Sahih al-Bukhari 2899
Exhortation to archery (i.e., arrow throwing)
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حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْلَمَةَ حَدَّثَنَا حَاتِمُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ أَبِي عُبَيْدٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ سَلَمَةَ بْنَ الأَكْوَعِ ؓ قَالَ
مَرَّ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ عَلَى نَفَرٍ مِنْ أَسْلَمَ يَنْتَضِلُونَ فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ ارْمُوا بَنِي إِسْمَاعِيلَ فَإِنَّ أَبَاكُمْ كَانَ رَامِيًا ارْمُوا وَأَنَا مَعَ بَنِي فُلاَنٍ قَالَ فَأَمْسَكَ أَحَدُ الْفَرِيقَيْنِ بِأَيْدِيهِمْ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ مَا لَكُمْ لاَ تَرْمُونَ قَالُوا كَيْفَ نَرْمِي وَأَنْتَ مَعَهُمْ قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ ارْمُوا فَأَنَا مَعَكُمْ كُلِّكُمْ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAbdullāh b. Maslamah
- Ḥātim b. Ismāʿīl
- Yazīd b. Abū ʿUbayd
- Salamah b. al-Akwaʿ
The Prophet ﷺ passed by some people of the tribe of Bani Aslam who were practicing archery. The Prophet said, "O Bani Ismaʿil ! Practice archery as your father Ismaʿil was a great archer. Keep on throwing arrows and I am with Bani so-and-so." So one of the parties ceased throwing. Allah's Apostle said, "Why do you not throw?" They replied, "How should we throw while you are with them (i.e. on their side)?" On that the Prophet ﷺ said, "Throw, and I am with all of you."
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Same hadith, other wordings
- Riyadhus Shalihin 1336"ارموا بني إسماعيل فإن أباكم كان راميًا"
Other narrations of this report
Sahih Ibn Hibban 4693Sahih Ibn Hibban 4695al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 6313al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 6349al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 2464al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 2465
Narrators
- present at the Pledge of Riḍwānd. 64 AH or 74 AH; Ibn Saʿd said: at the end of the caliphate of Muʿāwiyah b. Abī Sufyānسَلَمَةُ بْنُ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْأَكْوَعِ الْأَسْلَمِيُّشهد بيعة الرضوانسمعت
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 146 AH, or: 147 AH, also said: 140-odd AHيَزِيدَ بْنِ أَبِي عُبَيْدٍثقةعن
- His book is sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb), truthful (ṣadūq) but makes errors (yahim)d. 186 AH or 187 AHحَاتِمُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَصحيح الكتاب ، صدوق يهمحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 220 AH, or 221 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْلَمَةَثقة عابدحدثنا
- a mountain of memorization and the leader of the world in the comprehension of hadith (jabal al-ḥifẓ wa-imām al-dunyā fī fiqh al-ḥadīth)d. 256 AHالْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث
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Commentaries
Sharḥ Riyad al-Salihin (Ibn al-ʿUthaymin)
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)
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