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APPENDIX: Additional Ahadith on the Failed Assassination Attempt at Aqaba: قصص الأنبياء عليهم السلام الصَّدُوقُ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ سَعْدٍ عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ مَهْزِيَارَ عَنْ أَخِيهِ عَلِيٍّ عَنِ النَّضْرِ عَنْ مُوسَى بْنِ بَكْرٍ قَالَ: قَالَ بَعْضُ أَصْحَابِنَا لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع عَلِمَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص أَسْمَاءَ الْمُنَافِقِينَ فَقَالَ لَا وَ لَكِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص لَمَّا كَانَ فِي غَزْوَةِ تَبُوكَ كَانَ يَسِيرُ عَلَى نَاقَتِهِ وَ النَّاسُ أَمَامَهُ فَلَمَّا انْتَهَى إِلَى الْعَقَبَةِ وَ قَدْ جَلَسَ عَلَيْهَا أَرْبَعَةَ عَشَرَ رَجُلًا سِتَّةٌ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ وَ ثَمَانِيَةٌ مِنْ أَفْنَاءِ النَّاسِ أَوْ عَلَى عَكْسِ هَذَا (The book) ‘Qasas Al-Anbiya’ of Al-Sadouq – From his father, from Sa’ad, from Ibrahim Bin Mahazim, from his brother Ali, from Al-Nazar, from Musa Bin Bakr who said, ‘One of our companions said to Abu Abdullah -asws , ‘Did Rasool-Allah -saww know the names of the hypocrites?’ He -asws said: ‘No, but when Rasool-Allah -saww was in the military expedition of Tabuk he -saww had travelled upon his -saww camel and the people were in front of him -saww .
When he -saww ended up to Al-Aqaba, and fourteen men had sat upon it – six from Quraysh and eight from a mixture of (tribes of) people’, or upon the reverse of that.
فَأَتَاهُ جَبْرَئِيلُ ع فَقَالَ إِنَّ فُلَاناً وَ فُلَاناً وَ فُلَاناً فَقَدْ قَعَدُوا لَكَ عَلَى الْعَقَبَةِ لِيُنَفِّرُوا نَاقَتَكَ فَنَادَاهُمْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص يَا فُلَانُ وَ يَا فُلَانُ وَ يَا فُلَانُ أَنْتُمُ الْقُعُودُ لِتُنَفِّرُوا نَاقَتِي وَ كَانَ حُذَيْفَةُ خَلْفَهُ فَلَحِقَ بِهِمْ فَقَالَ يَا حُذَيْفَةُ سَمِعْتَ قَالَ نَعَمْ قَالَ اكْتُمْ.
(He -asws said): ‘Jibraeel -as came to him -saww and said: ‘So and so, and so and so have been sitting in wait for you -saww upon Al-Aqaba in order to frighten your -saww camel’. Rasool-Allah -saww called out to them: ‘O so and so, and so and so, and so and so! You are the ones sitting in order to frighten my -saww camel!’ And Huzeyfa was behind it, and he joined up with them (the hypocrites). He -saww said: ‘O Huzeyfa! Did you hear?’ He said, ‘Yes’. He -saww said: ‘Conceal’’.
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