Hadith No: 2
Al-Bakri - Umar ibn al-Khattab - Umar in the Battle of Hunayn
Volume: (1) - Page Number: (29)
[The text is lengthy, so only the relevant excerpt is provided here]
- .... Dr. Marsden Jones says in the introduction to his edition of al-Waqidi's book on the military campaigns (al-Maghazi): "In the manuscript that we have taken as the basis for this publication, there is a list of those who fled from the Prophet on the day of Uhud, beginning with these words:
'And among those who turned away was so-and-so,' and it names al-Harith ibn Hatib, Tha'labah ibn Hatib, Suwad ibn Ghaziyyah, Sa'd ibn Uthman, Uqbah ibn Uthman, and Khāriyah ibn 'Amir, reaching Malla and Awus ibn Qaythi in a few from the Banu Harithah." Meanwhile, the text according to Ibn Abi al-Hadid mentions Umar
and Uthman instead of so-and-so, and al-Baladhuri narrates from al-Waqidi that it was Uthman without mentioning Umar. It is clear that the text in the original manuscript
likely mentioned Uthman and Umar, or Umar alone, or Uthman alone, among those who turned their backs on the day of Uhud, but the scribe did not accept this regarding Umar or Uthman and substituted their names or one of their names with the phrase: so-and-so.