al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 18532
✧ The collection of chapters on military expeditions
Show the chain
( أَخْبَرَنَا ) عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ عَبْدَانَ، أَنْبَأَ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ الصَّفَّارُ، ثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي قُمَاشٍ - يَعْنِي مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ عِيسَى، أَنْبَأَ سَعِيدُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ، عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ ( ح ) قَالَ: وَحَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدٌ، ثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ، وَابْنُ عَائِشَةَ، عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ سَلَمَةَ كِلَاهُمَا، عَنْ ثَابِتٍ الْبُنَانِيِّ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي لَيْلَى، عَنْ صُهَيْبٍ ؓ قَالَ:
كَانَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ يُحَرِّكُ شَفَتَيْهِ بِشَيْءٍ لَا يُفْهَمُ فَقُلْنَا: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، إِنَّكَ تُحَرِّكُ شَفَتَيْكَ بِشَيْءٍ لَا يُفْهَمُ، فَقَالَ: إِنَّ نَبِيًّا مِنَ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ أَعْجَبَهُ كَثْرَةُ قَوْمِهِ، فَقَالَ: مَنْ يَفِي لِهَؤُلَاءِ، أَوْ مَنْ يَقُومُ لِهَؤُلَاءِ، قَالَ: فَقِيلَ لَهُ: خَيِّرْ أَصْحَابَكَ بَيْنَ أَنْ نُسَلِّطَ عَلَيْهِمْ عَدُوًّا فَيَسْتَبِيحَ بَيْضَتَهُمْ، أَوِ الْجُوعَ، أَوِ الْمَوْتَ. فَخَيَّرَهُمْ فَاخْتَارُوا الْمَوْتَ. قَالَ: فَمَاتَ مِنْهُمْ فِي ثَلَاثَةِ أَيَّامٍ سَبْعُونَ أَلْفًا ". قَالَ: فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ - ﷺ: " وَأَنَا أَقُولُ: اللَّهُمَّ بِكَ أُقَاتِلُ، وَبِكَ أُحَاوِلُ، وَبِكَ أُصَاوِلُ، وَلَا حَوْلَ وَلَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِكَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- [Chain 1] ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. ʿAbdān Anbaʾ Aḥmad b. ʿUbayd al-Ṣaffār
- Ibn Abū Qumāsh / Muḥammad b. ʿĪsá Anbaʾ Saʿīd b. Sulaymān
- Sulaymān b. al-Mughīrah [Chain 2] Muḥammad
- Sulaymān b. Ḥarb and Ibn ʿĀʾishah
- Ḥammād b. Salamah
- Thābit al-Bunānī
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Abū Laylá
- Ṣuhayb
Machine translation, not reviewed
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to move his lips with something that could not be understood. So we said: "O Messenger of Allah, you move your lips with something that cannot be understood." He said: "A prophet among the prophets was impressed by the great number of his people, and he said: 'Who can match these?' or 'Who can stand up to these?' It was said to him: 'Let your companions choose between our setting an enemy over them who will violate their sanctuary, or hunger, or death.' So he gave them the choice and they chose death. Seventy thousand of them died in three days." He said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "And I say: O Allah, with You I fight, with You I strive, and with You I attack, and there is no power and no strength except with You."
No source translates this, so this English was written by a computer model. It can be wrong; rely on the Arabic. Report a problem below.
Grades by grader
No grade is recorded for this wording. Ask what scholars say about its grade
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- 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 سنن البيهقي الكبرى, p. 18532
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 AHثَابِتٍ الْبُنَانِيِّثقة عابدعن
- 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.حَمَّادِ بْنِ سَلَمَةَثقه عابد ، أثبت الناس في ثابت ، وتغير حفظه بآخرهعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), generous; accused of belief in qadar (al-qadar), but this was not establishedd. 228 AH or 229 AHوَابْنُ عَائِشَةَثقة جواد ، رمي بالقدر ، ولم يثبتحدثنا
- d. 287 AHمُحَمَّدٌحدثنا
- d. around 350 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ الصَّفَّارُأنبأ
- d. 415 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ عَبْدَانَأخبرنا
- d. 458 AHالبيهقي
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.