Arabic (Original)
حَدَّثَنَا يَعْقُوبُ حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَ حَدَّثَنِي يَزِيدُ بْنُ زِيَادٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ كَعْبٍ الْقُرَظِيِّ قَالَ قَالَ فَتًى مِنَّا مِنْ أَهْلِ الْكُوفَةِ لِحُذَيْفَةَ بْنِ الْيَمَانِ يَا أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ رَأَيْتُمْ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَصَحِبْتُمُوهُ قَالَ نَعَمْ يَا ابْنَ أَخِي قَالَ فَكَيْفَ كُنْتُمْ تَصْنَعُونَ قَالَ وَاللَّهِ لَقَدْ كُنَّا نَجْهَدُ قَالَ وَاللَّهِ لَوْ أَدْرَكْنَاهُ مَا تَرَكْنَاهُ يَمْشِي عَلَى الْأَرْضِ وَلَجَعَلْنَاهُ عَلَى أَعْنَاقِنَا قَالَ فَقَالَ حُذَيْفَةُ يَا ابْنَ أَخِي وَاللَّهِ لَقَدْ رَأَيْتُنَا مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ بِالْخَنْدَقِ وَصَلَّى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مِنْ اللَّيْلِ هَوِيًّا ثُمَّ الْتَفَتَ إِلَيْنَا فَقَالَ مَنْ رَجُلٌ يَقُومُ فَيَنْظُرَ لَنَا مَا فَعَلَ الْقَوْمُ يَشْتَرِطُ لَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ أَنَّهُ يَرْجِعُ أَدْخَلَهُ اللَّهُ الْجَنَّةَ فَمَا قَامَ رَجُلٌ ثُمَّ صَلَّى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ هَوِيًّا مِنْ اللَّيْلِ ثُمَّ الْتَفَتَ إِلَيْنَا فَقَالَ مَنْ رَجُلٌ يَقُومُ فَيَنْظُرَ لَنَا مَا فَعَلَ الْقَوْمُ ثُمَّ يَرْجِعُ يَشْرِطُ لَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ الرَّجْعَةَ أَسْأَلُ اللَّهَ أَنْ يَكُونَ رَفِيقِي فِي الْجَنَّةِ فَمَا قَامَ رَجُلٌ مِنْ الْقَوْمِ مَعَ شِدَّةِ الْخَوْفِ وَشِدَّةِ الْجُوعِ وَشِدَّةِ الْبَرْدِ فَلَمَّا لَمْ يَقُمْ أَحَدٌ دَعَانِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَلَمْ يَكُنْ لِي بُدٌّ مِنْ الْقِيَامِ حِينَ دَعَانِي فَقَالَ يَا حُذَيْفَةُ فَاذْهَبْ فَادْخُلْ فِي الْقَوْمِ فَانْظُرْ مَا يَفْعَلُونَ وَلَا تُحْدِثَنَّ شَيْئًا حَتَّى تَأْتِيَنَا قَالَ فَذَهَبْتُ فَدَخَلْتُ فِي الْقَوْمِ وَالرِّيحُ وَجُنُودُ اللَّهِ تَفْعَلُ مَا تَفْعَلُ لَا تَقِرُّ لَهُمْ قِدْرٌ وَلَا نَارٌ وَلَا بِنَاءٌ فَقَامَ أَبُو سُفْيَانَ بْنُ حَرْبٍ فَقَالَ يَا مَعْشَرَ قُرَيْشٍ لِيَنْظُرْ امْرُؤٌ مَنْ جَلِيسُهُ فَقَالَ حُذَيْفَةُ فَأَخَذْتُ بِيَدِ الرَّجُلِ الَّذِي إِلَى جَنْبِي فَقُلْتُ مَنْ أَنْتَ قَالَ أَنَا فُلَانُ بْنُ فُلَانٍ ثُمَّ قَالَ أَبُو سُفْيَانَ يَا مَعْشَرَ قُرَيْشٍ إِنَّكُمْ وَاللَّهِ مَا أَصْبَحْتُمْ بِدَارِ مُقَامٍ لَقَدْ هَلَكَ الْكُرَاعُ وَأَخْلَفَتْنَا بَنُو قُرَيْظَةَ بَلَغَنَا مِنْهُمْ الَّذِي نَكْرَهُ وَلَقِينَا مِنْ هَذِهِ الرِّيحِ مَا تَرَوْنَ وَاللَّهِ مَا تَطْمَئِنُّ لَنَا قِدْرٌ وَلَا تَقُومُ لَنَا نَارٌ وَلَا يَسْتَمْسِكُ لَنَا بِنَاءٌ فَارْتَحِلُوا فَإِنِّي مُرْتَحِلٌ ثُمَّ قَامَ إِلَى جَمَلِهِ وَهُوَ مَعْقُولٌ فَجَلَسَ عَلَيْهِ ثُمَّ ضَرَبَهُ فَوَثَبَ عَلَى ثَلَاثٍ فَمَا أَطْلَقَ عِقَالَهُ إِلَّا وَهُوَ قَائِمٌ وَلَوْلَا عَهْدُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ لَا تُحْدِثْ شَيْئًا حَتَّى تَأْتِيَنِي وَلَوْ شِئْتُ لَقَتَلْتُهُ بِسَهْمٍ قَالَ حُذَيْفَةُ ثُمَّ رَجَعْتُ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَهُوَ قَائِمٌ يُصَلِّي فِي مِرْطٍ لِبَعْضِ نِسَائِهِ مُرَحَّلٍ فَلَمَّا رَآنِي أَدْخَلَنِي إِلَى رَحْلِهِ وَطَرَحَ عَلَيَّ طَرَفَ الْمِرْطِ ثُمَّ رَكَعَ وَسَجَدَ وَإِنَّهُ لَفِيهِ فَلَمَّا سَلَّمَ أَخْبَرْتُهُ الْخَبَرَ وَسَمِعَتْ غَطَفَانُ بِمَا فَعَلَتْ قُرَيْشٌ وَانْشَمَرُوا إِلَى بِلَادِهِمْ.
English Translation
Ya'qub told us, my father told us, from Muhammad b. Ishaq, Yazid b. Ziyad told me, from Muhammad b. Ka'b al-Qurazi, he said: A young man of ours from the people of Kufah said to Hudhayfah b. al-Yaman: "O Abu 'Abdullah, did you see the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) and accompany him?" He said: "Yes, O son of my brother." He said: "How did you act?" He said: "By God, we indeed strove hard." He said: "By God, had we found him, we would not have let him walk on the ground; we would have carried him on our shoulders." Hudhayfah said: "O son of my brother, by God, I remember us with the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) at the Trench; the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) prayed a good portion of the night, then turned to us and said: 'Who is a man who will get up and look for us to see what the enemy is doing?' - the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) stipulating for him, on condition that he return, that God would admit him to Paradise - but no man got up. Then the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) prayed another good portion of the night, then turned to us and said: 'Who is a man who will get up and look for us to see what the enemy is doing, then return?' - the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) stipulating for him the return: 'I ask God that he be my companion in Paradise' - but no man among the people got up, given the intensity of the fear, the intensity of the hunger, and the intensity of the cold. When no one got up, the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) called me, and I had no choice but to get up when he called me. He said: 'O Hudhayfah, go and enter among the enemy and see what they are doing, and do not do anything until you come back to us.'" He said: "So I went and entered among the people, while the wind and the armies of God were doing what they were doing - no cooking-pot of theirs would stay steady, nor fire, nor tent. Abu Sufyan b. Harb stood up and said: 'O company of Quraysh, let each man look to see who is sitting beside him.'" Hudhayfah said: "So I took hold of the hand of the man next to me and said: 'Who are you?' He said: 'I am so-and-so son of so-and-so.'" Then Abu Sufyan said: "O company of Quraysh, by God you are not in a place to remain; the horses have perished, Banu Qurayzah have betrayed us and we have received from them what we dislike, and we have met from this wind what you see; by God, no cooking-pot stays steady for us, no fire stays lit for us, and no tent stays standing for us, so depart, for I am departing." Then he went to his camel, which was hobbled, and sat on it, then struck it, and it leapt up on three legs before he had even released its hobble, and it was already standing. "Had it not been for the covenant of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him), 'Do not do anything until you come back to me,' and had I wished, I could have killed him with an arrow." Hudhayfah said: "Then I returned to the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him), who was standing praying, wrapped in a garment belonging to one of his wives. When he saw me, he brought me into his cloak and threw the end of the garment over me, then he bowed and prostrated while still in it. When he finished the prayer, I told him the news, and Ghatafan heard what Quraysh had done and hurried off to their own lands."