Sahih al-Bukhari 3030
War is deceit
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حَدَّثَنَا صَدَقَةُ بْنُ الْفَضْلِ أَخْبَرَنَا ابْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ عَنْ عَمْرٍو سَمِعَ جَابِرَ بْنَ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ؓ قَالَ قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ
الْحَرْبُ خُدْعَةٌ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Ṣadaqah b. al-Faḍl
- Ibn ʿUyaynah
- ʿAmr
- Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh
- al-Nabī ﷺ
The Prophet ﷺ said, "War is deceit."
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Same hadith, other wordings
- Arba'in Dahlawi 2الْحَرْبُ خُدَعَةٌ
- Arba'in 2الْحَرْبُ خُدَعَةٌ
- Jami at-Tirmidzi 1675الْحَرْبُ خُدْعَةٌ
- Sunan Abu Dawud 2636الْحَرْبُ خُدْعَةٌ
- Misykatul Mashabih 3939وَعَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسلم: «الْحَرْب خدعة»
- Shahih Muslim 1739الْحَرْبُ خَدْعَةٌ
- Shahih Muslim 1740الْحَرْبُ خُدْعَةٌ
Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 27597Musnad Ahmad 912Sahih Ibn Hibban 3370al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 17171al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 18519Musnad al-Bazzar 514
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in some reports from them: 68 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 72 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī in another report: 73 AH. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān said: 77 AH. Abū ʿAwn al-Madanī and others said: 78 AH. Abū Nuʿaym and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in another report said: 79 AHجَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابيسمع
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 125 AH, or 126 AH, or 129 AH, also said: 116 AHعَمْرٍوثقة ثبتعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an imam and a proof (ḥujjah), except that his memory changed towards the end of his life; he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), but only from trustworthy narrators.d. 197 AH or 198 AHابْنُ عُيَيْنَةَثقة حافظ فقيه , إمام حجة إلا أنه تغير حفظه بأخرة , وكان ربما دلس لكن عن الثقاتأخبرنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. Ibn Ḥajar said: 223 AH, or 226 AHصَدَقَةُ بْنُ الْفَضْلِثقةحدثنا
- 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
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)
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