قَالَ: فَأَمَرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ‏ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ...

قَالَ: فَأَمَرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ‏ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ آلِهِ بِالْجِهَادِ لِحَرْبِ مَكَّةَ وَ أَمَرَ النَّاسَ بِالتَّهَيُّؤِ وَ قَالَ: اللَّهُمَّ خُذِ الْعُيُونُ وَ الْأَخْبَارَ عَنْ قُرَيْشٍ حَتَّى نَبْغَتَهَا فِي بِلَادِهَا He (the narrator) said, ‘Rasool-Allah -azwj ordered for the Jihad to war against Makkah, and ordered the people with the preparation, and said: ‘O Allah -azwj !

Take away the eyes (spies) and the news from Quraysh until we come up suddenly in their city!’ وَ كَتَبَ حَاطِبُ بْنُ أَبِي بَلْتَعَةَ إِلَى قُرَيْشٍ فَأَتَى رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ آلِهِ الْخَبَرُ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ، فَبَعَثَ عَلِيّاً عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ وَ الزُّبَيْرَ حَتَّى أَخَذَا كِتَابَهُ مِنِ امْرَأَةٍ وَ قَدْ مَضَتْ هَذِهِ الْقِصَّةُ فِي سُورَةِ الْمُمْتَحِنَةِ And Hatib Bin Abayy Balta’t wrote to Quraysh, and news (of it) came to Rasool-Allah ‑saww from the sky.

[17] ثُمَّ اسْتَخْلَفَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ آلِهِ أَبَا رُهْمٍ الْغِفَارِيَّ وَ خَرَجَ عَامِداً إِلَى مَكَّةَ لِعَشْرٍ مَضَيْنَ مِنْ شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ سَنَةَ ثَمَانٍ فِي عَشَرَةِ آلَافٍ مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ وَ نَحْوٍ مِنْ أَرْبَعِمِائَةِ فَارِسٍ وَ لَمْ يَتَخَلَّفْ مِنَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ وَ الْأَنْصَارِ عَنْهُ أَحَدٌ Then Rasool-Allah -saww left behind Abu Ruhim Al-Ghafary (in charge) and went out deliberating towards Makkah on ten days past from the Month of Ramazan in the year eighty, among ten thousand from the Muslims and approximately four hundred horsemen, and not one from the Emigrants and the Helpers stayed behind from it.

وَ كَانَ أَبُو سُفْيَانَ بْنُ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ وَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ أُمَيَّةَ بْنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ قَدْ لَقِيَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ آلِهِ بِنِيقِ الْعُقَابِ فِيمَا بَيْنَ مَكَّةَ وَ الْمَدِينَةِ، فَالْتَمَسَا الدُّخُولَ عَلَيْهِ فَلَمْ يَأْذَنْ لَهُمَا And it was so that Abu Sufyan Bin Al Haris Bin Abdul Muttalib and Abdullah Bin Amayya had both met Rasool-Allah -saww at Neeq Al Uqab in what is between Makkah and Al Medina, and they had both sought permission to see him -saww , but he -saww did not permit them.