Musnad Hadiths Regarding the Assassination Attempt on the Prophet on the 'Aqabah Night - A Compilation & Study

Abstract

This study addresses the "musnad" (authenticated) narrations about the Aqabah assassination scheme by collecting, verifying and critically studying all related hadiths. The most prominent findings demonstrated that this assassination attempt had evidently occurred and that the most accurate hadith in this event was the one narrated by Al-Walid bin Jumai’, on the authority of Abi Al-Tufail as it was narrated with a good "Hasan" chain of transmission. However, other narrations about this incident were either very weak, weak, or a "mursal" that can be relied upon, without considering the reprehensible aspects cited in them. Furthermore, the Aqabah incident includes some evidence of prophecy, such as telling the Prophet ⁽PBUH⁾ about the number of hypocrites, what they decided to do on the night of Aqabah, and that those die on hypocrisy. The study recommended collecting the "mursal" and problematic narrations for studying them critically.