فَقَتَلَهُمُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى بِهَا وَ مَا كَانُوا قَبْلَ...
فَقَتَلَهُمُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى بِهَا وَ مَا كَانُوا قَبْلَ ذَلِكَ رَأَوْا شَيْئاً مِنْ ذَلِكَ الطَّيْرِ وَ لَا شَيْئاً مِنَ الْجُدَرِيِّ وَ مَنْ أَفْلَتَ مِنْهُمُ انْطَلَقُوا حَتَّى بَلَغُوا حَضْرَمَوْتَ وَادٍ بِالْيَمَنِ أَرْسَلَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى عَلَيْهِمْ سَيْلًا فَغَرَّقَهُمْ وَ لَا رَأَوْا فِي ذَلِكَ الْوَادِي مَاءً قَبْلَ ذَلِكَ فَلِذَلِكَ سُمِّيَ حَضْرَمَوْتَ حِينَ مَاتُوا فِيهِ.
Thus, Allah -azwj Killed them by it, and there was not seen before that anything from those birds, nor anything from such blisters; and the ones who escaped from them, went away until they reached Hazramout, a valley at Yemen. Allah -azwj the High Sent against them a torrent, so they were drowned. And there had not been seen in that valley before that, therefore it was due to that is has been named as Hazramout, there they had died’.
[15] مع، معاني الأخبار ابْنُ الْوَلِيدِ عَنِ الصَّفَّارِ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ فَضَالَةَ عَنْ أَبَانٍ الْأَحْمَرِ قَالَ: سَأَلَ بَعْضُ أَصْحَابِنَا أَبَا الْحَسَنِ ع عَنِ الطَّاعُونِ يَقَعُ فِي بَلْدَةٍ وَ أَنَا فِيهَا أَتَحَوَّلُ عَنْهَا قَالَ نَعَمْ قَالَ فَفِي الْقَرْيَةِ وَ أَنَا فِيهَا أَتَحَوَّلُ عَنْهَا قَالَ نَعَمْ قَالَ فَفِي الدَّارِ وَ أَنَا فِيهَا أَتَحَوَّلُ عَنْهَا قَالَ نَعَمْ قُلْتُ فَإِنَّا نَتَحَدَّثُ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ آلِهِ قَالَ الْفِرَارُ مِنَ الطَّاعُونِ كَالْفِرَارِ مِنَ الزَّحْفِ Ibn Al Waleed, from Al Saffar, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from his father, from Fazalat, from Aban Al Ahmar who said, ‘One of our companions asked Abu Al-Hassan -asws , ‘About the plague occurring in a city and I am in it, should I transfer from it?’ He -asws said: ‘Yes’.
He said, ‘In the township and I am in it, should I transfer from it?’ He -asws said: ‘Yes’. He said, ‘In the house and I am in it, should I transfer from it?’ He -asws said: ‘Yes’. I said, ‘But we are narrating that Rasool-Allah -saww said: ‘The fleeing from the plague is like fleeing from the army’.
قَالَ إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص إِنَّمَا قَالَ هَذَا فِي قَوْمٍ كَانُوا يَكُونُونَ فِي الثُّغُورِ فِي نَحْوِ الْعَدُوِّ فَيَقَعُ الطَّاعُونُ فَيُخَلُّونَ أَمَاكِنَهُمْ وَ يَفِرُّونَ مِنْهَا فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص ذَلِكَ فِيهِمْ. He -asws said: ‘Rasool-Allah -saww rather said this regarding a group who happened to be in a trench near the enemy, and the plague occurred, so they would have vacated their places and fled from it, therefore Rasool-Allah -saww said that regarding them’’.
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