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al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 2489

✧ Stratagem and deception in war

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قَالَ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنِيعٍ: حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ هَارُونَ، ثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ التَّيْمِيُّ، عَنْ نُعَيْمِ بْنِ أَبِي هِنْدٍ، عَنْ سُوَيْدِ بْنِ غَفَلَةَ، قَالَ:

إِنَّ عَلِيًّا ؓ أُتِيَ بِنَاسٍ مِنَ الزُّطِّ قَالَ: أَحْسَبُهُمْ قَتَلَهُمْ. ثُمَّ نَظَرَ إِلَى السَّمَاءِ، ثُمَّ نَظَرَ إِلَى الْأَرْضِ، فَقَالَ: اللهُ أَكْبَرُ صَدَقَ اللهُ وَرَسُولُهُ، احْفِرُوا هَذَا الْمَكَانَ لَا بَلْ هَذَا الْمَكَانَ. ثُمَّ نَظَرَ إِلَى السَّمَاءِ، ثُمَّ نَظَرَ إِلَى الْأَرْضِ فَقَالَ: اللهُ أَكْبَرُ صَدَقَ اللهُ وَرَسُولُهُ، احْفِرُوا هَذَا الْمَكَانَ. قَالَ: فَحَفَرُوا فَأَلْقَاهُمْ فِيهِ، ثُمَّ دَخَلَ، فَدَخَلْتُ عَلَيْهِ، فَقُلْتُ: أَرَأَيْتَ مَا كُنْتَ تَصْنَعُ آنِفًا، عَهِدَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ فِيهِمْ شَيْئًا ؟ قَالَ: لَأَنْ أَخِرَّ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ إِلَى الْأَرْضِ أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِنْ أَنْ أَقُولَ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ مَا لَمْ يَقُلْ، إِنَّمَا أَنَا مُكَائِدٌ، أَرَأَيْتَ لَوْ قُلْتُ: اللهُ أَكْبَرُ صَدَقَ اللهُ وَرَسُولُهُ، احْفِرُوا هَذَا الْمَكَانَ، مَا كَانَ ؟

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Aḥmad b. Manīʿ
  2. Yazīd b. Hārūn
  3. Sulaymān al-Taymī
  4. Nuʿaym b. Abū Hind
  5. Sūwayd b. Ghafalah

✧ Ali ؓ was brought people from the Zutt. He said: "I think he killed them." Then he looked at the sky, then at the earth, and said: "Allahu Akbar, Allah and His Messenger have spoken the truth. Dig this spot—no, this spot." Then he looked at the sky, then at the earth, and said: "Allahu Akbar, Allah and His Messenger have spoken the truth. Dig this spot." They dug, and he threw them into it. Then he entered, and I entered upon him and said: "What do you think about what you were doing just now? Did the Messenger of Allah ﷺ give any instruction concerning them?" He said: "To fall from the sky to the earth would be dearer to me than to say about the Messenger of Allah ﷺ what he did not say. I am only employing a stratagem. Do you think that if I said 'Allahu Akbar, Allah and His Messenger have spoken the truth, dig this spot,' what would it be?"

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