al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 18195
✧ The collection of chapters on military expeditions
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أَخْبَرَنَا ) أَبُو زَكَرِيَّا بْنُ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ الْمُزَكِّي، أَنْبَأَ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ سَلْمَانَ، قَالَ: قُرِئَ عَلَى عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَأَنَا أَسْمَعُ، ثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَمْرٍو بَصْرِيٌّ وَكَانَ حَافِظًا، ثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ، عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ أَسْلَمَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ ؓ:
أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ حَاصَرَ أَهْلَ الطَّائِفِ، وَنَصَبَ عَلَيْهِمُ الْمَنْجَنِيقَ سَبْعَةَ عَشَرَ يَوْمًا
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Chain of narrators
- Abū Zakariyyā b. Abū Isḥāq al-Muzakkī Anbaʾ Aḥmad b. Salmān
- ʿAbd al-Malik b. Muḥammad
- Asmaʿ
- ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmr Baṣrī and Kān Ḥāfiẓ
- Hishām b. Saʿd
- Zayd b. Aslam
- his father
- Abū ʿUbaydah
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The Messenger of Allah ﷺ besieged the people of al-Ṭāʾif and set up the catapult against them for seventeen days.
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- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 17 AH, or: 18 AHأَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ ابْنُ الْجَرَّاحِ أَمِينُ الْأُمَّةِصحابيعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), mukhaḍram (lived through both the pre-Islamic and Islamic eras)d. 80 AH, also said: after 60 AHأَبِيهِثقة مخضرمعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a scholar, and he would narrate with omission of the Companion link (yursil)d. 135 AH or 136 AHزَيْدِ بْنِ أَسْلَمَثقة عالم ، وكان يرسلعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), with some errors (awhām), and accused of Shiʿism (tashayyuʿ)d. 159, or: 160 AHهِشَامُ بْنُ سَعْدٍصدوق له أوهام ورمي بالتشيعحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), firm (thabt), accused of Qadarismd. 224 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَمْرٍو بَصْرِيٌّثقة ثبت رمي بالقدرحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq) but makes mistakes (yukhṭiʾ); his memory changed when he settled in Baghdadd. 276 AHعَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍصدوق يخطئ ، تغير حفظه لما سكن بغدادقرئ وأنا أسمع
- d. 348 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ سَلْمَانَأنبأ
- d. 414 AHأَبُو زَكَرِيَّا بْنُ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ الْمُزَكِّيأخبرنا
- d. 458 AHالبيهقي
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