich are valid." Ibn H.ibbn included him in his Thiqt (9:269). Cf. Is.ba (4:631), Fath.(7:520), Sra H. alabiyya (3:5), and Dah.ln's Sra (2:76-77).

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(3) Cf. Ibn `Umar's narration in Ibn H.ibbn (13:140 5996) and Ibn H. ajar, Talkhs. al-H.abr(4:131 1929).

(4) Allhumma inn nshidu Muh.ammad / h.ilfa abn wa'abhi al- atlad.

(5) I.e. the Ban Hshim and Ban `Abd al-Mut.t.alib with a rhetorical trope of apostrope(iltift).

(6) Wa-ja`al l f kad'in ras.ad, misspelt in al-Nabhn as wa- ja`al l fka d'in ras.ad.

(7) Ibn `Askir (43:519) narrated from Ibn al-Musayyab: "There is not one homebound womanof Ban Khuz`a except she memorized the verses of `Amr ibn Slim al-Khuz` to theMessenger of Allh, upon him blessings and peace."

(8) Narrated(i) through al-Zuhr from `Urwa ibn al-Zubayr from the Companion al-Miswar ibn Makhrama

and the Tbi` Marwn ibn al-H.akam by Ibn Ish.q in the Maghz (cf. Ibn Hishm 5:48, al-T.ah.w, Sharh. Ma`n al-Athr 3:315-316, Is.ba 4:630-631, and Bidya 4:278), al-T. abar inhis Trkh (2:152-153), Ibn `Askir in his Trkh (43:519- 520), and al-Bayhaq in the Sunan al-Kubr (9:233) and Dal'il;(ii) from Ibn `Abbs by Ibn Mandah and Ab Nu`aym in Ma`rifat al-S.ah.ba as well as Ibn al-Athr in Usd al-Ghba (4:225-226 cf. Is.ba 5:285);(iii) from Ab Hurayra by al-Bazzr and al-Bayhaq (cf. Bidya 4:281) with a fair chainaccording to Ibn H.ajar in the Fath. (7:520) and al- Haytham (6:162);(iv) from the Tbi`n Ab Salama and Yah.y ibn `Abd al-Rah.mn ibn H.t.ib by Ibn AbShayba (7:398 36900) and(v) also mursal from `Ikrima by Ibn Ab Shayba (7:400-401 36902) and al-T.ah. w in Sharh.

Ma`n al-Athr (3:291, 3 :312-313). The bracketed segment is narrated only through al-Zuhr.Cf. Iktif' (2:215); al- Fkih, Akhbr Makka (5:103); Ist`b (3:1175-1176); Ibn al-Qayyim, Zd(3:348-349); Sra H.alabiyya (3:5-6); Ibn Taymiyya, al-S.rim al- Masll (2:214); Is.ba (1:122),Fath. (7:519-520), Talkhs. al-H.abr (4:131-132 1929), Ibn al-Athr, Kmil (2:162), al-Suhayl,Rawd. (2: 265), and Kanz (14422, 30166, 30195, 30204). Al-Watr or Watn is a Khuz`awatering-point in the lowest area of Makka cf. Yqt and al- Nihya. Ibn Ish.q and al-Wqidsaid that `Amr was accompanied by forty riders of the Ban Khuz`a when he arrived inMadna. Another report by al-Brd with a weak munqat.i` chain attributes those verses toBudayl ibn Kulthm ibn Slim al-Khuz` cf. Is.ba (1:274).

Blessings and peace on the Prophet his Family, and all his Companions.

Source: http://www.livingislam.org/k/tght_e.html

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