The Chapters on Jihad

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Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Bakkār ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn al-Walīd ibn Busr ibn Abī Arṭāh narrated to us: al-Walīd narrated to us; Shaybān narrated to me, from al-Aʿmash, from Abū Ṣāliḥ, from Ibn ʿAbbās, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, who said: “When you are called to arms, go forth.”

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Yaʿqūb ibn Ḥumayd ibn Kāsib narrated to us: Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah narrated to us, from Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, the client of the family of Ṭalḥah, from ʿĪsā ibn Ṭalḥah, from Abū Hurayrah, that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “The dust raised in the path of God and the smoke of Hell will never be joined inside a Muslim servant.”

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Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd ibn Yazīd ibn Ibrāhīm al-Tustarī narrated to us: Abū ʿĀṣim narrated to us, from Shabīb, from Anas ibn Mālik, who said: The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “Whoever sets out in the path of God will have, in exchange for the dust that touched him, musk on the Day of Resurrection.”

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Muḥammad ibn Rumḥ informed us: al-Layth ibn Saʿd informed us, from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd, from Ibn Ḥibbān—namely Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ḥibbān—from Anas ibn Mālik, from his maternal aunt Umm Ḥarām bint Milḥān, who said: The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, slept near me one day, then awoke smiling. I said: “Messenger of God, what makes you smile?” He said: “People from my community were shown to me, sailing on the back of this sea like kings on thrones.” She said: “Pray to God to make me one of them.” He prayed for her, then slept again and did the same thing. She repeated what she had said, and he gave her the same answer as before. She said: “Pray to God to make me one of them.” He said: “You are among the first.” He said: She went out with her husband ʿUbādah ibn al-Ṣāmit on a military expedition, when the Muslims first sailed on the sea with Muʿāwiyah ibn Abī Sufyān. When they returned from their campaign and disembarked in Syria, a mount was brought near her to ride. It threw her, and she died.

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Hishām ibn ʿAmmār narrated to us: Baqiyyah narrated to us, from Muʿāwiyah ibn Yaḥyā, from Layth ibn Abī Sulaym, from Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbbād, from Umm al-Dardāʾ, from Abū al-Dardāʾ, that the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “A campaign by sea is like ten campaigns by land. The one overcome by seasickness is like one drenched in his blood in the path of God, glorified is He.”

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ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Yūsuf al-Jubayrī narrated to us: Qays ibn Muḥammad al-Kindī narrated to us: ʿUfayr ibn Maʿdān al-Shāmī narrated to us, from Sulaym ibn ʿĀmir, who said: I heard Abū Umāmah say: I heard the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, say: “The martyr at sea is like two martyrs on land. One tossed about at sea is like one drenched in his blood on land. The distance between two waves is like one who traverses the world in obedience to God. God, Mighty and Majestic, has assigned the Angel of Death to take souls, except for the martyr at sea, whose souls He takes Himself. He forgives the martyr on land all sins except debt, and the martyr at sea sins and debt.”

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Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā narrated to us: Abū Dāwūd narrated to us. Ḥ Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Wāsiṭī narrated to us: Yazīd ibn Hārūn narrated to us. Ḥ ʿAlī ibn al-Mundhir narrated to us: Isḥāq ibn Manṣūr narrated to us. All of them narrated from Qays, from Abū Ḥuṣayn, from Abū Ṣāliḥ, from Abū Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “If only one day of the world remained, God, Mighty and Majestic, would lengthen it until a man from my household ruled Mount Daylam and Constantinople.”

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Ismāʿīl ibn Asad narrated to us: Dāwūd ibn al-Muḥabbar informed us: al-Rabīʿ ibn Ṣabīḥ informed us, from Yazīd ibn Abān, from Anas ibn Mālik, who said: The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “The regions will be opened to you, and a city called Qazwīn will be opened to you. Whoever guards the frontier there for forty days or forty nights will have in Paradise a pillar of gold bearing a green emerald, with a dome of red ruby. It will have seventy thousand gold gates, and at each gate will be a wife from the wide-eyed maidens.”

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Abū Yūsuf Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Raqqī narrated to us: Muḥammad ibn Salamah al-Ḥarrānī narrated to us, from Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, from Muḥammad ibn Ṭalḥah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr al-Ṣiddīq, from Muʿāwiyah ibn Jāhimah al-Sulamī, who said: I came to the Messenger of God and said: “Messenger of God, I intended to strive in battle with you, seeking thereby the Face of God and the Abode of the Hereafter.” He said: “Woe to you! Is your mother alive?” I said: “Yes.” He said: “Go back and be dutiful to her.” Then I came to him from the other side and said the same. He asked: “Woe to you! Is your mother alive?” I said: “Yes, Messenger of God.” He said: “Then go back to her and be dutiful to her.” Then I came to him from in front and said the same. He asked again if my mother was alive. I said: “Yes, Messenger of God.” He said: “Woe to you! Stay at her feet, for there is Paradise.” Hārūn ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥammāl narrated to us: Ḥajjāj ibn Muḥammad narrated to us: Ibn Jurayj narrated to us: Muḥammad ibn Ṭalḥah ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr al-Ṣiddīq informed me, from his father Ṭalḥah, from Muʿāwiyah ibn Jāhimah al-Sulamī, that Jāhimah came to the Prophet and mentioned something similar. Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mājah said: This is Jāhimah ibn ʿAbbās ibn Mirdās al-Sulamī, whom the Prophet reproached on the day of Ḥunayn.

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Abū Kurayb Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAlāʾ narrated to us: al-Muḥāribī narrated to us, from ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib, from his father, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr, who said: A man came to the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, and said: “Messenger of God, I have come intending to strive in battle with you, seeking the Face of God and the Abode of the Hereafter. I came while my parents were weeping.” He said: “Go back to them and make them laugh, just as you made them weep.”

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Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Numayr narrated to us: Abū Muʿāwiyah narrated to us, from al-Aʿmash, from Shaqīq, from Abū Mūsā, who said: The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, was asked about a man who fights courageously, fights out of partisanship, or fights to be seen. The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “Whoever fights so that the word of God is supreme is in the path of God.”

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Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us: Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad narrated to us: Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim narrated to us, from Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, from Dāwūd ibn al-Ḥuṣayn, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī ʿUqbah, from Abū ʿUqbah, who was a client of the people of Persia, who said: I was present with the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, on the day of Uḥud. I struck a man from among the polytheists and said: “Take this from me; I am the Persian youth.” This reached the Prophet, and he said: “Why did you not say that you are the Anṣārī youth?”

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ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to us: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yazīd narrated to us: Ḥaywah narrated to us: Abū Hānī informed me that he heard Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ḥubalī say that he heard ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr say: I heard the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, say: “Whenever an expedition sets out in the path of God and gains booty, they have hastened away two-thirds of their reward. If they gain no booty, their reward is completed for them.”

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Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us: Abū al-Aḥwaṣ narrated to us, from Shabīb ibn Gharqadah, from ʿUrwah al-Bāriqī, who said: The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “Goodness is tied to the forelocks of horses until the Day of Resurrection.”

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Muḥammad ibn Rumḥ informed us: al-Layth ibn Saʿd informed us, from Nāfiʿ, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, from the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, that he said: “Goodness is tied to the forelocks of horses until the Day of Resurrection.”

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Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī al-Shawārib narrated to us: ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Mukhtār narrated to us: Suhayl narrated to us, from his father, from Abū Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “Goodness is tied to the forelocks of horses”—or he said, “Horses have goodness tied to their forelocks.” Suhayl said: I am uncertain whether he said “goodness.” “This continues until the Day of Resurrection. Horses are of three kinds: one brings a man reward, one is a covering for him, and one is a burden against him. The one that brings reward is kept by a man in the path of God and prepared for it; nothing it takes into its belly goes unrecorded for him as a reward. If he pastures it in a meadow, whatever it eats is recorded for him as a reward. If he gives it water from a flowing river, each drop it takes into its belly earns him a reward”—then he mentioned reward for its urine and dung—“and if it climbs a hill or two, each step it takes is recorded for him as a reward. The one that is a covering is kept by a man for dignity and adornment, while he does not neglect its due, on its back and in its belly, in hardship or ease. The one that is a burden against him is kept out of pride, arrogance, ostentation, and showing off to people; that is the one that is a burden against him.”

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Muḥammad ibn Bashshār narrated to us: Wahb ibn Jarīr narrated to us: My father narrated to us, saying: I heard Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb narrate from Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb, from ʿAlī ibn Rabāḥ, from Abū Qatādah al-Anṣārī, that the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “The best horses are jet-black, with a white blaze and white stockings, a white mark on the nose, and a free right foreleg. If not jet-black, then a chestnut with these markings.”

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Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us: Wakīʿ narrated to us, from Sufyān, from Salm ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Nakhaʿī, from Abū Zurʿah ibn ʿAmr ibn Jarīr, from Abū Hurayrah, who said: The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, disliked horses with a leg marking that differed from the others.

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Abū ʿUmayr ʿĪsā ibn Muḥammad al-Ramlī narrated to us: Aḥmad ibn Yazīd ibn Rawḥ al-Dārī narrated to us, from Muḥammad ibn ʿUqbah the judge, from his father, from his grandfather, from Tamīm al-Dārī, who said: I heard the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, say: “Whoever keeps a horse in the path of God, then personally tends its fodder, will have a good deed for every grain.”

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Bishr ibn Ādam narrated to us: al-Ḍaḥḥāk ibn Makhlad narrated to us: Ibn Jurayj narrated to us: Sulaymān ibn Mūsā narrated to us: Mālik ibn Yukhāmir narrated to us: Muʿādh ibn Jabal narrated to us that he heard the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, say: “Whoever among the Muslim men fights in the path of God, Mighty and Majestic, for the time it takes to milk a she-camel, Paradise is guaranteed for him.”