I can clearly see the evil in the faces of the chiefs of your ‑saww soldiers...
I can clearly see the evil in the faces of the chiefs of your ‑saww soldiers, and I fear that if I were to sit at the base of the mountain, and there comes one whom I fear and precedes you -saww to over there – in order to plot against you -saww , and he senses me (as being there), and he uncovers from me, so he would recognise me and my position from advising you -saww – and he would accuse me and would fear from me (that I will inform you -saww ) so he would kill me’.
فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص إِنَّكَ إِذَا بَلَغْتَ أَصْلَ الْعَقَبَةِ فَاقْصِدْ أَكْبَرَ صَخْرَةٍ هُنَاكَ إِلَى جَانِبِ أَصْلِ الْعَقَبَةِ وَ قُلْ لَهَا إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص يَأْمُرُكِ أَنْ تَنْفَرِجِي لِي حَتَّى أَدْخُلَ جَوْفَكِ ثُمَّ يَأْمُرُكِ أَنْ يَنْثَقِبَ فِيكِ ثُقْبَةً أَبْصُرُ مِنْهَا الْمَارِّينَ وَ يَدْخُلُ عَلَيَّ مِنْهَا الرَّوْحُ لِئَلَّا أَكُونَ مِنَ الْهَالِكِينَ فَإِنَّهَا تَصِيرُ إِلَى مَا تَقُولُ لَهَا بِإِذْنِ اللَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ Rasool-Allah -saww said: ‘You, when you reach the base of Al-Aqaba, aim for the largest rock over there to the side of the base of Al-Aqaba, and say to it, ‘Rasool-Allah -azwj orders you that you cleave asunder for me until I enter into your inside.
Then he -saww orders you that you make a hole inside you for me to see the passers-by from it, and the air can enter unto me from it, lest I would happen to be from the destroyed ones’, so it would come to be what you would be saying to it, by the Permission of Allah -azwj , Lord -azwj of the worlds!’ فَأَدَّى حُذَيْفَةُ الرِّسَالَةَ وَ دَخَلَ جَوْفَ الصَّخْرَةِ وَ جَاءَ الْأَرْبَعَةُ وَ الْعِشْرُونَ عَلَى جِمَالِهِمْ وَ بَيْنَ أَيْدِيهِمْ رَجَّالَتُهُمْ يَقُولُ بَعْضُهُمْ لِبَعْضٍ مَنْ رَأَيْتُمُوهُ هَاهُنَا كَائِناً مَنْ كَانَ فَاقْتُلُوهُ لِئَلَّا يُخْبِرُوا مُحَمَّداً أَنَّهُمْ قَدْ رَأَوْنَا هُنَا فَيَنْكُصَ مُحَمَّدٌ وَ لَا يَصْعَدَ هَذِهِ الْعَقَبَةَ إِلَّا نَهَاراً فَيَبْطُلَ تَدْبِيرُنَا عَلَيْهِ Huzeyfa repeated the message and entered into the inside of the rock, and there came twenty-four (men) upon their camels, and in front of them were their infantry.
Some of them were saying to the others, ‘If you see anyone over here, whoever it may be, kill him, lest he informs Muhammad -saww that he has seen us over here, and Muhammad -saww would turn back and will not ascend this Al-Aqaba (ravine) except at daytime, and it would invalidate our plot against him -saww .