Sahih al-Bukhari 7308

Translation

I asked Abu Wail, "Did you witness the battle of Siffin between ʿAli and Muawiya?" He said, "Yes," and added, "Then I heard Sahl bin Hunaif saying, 'O people! Blame your personal opinions in your religion. No doubt, I remember myself on the day of Abi Jandal; if I had the power to refuse the order of Messenger of Allah ﷺ, I would have refused it. We have never put our swords on our shoulders to get involved in a situation that might have been horrible for us, but those swords brought us to victory and peace, except this present situation.' " Abu Wail said, "I witnessed the battle of Siffin, and how nasty Siffin was!"

Notes

• ح وَحَدَّثَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَوَانَةَ عَنِ الأَعْمَشِ عَنْ أَبِي وَائِلٍ قَالَ قَالَ سَهْلُ بْنُ حُنَيْفٍ يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ اتَّهِمُوا رَأْيَكُمْ عَلَى دِينِكُمْ لَقَدْ رَأَيْتُنِي يَوْمَ أَبِي جَنْدَلٍ وَلَوْ أَسْتَطِيعُ أَنَّ أَرُدَّ أَمْرَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ لَرَدَدْتُهُ وَمَا وَضَعْنَا سُيُوفَنَا عَلَى عَوَاتِقِنَا إِلَى أَمْرٍ يُفْظِعُنَا إِلاَّ أَسْهَلْنَ بِنَا إِلَى أَمْرٍ نَعْرِفُهُ غَيْرَ هَذَا الأَمْرِ قَالَ وَقَالَ أَبُو وَائِلٍ شَهِدْتُ صِفِّينَ وَبِئْسَتْ صِفُّونَ

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Sahih Muslim 1785cSahih Muslim 1785dal-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 5609al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 5613al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 776

Narrators

1. 1
   Sahl b. Ḥunayf al-Awsī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 37 AH, or 38 AH
   سَهْلُ بْنُ حُنَيْفٍ الْأَوْسِيُّصحابي
   سمعت
2. 2
   Shaqīq b. Salamah

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said: 82 AH, Ibn Mandah said: 99 AH
   شقيق بن سلمةثقة
   سألت
3. 3
   al-Aʿmash

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AH
   الْأَعْمَشَثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلس
   سمعت
4. 4
   Abū Ḥamzah

   trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil)d. al-Mizzī reported from Ibn Abī Rizmah that he died 167 AH, Ibn Ḥajar reported from him in Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb: 166 AH, Bishr b. Muḥammad al-Sakhtiyānī said: 168 AH
   أَبُو حَمْزَةَثقة فاضل
   أخبرنا
5. 5
   ʿAbdān

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 220 AH, or 221 AH, also said: 222 AH
   عَبْدَانُثقة حافظ
   حدثنا
6. 6
   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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