English
Ibn Wahb told us, on the authority of Ibn Lahi’ah, he told them, on the authority of Khalid bin Abi Imran, on the authority of Hanash bin Abdullah, he heard Ibn Abbas, (may Allah be pleased with him) say: “There will be a caliph from the Banu Hashim in Medina, and some of them will go to Mecca, and when they present it, the ruler of Mecca sends to them: What has brought you, do you think you will find relief with us? One of them has included his sword in his dress, and he says: Who forced you to kill our friend? He says: He made me angry. He says: Bear witness, O Muslims, that he killed him because he made him angry. So he draws his sword and strikes him with it. Then they side with Taif, and the people of Mecca say: By Allah, if we leave these people until news of them reaches the Caliph, he will destroy us. He said: Then they march to them, and the Hashemites call out to them: Allah, Allah is in our blood. And your blood, you have learned that he killed our friend unjustly, so they will not turn away from them until they fight them and defeat them, and seize Mecca, and the owner of Medina informs them of their matter, and they say: By Allah, if we leave them, we will face calamity from the Caliph. Then the owner of Medina sends an army to them and they defeat them, and if the Caliph sends an army to them, they will be the ones he will annihilate.”