Hadith #23

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English Translation

Yaḥyā ibn Zakariyyā ibn Abī Zāʾidah narrated to us, my father narrated to me, from ʿĀmir, who said: the Prophet ﷺ went out with his uncle al-ʿAbbās to the seventy from the Anṣār at al-ʿAqabah, under the tree. He said: "Let your spokesman speak, and let him not prolong the speech, for upon you from the mushrikīn there are spies, and if they discover you, they will expose you." So their spokesman — who was Abū Umāmah — said: "Ask, O Muḥammad, for your Lord whatever you wish, then ask for yourself and your companions whatever you wish, then tell us what reward we shall have from Allāh عز وجل and from you if we do that." He said: "I ask you for my Lord عز وجل that you worship Him and associate nothing with Him. And I ask you for myself and my companions that you shelter us, support us, and defend us from what you defend yourselves from." They said: "And what is ours if we do that?" He said: "For you is Paradise." They said: "Then that is yours." Yaḥyā ibn Zakariyyā narrated to us saying: Mujālid narrated to us, from ʿĀmir, from Abū Masʿūd al-Anṣārī — with something similar. He said: And Abū Masʿūd was the youngest of them. Yaḥyā ibn Zakariyyā narrated to us, Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid narrated to us, who said: I heard al-Shaʿbī say: "Neither the elderly nor the young ever heard a speech like it."