al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 18883
✧ The Collection of Chapters on the Conditions the Imam Imposes on the People of the Dhimmah and What Constitutes a Breach of the Covenant
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أَخْبَرَنَا ) أَبُو عَلِيٍّ الرُّوذْبَارِيُّ، أَنْبَأَ أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ دَاسَةَ، ثَنَا أَبُو دَاوُدَ، ثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الصَّبَّاحِ، ثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ أَبِي الزِّنَادِ، عَنْ أَبِي الزِّنَادِ، عَنِ الْأَعْرَجِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ؓ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ - ﷺ:
" إِنَّمَا الْإِمَامُ جُنَّةٌ يُقَاتَلُ بِهِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū ʿAlī al-Rūdhbārī Anbaʾ Abū Bakr b. Dāsah
- Abū Dāwud
- Muḥammad b. al-Ṣabbāḥ
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Abū al-Zinād
- Abū al-Zinād
- al-Aʿraj
- Abū Hurayrah
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
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"The imam is only a shield, from behind whom the fighting is done.
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- Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal
صححه
machine translationHe declared it sound (ṣaḥḥaḥahu).
in سنن البيهقي الكبرى, p. 18883
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- The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AHأَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a scholar (ʿālim)d. 110 AH, or 117 AH, 119 AHالْأَعْرَجِثقة ثبت عالمعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), jurist (faqīh)d. 129 AH, or 130 AH, or 131 AH, also said: 132 AHأَبِي الزِّنَادِثقة ، فقيهعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq); his memory changed when he came to Baghdad, and he was a jurist (faqīh)d. 174 AHعَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ أَبِي الزِّنَادِصدوق ، تغير حفظه لما قدم بغداد ، وكان فقيهاحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 227 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الصَّبَّاحِثقة حافظحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), the compiler of the Sunan and other works, one of the senior scholars.d. 275 AHأَبُو دَاوُدَثقة ، حافظ , مصنف السنن وغيرها ، من كبار العلماءحدثنا
- d. 346 AHأَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ دَاسَةَأنبأ
- d. 403 AHأَبُو عَلِيٍّ الرُّوذْبَارِيُّأخبرنا
- d. 458 AHالبيهقي
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