Hadith 148

We said, ‘O people! By Allah-azwj, this is the fatigue and destruction, so what is your view? ’ They said, ‘The opinion is for the dispersing away from them, for they are a people of sorcery’. He said, ‘They said to each other, ‘If they were sorcerer, then the opinion is that we should disappear from their sights and make them imagine that we have dispersed away from them. When they have departed, we should turn a full circle upon them and attack them in a narrow strait’. They said, ‘Yes, the (correct) opinion is this’. So, we dispersed away from them and made them imagine that we had despaired. When it was the next morning, they departed and went and we neglected them until we hid in a valley. We stood up and saddled and rode until we caught up with them. When they sensed us, they panicked to Abdullah Bin Abdul Muttalib-asws and said, ‘They have caught up with us! ’ He-saww said: ‘There will be no problems upon you, continue gently’. He said, ‘They went on to travel a gentle travel, and we were galloping and killing ourselves and our animals until we overlooked upon the death along with our animals. When it was during the end of the day, Abdullah-as said to his-as companions: ‘Lay down your riding animals’, and he-as stood up and drew a line and said: ‘Do not go out form this line, for they will never (be able to) arrive to you with any abhorrence’. We ended up to the line, and by Allah-azwj, we were not able upon crossing over it. One of us said to the other, ‘By Allah-azwj, there does not remain except for the destruction or the dispersal from them, upon that we would not return to them’. He said, ‘We dispersed away from them, and our animals were fatigues and died, and the journey had been an evil omen upon us’. When they heard that from the sheikh, they said, ‘Why didn’t you inform us with this narration (before) and we would have dispersed from them and the ones from us who drowned would not have drowned? ’
The sheikh said, ‘I had informed you and advised to you and said to you, ‘Disperse away from them, for there won’t be for you any arrival to them, and among them is a man-asws from the sons of Abdul Muttalib-asws’, and you said I had become senile and my mind had gone’. When my father heard this speech from the sheikh, and he was narrating to his companions at the top of the line, he looked at Abu Talib-asws. He said: ‘Woe be unto you! Did you not hear what the sheikh said? ’ He said, ‘Yes O Khattab! By Allah-azwj, I was with Abdullah-as in the caravan on that day, and I was a young boy, and this sheikh was upon a seat of his and it was thorny, and I could not see from him except his stare, and there were forelocks for him he had rested these on his right and his left. The sheikh said, ‘You speak the truth. By Allah-azwj, on that day I was upo