Sahih Ibn Hibban 4766
✧ The Exiting and the Methodology of Jihad
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أَخْبَرَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْهَمْدَانِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدٌ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ سِمَاكِ بْنِ حَرْبٍ عَنْ عِيَاضٍ الْأَشْعَرِيِّ قَالَ
«شَهِدْتُ الْيَرْمُوكَ وَعَلَيْهَا خَمْسَةُ أُمَرَاءَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ بْنُ الْجَرَّاحِ وَيَزِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ وَشُرَحْبِيلُ ابْنُ حَسَنَةَ وَخَالِدُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ وَعِيَاضٌ وَلَيْسَ عِيَاضٌ صَاحِبَ الْحَدِيثِ الَّذِي يُحَدِّثُ سِمَاكٌ عَنْهُ قَالَ عُمَرُ رِضْوَانُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ إِذَا كَانَ قِتَالٌ فَعَلَيْكُمْ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ قَالَ » فَكَتَبْنَا إِلَيْهِ أَنْ قَدْ جَاشَ إِلَيْنَا الْمَوْتُ وَاسْتَمْدَدْنَاهُ فَكَتَبَ إِلَيْنَا أَنَّهُ قَدْ جَاءَنِي كِتَابُكُمْ تَسْتَمِدُّونِي وَإِنِّي أَدُلُّكُمْ عَلَى مَا هُوَ أَعَزُّ نَصْرًا وَأَحْصَنُ جُنْدًا اللَّهُ فَاسْتَنْصِرُوهُ فَإِنَّ مُحَمَّدًا ﷺ قَدْ نُصِرَ بِأَقَلَّ مِنْ عَدَدِكُمْ فَإِذَا أَتَاكُمْ كِتَابِي فَقَاتِلُوهُمْ وَلَا تُرَاجِعُونِي قَالَ فَقَاتَلْنَاهُمْ فَهَزَمْنَاهُمْ وَقَتَلْنَاهُمْ أَرْبَعَ فَرَاسِخَ وَأَصَبْنَا أَمْوَالًا فَتَشَاوَرُوا فَأَشَارَ عَلَيْهِمْ عِيَاضٌ عَنْ كُلِّ رَأْسٍ عَشْرَةٌ وَقَالَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ مَنْ يُرَاهِنُنِي؟ فَقَالَ شَابٌّ أَنَا إِنْ لَمْ تَغْضَبْ قَالَ «فَسَبَقَهُ فَرَأَيْتُ عَقِيصَتَيْ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ تَنْقُزَانِ وَهُوَ خَلْفَهُ عَلَى فَرَسٍ عَرَبِيٍّ»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿUmar b. Muḥammad al-Hamdānī
- Muḥammad b. Bashhār
- Muḥammad
- Shuʿbah
- Simāk b. Ḥarb
- ʿIyāḍ al-Ashʿarī
✧ I witnessed al-Yarmuk, and over it were five commanders: Abu Ubayda b. al-Jarrah, Yazid b. Abi Sufyan, Shurahbil b. Hasana, Khalid b. al-Walid, and Iyad—not the Iyad who is the companion of the hadith that Simak narrates from. Umar, ؓ, said: When there is fighting, Abu Ubayda is in charge of you. He (the narrator) said: So we wrote to him that death has surged upon us and we requested reinforcements. He wrote back: Your letter requesting reinforcements has come to me, and I direct you to what is greater in victory and more fortified in soldiers: Allah. So seek His help, for Muhammad ﷺ was granted victory with fewer than your number. When my letter reaches you, fight them and do not refer back to me. He (the narrator) said: So we fought them, routed them, and killed them for four farsakhs, and we seized wealth. They consulted, and Iyad suggested ten dirhams per head. Abu Ubayda said: Who will race me? A young man said: I will, if you do not get angry. He said: So he beat him, and I saw the two braids of Abu Ubayda bouncing while he was behind him on an Arab horse.
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Narrators
- Commander of the Faithful (amīr al-muʾminīn), well-known, of abundant virtues (jamm al-manāqib)d. 23 AH, also said: 24 AHعُمَر بْن الْخَطَّابأمير المؤمنين مشهور جم المناقبقال
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 60 AHعِيَاضٍ الْأَشْعَرِيِّصحابيعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq); his narrations from ʿIkrimah in particular are inconsistent (muḍṭarib); he changed (taghayyara) towards the end of his life, and at times he would accept prompting (yulaqqan).d. 123 AHسِمَاكِ بْنِ حَرْبٍصدوق , وروايته عن عكرمة خاصة مضطربة , وقد تغير بأخرة ، فكان ربما يلقنعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AHشُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقنحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), his book was sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb), except that he had some heedlessness (ghaflah)d. 192 AH or 193 AH or 194 AHمُحَمَّدٌثقة صحيح الكتاب إلا أن فيه غفلةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 252 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍثقةحدثنا
- d. 311 AHعُمَرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْهَمْدَانِيُّأخبرنا
- d. 354 AHابن حبان
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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