Jihad (Kitab Al-Jihad)

Musaddad related to us; Mu'tamir related to us, from Ubaydullah, from Nafi, from Ibn Umar: The Prophet of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to train horses and race them.

Ahmad ibn Hanbal related to us; Uqbah ibn Khalid related to us, from Ubaydullah, from Nafi, from Ibn Umar: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) held races between horses and gave preference to the quraḥ at the finish.

Abu Salih al-Antaki—Mahbub ibn Musa—related to us; Abu Ishaq, meaning al-Fazari, informed us, from Hisham ibn Urwah, from his father, and from Abu Salamah, from Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her), who was with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) on a journey. She said: ‘I raced him and beat him on foot. When I had put on weight, I raced him again and he beat me. He said, “This makes up for that race.”’

Musaddad related to us; Husayn ibn Numayr related to us; Sufyan ibn Husayn related to us. Ali ibn Muslim related to us; Abbad ibn al-Awwam related to us; Sufyan ibn Husayn informed us—in meaning—from al-Zuhri, from Sa'id ibn al-Musayyab, from Abu Hurayrah, from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), who said: ‘Whoever enters a horse in a race alongside two other horses when it is not certain that it will win, it is not gambling. But whoever enters a horse alongside two other horses when it is certain that it will not be beaten, it is gambling.’

Mahmud ibn Khalid related to us; al-Walid ibn Muslim related to us, from Sa'id ibn Bashir, from al-Zuhri, with the chain of Abbad and a similar meaning. Abu Dawud said: ‘Ma'mar, Shu'ayb, and Aqil also narrated it from al-Zuhri, from men of knowledge. This version is sounder in our view.’

Yahya ibn Khalaf related to us; Abd al-Wahhab ibn Abd al-Majid related to us; Anbasah related to us. Musaddad related to us; Bishr ibn al-Mufaddal related to us, from Humayd al-Tawil. All of them narrated from al-Hasan, from Imran ibn Husayn, from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), who said: ‘There is no jalab or janab in a wager.’ Yahya added in his version: ‘in racing for a wager.’

Ibn al-Muthanna related to us; Abd al-A'la related to us, from Sa'id, from Qatadah, who said: ‘Jalab and janab are [practices] in racing for a wager.’

Muslim ibn Ibrahim related to us; Jarir ibn Hazim related to us; Qatadah related to us, from Anas, who said: ‘The pommel of the Messenger of Allah’s (peace and blessings be upon him) sword was silver.’

Muhammad ibn al-Muthanna related to us; Muadh ibn Hisham related to us; my father narrated to me, from Qatadah, from Sa'id ibn Abi al-Hasan, who said: ‘The pommel of the Messenger of Allah’s (peace and blessings be upon him) sword was silver.’ Qatadah said: ‘I know of no one who corroborated him in this.’

Muhammad ibn Bashshar related to us; Yahya ibn Kathir Abu Ghassan al-Anbari narrated to me, from Uthman ibn Sa'd, from Anas ibn Malik, who said: ‘[He] said the like of it.’ Abu Dawud said: ‘The strongest of these reports is the report of Sa'id ibn Abi al-Hasan; the others are weak.’

Qutaybah ibn Sa'id related to us; al-Layth related to us, from Abu al-Zubayr, from Jabir, from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him): He ordered a man who was giving arrows in charity in the mosque not to pass through with them unless he was holding their arrowheads.

Muhammad ibn al-Ala related to us; Abu Usamah related to us, from Burayd, from Abu Burdah, from Abu Musa, from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), who said: ‘When one of you passes through our mosque or our market carrying arrows, let him hold their arrowheads’—or he said, ‘let him close his hand’—or he said, ‘let him grip them in his hand, lest he injure one of the Muslims.’

Musa ibn Ismail related to us; Hammad related to us, from Abu al-Zubayr, from Jabir: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade passing an unsheathed sword from hand to hand.

Muhammad ibn Bashshar related to us; Quraysh ibn Anas related to us; Ash'ath related to us, from al-Hasan, from Samurah ibn Jundub: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade cutting a leather strap between two fingers.

Musaddad related to us; Sufyan said: ‘I think I heard Yazid ibn Khusayfah mention, from al-Sa'ib ibn Yazid, from a man whose name he gave, that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) wore two coats of mail—or put on two coats of mail—on the day of Uhud.’

Ibrahim ibn Musa al-Razi informed us; Ibn Abi Za'idah informed us; Abu Ya'qub al-Thaqafi informed us. Yunus ibn Ubayd—a man of Thaqif and a client of Muhammad ibn al-Qasim—narrated to me: ‘Muhammad ibn al-Qasim sent me to al-Bara ibn Azib to ask him about the Messenger of Allah’s (peace and blessings be upon him) banner. He said: It was black, square, and made of a nimrah [woollen cloth].’

Ishaq ibn Ibrahim al-Marwazi—known as Ibn Rahawayh—related to us; Yahya ibn Adam related to us; Sharik related to us, from Ammar al-Duhni, from Abu al-Zubayr, from Jabir, tracing it to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): His banner was white on the day he entered Mecca.

Uqbah ibn Mukram related to us; Salm ibn Qutaybah al-Sha'iri related to us, from Shu'bah, from Simak, from a man of his people, from another man among them, who said: ‘I saw the banner of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him); it was yellow.’

Mu'ammal ibn al-Fadl al-Harrani related to us; al-Walid related to us; Ibn Jabir related to us, from Zayd ibn Artah al-Fazari, from Jubayr ibn Nufayr al-Hadrami, who heard Abu al-Darda say: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: ‘Seek out the weak for me, for you are provided for and helped through your weak.’ Abu Dawud said: ‘Zayd ibn Artah is the brother of Adi ibn Artah.’

Sa'id ibn Mansur related to us; Yazid ibn Harun related to us, from al-Hajjaj, from Qatadah, from al-Hasan, from Samurah ibn Jundub, who said: ‘The battle cry of the Emigrants was “Abdullah,” and the battle cry of the Helpers was “Abd al-Rahman.”’