The reciter: And Yahya ibn Yahya narrated to us, saying: Yazid ibn Zura' informed us, from Khalid, from al-Hakam ibn 'Abd Allah ibn al-A'raj, from Ma'qil ibn Yasar, who said:
I have seen myself on the Day of the Tree, with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) taking the pledge of allegiance from the people, while I was holding up a branch of its branches over his head, and we were fourteen hundred. He said: We did not pledge him to die, but we pledged him that we would not flee.
لَقَدْ رَأَيْتُنِي يَوْمَ الشَّجَرَةِ، وَالنَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يُبَايِعُ النَّاسَ، وَأَنَا رَافِعٌ غُصْنًا مِنْ أَغْصَانِهَا عَنْ رَأْسِهِ، وَنَحْنُ أَرْبَعَ عَشْرَةَ مِائَةً، قَالَ : لَمْ نُبَايِعْهُ عَلَى الْمَوْتِ، وَلَكِنْ بَايَعْنَاهُ عَلَى أَنْ لَا نَفِرَّ
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