Shirk and one of the utmost tyrants of Makkah. Through torture, he sorely checked the belief of the early believers but they stayed steadfast. He utilised every strategem to make them waver but they proceeded to affirm the truth.
Ikrimah discovered himself keeping protected the authority and administration of his dad as he pitted himself contrary to the Prophet. His animosity in the direction of the Prophet, his persecution of his followers and his endeavours to impede the advancement of Islam and the Muslims won the esteem of his father.
At Badr, Abu Jahl directed the Makkan polytheists in the assault contrary to the Muslims. He pledged by al-Laat and al- Uzza that he would not come back to Makkah except he trampled Muhammad. At Badr he forfeited three camels to these goddesses. He drank wine and had the melodies of smglng young women to spur the Quraysh on to fight.
Abu Jahl was amidst the first to drop in the battle. His child Ikrimah glimpsed him as spears pierced his body and learned him let out his last bawl of agony. Ikrimah returned to Makkah leavmg behind the corpse of the Quraysh chieftain, his father. He liked to entomb him in Makkah but the trampling beat they endured made this impossible.
From that day, the blaze of abhorrence burned even more furiously in the heart of Ikrimah. Others whose fathers were slain at Badr, furthermore became more hostile to Muhammad and his followers. This finally directed to the Battle of Uhud.
At Uhud Ikrimah was escorted by his wife, Umm Hakim. She and other women stood behind the assault lines drubbing their percussion devices, advising the Quraysh on to assault and upbraiding any horseman who sensed inclined to flee.
Leading the right flank of the Quraysh was Khalid ibn Walid. On the left was Ikrimah ibn abi Jahl. The Quraysh imposed hefty deficiency on the Muslims and sensed that they had avenged themselves for the beat at Badr. This was not, although, the end of the state of conflict.
At the assault of the Ditch, the Quraysh mushrikun inundated Madinah. It was a long siege. The assets and the endurance of the mushrikun were wearing out. Ikrimah, feeling the damage of the siege, glimpsed a location where the ditch, cut into by the Muslims, was somewhat narrow. With a gigantic effort, he organised to cross. A little assembly of Quraysh pursued him. It was a foolhardy undertaking. One of them was directly slain and it was only by rotating on his heels that Ikrimah organised to save himself.
Nine years after his hijrah, the Prophet returned with thousands of his companions to Makkah. The Quraysh glimpsed them close to and determined to depart the way open for them because they knew that the Prophet had granted directions to his commanders not to open hostilities. Ikrimah and some other ones although went contrary to the consen- sus of the Quraysh and tried to impede the advancement of the Muslim forces. Khalid ibn al-Walid, now a Muslim, contacted and beaten them in a little commitment throughout which some of Ikrimah's men were slain and other ones who could, fled. Among those who got away was Ikrimah himself.
Any standing or leverage that Ikrimah may have had was now absolutely destroyed. The Prophet, calm be upon him, went into Makkah and provided a general pardon and amnesty to all Quraysh who went into the sacred mosque, or who resided in their dwellings or who went to the dwelling of Abu Sufyan, the paramount Quraysh leader. However he denied to allocate amnesty to a couple of persons who he named. He provided instructions that they should be slain even if they were discovered under the covering of the Ka'bah. At the peak of this register was Ikrimah ibn abi Jahl. When Ikrimah discovered of this, he fell out of Makkah in disguise and going for the Yemen.
Umm Hakim, Ikrimah's wife, then went to the bivouac of the Prophet. With her was Hind bint Utbah, the wife of Abu Sufyan and the mother of Mu'awiyah, and about 10 other women who liked to promise allegiance to the Prophet. At the bivouac, were two of his wives, his female child Fatimah and some women of the Abdulmuttalib clan. Hind was the one who spoke. She was veiled and embarrassed of what she had finished to Hamzah, the Prophet's uncle, at the assault of Uhud.
"O Messenger of God," she said, "Praise be to God Who has made manifes1 the belief He has selected for Himself. I beseech you out of the bonds of kinship to heal me well. I am now a believing woman who affirms the Truth of your mission." She then revealed herself and said: "I am Hind, the female child of Utbah, O Messenger of God. "
"Welcome to you," answered the Prophet, calm be on him.
"By God, O Prophet" proceeded Hind, "there was not a dwelling on soil that I liked to decimate more than your house. Now, there is no dwelling on soil that I so affectionately desire to respect and lift in glory than yours."
Umm Hakim then got up and professed her belief in Islam and said:
"O Messenger of God, Ikrimah has escaped from you to the Yemen out of worry that you would murder him. Grant him security and God will allocate you security."
"He is secure," pledged the Prophet.
Umm Hakim set out directly in seek of Ikrimah. Accompanying her was a Greek slave. When they had gone rather far on the way, he endeavoured to seduce her but she organised to put him off until she came to a town of Arabs. She searched their assist contrary to him. They joined him up and kept him. Umm Hakim proceeded on her way until she eventually discovered Ikrimah on the seaboard area of the Red Sea in the district of Tihamah. He was negotiating transport with a Muslim seaman who was saying to him:
"Be untainted and genuine and I will transport you."
"How can I be pure?" inquired Ikrimah.
"Say, I testify that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah." "I have escaped from this very thing," said Ikrimah.
At this issue, Umm Hakim came up to Ikrimah and said:
"O kin, I have arrive to you from the most bountiful of men, the most righteous of men, the best of men . . . from Muhammad ibn Abdullah. I have inquired him for an amnesty for you. This he has granted. So manage not decimate yourself."
"Have you voiced to him?"
"Yes, I have voiced to him and he has conceded you amnesty," she guaranteed him and he returned with her. She notified him about the try of their Greek slave to dishonour her and Ikrimah went exactly to the Arab town where he lay compelled and slain him.
At one of their relaxing locations on their way back, Ikrimah liked to doze with his wife but she vehemently denied and said:
"I am a Muslimah and you are a lifushrik."
Ikrimah was completely taken aback and said, "Living without you and without your dozing with me is an unrealistic situation."
As Ikrimah advanced Makkah, the Prophet, calm be upon him, notified his companions:
"Ikrimah ibn abi Jahl will arrive to you as a believer and a muhajEr (a refugee). Do not abuse his father. Insulting the dead determinants sorrow to the dwelling and does not come to the dead."
Ikrimah and his wife came up to where the Prophet was sitting. The Prophet got up and greeted him enthusiastically.
"Muhammad," said Ikrimah, "Umm Hakim has notified me that you have conceded me an amnesty." "That's right," said the Prophet, "You are safe."
"To what manage you invite?" inquired Ikrimah.
"I ask for you to testify that there is no god but Allah and that I am the domestic of Allah and His messenger, to set up Prayer and yield the Zakat and convey out all the other obligations of Islam." "By God," answered Ikrimah, "You have only called to what is factual and you have only instructed that which is good. You dwelled amidst us before the start of your objective and then you were the most dependable of us in talk and the most righteous of us." Stretching forward his hands he said, "I testify that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is His domestic and His messenger." The Prophet then instructed him to state, "I call on God and those present here to observer that I am a Muslim who is a Mujahid and a Muhajir". This Ikrimah recurring and then said:
"I inquire you to inquire God for forgiveness for me for all the hostility I administered contrary to you and for anything abuses I conveyed in your occurrence or absence." The Prophet answered with the prayer:
"O Lord, pardon him for all the hostility he administered contrary to me and for all the expeditions he climbed on desiring to stifle Your light. Forgive him for anything he has said or finished in my occurrence or nonattendance to dishonour me." Ikrimah's face beamed with happiness.
"By God, O messenger of Allah, I pledge that anything I have expended obstructing the way of God, I will spend two times as much in His route and anything assaults I have battled contrary to God's way I will battle two times as much in His way."
From that day on, Ikrimah was pledged to the objective of Islam as a audacious horseman in the area of assault and as a steadfast worshipper who would spend much time in mosques reading the publication of God. Often he would location the mushaf on his face and state, "The Book of my Lord, the phrases of my Lord" and he would bawl from the worry of God.
Ikrimah stayed factual to his promise to the Prophet. Whatever assaults the Muslims committed in then, he took part in them and he was habitually in the vanguard of the army. At the assault of Yarmuk he fell into the strike as a parched individual after freezing water on a blistering warm day. In one meet in which the Muslims were under hefty strike, Ikrimah penetrated deep into the ranks of the Byzantines. Khalid ibn al-Walid hurried up to him and said, "Don't, Ikrimah. Your death will be a critical assault to the Muslims."
"Let us convey on, Khalid," said Ikrimah, now at the top of motivation. "You had the privilege of being with the Messenger of God before this. As for myself and my dad, we were amidst his bitterest enemies. Leave me now to atone for what I have finished in the past. I battled the Prophet on numerous occasions. Shall I now escape from the Byzantines? This will not ever be." Then calling out to the Muslims, he yelled, "Who will promise to battle until death?"
Four century Muslims encompassing al-Harith ibn Hisham and Ayyash ibn Abi Rabiah answered to his call. They fell into the assault and battled heroically without the authority of Khalid ibn al-Walid. Their challenging strike paved the way for a resolute Muslim victory.
When the assault was over, the bodies of three hurt mujahideen lay sprawled on the battleground, amidst them Al-Harith ibn Hisham, Ayyash ibn Abi Rabi'ah and Ikrimah ibn abi Jahl. Al-Harith called for water to drink. As it was conveyed to him, Ayyash examined him and Harith said:
"Give it to Ayyash." By the time they got to Ayyash, he had just respired his last. When they returned to al-Harith and Ikrimah, they discovered that they too had passed away.
The companions pleaded that God may be satisfied with them all and allocate them refreshment from the jump of Kawthar in Paradise, a refreshment after which there is desire no more. |
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