al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 19799
✧ Encouragement of archery
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( وَرَوَيْنَا ) فِي كِتَابِ الْفَرَائِضِ، عَنْ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِ - ؓ
أَنَّهُ كَتَبَ إِلَى أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ - ؓ: أَنْ عَلِّمُوا غِلْمَانَكُمُ الْعَوْمَ، وَمُقَاتِلَتَكُمُ الرَّمْيَ. قَالَ: وَكَانُوا يَخْتَلِفُونَ بَيْنَ الْأَغْرَاضِ، فَجَاءَ سَهْمٌ غَرْبٌ، فَأَصَابَ غُلَامًا فَقُتِلَ
Translation
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- ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb
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That he wrote to Abū ʿUbaydah ؓ: "Teach your boys swimming, and your fighters archery." He said: They used to go back and forth between the targets, and a stray arrow came and struck a boy, and he was killed.
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- 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 المناقبكتب
- Counted among the Companions; he saw the Prophet ﷺ but did not hear from himd. 100 AHأسعد بن سهل بن حنيفمعدود في الصحابة ، له رؤية ، ولم يسمع من النبي صلى الله عليه وسلمعن
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. between 101 and 110 AHحكيم بن حكيم بن عباد الأنصاريصدوقعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 143 AH, or: at the beginning of Abū Jaʿfar's caliphateعبد الرحمن بن الحارث المخزوميصدوق له أوهامعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid), an imam and authority (ḥujjah)d. 159 AH or 160 AH or 161 AH or 162 AHسفيان الثوريثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجةحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 218 AH, 219 AHالفضل بن دكينثقة ثبتحدثنا
- d. 283 AHمحمد بن ربح بن سليمان البزارحدثنا
- d. around 350 AHأحمد بن عبيد بن إسماعيل الصفارأنبأ
- d. 415 AHعلي بن أحمد بن عبدان الشيرازيأخبرنا
- d. 458 AHالبيهقي
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