Sahih Ibn Hibban 5259
✧ What is permissible to eat and what is not permissible
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أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْمُثَنَّى قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ النَّاقِدُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ دِينَارٍ سَمِعَ جَابِرَ بْنَ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ يَقُولُ
بَعَثَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ فِي ثَلَاثِ مِائَةِ رَاكِبٍ وَأَمِيرُنَا أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ بْنُ الْجَرَّاحِ نَرْصُدُ عِيرًا لِقُرَيْشٍ فَأَقَمْنَا بِالسَّاحِلِ نِصْفَ شَهْرٍ فَأَصَابَنَا جُوعٌ شَدِيدٌ حَتَّى أَكَلْنَا الْخَبَطَ قَالَ فَسُمِّيَ ذَلِكَ الْجَيْشُ جَيْشَ الْخَبَطِ ثُمَّ أَلْقَى الْبَحْرُ دَابَّةً يُقَالُ لَهَا الْعَنْبَرُ فَأَكَلْنَا مِنْهُ نِصْفَ شَهْرٍ حَتَّى ثَابَتْ أَجْسَامُنَا وَادَّهَنَّا بِوَدَكِهِ فَأَخَذَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ بْنُ الْجَرَّاحِ ضِلَعًا مِنْ أَضْلَاعِهِ وَنَظَرَ إِلَى أَطْوَلِ جَمَلٍ فِي الْجَيْشِ وَأَطْوَلِ رَجُلٍ فَحَمَلَهُ عَلَيْهِ فَمَرَّ تَحْتَهُ «قَالَ سُفْيَانُ قَالَ أَبُو الزُّبَيْرٍ عَنْ جَابِرٍ أَعْطَانَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ جِرَابًا فِيهِ تَمْرٌ فَلَمَّا نَفِدَ وَجَدْنَا فَقْدَهُ فَجَعَلَ يَجِيءُ الرَّجُلُ بِالشَّيْءِ قَالَ وَأَخْرَجْنَا مِنْ عَيْنَيْهِ كَذَا وَكَذَا حُبًّا مِنْ وَدَكٍ فَلَمَّا قَدِمْنَا عَلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ سَأَلَنَا » هَلْ مَعَكُمْ مِنْهُ شَيْءٌ «
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Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad b. ʿAlī b. al-Muthanná
- ʿAmr b. Muḥammad al-Nāqid
- Sufyān
- ʿAmr b. Dīnār
- Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ dispatched us in a detachment of three hundred riders, with Abu 'Ubaydah b. al-Jarrah as our commander, to lie in wait for a caravan of Quraysh. We stayed on the coast for half a month, and severe hunger struck us until we ate the leaves of the mimosa flava tree. So that army was called the Army of the Leaves. Then the sea cast up a creature called the sperm whale, and we ate from it for half a month until our bodies recovered. We also used its fat as ointment. Abu 'Ubaydah b. al-Jarrah took one of its ribs, looked for the tallest camel in the army and the tallest man, and loaded him on it, and he passed under it. Sufyan said: Abu al-Zubayr said from Jabir: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ gave us a sack containing dates, and when it was exhausted, we felt its loss. A man would bring something. And we extracted from its eye sockets such-and-such amount of fat. When we came to the Prophet ﷺ, he asked us, 'Do you still have any of it with you?'
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Other narrations of this report
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 AHعَمْرِو بْنِ دِينَارٍثقة 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 AHسُفْيَانُثقة حافظ فقيه , إمام حجة إلا أنه تغير حفظه بأخرة , وكان ربما دلس لكن عن الثقاتحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a retainer of hadith (ḥāfiẓ), who made an error (wahima) in one hadithd. 232 AH, ʿUbayd b. Muḥammad b. Khalaf al-Bazzār said: the year 231 AHعَمْرُو بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ النَّاقِدُثقة حافظ وهم في حديثحدثنا
- d. 307 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْمُثَنَّىأخبرنا
- d. 354 AHابن حبان
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