Thus, Allah -azwj Revealed: When you sought Assistance from...

Thus, Allah -azwj Revealed: When you sought Assistance from your Lord [8:9] – the Verse. (Tabarsy) said, ‘And it is reported from Abu Ja’far -asws ’. [54] [ الفضل الطبرسي ] ذكر أبو حمزة الثمالي في تفسيره: أقبل أبو سفيان بعير قريش من الشام وفيها أموالهم وهي اللطيمة وفيها أربعون راكبا من قريش.

فندب النبي (صلى الله عليه وآله) أصحابه للخروج إليها ليأخذوها وقال: لعل الله أن ينفلكموها فانتدب الناس فخف بعضهم وثقل بعضهم ولم يظنوا ان رسول الله (صلى الله عليه وآله) يلقي كيدا ولا حربا فخرجوا لا يريدون إلا أبا سفيان والركب لا يرونها إلا غنيمة لهم Al Fazal Al Tabarsy – Abu Hamza Al Sumaly mentioned in his Tafseer, ‘When Abu Sufyan drew near the camels of Quraysh from Syria, and upon these was their goods, and it was without affiliative protection, and among them were forty riders.

The Prophet -saww delegated his -saww companions for the going out to seize it, and said: ‘Perhaps Allah -azwj would Turn it’. So the people deputised, and some of them took light (provisions) and some of them took heavy, and they did not think that Rasool-Allah -saww had cast a plan, nor a war. So they went out not intending only Abu Sufyan and the riders, and they did not see anything except for the war booty for themselves.

فلما سمع أبو سفيان بمسير النبي (صلى الله عليه وآله) استأجر ضمضم بن عمرو الغفاري فبعثه إلى مكة وأمره أن يأتي قريشا فيستنفرهم ويخبرهم أن محمدا (صلى الله عليه وآله) قد تعرض لعيرهم في أصحابه، فخرج ضمضم سريعا إلى مكة، وكانت عاتكة بنت عبد المطلب رأت فيما يرى النائم قبل مقدم ضمضم بن عمرو بثلاث ليال ان رجلا أقبل على بعير له ينادي يا آل غالب اغدوا إلى مصارعكم، ثم وافى بجملة على أبي قبيس فأخذ حجرا فدهدهه من الجبل فما ترك دارا من دور قريش إلا أصابته منه فلذة When Abu Sufyan heard of the travellers of the Prophet -saww , he chose Zamzam Bin Amro and Al-Ghafary and sent them to Makkah and ordered them that they should go to the Quraysh, so they should alienate them and inform them that Muhammad -saww had turned his -saww companions towards their camels’.

So, Zamzam went out in a haste to Makkah, and Aatiqa daughter of Abdul Muttalib -asws saw it, in what is seen in the sleep (a dream), three nights before the arrival of Zamzam Bin Amro, that men have faced to a camel of his calling out, ‘O progeny of Ghalib! Go to your gladiators, then forward them upon (mount) Abu Qubays, and take stones and roll them down from the mountain. So not a single house from the houses of Quraysh was left except that it was hit from it’.