Sahih al-Bukhari 6865

Translation

An ally of Bani Zuhra who took part in the battle of Badr with the Prophet, that he said, "O Allah's Apostle! If I meet an unbeliever and we have a fight, and he strikes my hand with the sword and cuts it off, and then takes refuge from me under a tree, and says, 'I have surrendered to Allah (i.e. embraced Islam),' may I kill him after he has said so?" Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Do not kill him." Al- Miqdad said, "But O Messenger of Allah ﷺ! He had chopped off one of my hands and he said that after he had cut it off. May I kill him?" The Prophet ﷺ said. "Do not kill him for if you kill him, he would be in the position in which you had been before you kill him, and you would be in the position in which he was before he said the sentence." The Prophet ﷺ also said to Al-Miqdad, "If a faithful believer conceals his faith (Islam) from the disbelievers, and then when he declares his Islam, you kill him, (you will be sinful). Remember that you were also concealing your faith (Islam) at Mecca before."

Notes

• وَقَالَ حَبِيبُ بْنُ أَبِي عَمْرَةَ عَنْ سَعِيدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ لِلْمِقْدَادِ إِذَا كَانَ رَجُلٌ مُؤْمِنٌ يُخْفِي إِيمَانَهُ مَعَ قَوْمٍ كُفَّارٍ فَأَظْهَرَ إِيمَانَهُ فَقَتَلْتَهُ فَكَذَلِكَ كُنْتَ أَنْتَ تُخْفِي إِيمَانَكَ بِمَكَّةَ مِنْ قَبْلُ

  machine translationḤabīb b. Abī ʿAmrah said, from Saʿīd, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said: The Prophet ﷺ said to al-Miqdād: "If a believing man hides his faith among a disbelieving people, then he reveals his faith and you kill him, then in the same way you yourself used to hide your faith in Makkah before." Report a problem

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Same hadith, other wordings

• Shahih al-Bukhari 6866يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنْ لَقِيتُ كَافِرًا فَاقْتَتَلْنَا، فَضَرَبَ يَدِي بِالسَّيْفِ فَقَطَعَهَا، ثُمَّ لاَذَ بِشَجَرَةٍ وَقَالَ أَسْلَمْتُ لِلَّهِ. آقْتُلُهُ بَعْدَ أَنْ قَالَهَا قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " لاَ تَقْتُلْهُ ".

Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 23831al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 18766al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 18771al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 18772al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 16924Musnad al-Bazzar 2120

Narrators

1. 1
   al-Miqdād b. ʿAmr b. Thaʿlabah al-Bahrānī

   A well-known Companion (ṣaḥābī), among the earliest to accept Islam (al-sābiqūn)d. 33 AH
   الْمِقْدَاد بْن عَمْرو بْن ثَعْلَبَة الْبَهْرَانِيّصحابي مشهور ، من السابقين
   حدثه
2. 2
   ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAdī b. al-Khiyār al-Nawfalī

   He was of discerning age at the Conquest, and so was counted among the Companions. Al-ʿIjlī and others counted him among the trustworthy senior Successorsd. 95 AH or 96 AH
   عُبَيْدَ اللهِ بْنَ عَدِيٍّوكان هو في الفتح مميزا فعدّ في الصحابة لذلك . وعدّه العجلي وغيره في ثقات كبار التابعين
   حدثه
3. 3
   ʿAṭāʾ b. Yazīd al-Laythī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 105 AH, or 107 AH
   عَطَاءُ بْنُ يَزِيدَثقة
   حدثنا
4. 4
   al-Zuhrī

   The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AH
   الزُّهْرِيِّالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبته
   عن
5. 5
   Yūnus

   Trustworthy (thiqah), except that in his narration from al-Zuhrī there are slight errors (awhām), and in his narration from others there is error (khaṭaʾ)d. Ibn Saʿd said: 152 AH, al-Bukhārī and others: 159 AH (and it is the correct view), Muḥammad b. ʿAzīz said: 160 AH
   يُونُسُثقة ، إلا أن في روايته عن الزهري وهما قليلا ، وفي غير الزهري خطأ
   حدثنا
6. 6
   ʿAbdullāh b. al-Mubārak

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh) and scholar, generous and a fighter in the way of God, in whom the qualities of goodness were gathered.d. 181 AH, or 182 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِثقة ثبت ، فقيه عالم ، جواد مجاهد ، جمعت فيه خصال الخير
   حدثنا
7. 7
   ʿAbdān

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 220 AH, or 221 AH, also said: 222 AH
   عَبْدَانُثقة حافظ
   حدثنا
8. 8
   al-Bukhārī

   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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