Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 2288
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو السَّائِبِ، سَلْمُ بْنُ جُنَادَةَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو دَاوُدَ الْحَفَرِيُّ، عَنْ سُفْيَانَ، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ، عَنْ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، قَالَ اشْتَرَكْتُ أَنَا وَسَعْدٌ، وَعَمَّارٌ، يَوْمَ بَدْرٍ فِيمَا نُصِيبُ فَلَمْ أَجِئْ أَنَا وَلاَ عَمَّارٌ بِشَىْءٍ وَجَاءَ سَعْدٌ بِرَجُلَيْنِ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
ʿAbdullah said: Saʿd, ʿAmmar, and I shared in whatever we might capture on the day of Badr. Neither ʿAmmar nor I brought back anything, but Saʿd brought back two men.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The report says ‘two men’; in the context of Badr spoils, they are understood as captives, but the source does not explicitly use that term.
يَوْمَ بَدْرٍ فِيمَا نُصِيبُ فَلَمْ أَجِئْ أَنَا وَلاَ عَمَّارٌ بِشَىْءٍ وَجَاءَ سَعْدٌ بِرَجُلَيْنِ .
The source says Saʿd brought back two men, without explicitly specifying their status; the context indicates captured men among the spoils.
Should the two men be identified explicitly as captives, as context suggests?