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Narrated Ibn `Abbas:The first event of Qasama in the pre-Islamic period of ignorance was practiced by us (i.e. Banu Hashim). A man from Banu Hashim was employed by a Quraishi man from another branch-family. The (Hashimi) laborer set out with the Quraishi driving his camels. There passed by him another man from Banu Hashim. The leather rope of the latter's bag had broken so he said to the laborer, "Will you help me by giving me a rope in order to tie the handle of my bag lest the camels should run away from me?" The laborer gave him a rope and the latter tied his bag with it. When the caravan halted, all the camels' legs were tied with their fetters except one camel. The employer asked the laborer, "Why, from among all the camels has this camel not been fettered?" He replied, "There is no fetter for it." The Quraishi asked, "Where is its fetter?" and hit the laborer with a stick that caused his death (later on Just before his death) a man from Yemen passed by him. The laborer asked (him), "Will you go for the pilgrimage?" He replied, "I do not think I will attend it, but perhaps I will attend it." The (Hashimi) laborer said, "Will you please convey a message for me once in your life?" The other man said, "yes." The laborer wrote: 'When you attend the pilgrimage, call the family of Quraish, and if they respond to you, call the family of Banu Hashim, and if they respond to you, ask about Abu Talib and tell him that so-and-so has killed me for a fetter." Then the laborer expired. When the employer reached (Mecca), Abu Talib visited him and asked, "What has happened to our companion?" He said, "He became ill and I looked after him nicely (but he died) and I buried him." Then Abu Talib said, "The deceased deserved this from you." After some time, the messenger whom the laborer had asked to convey the message, reached during the pilgrimage season. He called, "O the family of Quraish!" The people replied, "This is Quraish." Then he called, "O the family of Banu Hashim!" Again the people replied, "This is Banu Hashim." He asked, "Who is Abu Talib?" The people replied, "This is Abu Talib." He said, "'So-and-so has asked me to convey a message to you that so-and-so has killed him for a fetter (of a camel)." Then Abu Talib went to the (Quraishi) killer and said to him, "Choose one of three alternatives: (i) If you wish, give us one-hundred camels because you have murdered our companion, (ii) or if you wish, fifty of your men should take an oath that you have not murdered our companion, and if you do not accept this, (iii) we will kill you in Qisas." The killer went to his people and they said, "We will take an oath." Then a woman from Banu Hashim who was married to one of them (i.e.the Quraishis) and had given birth to a child from him, came to Abu Talib and said, "O Abu Talib! I wish that my son from among the fifty men, should be excused from this oath, and that he should not take the oath where the oathtaking is carried on." Abu Talib excused him. Then another man from them came (to Abu Talib) and said, "O Abu Talib! You want fifty persons to take an oath instead of giving a hundred camels, and that means each man has to give two camels (in case he does not take an oath). So there are two camels I would like you to accept from me and excuse me from taking an oath when the oaths are taken. Abu Talib accepted them from him. Then 48 men came and took the oath. Ibn `Abbas further said: By Him in Whose Hand my life is, before the end of that year, none of those 48 persons remained alive

حدثنا ابو معمر، حدثنا عبد الوارث، حدثنا قطن ابو الهيثم، حدثنا ابو يزيد المدني، عن عكرمة، عن ابن عباس رضى الله عنهما قال ان اول قسامة كانت في الجاهلية لفينا بني هاشم، كان رجل من بني هاشم استاجره رجل من قريش من فخذ اخرى، فانطلق معه في ابله، فمر رجل به من بني هاشم قد انقطعت عروة جوالقه فقال اغثني بعقال اشد به عروة جوالقي، لا تنفر الابل. فاعطاه عقالا، فشد به عروة جوالقه، فلما نزلوا عقلت الابل الا بعيرا واحدا، فقال الذي استاجره ما شان هذا البعير لم يعقل من بين الابل قال ليس له عقال. قال فاين عقاله قال فحذفه بعصا كان فيها اجله، فمر به رجل من اهل اليمن، فقال اتشهد الموسم قال ما اشهد، وربما شهدته. قال هل انت مبلغ عني رسالة مرة من الدهر قال نعم. قال فكنت اذا انت شهدت الموسم فناد يا ال قريش. فاذا اجابوك، فناد يا ال بني هاشم. فان اجابوك فسل عن ابي طالب، فاخبره ان فلانا قتلني في عقال، ومات المستاجر، فلما قدم الذي استاجره اتاه ابو طالب فقال ما فعل صاحبنا قال مرض، فاحسنت القيام عليه، فوليت دفنه. قال قد كان اهل ذاك منك. فمكث حينا، ثم ان الرجل الذي اوصى اليه ان يبلغ عنه وافى الموسم فقال يا ال قريش. قالوا هذه قريش. قال يا ال بني هاشم. قالوا هذه بنو هاشم. قال اين ابو طالب قالوا هذا ابو طالب. قال امرني فلان ان ابلغك رسالة ان فلانا قتله في عقال. فاتاه ابو طالب فقال له اختر منا احدى ثلاث، ان شيت ان تودي ماية من الابل، فانك قتلت صاحبنا، وان شيت حلف خمسون من قومك انك لم تقتله، فان ابيت قتلناك به فاتى قومه، فقالوا نحلف. فاتته امراة من بني هاشم كانت تحت رجل منهم قد ولدت له. فقالت يا ابا طالب احب ان تجيز ابني هذا برجل من الخمسين ولا تصبر يمينه حيث تصبر الايمان. ففعل فاتاه رجل منهم فقال يا ابا طالب، اردت خمسين رجلا ان يحلفوا مكان ماية من الابل، يصيب كل رجل بعيران، هذان بعيران فاقبلهما عني ولا تصبر يميني حيث تصبر الايمان. فقبلهما، وجاء ثمانية واربعون فحلفوا. قال ابن عباس فوالذي نفسي بيده، ما حال الحول ومن الثمانية واربعين عين تطرف