Musnad Ahmad 344
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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ سِمَاكٍ قَالَسَمِعْتُ عِيَاضًا الْأَشْعَرِيَّ قَالَ
شَهِدْتُ الْيَرْمُوكَ، وَعَلَيْنَا خَمْسَةُ أُمَرَاءَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ بْنُ الْجَرَّاحِ، وَيَزِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ، وَابْنُ حَسَنَةَ، وَخَالِدُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ، وَعِيَاضٌ، وَلَيْسَ عِيَاضٌ هَذَا بِالَّذِي حَدَّثَ سِمَاكًا قَالَ: وَقَالَ عُمَرُ: إِذَا كَانَ قِتَالٌ فَعَلَيْكُمْ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ قَالَ: فَكَتَبْنَا إِلَيْهِ إِنَّهُ قَدْ جَاشَ إِلَيْنَا الْمَوْتُ وَاسْتَمْدَدْنَاهُ، فَكَتَبَ إِلَيْنَا إِنَّهُ قَدْ جَاءَنِي كِتَابُكُمْ تَسْتَمِدُّونِي، وَإِنِّي أَدُلُّكُمْ عَلَى مَنْ هُوَ أَعَزُّ نَصْرًا، وَأَحْضَرُ جُنْدًا اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ فَاسْتَنْصِرُوهُ، فَإِنَّ مُحَمَّدًا ﷺ قَدْ نُصِرَ يَوْمَ بَدْرٍ فِي أَقَلَّ مِنْ عُدَّتِكُمْ فَإِذَا أَتَاكُمْ كِتَابِي هَذَا، فَقَاتِلُوهُمْ وَلَا تُرَاجِعُونِي. قَالَ: فَقَاتَلْنَاهُمْ، فَهَزَمْنَاهُمْ وَقَتَلْنَاهُمْ أَرْبَعَ فَرَاسِخَ، قَالَ: وَأَصَبْنَا أَمْوَالًا، فَتَشَاوَرُوا فَأَشَارَ عَلَيْنَا عِيَاضٌ أَنْ نُعْطِيَ عَنْ كُلِّ رَأْسٍ عَشَرَةً. قَالَ: وَقَالَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ: مَنْ يُرَاهِنِّي ؟ فَقَالَ شَابٌّ: أَنَا إِنْ لَمْ تَغْضَبْ ؟ قَالَ: فَسَبَقَهُ، فَرَأَيْتُ عَقِيصَتَيْ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ تَنْقُزَانِ، وَهُوَ خَلْفَهُ عَلَى فَرَسٍ عَرَبِيٍّ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar
- Shuʿbah
- Simāk Qālasamiʿt ʿIyāḍ al-Ashʿarī
✧ I witnessed al-Yarmuk. Over us were five commanders: Abu Ubaydah b. al-Jarrah, Yazid b. Abi Sufyan, Ibn Hasnah, Khalid b. al-Walid, and Iyad. This Iyad is not the one who narrated to Simak. He said: Umar said: 'If fighting occurs, Abu Ubaydah is in charge of you.' So we wrote to him that death had surged upon us, and we sought reinforcements from him. He wrote to us: 'Your letter seeking reinforcements has come to me. I point you to one whose victory is mightier and whose army is more present: Allah, Mighty and Majestic. Seek His help. Muhammad ﷺ was granted victory on the day of Badr with fewer than your number. When this letter of mine reaches you, fight them and do not refer back to me.' He said: So we fought them, defeated them, and killed them over four farsakhs. We took spoils. They consulted, and Iyad advised us to give ten for each head. Abu Ubaydah said: 'Who will race me?' A young man said: 'I will, if you do not get angry.' He outran him, and I saw Abu Ubaydah's two braids bouncing while he was behind him on an Arab horse.
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- Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī
رجاله رجال الصحيح
machine translationIts narrators are the narrators of the Ṣaḥīḥ.
in مسند أحمد, p. 344
Narrators
- Commander of the Faithful (amīr al-muʾminīn), well-known, of abundant virtues (jamm al-manāqib)d. 23 AH, also said: 24 AHعُمَر بْن الْخَطَّابأمير المؤمنين مشهور جم المناقبسمعت
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 60 AHعِيَاضًا الْأَشْعَرِيَّصحابيسمعت
- Truthful (ṣadūq); his narrations from ʿIkrimah in particular are inconsistent (muḍṭarib); he changed (taghayyara) towards the end of his life, and at times he would accept prompting (yulaqqan).d. 123 AHسِمَاكٍصدوق , وروايته عن عكرمة خاصة مضطربة , وقد تغير بأخرة ، فكان ربما يلقنعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AHشُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقنحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), his book was sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb), except that he had some heedlessness (ghaflah)d. 192 AH or 193 AH or 194 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍثقة صحيح الكتاب إلا أن فيه غفلةحدثنا
- 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
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