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Sunan Ibn Majah 2794

Fighting in the cause of Allah

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا يَعْلَى بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ حَدَّثَنَا حَجَّاجُ بْنُ دِينَارٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ ذَكْوَانَ عَنْ شَهْرِ بْنِ حَوْشَبٍ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ عَبَسَةَ قَالَ

أَتَيْتُ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ فَقُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَىُّ الْجِهَادِ أَفْضَلُ قَالَ مَنْ أُهْرِيقَ دَمُهُ وَعُقِرَ جَوَادُهُ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah
  2. Yaʿlá b. ʿUbayd
  3. Ḥajjāj b. Dīnār
  4. Muḥammad b. Dhakwān
  5. Shahr b. Ḥawshab
  6. ʿAmr b. ʿAbasah

“I came to the Prophet ﷺ and said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, which Jihad is best?’ He said: ‘(That of a man) whose blood is shed and his horse is wounded.’”

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Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 22288al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3984al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4130al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 794

Narrators

  1. ʿAmr b. ʿAbasah
    a well-known Companiond. in the last years of the caliphate of ʿUthmān
    عَمْرُو بْنُ عَبَسَةَصحابي مشهور
    عن
  2. Shahr b. Ḥawshab
    Truthful (ṣadūq), frequently narrated mursal reports (kathīr al-irsāl) and made many errors (awhām)d. 98 AH, or 99 AH, or 100 AH, or 101 AH, or 111 AH, or 112 AH
    شَهْرِ بْنِ حَوْشَبٍصدوق , كثير الإرسال والأوهام
    عن
  3. Muḥammad b. Dhakwān
    weak (ḍaʿīf)d. between 141 AH and 150 AH
    مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ ذَكْوَانَضعيف
    عن
  4. Ḥajjāj b. Dīnār
    no harm in him (lā baʾs bih)
    حَجَّاجُ بْنُ دِينَارٍلا بأس به
    حدثنا
  5. Yaʿlā b. ʿUbayd
    Trustworthy (thiqah), except in his hadith from al-Thawrī, in which there is softness.d. 209 AH, also said: 207 AH.
    يَعْلَى بْنُ عُبَيْدٍثقة إلا في حديثه عن الثوري ففيه لين .
    حدثنا
  6. Abū Bakr b. Abī Shaybah
    trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of works (ṣāḥib taṣānīf)d. 235 AH, or 234 AH
    أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَثقة حافظ ، صاحب تصانيف
    حدثنا
  7. Ibn Mājah
    one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AH
    ابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ

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Commentaries

Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd

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