In a dream, the Messenger of Allah saw himself entering Makkah and performing
Tawaf around the House. He told his Companions about this dream when he was
still in Al-Madinah. When they went to Makkah in the year of Al-Hudaybiyyah,
none of them doubted that the Prophet's vision would come true that year. When
the treaty of peace was conducted and they had to return to Al-Madinah that
year, being allowed to return to Makkah the next year, some of the Companions
disliked what happened. `Umar bin Al-Khattab asked about this, saying, "Haven't
you told us that we will go to the House and perform Tawaf around it'' The
Prophet said,
«بَلَى
أَفَأَخْبَرْتُكَ أَنَّكَ تَأْتِيهِ عَامَكَ هذَا؟»
(Yes. Have I told you that you will go to it this year) `Umar said, "No.''
The Prophet said,
«فَإِنَّكَ آتِيهِ
وَمُطَّوِّفٌ بِه»
(Then you will go to it and perform Tawaf around it.) `Umar received the same
answer from Abu Bakr As-Siddiq, letter for letter. This is why Allah the Exalted
and Most honored said,
[لَّقَدْ صَدَقَ
اللَّهُ رَسُولَهُ الرُّؤْيَا بِالْحَقِّ لَتَدْخُلُنَّ الْمَسْجِدَ الْحَرَامَ إِن
شَآءَ اللَّهُ]
(Indeed Allah shall fulfill the true vision which He showed to His Messenger
in very truth. Certainly, you shall enter Al-Masjid Al-Haram, if Allah wills,)
and He willed that this matter shall certainly occur,
[ءَامِنِينَ]
(secure,) means, `upon your entering,'
[مُحَلِّقِينَ
رُءُوسَكُمْ وَمُقَصِّرِينَ]
((some) having your heads shaved, and (some) having your hair cut short,) and
some of them indeed had their head hair shaved, while some of them had their
head hair shortened. The Two Sahihs recorded that the Messenger of Allah said,
«رَحِمَ اللهُ
الْمُحَلِّقِين»
(O Allah! Be merciful to those who have their head shaved.) The people said,
"O Allah's Messenger! And (invoke Allah for) those who get their hair cut
short.'' He said,
«رَحِمَ اللهُ
الْمُحَلِّقِين»
(O Allah! Be merciful to those who have their head shaved.) The people said,
"O Allah's Messenger! And those who get their hair cut short.'' The Prophet
said,
«رَحِمَ اللهُ
الْمُحَلِّقِين»
(O Allah! Be merciful to those who have their head shaved.) The people said,
"O Allah's Messenger! And those who get their hair cut short.'' The Prophet said
(the third or the fourth time),
«وَالْمُقَصِّرِين»
(And to those who get their hair cut short.) Allah said,
[لاَ
تَخَـفُونَ]
(having no fear), indicating that they will be safe and will have no fear
when they enter Makkah. This occurred in the `Umrah performed the following
year, on the seventh year of Hijrah during the month of Dhul-Qa`dah. When the
Messenger left from Al-Hudaybiyyah, during the month of Dhul-Qa`dah (the sixth
year of Hijrah), he went back to Al-Madinah. He remained in Al-Madinah during
the months of Dhul-Hijjah and Al-Muharram. In Safar, he marched forth to
Khaybar, and Allah opened that city for him, partly by force and partly by its
people surrendering to him. Khaybar was a wealthy province that had abundant
date trees and vegetation. The Prophet hired the (defeated) Jews of Khaybar to
attend to a part of its green fields and divided the province among those who
attended Al-Hudaybiyyah with him. No one else except those Companions took part
in attacking Khaybar, except Ja`far bin Abi Talib, who came back with his
companions from Ethiopia. Abu Musa Al-Ash`ari and his people also attended that
battle. None of them were absent except Abu Dujanah Simak bin Kharashah,
according to Ibn Zayd. This fact is well recorded in (the Books of) history. The
Prophet then returned to Al-Madinah. When the month of Dhul-Qa`dah came, the
seventh year of Hijrah, the Prophet went to Makkah for `Umrah accompanied by
those who were with him at Al-Hudaybiyyah. He resumed Ihram from Dhul-Hulayfah
and took the sacrificial animals with him. It was said that the sacrificial
animals were sixty. The Prophet and his Companions started reciting the Talbiyah
aloud. When they came close to Marr Az-Zahran, he sent Muhammad bin Maslamah
before him with the horses and weapons. When the idolators saw this advance
regiment, they were overwhelmed with fear. They thought that the Messenger of
Allah would attack them and that he had betrayed the treaty that he conducted
with them, which stipulated cessation of hostilities for ten years. The
idolators went quickly to Makkah to inform its people. When the Prophet made
camp in the area of Marr Az-Zahran, where he was close enough to see the idols
that were erected all around the Haram, he sent the weaponry, arrows, arrow
cases and spears, to the valley of Ya`jaj. He next went on his way towards
Makkah with the swords resting in their sheaths, just as he agreed to in the
peace treaty. While the Prophet was still on the way to Makkah, the Quraysh sent
Mikraz bin Hafs who said, "O Muhammad! We never knew you to be one who betrays
his promises.'' The Prophet said,
«وَمَا
ذَاكَ؟»
(Why do you say that) Mikraz said, "You are headed towards us with the
weaponry, the arrows and the spears.'' The Prophet said,
«لَمْ يَكُنْ ذلِكَ
وَقَدْ بَعَثْنَا بِهِ إِلَى يَأْجَج»
(I did not do that, I sent all that to the valley of Ya`jaj.) Mikraz said,
"This is the way we knew you to be, trustworthy and keeping to your promises.''
The leaders of the disbelievers left Makkah so that they would not have to look
at the Messenger of Allah and his Companions, out of rage and anger. As for the
rest of the people of Makkah, men, women and children, they sat on the pathways
and house roofs watching the Messenger of Allah and his Companions. The
Messenger entered Makkah with his Companions while reciting the Talbiyah. The
Prophet sent the sacrificial animals to Dhu Tuwa while riding his camel,
Al-Qaswa', the same camel he was riding on the day of Hudaybiyyah. `Abdullah bin
Rawahah, from Al-Ansar, was holding the bridle of the Prophet's camel and
repeating this poem, "In the Name of He, other than Whose religion there is no
true religion, In the Name of He, Whom Muhammad is His Messenger, O children of
the disbelievers, stay out of his way, For today, we shall impose on you the
fulfillment of its interpretation, Just as we fought with you to accept its
revelation, Severe fighting that removes the heads from where they rest, And
overwhelms the companion from attending to his companion, Ar-Rahman has sent
down in His revelation, In pages that are being recited before His Messenger,
That the best death is that which occurs in His cause, So, O Lord, I believe in
its statements.'' This story is collected from various narrations. Imam Ahmad
recorded that `Abdullah bin `Abbas said, "When Allah's Messenger and his
Companions came to Makkah, the fever of Yathrib (Al-Madinah) had weakened and
bothered them. The idolators circulated the news that a group of people were
coming to them and that they had been weakened and bothered by the fever of
Yathrib (Al-Madinah). The idolators sat in the area close to Al-Hijr. Allah
conveyed to His Prophet what the idolators said, so he ordered his Companions to
do Ramal in the first three rounds, so that the idolaters witness their
strength. The Companions did Ramal the first three rounds. He also ordered them
to walk normally between the two corners, for from there the idolators would not
be able to see them. The Prophet did not order them to do Ramal in all the
rounds of Tawaf out of pity for them. The idolators commented, `Are these the
people whom you claimed were weakened by the fever. They are stronger than
so-and-so!''' The Two Sahihs also recorded this Hadith. In another narration,
"Allah's Messenger and his Companions came (to Makkah) on the morning of the
fourth day of Dhul-Qa`dah. The idolators circulated the news that a group of
people was coming to them, who had been weakened by the fever of Yathrib
(Al-Madinah). So, the Prophet ordered his Companions to do Ramal in the first
three rounds of Tawaf. The Prophet did not order them to do Ramal in all the
rounds of Tawaf out of pity for them.'' Al-Bukhari recorded that Ibn `Abbas
said, "In the year when the Prophet came as stipulated by the peace treaty, he
said, `Perform Ramal.' So that the idolators may witness their strength. At that
time, the idolators were watching from the area of Qu`ayqi`an.'' Ibn `Abbas
said, "Allah's Messenger performed Tawaf of the Ka`bah and the Sa`y at As-Safa
and Al-Marwah to show his strength to the idolators.'' Al-Bukhari recorded that
`Abdullah bin `Umar said, "Allah's Messenger set out for `Umrah, but the Quraysh
idolators prevented him from reaching the Ka`bah. So, he slaughtered his
sacrifice, got his head shaved at Al-Hudaybiyyah, agreed to a formal pact with
them that he would perform `Umrah the following year, would not carry weapons
against them, except swords and would not stay in Makkah, except for the period
they allowed. The Prophet performed the `Umrah in the following year and entered
Makkah according to the treaty. And when he stayed for three days, the idolators
ordered him to depart, and he departed.'' Allah's statement,
[فَعَلِمَ مَا لَمْ
تَعْلَمُواْ فَجَعَلَ مِن دُونِ ذَلِكَ فَتْحاً قَرِيباً]
(He knew what you knew not, and He granted besides that a near victory.)
means, Allah the Exalted and Most Honored knew the benefit and goodness of
turning you away from Makkah and preventing you from entering it in the year of
Al-Hudaybiyyah, He knew that which you had no knowledge of,
[فَجَعَلَ مِن دُونِ
ذَلِكَ]
(and He granted besides that) `before entering Makkah as you were promised in
the vision that the Prophet saw, He granted a close victory, i.e. the treaty of
peace that you conducted between you and your idolator enemies.'
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