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 "slug": "hypocrites-mock-the-army-and-excuse",
 "label": {
  "ar": "سخرية رهط من المنافقين واعتذارهم",
  "en": "A group of hypocrites mock the army, then excuse themselves"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "كان رهط من «المنافقين» منهم وديعة بن ثابت ومخشن بن حمير الأشجعي يسيرون إلى النبي وهو منطلق إلى تبوك فقالوا إن قتال بني الأصفر ليس كقتال العرب وإنهم سيُربطون غداً في الحبال؛ فأرسل النبي عمار بن ياسر ليسألهم، فاعتذروا بأنهم كانوا يخوضون ويلعبون، وأنزل الله فيهم آية من سورة التوبة.",
  "en": "A party of the 'hypocrites', among them Wadi'a ibn Thabit and Makhshan ibn Humayr al-Ashja'i, were riding toward the Prophet as he set out for Tabuk and said that fighting the Banu al-Asfar was not like fighting the Arabs and that they would be tied up in ropes tomorrow. The Prophet sent Ammar ibn Yasir to question them; they excused themselves that they had only been jesting and playing, and God revealed a verse of Sura al-Tawba about them."
 },
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  "earliest": 630.7473117175575,
  "latest": 630.8321868347425
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   "edtf": "0630-10",
   "hijri": "0009-07",
   "calendar": "julian",
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   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "رأس الباب عند ابن إسحاق: «غزوة تبوك في رجب سنة تسع»؛ والتوقيت الدقيق للواقعة داخل الغزوة غير مذكور، فنُسب إليها تاريخ الغزوة كلها.",
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   "edtf": "0630-10",
   "hijri": "0009-07",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "month",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "رأس الباب عند ابن إسحاق: «غزوة تبوك في رجب سنة تسع»؛ والتوقيت الدقيق للواقعة داخل الغزوة غير مذكور، فنُسب إليها تاريخ الغزوة كلها.",
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    "edtf": "0630-10",
    "hijri": "0009-07",
    "calendar": "julian",
    "precision": "month",
    "status": "tradition",
    "derived": true,
    "note": "رأس الباب عند ابن إسحاق: «غزوة تبوك في رجب سنة تسع»؛ والتوقيت الدقيق للواقعة داخل الغزوة غير مذكور، فنُسب إليها تاريخ الغزوة كلها.",
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  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "sira-ibn-hisham saqqa 1936, juz' 4 pp. 168-169",
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   "model": "claude-sonnet-5-5",
   "run": "ibn-hisham-batch-6c"
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  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude Sonnet 5.5; mined from Ibn Hisham juz' 4 pp. 168-169"
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "كان رهط من «المنافقين» منهم وديعة بن ثابت ومخشن بن حمير الأشجعي يسيرون إلى النبي وهو منطلق إلى تبوك فقالوا إن قتال بني الأصفر ليس كقتال العرب وإنهم سيُربطون غداً في الحبال؛ فأرسل النبي عمار بن ياسر ليسألهم، فاعتذروا بأنهم كانوا يخوضون ويلعبون، وأنزل الله فيهم آية من سورة التوبة. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/168-169}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الرواية",
     "markdown": "كان رهط من المنافقين، بحسب ابن إسحاق، منهم وديعة بن ثابت أخو بني عمرو بن عوف ومخشن بن حمير الأشجعي حليف بني سلمة، يسيرون إلى النبي وهو منطلق إلى تبوك. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/168}\n\nفقال بعضهم لبعض: أتحسبون جلاد بني الأصفر كقتال العرب بعضهم بعضاً؟ والله لكأنا بكم غداً مقرنين في الحبال؛ ويقول ابن إسحاق إنهم قالوا ذلك إرجافاً وترهيباً للمؤمنين. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/168}\n\nفقال مخشن بن حمير إنه يتمنى أن يُجلد كل رجل منهم مئة جلدة وألا ينزل فيهم قرآن لمقالتهم هذه. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/168}\n\nوقال النبي، فيما بلغ ابن إسحاق، لعمار بن ياسر: أدرك القوم فإنهم قد احترقوا، فسلهم عما قالوا، فإن أنكروا فقل: بلى قلتم كذا وكذا. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/168}\n\nفانطلق إليهم عمار فقال لهم ذلك، فأتوا النبي يعتذرون، فقال وديعة بن ثابت وهو آخذ بحقب ناقته: يا رسول الله إنما كنا نخوض ونلعب؛ فنزلت الآية 65 من سورة التوبة بحسب ابن إسحاق. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/168-169}\n\nوقال مخشن بن حمير: يا رسول الله قعد بي اسمي واسم أبي. وكان هو الذي عُفي عنه في هذه الآية بحسب ابن إسحاق، فتسمى عبد الرحمن، وسأل الله أن يقتله شهيداً لا يُعلم بمكانه، فقتل يوم اليمامة فلم يوجد له أثر. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/169}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ما نزل في الحدث",
     "markdown": "- [[passage/quran-9-65|القرآن 9:65]]: نزلت في الرهط الذين قالوا إنما كنا نخوض ونلعب بحسب ابن إسحاق (ص169)."
    },
    {
     "heading": "علامات التمريض والشك",
     "markdown": "- قال ابن هشام: «ويقال مَخْشِيّ» بدل «مخشن» في اسم مخشن بن حمير (ص168).\n- قال ابن إسحاق «فيما بلغني» في إرسال عمار (ص168)؛ والحكم عليهم بالنفاق من عبارة ابن إسحاق، ولا ينشئ المتحف حكماً.\n- العفو عن مخشن ربطه ابن إسحاق بالآية؛ وهو تفسير ينسبه إليه المتحف لا نصّ الآية."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/hypocrites-mock-the-army-and-excuse",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "A band of the \"hypocrites\" — Wadi'a ibn Thabit and Makhshan ibn Humayr al-Ashja'i among them — came toward the Prophet as he set out for Tabuk, saying that fighting the Byzantines was not like fighting Arabs and that the Muslims would be bound in ropes the next day. The Prophet sent Ammar ibn Yasir to question them; they excused themselves that they had only been talking idly and jesting, and God sent down a verse of Sura al-Tawba about them. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/168-169}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The account",
     "markdown": "A band of the hypocrites, in Ibn Ishaq's account — among them Wadi'a ibn Thabit, brother of Banu Amr ibn Awf, and Makhshan ibn Humayr al-Ashja'i, ally of Banu Salama — came toward the Prophet as he set out for Tabuk. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/168}\n\nThey said to one another: do you think battling the Byzantines is like Arabs fighting one another? By God, it is as if we see you tomorrow trussed in ropes — which, Ibn Ishaq says, they said as agitation to frighten the believers. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/168}\n\nMakhshan ibn Humayr said he wished each man of them could be lashed a hundred lashes rather than that Qur'an should come down about them for this saying of theirs. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/168}\n\nThe Prophet, in what reached Ibn Ishaq, said to Ammar ibn Yasir: catch up with the men, for they have been scorched; ask them what they said, and if they deny it, say: rather, you said such and such. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/168}\n\nAmmar went to them and said that to them; they came to the Prophet making excuses, Wadi'a ibn Thabit holding the girth of his she-camel saying: Messenger of God, we were only talking idly and jesting — and verse 65 of Sura al-Tawba came down, in Ibn Ishaq's account. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/168-169}\n\nMakhshan ibn Humayr said: Messenger of God, my name and my father's name have held me back. He was the one pardoned in that verse, in Ibn Ishaq's account; he took the name Abd al-Rahman and asked God to let him be killed as a martyr whose place would be unknown — and he was killed on the day of al-Yamama, no trace of him found. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/169}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "What was revealed in the event",
     "markdown": "- [[passage/quran-9-65|Qur'an 9:65]]: revealed about the band who said \"we were only talking idly and jesting\", in Ibn Ishaq's account (p. 169)."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Markers of weakness and doubt",
     "markdown": "- Ibn Hisham said: \"and it is said Makhshi\" in place of \"Makhshan\" in Makhshan ibn Humayr's name (p. 168).\n- Ibn Ishaq said \"in what reached me\" for the sending of Ammar (p. 168); judging them hypocrites is Ibn Ishaq's wording, and the museum reaches no verdict.\n- Ibn Ishaq tied Makhshan's pardon to the verse; the museum attributes this interpretation to him, not to the verse's text."
    }
   ],
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    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2), draft translation"
    ]
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  "event/abu-dharr-lags-behind-on-the-march",
  "event/abu-khaythama-joins-the-army",
  "event/burial-of-dhu-al-bijadayn",
  "event/hypocrites-ambush-at-the-pass",
  "event/masjid-al-dirar-builders-ask-the-prophet-to-pray",
  "event/prophets-mosques-between-medina-and-tabuk",
  "event/tabuk-stay-and-return",
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