Sahih al-Bukhari
Sahih al-Bukhari 3064
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ، حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي عَدِيٍّ، وَسَهْلُ بْنُ يُوسُفَ، عَنْ سَعِيدٍ، عَنْ قَتَادَةَ، عَنْ أَنَسٍ ـ رضى الله عنه أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم أَتَاهُ رِعْلٌ وَذَكْوَانُ وَعُصَيَّةُ وَبَنُو لِحْيَانَ، فَزَعَمُوا أَنَّهُمْ قَدْ أَسْلَمُوا، وَاسْتَمَدُّوهُ عَلَى قَوْمِهِمْ، فَأَمَدَّهُمُ النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم بِسَبْعِينَ مِنَ الأَنْصَارِ قَالَ أَنَسٌ كُنَّا نُسَمِّيهِمُ الْقُرَّاءَ، يَحْطِبُونَ بِالنَّهَارِ وَيُصَلُّونَ بِاللَّيْلِ، فَانْطَلَقُوا بِهِمْ حَتَّى بَلَغُوا بِئْرَ مَعُونَةَ غَدَرُوا بِهِمْ وَقَتَلُوهُمْ، فَقَنَتَ شَهْرًا يَدْعُو عَلَى رِعْلٍ وَذَكْوَانَ وَبَنِي لِحْيَانَ. قَالَ قَتَادَةُ وَحَدَّثَنَا أَنَسٌ أَنَّهُمْ قَرَءُوا بِهِمْ قُرْآنًا أَلاَ بَلِّغُوا عَنَّا قَوْمَنَا بِأَنَّا قَدْ لَقِينَا رَبَّنَا فَرَضِيَ عَنَّا وَأَرْضَانَا. ثُمَّ رُفِعَ ذَلِكَ بَعْدُ.
Muhammad ibn Bashshar narrated to us: Ibn Abi ʿAdi and Sahl ibn Yusuf narrated to us, from Saʿid, from Qatada, from Anas (may Allah be pleased with him), that the Prophet (ﷺ) was approached by Riʿl, Dhakwan, ʿUsayya, and Banu Lihyan. They claimed that they had become Muslims and asked him for reinforcements against their people. The Prophet (ﷺ) sent them seventy men from the Ansar. Anas said: We used to call them “the reciters”; by day they gathered firewood, and by night they prayed. They set out with them until they reached Biʾr Maʿuna. They betrayed and killed them. For a month he made the supplication of qunut, praying against Riʿl, Dhakwan, and Banu Lihyan. Qatada said: Anas also narrated to us that they had recited among them a passage of the Qur’an: “Convey from us to our people that we have met our Lord, and He is pleased with us and has made us pleased.” Then that was lifted afterward.
Translation notes
The source calls the seventy men al-qurraʾ (“the reciters”); the English witness adds “scholars.” The final statement says the recited passage was later lifted, rather than using the witness’s interpretive term “cancelled.”