Musnad Ahmad 18940
✧ Suhayb bin Sinan from the Banu Qasi tribe
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حَدَّثَنَا عَفَّانُ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادٌ يَعْنِي ابْنَ سَلَمَةَ حَدَّثَنَا ثَابِتٌ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي لَيْلَى عَنْ صُهَيْبٍ
أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ كَانَ أَيَّامَ حُنَيْنٍ يُحَرِّكُ شَفَتَيْهِ بَعْدَ صَلَاةِ الْفَجْرِ بِشَيْءٍ لَمْ نَكُنْ نَرَاهُ يَفْعَلُهُ، فَقُلْنَا: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، إِنَّا نَرَاكَ تَفْعَلُ شَيْئًا لَمْ تَكُنْ تَفْعَلُهُ، فَمَا هَذَا الَّذِي تُحَرِّكُ شَفَتَيْكَ ؟ قَالَ: إِنَّ نَبِيًّا فِيمَنْ كَانَ قَبْلَكُمْ أَعْجَبَتْهُ كَثْرَةُ أُمَّتِهِ، فَقَالَ: لَنْ يَرُومَ هَؤُلَاءِ شَيْءٌ، فَأَوْحَى اللهُ إِلَيْهِ أَنْ خَيِّرْ أُمَّتَكَ بَيْنَ إِحْدَى ثَلَاثٍ: إِمَّا أَنْ نُسَلِّطَ عَلَيْهِمْ عَدُوًّا مِنْ غَيْرِهِمْ فَيَسْتَبِيحَهُمْ، أَوِ الْجُوعَ، وَإِمَّا أَنْ أُرْسِلَ عَلَيْهِمُ الْمَوْتَ، فَشَاوَرَهُمْ، فَقَالُوا: أَمَّا الْعَدُوُّ فَلَا طَاقَةَ لَنَا بِهِمْ، وَأَمَّا الْجُوعُ فَلَا صَبْرَ لَنَا عَلَيْهِ، وَلَكِنِ الْمَوْتُ، فَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمُ الْمَوْتَ، فَمَاتَ مِنْهُمْ فِي ثَلَاثَةِ أَيَّامٍ سَبْعُونَ أَلْفًا، قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: فَأَنَا أَقُولُ الْآنَ - حَيْثُ رَأَى كَثْرَتَهُمُ -: اللَّهُمَّ بِكَ أُحَاوِلُ، وَبِكَ أُصَاوِلُ، وَبِكَ أُقَاتِلُ
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Chain of narrators
- ʿAffān
- Ḥammād / Ibn Salamah
- Thābit
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Abū Laylá
- Ṣuhayb
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ, during the days of Hunayn, moved his lips after the dawn prayer with something we had not seen him do. We said: "O Messenger of Allah, we see you doing something you did not use to do. What is this that you move your lips with?" He said: "A prophet among those before you was impressed by the large number of his community, so he said: 'These will never be overcome by anything.' Then Allah revealed to him: 'Give your community a choice among one of three things: either We impose upon them an enemy from other than them who will plunder them, or famine, or We send death upon them.' So he consulted them, and they said: 'As for the enemy, we have no strength against them; as for famine, we have no patience for it; but death.' So He sent death upon them, and seventy thousand of them died in three days. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: 'So I now say, when I see their large numbers: O Allah, through You I strive, through You I attack, and through You I fight.'"
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What scholars said about it
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- Qurṭubī
ليس فيهم أصح من حديث صاحب الأخدود يعني فيمن تكلم في المهد
machine translationAmong them there is none more sound (aṣaḥḥ) than the hadith of the man of the Ditch (Ṣāḥib al-Ukhdūd), meaning among those who spoke in the cradle.
in مسند أحمد, p. 19177
Narrators
- 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 (thiqah), devout (ʿābid), the most reliable of people in narrating from Thābit; his memory changed towards the end of his lifed. 167 AH, or 165 AH.حَمَّادٌ - يَعْنِي : ابْنَ سَلَمَةَثقه عابد ، أثبت الناس في ثابت ، وتغير حفظه بآخرهحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 219 AH, or 220 AHعَفَّانُثقة ثبتحدثنا
- 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
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.