و حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّی حَدَّثَنَا وَهْبٌ يَعْنِي ابْنَ جَرِيرٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي قَالَ سَمِعْتُ يَحْيَی بْنَ أَيُّوبَ يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ أَبِي حَبِيبٍ عَنْ مَرْثَدٍ عَنْ عُقْبَةَ بْنِ عَامِرٍ قَالَ صَلَّی رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّی اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ عَلَی قَتْلَی أُحُدٍ ثُمَّ صَعِدَ الْمِنْبَرَ کَالْمُوَدِّعِ لِلْأَحْيَائِ وَالْأَمْوَاتِ فَقَالَ إِنِّي فَرَطُکُمْ عَلَی الْحَوْضِ وَإِنَّ عَرْضَهُ کَمَا بَيْنَ أَيْلَةَ إِلَی الْجُحْفَةِ إِنِّي لَسْتُ أَخْشَی عَلَيْکُمْ أَنْ تُشْرِکُوا بَعْدِي وَلَکِنِّي أَخْشَی عَلَيْکُمْ الدُّنْيَا أَنْ تَنَافَسُوا فِيهَا وَتَقْتَتِلُوا فَتَهْلِکُوا کَمَا هَلَکَ مَنْ کَانَ قَبْلَکُمْ قَالَ عُقْبَةُ فَکَانَتْ آخِرَ مَا رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّی اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ عَلَی الْمِنْبَرِ
صحیح مسلم · Hadith 5977
Uqba b. 'Amir reported Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) as saying: Allah's Messenger offered prayer over those who had fallen matyrs at Uhud. He then climbed the pulpit as if someone is saying good-bye to the living and the dead, and then said: I shall be there as your predecesor on the Cistern before you, and it is as wide as the distance between Aila and Juhfa (Aila is at the top of the gulf of 'Aqaba). I am not afraid that you would associate anything with Allah after me, but I am afraid that you may be (allured) by the world and (vie) with one another (in possessing material wealth) and begin killing one another, and you would be destroyed as were destroyed those who had gone before you. 'Uqba said that that was the last occasion that he saw Allah's Massenger on the pulpit.
Translated by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan · Reviewed by Islamic University of Madinah · Published March 2020