The Insolent Najdi & the Prophet (s.a.w.)

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

It is recorded, in Swahih al-Bukhari, that Sayyidina Abu Sa’id Sa’id ibn Malik al-Khazraji al-Khudri (r.a.) narrated that when Sayyidina ‘Ali ibn Abu Thalib (k.w.) was in Yemen, he sent some gold ore to the Prophet (s.a.w.).  The Prophet (s.a.w.) distributed it among al-Aqra’ ibn Habis al-Hanzali who belonged to Bani Mujashi, Sayyidina ‘Uyaynah ibn Hiswn ibn Hudzayfah ibn Badr al-Fazhari (r.a.), ‘Alqamah ibn ‘Ulatsah al-‘Amiri (r.a.), who belonged to the Bani Kilab, and Zayd al-Khayl ibn Muhalhil at-Tha’i (r.a.), who belonged to Bani Nabhan. 

The Quraysh and the Answar became angry, and said, “He gives to the chiefs of Najd and leaves us!” 

The Prophet (s.a.w.) said, “I wanted to attract and unite their hearts.” 

Then there came a man, Dzu al-Khuwayrah, with sunken eyes, bulging forehead, thick beard, fat raised cheeks, and clean-shaven head, and said, “O Muhammad!  Fear Allah!” 

The Prophet (s.a.w.) said, “Who would obey Allah if I disobeyed Him?  He Trusts me over the people of the world, but you do not trust me?” 

A man from the people, who, Sayyidina Abu Sa’id al-Khudri (r.a.) thought was Sayyidina Abu Sulayman Khalid ibn al-Walid (r.a.), asked for permission to kill him, but the Prophet (s.a.w.) prevented him from doing so.  When the man went away, the Prophet (s.a.w.) said, “Out of the offspring of this man,” meaning the people from Banu Tamim of the Najd, “there will be people who will recite the Qur’an, but it will not go beyond their throats, and they will go out of Islam as an arrow goes out through the game, and they will kill the Muslims and leave the idolaters.  Should I live until they appear, I would kill them as the killing of the nation of ‘Aad.”  And these people are the followers of Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab an-Najdi.