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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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Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānīSoundin المطالب العالية, p. 2489hadithunlocked

Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 616Musnad Ahmad 912al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 16795al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 16796Musnad al-Tayalisi 163al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 8529

Narrators

  1. ʿAlī b. Abū Ṭālib
    One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AH
    عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرة
    إن
  2. Suwayd b. Ghafalah al-Madhḥijī
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. 76 AH, or: 80 AH, 81 AH, 82 AH
    سُوَيْدِ بْنِ غَفَلَةَثقة
    عن
  3. Nuʿaym b. Abī Hind
    Trustworthy (thiqah), accused of Naṣbd. 110 AH, or: during the governorship of Khālid b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Qasrī
    نُعَيْمِ بْنِ أَبِي هِنْدٍثقة رمي بالنصب
    عن
  4. Sulaymān b. Ṭarkhān
    trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 143 AH, or 144 AH
    سُلَيْمَانُ التَّيْمِيُّثقة عابد
    حدثنا
  5. Yazīd b. Hārūn
    Trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), devout (ʿābid).d. 206 AH.
    يَزِيدُ بْنُ هَارُونَثقة متقن عابد .
    حدثنا
  6. Aḥmad b. Manīʿ
    trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 244 AH, or 243 AH
    أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنِيعٍثقة حافظ

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