Sunan Abi Dawud 2637
Deception During War
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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ ثَوْرٍ عَنْ مَعْمَرٍ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ كَعْبِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ
كَانَ إِذَا أَرَادَ غَزْوَةً وَرَّى غَيْرَهَا وَكَانَ يَقُولُ الْحَرْبُ خُدْعَةٌ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. ʿUbayd
- Ibn Thawr
- Maʿmar
- al-Zuhrī
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Kaʿb b. Mālik
- his father
- al-Nabī ﷺ
When the Prophet ﷺ intended to go on an expedition, he always pretended to be going somewhere else, and he would say: War is deception. Abu Dawud said: Only Ma'mar has transmitted this tradition. By this he refers to his statement "War is deception" through this chain of narrators. He narrated it from the tradition of 'Amr b. Dinar from Jabir, and from the tradition of Ma'mar from Hammam b. Munabbih on the authority of Abu Hurairah.
Grades by grader
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
|---|---|---|
| Zubair Ali Zai | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |