AL-MUMTAHANA | Hubeali en-US AL-MUMTAHANA | Hubeali 32 32 AL-MUMTAHANA (Chapter 60) Sura Al-Mumtahana (13 verses) was revealed in Madinah.[1] O you those who believe! Do not take My enemy and your enemy as friends. Would you meet them with the cordiality [60:1] - (In Tafseer Qummi it is), it was Revealed regarding Hatib Bin Abu Balta’at, and the Words of the Verse are general, but their Meaning is special.

And the reason for that was that Hatib Bin Abu Balta’at had become a Muslim and migrated to Al-Medina, and his family was in Makkah, and the Quraysh were afraid that Rasool-Allah-saww would embark upon a military expedition against them. They came to the relatives of Hatib and asked them that they should write to Hatib asking him about the news of Rasool-Allah-saww, and whether he-saww intends to send a military expedition to Makkah (or not). They wrote to Hatib asking him about that.

Hatib wrote back to them that Rasool-Allah-saww does intend to do that, and handed over the letter to a woman called Safiya. She hid that inside her hair (in the shape of a horn) and went. Jibraeel-as descended upon Rasool-Allah-saww and informed him-saww about that. Rasool-Allah-saww sent Amir-Al-Momineen-asws and Al-Zubeyr Bin Al-Awwam to seek her out. When they met her, Amir-Al-Momineen-asws said to her: ‘Where is the letter?’ But she said, ‘There is nothing with me’.

They checked her, but did not find anything with her, so Al-Zubeyr said, ‘We do not see anything with her’. Amir-Al-Momineen-asws said: ‘By Allah-azwj! Rasool-Allah-saww did not lie to us, nor did Rasool-Allah-saww lie against Jibraeel-as, nor did Jibraeel-as lie against Allah-azwj, Majestic is His-azwj Praise. By Allah-azwj! if you do not display the letter, I-asws will return your head to Rasool-Allah-saww! The post AL-MUMTAHANA (Chapter 60) first appeared on Hubeali.]]>