Sahih Muslim 1739
Permissibility of deceit in war
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وَحَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ حُجْرٍ السَّعْدِيُّ وَعَمْرٌو النَّاقِدُ وَزُهَيْرُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ وَاللَّفْظُ لِعَلِيٍّ وَزُهَيْرٍ قَالَ عَلِيٌّ أَخْبَرَنَا وَقَالَ الآخَرَانِ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ قَالَ سَمِعَ عَمْرٌو جَابِرًا يَقُولُ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
الْحَرْبُ خَدْعَةٌ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAlī b. Ḥujr al-Saʿdī and ʿAmrw al-Nāqid Wazuhayr b. Ḥarb Wa-al-Lafẓ Liʿalī Wazuhayr
- ʿAlī
- al-Ākharān
- Sufyān
- ʿAmr Jābir
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
War is a stratagem.
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- Shahih Muslim 1740الْحَرْبُ خُدْعَةٌ
Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 27597Musnad Ahmad 912Sahih Ibn Hibban 3370al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 17171al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 18519Musnad al-Bazzar 514
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in some reports from them: 68 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 72 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī in another report: 73 AH. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān said: 77 AH. Abū ʿAwn al-Madanī and others said: 78 AH. Abū Nuʿaym and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in another report said: 79 AHجَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابييقول
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 125 AH, or 126 AH, or 129 AH, also said: 116 AHعَمْرٌوثقة ثبتسمع
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an imam and a proof (ḥujjah), except that his memory changed towards the end of his life; he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), but only from trustworthy narrators.d. 197 AH or 198 AHسُفْيَانُثقة حافظ فقيه , إمام حجة إلا أنه تغير حفظه بأخرة , وكان ربما دلس لكن عن الثقاتأخبرنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 244 AH, also said: 241 AH, also said: 243 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ حُجْرٍ السَّعْدِيُّثقة حافظحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam, an author of compilations, knowledgeable in jurisprudence (fiqh)d. Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb said: 261 AH, Makkī b. ʿAbdān said: 259 AHمُسْلِمٌثقة حافظ ، إمام ، مصنف ، عالم بالفقه
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