The Book of Fighting [The Prohibition of Bloodshed]

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Yahya ibn Hakim narrated to us: ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Mahdi narrated to us, from Shuʿbah, from Abu Ishaq, from Abu al-Ahwas, from ʿAbdullah, who said: “Insulting a Muslim is wickedness, and fighting him is disbelief.” Aban asked him: “Abu Ishaq, did you hear this only from Abu al-Ahwas?” He replied: “No; I also heard it from al-Aswad and Hubayrah.”

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Ahmad ibn Harb narrated to us: Sufyan ibn ʿUyaynah narrated to us, from Abu al-Zaʿraʾ, from his paternal uncle Abu al-Ahwas, from ʿAbdullah, who said: “Insulting a Muslim is wickedness, and fighting him is disbelief.”

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Mahmud ibn Ghaylan narrated to us: Wahb ibn Jarir narrated to us: my father narrated to us: I heard ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr narrate to him, from ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn ʿAbdullah, from his father, that the Messenger of Allah said: “Insulting a Muslim is wickedness, and fighting him is disbelief.”

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Mahmud ibn Ghaylan narrated to us: Abu Dawud narrated to us: Shuʿbah narrated to us. He said: I asked Hammad: “I heard Mansur, Sulayman, and Zubayd narrate from Abu Waʾil, from ʿAbdullah, that the Messenger of Allah said: ‘Insulting a Muslim is wickedness, and fighting him is disbelief.’ Whom do you suspect? Do you suspect Mansur? Do you suspect Zubayd? Do you suspect Sulayman?” He replied: “No, but I suspect Abu Waʾil.”

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Mahmud ibn Ghaylan narrated to us: Wakiʿ narrated to us: Sufyan narrated to us, from Zubayd, from Abu Waʾil, from ʿAbdullah, who said: The Messenger of Allah said: “Insulting a Muslim is wickedness, and fighting him is disbelief.” I asked Abu Waʾil: “Did you hear it from ʿAbdullah?” He said: “Yes.”

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Mahmud ibn Ghaylan narrated to us: Muʿawiyah narrated to us: Sufyan narrated to us, from Mansur, from Abu Waʾil, from ʿAbdullah, who said: The Messenger of Allah said: “Insulting a Muslim is wickedness, and fighting him is disbelief.”

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Qutaybah ibn Saʿid narrated to us: Jarir narrated to us, from Mansur, from Abu Waʾil, who said: ʿAbdullah said: “Insulting a Muslim is wickedness, and fighting him is disbelief.”

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Muhammad ibn al-ʿAlaʾ narrated to us, from Abu Muʿawiyah, from al-Aʿmash, from Shaqiq, from ʿAbdullah, who said: “Fighting a believer is disbelief, and insulting him is wickedness.”

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Bishr ibn Hilal al-Sawwaf narrated to us: ʿAbd al-Warith narrated to us: Ayyub narrated to us, from Ghaylan ibn Jarir, from Ziyad ibn Rabah, from Abu Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah said: “Whoever abandons obedience and separates from the community, then dies, dies a death of the Age of Ignorance. Whoever rebels against my community, striking its righteous and its wicked without sparing its believers or honoring the covenant of those under its protection, is not of me. Whoever fights under a blind banner, calling to tribal partisanship or fighting out of anger for it, and is killed, dies a death of the Age of Ignorance.”

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Muhammad ibn al-Muthanna reported from ʿAbd al-Rahman, who said: ʿImran al-Qattan narrated to us, from Qatadah, from Abu Mijlaz, from Jundub ibn ʿAbdullah, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: ‘Whoever fights under a blind banner, fighting out of partisanship and becoming angry for partisanship, his death is a death of the Age of Ignorance.’ Abu ʿAbd al-Rahman said: ʿImran al-Qattan is not strong.

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Mahmud ibn Ghaylan reported to us: Abu Dawud narrated to us, from Shuʿbah, who said: Mansur informed me, saying: I heard Ribʿi narrating from Abu Bakrah, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: ‘When a Muslim points a weapon at his fellow Muslim, both of them are at the brink of Hell. Then, if he kills him, they both fall into it.’

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Ahmad ibn Sulayman reported to us: Yaʿla narrated to us: Sufyan narrated to us, from Mansur, from Ribʿi, from Abu Bakrah, who said: ‘When two Muslim men raise weapons against one another, both are at the brink of Hell. Then, if one of them kills the other, both are in the Fire.’

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Muhammad ibn Ismaʿil ibn Ibrahim informed me, from Yazid, from Sulayman al-Taymi, from al-Hasan, from Abu Musa, from the Prophet ﷺ, who said: ‘When two Muslims confront one another with their swords and one of them kills his companion, both are in the Fire.’ It was said: ‘Messenger of Allah, this is the killer; what about the one killed?’ He said: ‘He intended to kill his companion.’

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Muhammad ibn Ismaʿil ibn Ibrahim reported to me: Yazid—meaning Ibn Harun—narrated to us: Saʿid informed us, from Qatadah, from al-Hasan, from Abu Musa al-Ashʿari, from the Prophet ﷺ, who said: ‘When two Muslims confront one another with their swords and one kills his companion, both are in the Fire, exactly alike.’

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ʿAli ibn Muhammad ibn ʿAli al-Missisi reported to us: Khalaf narrated to us, from Zaʾidah, from Hisham, from al-Hasan, from Abu Bakrah, from the Prophet ﷺ, who said: ‘When two Muslims confront one another with their swords, each intending to kill his companion, both are in the Fire.’ He was asked: ‘Messenger of Allah, this is the killer; what about the one killed?’ He replied: ‘He was eager to kill his companion.’

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Muhammad ibn al-Muthanna reported to us: al-Khalil ibn ʿUmar ibn Ibrahim narrated to us: my father narrated to me, saying: Qatadah narrated to me, from al-Hasan, from Abu Bakrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: ‘When two Muslims meet with their swords and one kills his companion, the killer and the one killed are both in the Fire.’

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Ahmad ibn Fadalah reported to us: ʿAbd al-Razzaq narrated to us: Maʿmar informed us, from Ayyub, from al-Hasan, from al-Ahnaf ibn Qays, from Abu Bakrah, who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: ‘When two Muslims confront one another with their swords and one kills his companion, the killer and the one killed are both in the Fire.’ They said: ‘Messenger of Allah, this is the killer; what about the one killed?’ He said: ‘He intended to kill his companion.’

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Ahmad ibn ʿAbdah reported to us, from Hammad, from Ayyub, Yunus, and al-ʿAlaʾ ibn Ziyad, from al-Hasan, from al-Ahnaf ibn Qays, from Abu Bakrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: ‘When two Muslims meet with their swords and one kills his companion, the killer and the one killed are both in the Fire.’

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Mujahid ibn Musa narrated to us: Ismail—Ibn Ulayyah—narrated to us, from Yunus, from al-Hasan, from Abu Musa al-Ashari, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: When two Muslims face one another with their swords and one kills his companion, both the killer and the slain are in the Fire. A man asked, Messenger of Allah, as for the killer, we understand; but what about the slain? He replied, He intended to kill his companion.

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Ibn Umar reported that the Prophet said: Do not return after me to disbelief, striking one another necks (that is, killing one another).