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  "ar": "كعب يصدق النبي القول",
  "en": "Ka'b tells the Prophet the truth"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "لما بلغ كعباً قفول النبي من تبوك عزم على الصدق، فلما سلّم على النبي في المسجد وسأله عن سبب تخلفه أقر بأنه لا عذر له، فقال له النبي: قد صدقت، فقم حتى يقضي الله فيك؛ فتبعه رجال من بني سلمة يلومونه.",
  "en": "When news of the Prophet's return from Tabuk reached Ka'b he resolved on honesty. When he greeted the Prophet in the mosque and was asked why he had stayed behind, he admitted he had no excuse; the Prophet said: you have told the truth — rise until God decides your case. Men of Banu Salima followed him out, blaming him."
 },
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  "earliest": 630.7473117175575,
  "latest": 630.8321868347425
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   "edtf": "0630-10",
   "hijri": "0009-07",
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   "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 بعد قدوم النبي المدينة وجلوسه للناس (ص177).",
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   "edtf": "0630-10",
   "hijri": "0009-07",
   "calendar": "julian",
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   "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 بعد قدوم النبي المدينة وجلوسه للناس (ص177).",
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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. وقع بعد قدوم النبي المدينة وجلوسه للناس (ص177).",
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  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "sira-ibn-hisham saqqa 1936, juz' 4 pp. 177-178",
   "generated_by": "Claude Code",
   "model": "claude-sonnet-5-5",
   "run": "ibn-hisham-batch-7b"
  },
  "sources": [
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  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude Sonnet 5.5; mined from Ibn Hisham juz' 4 pp. 177-178"
  }
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 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "أخبر كعب النبي بصدق أنه لم يكن له عذر في تبوك، فقال له النبي: «أما هذا فقد صدقت فيه، فقم حتى يقضي الله فيك». {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/177}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "قبل اللقاء",
     "markdown": "قال كعب: لما بلغني أن النبي قد توجّه قافلاً حضرني همّي فجعلت أتذكر الكذب وأقول بماذا أخرج من سخطه غداً، فلما قيل إنه أظلّ قادماً زاح عني الباطل وعرفت أني لا أنجو إلا بالصدق، فأجمعت أن أصدقه. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/177}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "اللقاء",
     "markdown": "جاء فسلّم، فتبسم النبي «تبسم المغضب»، ثم قال له: تعال؛ فجلس بين يديه فسأله: ما خلّفك؟ ألم تكن ابتعت ظهرك؟ فقال كعب إنه لو جلس عند غير النبي من أهل الدنيا لرأى أنه سيخرج من سخطه بعذر وقد أُعطي جدلاً، لكنه علم أنه لو حدّثه كذباً لرضي عنه ثم يوشك الله أن يُسخطه عليه، وأنه إن صدقه فيجد عليه لكنه يرجو عقباه من الله؛ وإنه لم يكن له عذر. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/177}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الحكم",
     "markdown": "قال النبي: «أما هذا فقد صدقت فيه، فقم حتى يقضي الله فيك». {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/177}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "لوم بني سلمة",
     "markdown": "فقام كعب وثار معه رجال من بني سلمة فاتبعوه فقالوا له: ما علمناك أذنبت قبل هذا، وقد كان كافيك ذنبك استغفار النبي لك إن اعتذرت كما اعتذر المخلّفون؛ فما زالوا به حتى هم أن يرجع فيكذّب نفسه. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/177-178}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الرجلان الآخران",
     "markdown": "ثم سأل: هل لقي هذا أحد غيري؟ قالوا: نعم، رجلان قالا مثل مقالتك وقيل لهما مثل ما قيل لك: [[person/murara-ibn-al-rabi|مرارة بن الربيع العمري]] من بني عمرو بن عوف، و[[person/hilal-ibn-umayya|هلال بن [أبي] أمية الواقفي]]؛ فذكروا له رجلين صالحين فيهما أسوة، فصمت. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/178}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ملاحظات المصدر والتمريض",
     "markdown": "- «هلال بن [أبي] أمية»: كلمة «أبي» زيادة بين معقوفين من مخطوطة (ا) بحسب المحققين؛ وفي سائر المواضع «هلال بن أمية».\n- نسخة الزرقاني تزيد بحسب حاشية المحققين: «قد شهدا بدراً، لي فيهما أسوة» (ص178 هامش 2).\n- تحقق المتحف على صورة الصفحة من «العمري» لمرارة و«الواقفي» لهلال."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/kaab-tells-the-prophet-the-truth",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Ka'b told the Prophet truthfully that he had had no excuse for Tabuk, and the Prophet said to him: \"as for this one — he has told the truth; arise until God decides your case.\" {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/177}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Before the meeting",
     "markdown": "Ka'b said: when word reached me that the Prophet had set out homeward, my anxiety gathered; I began rehearsing lies — by what shall I escape his anger tomorrow? But when it was said he was nearly arrived, falsehood fell away from me and I knew I would only be saved by truth, so I resolved to tell him the truth. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/177}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The meeting",
     "markdown": "He came and greeted him; the Prophet smiled \"the smile of one displeased\", then said to him: come. He sat before him and he asked him: what kept you back? Had you not bought your mount? Ka'b said that had he sat before anyone of this world other than the Prophet he would think to escape his displeasure by an excuse — he had been given the gift of disputation — but he knew that if he told him a lie and he accepted it, God would soon make him displeased with him; and that if he told him the truth he would find fault with him, yet he could hope for a good end from God — and that he had no excuse. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/177}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The ruling",
     "markdown": "The Prophet said: \"as for this one — he has told the truth; arise until God decides your case.\" {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/177}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Banu Salama's reproach",
     "markdown": "Ka'b rose and men of Banu Salama stirred and followed him, saying: we never knew you to sin before this; your sin would have been absolved by the Prophet's asking forgiveness for you had you excused yourself as the others who stayed behind did. They kept at him until he nearly went back to deny himself. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/177-178}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The other two men",
     "markdown": "Then he asked: has anyone besides me met this? They said: yes, two men said what you said and were told what you were told — [[person/murara-ibn-al-rabi|Marara ibn al-Rabi' al-Amri]] of Banu Amr ibn Awf and [[person/hilal-ibn-umayya|Hilal ibn [Abi] Umayya al-Waqifi]]; they named for him two righteous men in whom was an example, and he was silent. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/178}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Source notes and markers of doubt",
     "markdown": "- \"Hilal ibn [Abi] Umayya\": the word \"Abi\" is an addition in brackets from manuscript (a), per the editors; elsewhere it is \"Hilal ibn Umayya\".\n- Al-Zurqani's text adds, per the editors' note: \"they had witnessed Badr — in them is an example for me\" (p. 178 n. 2).\n- The museum verified on the page image the forms \"al-Amri\" for Marara and \"al-Waqifi\" for Hilal."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/kaab-tells-the-prophet-the-truth",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
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  "event/kaab-offers-his-wealth-and-vows-truthfulness",
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  "event/repentance-of-the-three-accepted",
  "event/the-three-left-behind",
  "event/expedition-to-tabuk",
  "event/ghassan-kings-letter-to-kaab",
  "event/kaab-and-abu-qatada-at-the-garden-wall"
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