al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 2342
✧ Virtue of one who sees off a mujahid
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وَقَالَ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنِيعٍ: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو نَصْرٍ التَّمَّارُ عَبْدُ الْمَلِكِ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ، ثَنَا كَوْثَرُ بْنُ حَكِيمٍ، عَنْ نَافِعٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ ؓ قَالَ:
إِنَّ أَبَا بَكْرٍ ؓ بَعَثَ يَزِيدَ بْنَ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ إِلَى الشَّامِ، فَمَشَى مَعَهُمْ نَحْوًا مِنْ مِيلَيْنِ، فَقِيلَ لَهُ: يَا خَلِيفَةَ رَسُولِ اللهِ، لَوِ انْصَرَفْتَ ؟ فَقَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ ؓ: لَا ; إِنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: مَنِ اغْبَرَّتْ قَدَمَاهُ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ تَعَالَى حَرَّمَهُمَا اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ عَلَى النَّارِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad b. Manīʿ
- Abū Naṣr al-Tammār ʿAbd al-Malik b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz
- Kawthar b. Ḥakīm
- Nāfiʿ
- Ibn ʿUmar
✧ Abu Bakr ؓ dispatched Yazid b. Abi Sufyan to Syria, and he walked with them for about two miles. It was said to him, 'O Caliph of the Messenger of Allah, would you not turn back?' Abu Bakr ؓ said, 'No, for I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: Whoever's feet become dusty in the path of Allah Almighty, Allah, Mighty and Majestic, will forbid them to the Fire.'
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