Hadith 12

of) Asad and Gatfaan aimed for them among three thousand horsemen to one of the Jewish towns around Al-Medina. So the Jews faced them, and they (Jews) were three hundred horsemen, and they supplicated to Allah–azwj by Muhammad–saww and his–saww goodly Progeny–asws, the clean – and they defeated them and scattered them. So (the clans of) Asad and Gatfaan said to each other, ‘Come! We shall assist each other against them along with the rest of the tribes’. They assisted each other against them along with the (other) tribes, and they became more – to the extent that they gathered about thirty thousand, and they aimed for these Jews, the three hundred in their town. They made them take refuge in their own houses and cut of the flow of water from them – which used to enter into their town – and they prevented the food from them, and Jews asked for safety from them, but they did not grant them safety, and they said, ‘No, except that we would kill you, and make captives of you, and plunder you’. The Jews said to each other, ‘How shall we deal (with this)? ’ Some of their like and ones with the opinions from them said to them, ‘Did not Musa–as instruct your ancestors and the ones after them with the seeking of help (of Allah–azwj through Muhammad–saww and his–saww Progeny–asws? Did he–as not instruct you all with the invocation to Allah–azwj the Exalted by them–asws during the difficulties? ’ They said, ‘Yes’. And they did so. They said, ‘O Allah–azwj! By the virtue of Muhammad–saww and his–saww goodly Progeny–asws, Quench us, for the unjust ones have cut off the waters from us to the extent that our youth have weakened, and our children have died, and our noblemen are upon the death’. Allah–azwj the Exalted Sent a torrential downpour of rain which filled upon their fountains, and their wells, and their reservoirs, and their utensils and their containers, and they said, ‘This is one of the two good things’. Then they overlooked from their roofs upon the soldiers who had surrounded them, and the rain had harmed them to the peak of harm – and spoilt upon them their provisions, and their weapons, and their wealth. Some of them left from them due to that, and that is because the rain had come to them in other than its (normal) season – in the summer of extreme heat when the rains do not happen to be. The remaining ones from the soldiers said, ‘Supposing you are quenched, but from where would you be eating, and even if they have left from you, we wouldn’t be leaving until we conquer upon yourselves, and your dependents, and your families, and your wealth, and take out our anger from you’. The Jews said, ‘The One–azwj Who Quenched us by our supplication through Muhammad–saww and his–saww Progeny–asws, is Able upon Feeding us, and the One–azwj Who Caused them to leave from us, the ones who left, is Able upon Causing the remaining ones to leave’, Then they supplicated by Muhamma