The Chapters on Jihad

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Yūnus ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā narrated to us: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Wahb informed us: ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith informed me, from Abū ʿAlī al-Hamdānī, that he heard ʿUqbah ibn ʿĀmir al-Juhanī say: I heard the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, recite from the pulpit: “Prepare against them whatever you are able of strength.” He said: “Indeed, strength is archery,” three times.

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Ḥarmalah ibn Yaḥyā al-Miṣrī informed us: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Wahb informed us: Ibn Lahīʿah informed me, from ʿUthmān ibn Nuʿaym al-Ruʿaynī, from al-Mughīrah ibn Nahīk, that he heard ʿUqbah ibn ʿĀmir al-Juhanī say: I heard the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, say: “Whoever learns archery and then abandons it has disobeyed me.”

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Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā narrated to us: ʿAbd al-Razzāq narrated to us: Sufyān informed us, from al-Aʿmash, from Ziyād ibn al-Ḥuṣayn, from Abū al-ʿĀliyah, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said: The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, passed by a group practicing archery and said: “Shoot, children of Ismāʿīl, for your father was an archer.”

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Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us: Abū Bakr ibn ʿAyyāsh narrated to us, from ʿĀṣim, from al-Ḥārith ibn Ḥassān, who said: I arrived in Medina and saw the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, standing on the pulpit, with Bilāl standing before him, a sword slung over his shoulder, and a black banner. I asked: “Who is that?” They said: “That is ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ, who has arrived from a campaign.”

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al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Khallāl and ʿAbdah ibn ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us. He said: Yaḥyā ibn Ādam narrated to us: Sharīk narrated to us, from ʿAmmār al-Duhnī, from Abū al-Zubayr, from Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh, that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, entered Mecca on the day of the Conquest, and his banner was white.

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ʿAbd Allāh ibn Isḥāq al-Wāsiṭī al-Nāqid narrated to us: Yaḥyā ibn Isḥāq narrated to us, from Yazīd ibn Ḥayyān. I heard Abū Mijlaz narrate from Ibn ʿAbbās that the banner of the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, was black and his standard was white.

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Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us: ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Sulaymān narrated to us, from Ḥajjāj, from Abū ʿUmar, the client of Asmāʾ, from Asmāʾ bint Abī Bakr, who brought out a garment fastened with brocade buttons and said: “The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, used to wear this when he encountered the enemy.”

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Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us: Ḥafṣ ibn Ghiyāth narrated to us, from ʿĀṣim al-Aḥwal, from Abū ʿUthmān, from ʿUmar, who used to forbid silk and brocade, except for an amount like this. Then he gestured with his finger, then the second, third, and fourth fingers. He said: “The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, used to forbid us from it.”

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Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us: Abū Usāmah narrated to us, from Musāwir. Jaʿfar ibn ʿAmr ibn Ḥurayth narrated to me, from his father, who said: It is as if I can see the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, wearing a black turban, with its two ends hanging between his shoulders.

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Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us: Wakīʿ narrated to us: Ḥammād ibn Salamah narrated to us, from Abū al-Zubayr, from Jābir, that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, entered Mecca wearing a black turban.

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ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm narrated to us: Sunayd ibn Dāwūd narrated to us, from Khālid ibn Ḥayyān al-Raqqī: ʿAlī ibn ʿUrwah al-Bāriqī informed us: Yūnus ibn Yazīd narrated to us, from Abū al-Zinād, from Khārijah ibn Zayd, who said: I saw a man ask my father about someone who goes on campaign and buys, sells, and trades during it. My father said to him: “We were with the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, at Tabūk, buying and selling. He saw us and did not forbid us.”

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Jaʿfar ibn Musāfir narrated to us: Abū al-Aswad narrated to us: Ibn Lahīʿah narrated to us, from Zabbān ibn Fāʾid, from Sahl ibn Muʿādh ibn Anas, from his father, from the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, who said: “For me to accompany a fighter in the path of God and help him mount his riding animal in the morning or evening is dearer to me than the world and all it contains.”

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Hishām ibn ʿAmmār narrated to us: al-Walīd ibn Muslim narrated to us: Ibn Lahīʿah narrated to us, from al-Ḥasan ibn Thawbān, from Mūsā ibn Wardān, from Abū Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, bade me farewell and said: “I entrust you to God, whose trusts are never lost.”

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ʿAbbād ibn al-Walīd narrated to us: Ḥabbān ibn Hilāl narrated to us: Abū Miḥṣan narrated to us, from Ibn Abī Laylā, from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar, who said: When the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, dispatched detachments, he would say to the one setting out: “I entrust to God your religion, your trust, and the final deeds of your life.”

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Hishām ibn ʿAmmār narrated to us: ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣanʿānī narrated to us: Abū Salamah al-ʿĀmilī narrated to us, from Ibn Shihāb, from Anas ibn Mālik, that the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said to Aktham ibn al-Jawn al-Khuzāʿī: “Aktham, campaign with people other than your own, and your character will improve and your companions will honor you. Aktham, the best number of companions is four, the best detachment is four hundred, and the best army is four thousand. An army of twelve thousand will not be defeated because of being few.”

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Muḥammad ibn Bashshār narrated to us: Abū ʿĀmir narrated to us: Sufyān narrated to us, from Abū Isḥāq, from al-Barāʾ ibn ʿĀzib, who said: We used to say that the companions of the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, numbered three hundred and some-teen on the day of Badr, matching the number of the companions of Ṭālūt who crossed the river with him; none crossed with him except a believer.

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Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us: Zayd ibn al-Ḥubāb narrated to us, from Ibn Lahīʿah: Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb informed me, from Lahīʿah ibn ʿUqbah, who said: I heard Abū al-Ward, a companion of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, say: “Beware of a raiding party that flees if it meets the enemy and commits breach of trust if it gains booty.”

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Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah and ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad narrated to us, both saying: Wakīʿ narrated to us, from Sufyān, from Simāk ibn Ḥarb, from Qabīṣah ibn Hulb, from his father, who said: I asked the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, about the food of the Christians. He said: “Do not let any food in which there is a resemblance to Christianity trouble your heart.”

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ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad narrated to us: Abū Usāmah narrated to us: Abū Farwah Yazīd ibn Sinān narrated to me: ʿUrwah ibn Ruwaym al-Lakhmī narrated to me, from Abū Thaʿlabah al-Khushanī—he said that he met and spoke with him—who said: I came to the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, and asked: “Messenger of God, we cook in the pots of the polytheists.” He said: “Do not cook in them.” I said: “If we need them and cannot avoid using them?” He said: “Wash them thoroughly, then cook and eat in them.”

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Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah and ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad narrated to us, both saying: Wakīʿ narrated to us: Mālik ibn Anas narrated to us, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yazīd—or Zayd—from Niyār, from ʿUrwah ibn al-Zubayr, from ʿĀʾishah, who said: The Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “We do not seek the help of a polytheist.” ʿAlī said in his version: “ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yazīd or Zayd.”