Narrated: Usama bin Zaid From Sahih Muslim
that the
Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) sent us in a
raiding party. We raided Huraqat of Juhaina in the morning. I
caught hold of a man and he said: There is no god but Allah, I
attacked him with a spear. It once occurred to me and I talked
about it to the Apostle (may peace be upon him). The Messenger
of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: Did he profess" There
is no god but Allah," and even then you killed him? I said:
Messenger of Allah, he made a profession of it out of the fear
of the weapon. He (the Holy Prophet) observed: Did you tear
his heart in order to find out whether it had professed or
not? And he went on repeating it to me till I wished I had
embraced Islam that day. Sa'd said: By Allah, I would never
kill any Muslim so long as a person with a heavy belly, i. e.,
Usama, would not kill. Upon this a person remarked: Did Allah
not say this: And fight them until there is no more mischief
and religion is wholly for Allah? Sa'd said: We fought so that
there should be no mischief, but you and your companions wish
to fight so that there should be mischief.
The
Messenger of Allah may peace be upon him) sent us to Huraqat,
a tribe of Juhaina. We attacked that tribe early in the
morning and defeated them and I and a man from the Ansar
caught hold of a person (of the defeated tribe). When we
overcame him, he said: There is no god but Allah. At that
moment the Ansari spared him, but I attacked him with my spear
and killed him. The news had already reached the Apostle
(peace be upon him), so when we came back he (the Apostle)
said to me: Usama, did you kill him after he had made the
profession: There is no god but Allah? I said. Messenger of
Allah, he did it only as a shelter. The Holy Prophet observed:
Did you kill him after he had made the profession that there
is no god but Allah? He (the Holy Prophet) went on repeating
this to me till I wished I had not embraced Islam before that
day.
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