{ "id": "event/kaab-ibn-malik-delays-his-preparations", "class": "event", "slug": "kaab-ibn-malik-delays-his-preparations", "label": { "ar": "تأخر كعب بن مالك عن التجهز لتبوك", "en": "Ka'b ibn Malik puts off his preparations for Tabuk" }, "summary": { "ar": "روى كعب أنه لم يتخلف عن غزوة قط غير بدر، وأنه لم يكن أقوى ولا أيسر منه حين تخلف عن تبوك، وجعل يؤجل التجهز يوماً بعد يوم حتى فاته الجيش، ثم سأل عنه النبي في تبوك فدافع عنه معاذ بن جبل.", "en": "Ka'b related that he had never stayed behind from any campaign except Badr, and that he was never stronger or better provided than when he stayed behind from Tabuk: he kept putting off his preparations day after day until the army left without him. When the Prophet asked about him at Tabuk, Mu'adh ibn Jabal spoke in his defence." }, "stub": false, "wings": [ "time", "people", "place" ], "regions": [ "arabia" ], "periods": [ "period/prophetic-era" ], "tags": [], "aliases": [], "themes": [], "span": { "earliest": 630.7473117175575, "latest": 630.8321868347425 }, "display": { "start": { "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. وقع التأخر في أيام التجهز لتبوك (ص176).", "sources": [ "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa" ] }, "end": { "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. وقع التأخر في أيام التجهز لتبوك (ص176).", "sources": [ "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa" ] } }, "data": { "kind": "other", "date": { "start": { "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. وقع التأخر في أيام التجهز لتبوك (ص176).", "sources": [ "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa" ] } }, "provenance": { "layer": "own-research", "source": "sira-ibn-hisham saqqa 1936, juz' 4 pp. 175-177", "generated_by": "Claude Code", "model": "claude-sonnet-5-5", "run": "ibn-hisham-batch-7b" }, "sources": [ "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa" ], "status": { "review": "draft", "completeness": 1, "generated_by": "Claude Sonnet 5.5; mined from Ibn Hisham juz' 4 pp. 175-177" } }, "prose": { "ar": { "sections": [ { "heading": "موجز", "markdown": "يروي كعب بن مالك أنه كان في أقصى القوة واليسر حين تخلف عن تبوك، وأنه ظل يؤجل التجهز حتى سبقه الجيش. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/175-176}" }, { "heading": "ما قبل تبوك", "markdown": "قال كعب: ما تخلفت عن غزوة غزاها النبي قط غير أني تخلفت في بدر، وكانت غزوة لم يعاتب الله ولا رسوله أحداً تخلف عنها لأن النبي إنما خرج يريد عير قريش؛ وشهد معه العقبة حين تواثقوا على الإسلام. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/175}" }, { "heading": "التأجيل", "markdown": "ولم يكن قط أقوى ولا أيسر منه حين تخلف في تلك الغزوة، ولم تجتمع له راحلتان قط حتى اجتمعتا فيها. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/175-176} وذكر أن النبي كان قلما يريد غزوة إلا ورّى بغيرها، لكنه في هذه الغزوة جلّى للناس أمرهم لشدة الحر وبعد السفر وكثرة العدو. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/176} وجعل كعب يغدو ليتجهز فيرجع ولم يقضِ حاجة، ويقول إنه قادر إذا أراد، حتى شمّر الناس وفصلوا، وتفرّط الغزو. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/176}" }, { "heading": "بعد خروج الجيش", "markdown": "يقول كعب إنه كان إذا خرج في الناس بعد خروج النبي حزنه ألا يرى إلا رجلاً «مغموصاً عليه في النفاق»، أو من عذر الله من الضعفاء. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/176}" }, { "heading": "السؤال عنه في تبوك", "markdown": "ولم يذكره النبي حتى بلغ تبوك، فقال وهو جالس في القوم: «ما فعل كعب بن مالك؟» فقال رجل من بني سلمة: حبسه بُرداه والنظر في عِطفيه؛ فقال له [[person/muadh-ibn-jabal|معاذ بن جبل]]: «بئس ما قلت»، والله ما علمنا منه إلا خيراً؛ فسكت النبي. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/176-177}" }, { "heading": "ملاحظات المصدر والتمريض", "markdown": "- السند: ابن إسحاق عن الزهري عن عبد الرحمن بن عبد الله بن كعب عن أبيه عبد الله (قائد كعب بعد عماه) عن كعب (ص175).\n- لم يُسمَّ الرجل من بني سلمة الذي قال القول الأول.\n- حاشية المحققين تشرح «صُفْر» (ص176) بمعنى «مائلون» وهي لا تغيّر الخبر." } ], "frontmatter": { "id": "event/kaab-ibn-malik-delays-his-preparations", "lang": "ar", "source_lang": "ar", "translators": [] } }, "en": { "sections": [ { "heading": "Summary", "markdown": "Ka'b ibn Malik relates that he was at the height of strength and ease when he stayed behind from Tabuk, and that he kept putting off his preparations until the army passed him by. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/175-176}" }, { "heading": "Before Tabuk", "markdown": "Ka'b said: I never stayed behind from an expedition the Prophet led, except that I missed Badr — an expedition for which neither God nor His Messenger reproached anyone who stayed behind, since the Prophet had gone out meaning the Quraysh caravan; and I witnessed al-Aqaba with him when they covenanted on Islam. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/175}" }, { "heading": "The postponement", "markdown": "He had never been stronger or better provided than when he stayed behind on that expedition, and two mounts had never been gathered to him until they were in it. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/175-176} He mentions that the Prophet would hardly intend an expedition without feigning another, but in this one he made the matter plain to the people because of the fierce heat, the long journey and the enemy's numbers. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/176} Ka'b would go out in the morning to prepare and come back having done nothing, telling himself he could do it whenever he wished — until the people girded themselves and marched, and the expedition passed him by. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/176}" }, { "heading": "After the army left", "markdown": "Ka'b says that when he went among the people after the Prophet's departure it grieved him to see only a man \"suspected of hypocrisy\" or one of the weak whom God had excused. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/176}" }, { "heading": "The question about him at Tabuk", "markdown": "The Prophet did not mention him until he reached Tabuk; sitting among the company he said: \"what has Ka'b ibn Malik done?\" A man of Banu Salama said: his two cloaks and his gazing at his shoulders have held him back. [[person/muadh-ibn-jabal|Mu'adh ibn Jabal]] said to him: \"an ill thing to say — by God we know nothing of him but good\"; and the Prophet was silent. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/176-177}" }, { "heading": "Source notes and markers of doubt", "markdown": "- The chain: Ibn Ishaq from al-Zuhri from Abd al-Rahman ibn Abdullah ibn Ka'b from his father Abdullah (Ka'b's guide in his blindness) from Ka'b (p. 175).\n- The man of Banu Salama who made the first remark is not named.\n- The editors' marginal gloss explains \"sufr\" (p. 176) as \"turned aside\" — it does not change the report." } ], "frontmatter": { "id": "event/kaab-ibn-malik-delays-his-preparations", "lang": "en", "source_lang": "ar", "translators": [ "Devin (SWE-2), draft translation" ] } } }, "degree": 8, "contemporaries": [], "connections": [ { "to": "place/medina", "type": "occurred_at", "inverse": false, "sources": [ "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa" ] }, { "to": "event/the-three-left-behind", "type": "part_of", "inverse": false, "sources": [ "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa" ] }, { "to": "person/kaab-ibn-malik", "type": "had_participant", "inverse": true, "role": "الراوي المتخلف", "sources": [ "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa" ] }, { "to": "person/muadh-ibn-jabal", "type": "had_participant", "inverse": true, "role": "ردّ على من ذمّ كعباً", "sources": [ "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa" ] } ], "related": [ "event/boycott-of-the-three", "event/ghassan-kings-letter-to-kaab", "event/kaab-and-abu-qatada-at-the-garden-wall", "event/kaab-offers-his-wealth-and-vows-truthfulness", "event/kaab-tells-the-prophet-the-truth", "event/order-to-the-three-to-separate-from-their-wives", "event/repentance-of-the-three-accepted", "event/the-three-left-behind" ], "license": { "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "data": "CC0 1.0" } }