Narrated `Urwa bin Az-Zubair:
I asked `Abdullah bin `Amr, "What was the worst thing the pagans did to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) ?" He said, "I saw `Uqba bin Abi Mu'ait coming to the Prophet (ﷺ) while he was praying.' `Uqba put his sheet round the Prophet's neck and squeezed it very severely. Abu Bakr came and pulled `Uqba away from the Prophet (ﷺ) and said, "Do you intend to kill a man just because he says: 'My Lord is Allah, and he has brought forth to you the Evident Signs from your Lord?"
حَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ الْكُوفِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا الْوَلِيدُ، عَنِ الأَوْزَاعِيِّ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ أَبِي كَثِيرٍ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، عَنْ عُرْوَةَ بْنِ الزُّبَيْرِ، قَالَ سَأَلْتُ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ عَمْرٍو عَنْ أَشَدِّ، مَا صَنَعَ الْمُشْرِكُونَ بِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ رَأَيْتُ عُقْبَةَ بْنَ أَبِي مُعَيْطٍ جَاءَ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم وَهُوَ يُصَلِّي، فَوَضَعَ رِدَاءَهُ فِي عُنُقِهِ فَخَنَقَهُ بِهِ خَنْقًا شَدِيدًا، فَجَاءَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ حَتَّى دَفَعَهُ عَنْهُ فَقَالَ أَتَقْتُلُونَ رَجُلاً أَنْ يَقُولَ رَبِّيَ اللَّهُ. وَقَدْ جَاءَكُمْ بِالْبَيِّنَاتِ مِنْ رَبِّكُمْ.
Isnad
7 transmitters- 1Muhammad bin Sa'id bin Yazidal-Basra
- 2al-Walid bin Muslim al-QuraishiDamascus · d. 195 AH
- 3'Abdur Rahman bin 'Amr al-Awza'iSyria/Beruit · d. ~157 AH
- 4Yahya bin Abi KathirBasra,al-Yamama · d. 132 AH or before
- 5Muhammad bin Ibrahim bin al-HarithMedina · d. 120 AH
- 6'Urwa ibn al-ZubayrMedina · d. 93 AH/713 CE
- 7'Abdullah bin 'Amr bin al-'AasMakkah/Medina/Egypt/Syria/Ta'if · d. 63 AH/65 AH
References2 variants
- In-Book Reference
- Book 62, Hadith 28
- USC-MSA web (English) reference
- Vol. 5, Book 57, Hadith 27 (deprecated numbering scheme)