al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 2396
✧ The Command to Improve Weapons and Prepare Them for Jihad
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قَالَ مُسَدَّدٌ: حَدَّثَنَا عِيسَى - هُوَ ابْنُ يُونُسَ - عَنْ أَبِي بَكْرِ بْنِ أَبِي مَرْيَمَ، عَنْ أَشْيَاخِهِ قَالَ: إِنَّ عُمَرَ ؓ قَالَ:
وَفِّرُوا أَظْفَارَكُمْ فِي أَرْضِ الْعَدُوِّ، فَإِنَّهَا سِلَاحٌ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Musaddad
- ʿĪsá
- Ibn Yūnus
- Abū Bakr b. Abū Maryam
- Ashyākhih
- In ʿUmar
✧ Leave your nails long in the land of the enemy, for they are a weapon.
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- Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
موقوف منقطع
in المطالب العالية, p. 2396
Other narrations of this report
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 المناقبإن
- أشياخ أبو بكر الغسانيعن
- Weak (ḍaʿīf); his house had been robbed, and he became confused (ikhtalaṭa).d. 156 AHأَبِي بَكْرِ بْنِ أَبِي مَرْيَمَضعيف ، وكان قد سرق بيته ، فاختلطعن
- trustworthy and reliable (thiqah maʾmūn)d. 187 AH, or 188 AH, or 191 AHعِيسَى - هُوَ ابْنُ يُونُسَ -ثقة مأمونحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 228 AHمُسَدَّدٌثقة حافظ
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