Sunan Abi Dawud 2538

Translation

Salamah bin Al Akwa’ said “On the day of the battle of the Khaibar, my brother fought desperately. But his sword fell back on him and killed him. The Companions of the Apostle of Allaah ﷺ talked about him and doubted it (his martyrdom) saying “A man who died with his own weapon”. The Apostle of Allaah ﷺ said “he died as a warrior striving in the path of Allaah. Ibn Shihab said “I asked the son of Salamah bin Al Akwa’.” He narrated to me on the authority of his father similar to that except that he said “The Apostle of Allaah ﷺ said “They told a lie, he died as a warrior striving in the path of Allaah. There is a double reward for him.””

Notes

• قَالَ ابْنُ شِهَابٍ ثُمَّ سَأَلْتُ ابْنًا لِسَلَمَةَ بْنِ الأَكْوَعِ فَحَدَّثَنِي عَنْ أَبِيهِ بِمِثْلِ ذَلِكَ غَيْرَ أَنَّهُ قَالَ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ كَذَبُوا مَاتَ جَاهِدًا مُجَاهِدًا فَلَهُ أَجْرُهُ مَرَّتَيْنِ

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What scholars said about it

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• Shuayb al-Arnaut

  إسناداه صحيحان

  in تخريج سنن أبي داود, p. 2538

Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 1802bal-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 6246al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 6248al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 6249al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 16491

Narrators

1. 1
   Salamah b. ʿAmr b. al-Akwaʿ al-Aslamī

   present at the Pledge of Riḍwānd. 64 AH or 74 AH; Ibn Saʿd said: at the end of the caliphate of Muʿāwiyah b. Abī Sufyān
   سَلَمَةُ بْنُ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْأَكْوَعِ الْأَسْلَمِيُّشهد بيعة الرضوان
   أن
2. 2
   ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAbdullāh b. Kaʿb b. Mālik

   trustworthy (thiqah), a scholard. in the reign of Sulaymān, or: Hishām b. ʿAbd al-Malik
   عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِثقة عالم
   أخبرني
3. 3
   al-Zuhrī

   The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AH
   ابْنِ شِهَابٍالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبته
   عن
4. 4
   Yūnus

   Trustworthy (thiqah), except that in his narration from al-Zuhrī there are slight errors (awhām), and in his narration from others there is error (khaṭaʾ)d. Ibn Saʿd said: 152 AH, al-Bukhārī and others: 159 AH (and it is the correct view), Muḥammad b. ʿAzīz said: 160 AH
   يُونُسَثقة ، إلا أن في روايته عن الزهري وهما قليلا ، وفي غير الزهري خطأ
   أخبرني
5. 5
   ʿAbdullāh b. Wahb al-Miṣrī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), devout (ʿābid)d. 197 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ وَهْبٍثقة حافظ ، عابد
   نا
6. 6
   Aḥmad b. Ṣāliḥ

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 248 AH
   أَحْمَدُ بْنُ صَالِحٍثقة حافظ
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), the compiler of the Sunan and other works, one of the senior scholars.d. 275 AH
   أَبُو دَاوُدَثقة ، حافظ , مصنف السنن وغيرها ، من كبار العلماء

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Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.