Hadith of Usama's dispatchment

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Arabic

رزية يوم الخميس

Transliteration

Raziyat Yawm al-Khamis

Translation

"The Calamity of Thursday"

Hadith of Usama's dispatchment is a Hadith in Islam about an event during Muhammads last days alive.

1 Introduction
2 Narrations
3 Shi'a view
4 See also
5 References
6 External link

[edit] Introduction

Muhammad had earlier sent an expedition against the Byzantine Empire (Roman) that resulted in what was known as the Battle of Mut'ah. The leader of that expedition was the dark colored Zayd ibn Haritha, Muhammad's former adopted son. Zayd died during that expedition. ^[1]

After the Farewell Pilgrimage and the events of the hadith of the pen and paper, the Saturday ^[2]before Muhammad died, Umar ^[3]^[2], Abu Bakr ^[2], Uthman^{[citation needed]}, Abu Ubaydah ^[2] and others were sent away to meet with a military detachment in Joraf that was heading against the Byzantine forces in Syria, under the command of an eighteen ^[2] or twenty year ^[1] old man – Usama ibn Zayd, the son of Zayd ibn Haritha.

Ali and many others from the Banu Hashim where ordered to stay in Medina. Umar protested to this desition, causing Muhammad to forbid them to abandon Zaid's detachment. They left, but camped outside Medina and returned the next day.

[edit] Narrations

Sahih Bukhari included a hadith from Ibn Umar:

The Apostle of God sent an army detachment and made Usama ibn Zayd its commander. Some people criticized (spoke badly of) Usama's leadership. So Allah's Apostle got up saying, "If you people are criticizing Usama's leadership, you have already criticized the leadership of his father before. But Wa-aimullah (i.e., By Allah), he (i.e. Usama's father) deserved the leadership, and he was one of the most beloved persons to me; and now this (his son Usama) is one of the dearest persons to me after him." ^[4]

Sahih Bukhari also includes a shorted version of the above, narated by Salim's father ^[5].