Hadith 34

(The book) ‘Al-Kharaij Wa Al-Jaraih’ – ‘It is reported that when the Prophet-saww came to Khyber, they had gathered their allies from the Arabs from Ghatfan, four thousand horsemen. When he-saww descended at Khyber, Ghatfan hear a shouter shouting during that night, ‘O community of Ghatfan! Be with your tribe for your enemies have come to them’. And they rode from their night and came to be to their tribes in the morning and they found them safe. They said, ‘So we knew that, that was from Allah-azwj in order to Grant victory to Muhammad-saww with the Jews of Khyber’. He-saww descended beneath a tree. When it was midday, his-saww caller called out. They said, ‘So we gathered to him-asws, and there was a man seated in his-saww presence. He-saww said: ‘Upon you is this one. He came to me-saww while I-saww was asleep and took my-saww sword and said: ‘Who will defend you-saww from me? ’ I-saww said: ‘Allah-azwj will Defend me-saww from you’, and he became as you are seeing, there is no movement with him’. Then he-saww said: ‘Leave him’, and he-saww did not punish him. When Ali-asws opened the top fort of Khyber, there remained for them a stronghold wherein was the entirety of their wealth and their food-store, and there did not take place any battle upon it with an aspect from its aspects. Rasool-Allah-saww descended to besiege the ones in it. A Jew from them came to him-saww and said, ‘O Muhammad-saww! Grant me safety upon myself and my family and my wealth and my children until I point you-saww upon opening the stronghold’. The Prophet-saww said to him: ‘You are safe, so what is your pointer’. He said, ‘Order with diffing in this place, for the people of the stronghold are coming to the water, and they will remain without water and will submit the stronghold to you willingly’. He-saww said: ‘Or Allah-azwj will Bring about other than this, and I-saww have already granted you safety’. When it was the next morning, Rasool-Allah-saww rode his-saww mule and said to the Muslims: ‘Follow me-saww’, and he-saww went towards the stronghold. The arrows and the stones welcomed him-saww around it, and these were passing on his-saww right and his-saww left, and these did not hit him-saww nor anyone from the Muslims, anything from these until Rasool-Allah-saww arrived to the door of the fortress, and he-saww gestured by his-saww hand to its wall, and the wall fell down until it became part of the ground. And he-saww said to the people: ‘Enter the stronghold from the top of the wall without any trouble’’. [33]