Musnad Ahmad 18477

Translation

✧ I said to al-Bara, 'A man who charges against the polytheists—is he one of those who throw themselves into destruction with their own hands?' He said, 'No, because God, Mighty and Majestic, sent His Messenger ﷺ and said, "So fight in the way of God; you are not held responsible except for yourself" (Quran 4:84). That refers only to spending.'

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What scholars said about it

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• Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī

  ورجاله رجال الصحيح غير سليمان بن داود الهاشمي وهو ثقة

  in مسند أحمد, p. 18703

Narrators

1. 1
   al-Barāʾ b. ʿĀzib al-Awsī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 72 AH, also said 71 AH
   الْبَرَاء بْن عَازِب الْأَوْسِيّصحابي
   قلت
2. 2
   Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir), devout (ʿābid); his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his lifed. Ibn ʿUyaynah said 126 AH, Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd said 127 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said 128 AH, ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said 129 AH, Ibn Maʿīn said 132 AH
   أَبِي إِسْحَاقَثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخره
   عن
3. 3
   Abū Bakr b. ʿAyyāsh

   Trustworthy (thiqah) and devout, except that his memory deteriorated when he grew old; his book is sound (ṣaḥīḥ).d. 192 AH, or: 193 AH, or: 194 AH
   أَبُو بَكْرٍثقة عابد ، إلا أنه لما كبر ساء حفظه ، وكتابه صحيح
   أخبرنا
4. 4
   Sulaymān b. Dāwūd al-Hāshimī

   trustworthy (thiqah), eminentd. 219 AH, or 220 AH
   سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ دَاوُدَ الْهَاشِمِيُّثقة , جليل
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his view
   أحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

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