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Sahih al-Bukhari 3032

Killing non-Muslim warriors secretly

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حَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ عَمْرٍو عَنْ جَابِرٍ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ

مَنْ لِكَعْبِ بْنِ الأَشْرَفِ فَقَالَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مَسْلَمَةَ أَتُحِبُّ أَنْ أَقْتُلَهُ قَالَ نَعَمْ قَالَ فَأْذَنْ لِي فَأَقُولَ قَالَ قَدْ فَعَلْتُ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad
  2. Sufyān
  3. ʿAmr
  4. Jābir
  5. al-Nabī ﷺ

The Prophet ﷺ said, "Who is ready to kill Kaʿb bin Ashraf (i.e. a Jew)." Muhammad bin Maslama replied, "Do you like me to kill him?" The Prophet ﷺ replied in the affirmative. Muhammad bin Maslama said, "Then allow me to say what I like." The Prophet ﷺ replied, "I do (i.e. allow you).

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  1. 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 AH
    جَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابي
    عن
  2. trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 125 AH, or 126 AH, or 129 AH, also said: 116 AH
    عَمْرٍوثقة ثبت
    عن
  3. 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 AH
    سُفْيَانُثقة حافظ فقيه , إمام حجة إلا أنه تغير حفظه بأخرة , وكان ربما دلس لكن عن الثقات
    حدثنا
  4. trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ); he compiled the Musnadd. before 220 AH, or 229 AH
    عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍثقة حافظ ، جمع المسند
    حدثني
  5. 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 AH
    الْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث

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Commentaries

Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)

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