Musnad Ahmad 18937
✧ Suhayb bin Sinan from the Banu Qasi tribe
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قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَفَّانُ مِنْ كِتَابِهِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ يَعْنِي ابْنَ الْمُغِيرَةِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا ثَابِتٌ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي لَيْلَى عَنْ صُهَيْبٍ قَالَ
كَانَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ إِذَا صَلَّى هَمَسَ شَيْئًا لَا نَفْهَمُهُ وَلَا يُحَدِّثُنَا بِهِ، قَالَ: فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: فَطِنْتُمْ لِي ؟ قَالَ قَائِلٌ: نَعَمْ. قَالَ: فَإِنِّي قَدْ ذَكَرْتُ نَبِيًّا مِنَ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ أُعْطِيَ جُنُودًا مِنْ قَوْمِهِ، فَقَالَ: مَنْ يُكَافِئُ هَؤُلَاءِ ؟ أَوْ مَنْ يَقُومُ لِهَؤُلَاءِ ؟ أَوْ كَلِمَةً شَبِيهَةً بِهَذِهِ، شَكَّ سُلَيْمَانُ، قَالَ: فَأَوْحَى اللهُ إِلَيْهِ: اخْتَرْ لِقَوْمِكَ بَيْنَ إِحْدَى ثَلَاثٍ: إِمَّا أَنْ أُسَلِّطَ عَلَيْهِمْ عَدُوًّا مِنْ غَيْرِهِمْ، أَوِ الْجُوعَ، أَوِ الْمَوْتَ، قَالَ: فَاسْتَشَارَ قَوْمَهُ فِي ذَلِكَ، فَقَالُوا: أَنْتَ نَبِيُّ اللهِ، نَكِلُ ذَلِكَ إِلَيْكَ فَخِرْ لَنَا قَالَ: فَقَامَ إِلَى صَلَاتِهِ، قَالَ: وَكَانُوا يَفْزَعُونَ إِذَا فَزِعُوا إِلَى الصَّلَاةِ، قَالَ: فَصَلَّى، قَالَ: أَمَّا عَدُوٌّ مِنْ غَيْرِهِمْ فَلَا، أَوِ الْجُوعُ فَلَا، وَلَكِنِ الْمَوْتُ. قَالَ: فَسُلِّطَ عَلَيْهِمُ الْمَوْتُ ثَلَاثَةَ أَيَّامٍ، فَمَاتَ مِنْهُمْ سَبْعُونَ أَلْفًا، فَهَمْسِي الَّذِي تَرَوْنَ أَنِّي أَقُولُ: اللَّهُمَّ يَا رَبِّ بِكَ أُقَاتِلُ، وَبِكَ أُصَاوِلُ، وَلَا حَوْلَ وَلَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِاللهِ
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Chain of narrators
- ʿAffān Min Kitābih
- Sulaymān / Ibn al-Mughīrah
- Thābit
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Abū Laylá
- Ṣuhayb
✧ When the Messenger of God ﷺ prayed, he murmured something we did not understand and he would not tell us about it. He said: "The Messenger of God ﷺ said: 'Did you notice me?' A speaker said: 'Yes.' He said: 'I remembered a prophet among the prophets who was given armies from his people. He said: "Who can match these?" or "Who can stand against these?" or a similar word—Sulaymān was uncertain. He said: "So God revealed to him: 'Choose for your people between one of three: either I set upon them an enemy from other than them, or hunger, or death.'" He said: "So he consulted his people about that, and they said: 'You are the Prophet of God, we entrust that to you, so choose for us.'" He said: "So he stood for prayer." He said: "They would seek refuge in prayer when frightened." He said: "So he prayed." He said: "As for an enemy from other than them, no; or hunger, no; but death." He said: "So death was set upon them for three days, and seventy thousand of them died. So my murmuring which you see is that I say: 'O God, O Lord, with You I fight, with You I attack, and there is no might and no power except with God.'"
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- Famous Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. Ibn Saʿd said: 38 AH, in Ibn al-Athīr's book: 39 AHصُهَيْبُ بْنُ سِنَانَ الرُّومِيُّصحابي شهيرعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 82 AH, or 83 AH, also said: 71 AH, which is a mistakeعَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي لَيْلَىثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 122 AH, or 123 AH, or 126 AH, or 127 AH, or 129 AHثَابِتٌثقة عابدحدثنا
- trustworthy, trustworthy (thiqah thiqah) — said by Yaḥyā b. Maʿīnd. 165 AHسُلَيْمَانُ - يَعْنِي : ابْنَ الْمُغِيرَةِ -ثقة ثقة ـ قاله يحيى بن معينحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 219 AH, or 220 AHعَفَّانُثقة ثبتحدثنا من كتابه
- 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 viewأحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة
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