al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 2333
✧ Prohibition of killing women, children, traders, delegations, and messengers
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قَالَ إِسْحَاقُ: أَخْبَرَنَا رَوْحُ بْنُ عُبَادَةَ، ثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي حَفْصَةَ، عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ كَعْبِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ أَوْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ كَعْبٍ، وَكَانَ قَائِدَ كَعْبِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ، عَنْ كَعْبِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ ؓ، قَالَ:
عَهِدَ إِلَيْنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ وَنَحْنُ بِخَيْبَرَ: أَلَّا نَقْتُلَ صَبِيًّا وَلَا امْرَأَةً
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Chain of narrators
- Isḥāq
- Rawḥ b. ʿUbādah
- Muḥammad b. Abū Ḥafṣah
- al-Zuhrī
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. ʿAbdullāh b. Kaʿb b. Mālik Aw ʿAbdullāh b. Kaʿb and Kān Qāʾid Kaʿb b. Mālik
- Kaʿb b. Mālik
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ commanded us while we were at Khaybar: that we should not kill a child or a woman.
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- Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
هذا إسناد صحيح
machine translationThis chain of transmission is sound (ṣaḥīḥ).
in المطالب العالية, p. 2333
Other narrations of this report
al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 17228al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 17229al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 17230
Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. during ʿAlī's caliphate, or in the days when ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib was killed, or in the year 51 AH, also said: 50 AH, and al-Wāqidī and Abū Ḥātim stated it definitivelyكَعْب بْن مَالِك الأَنْصَارِيصحابي مشهورعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 97 AH, or 98 AH; also said 89 AHعَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ كَعْبٍثقةعن
- 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 AHالزُّهْرِيِّالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبتهعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), makes mistakes (yukhṭiʾ)d. between 141 and 160 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي حَفْصَةَصدوق يخطئحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), excellent, he authored worksd. 205 AH, also said: 207 AHرَوْحُ بْنُ عُبَادَةَثقة فاضل ، له تصانيفأخبرنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer, a mujtahid (thiqah ḥāfiẓ mujtahid)d. 237 AH, or 238 AHإِسْحَاقُثقة حافظ مجتهد
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