The Prophet (a.

The Prophet (a.s) was sad over the disobeying his Commands, terming his ill heath, although he was in full senses, as delirium and raising a rumpus instead of leaving him in peace.

He was fed up of the happening around him and said, “Go away from me!” this was the worst calamity of the History of Islam that its founder wanted to write down his last will and testament for the benefit of the Ummah to protect them from going astray and his voice was submerged with in the noise raised by the people around him. Alas! He left this world disappointed and dismayed with certain of his close associates!

Ibn `Abbas used to cry much thinking of the events of that day and the pebbles of sand kept in front of him used to get wet with the tears that dropped from his eyes: “It was such a great calamity that the differences between the and their shouting and misbehavior obstructed the Prophet (a.s) writing down his will.”[2] People have tried in several ways to find excuses from the happenings of that sad day.

They tried to put the blame on the entire crowd instead of pin pointing the culprits and exposing their evil designs and faces! But all these efforts went in vain and the facts could not be hidden from the public gaze. Al-Bukhari’s two narrations quoted above are a reflection of this.

While in the first narration there is reference of the Prophet’s acute pain and the accusation of delirium, he has tried to hide the name of the person by referring to the accuser in the plural form instead of mentioning it as a singular and recording the name of that person. Where the events are light of nature al-Bukhari does not refrain from using the names of the characters involved! Where the words used are unpalatable, he cleverly tries to avoid the name of the person who used them.

But this attempt does not seem to protect the memory of the perpetrators of those cruel and undesirable words. In some [1] Al-Tabaqāt Ibn Sa`d, Vol 2, Page 244 [2] Tabaqāt Ibn Sa`d, Vol 2, Page 244 narratives, they use the word “some” instead of blaming the “crowd” to protect the big ones from ignominy.

Ibn Sa`d says: “Some persons who were there said that because of the intensity of the ailment, the Prophet (a.s) was uttering insensible words.”[1] In this narration, the circle of the perpetrators has been narrowed down. Bu even there the use of the word “some” does not pinpoint the real culprit!