What assures you against the occurrence of a disaster or capture?

What assures you against the occurrence of a disaster or capture?” He kept blaming me so much until I wished that the earth would split open for me so that I could enter into it. Then the (masked) man removed the mask from his face, and he was Talhah b. ‘Ubayd Allah. So he said, “Woe to you, O Umar! You have said too much today! And where is the writhing movement or the flight except to Allah the Almighty?”[^1] ‘Allamah al-Albani (d.

1420 H) has copied the exact same narration in his Sahihah , and states: أخرجه الإمام أحمد (6 / 141 - 142) عن محمد بن عمرو عن أبيه عن علقمة ابن وقاص، قال: أخبرتني عائشة قالت.... قلت: وهذا إسناد حسن. وقال الهيثمي في " مجمع الزوائد " (6 /128):" رواه أحمد وفيه محمد بن عمرو بن علقمة وهو حسن الحديث، وبقية رجاله ثقات". وقال الحافظ في " الفتح " (11 /43): " وسنده حسن". Imam Ahmad (6/141-142) recorded it from Muhammad b. ‘Amr - his father - ‘Alqamah b. Waqqas – ‘Aishah....

I (Al-Albani) say: This chain is hasan . Al-Haythami said in Majma’ al-Zawaid (6/128): “Ahmad recorded it and in the chain is Muhammad b. ‘Amr b. ‘Alqamah, and his hadith is hasan , and the other narrators in the chain are trustworthy”. Al-Hafiz also said in al-Fath (11/43): “ And its chain is hasan ”.[^2] Imam Ibn Hibban (d. 354 H) too has documented the report in his Sahih [^3].

‘Allamah al-Albani says: حسن Hasan ^4 Shaykh al-Arnauṭ confirms this: حديث حسن A hasan hadith ^5 The question is: what was ‘Umar and his few colleagues doing in a garden, hidden from view, while the Messenger of Allah and the other Sahabah were actively in battle against the allied forces of the pagans? The people, as testified by Umm al-Muminin ‘Aishah, were at the warfront. She was standing behind the fighting soldiers.

So, ‘Umar and his small band were completely away from the front, at the back of everyone else. Was it a tactical land ambush by them? But, that was not possible! Firstly, it was a trench war. If anything, ‘Umar and his colleagues should be standing with the Prophet at the front - by the trench - preventing the enemies of Allah from successfully crossing over.