Sahih Muslim 1741
It is disliked to wish to meet the enemy, and the command to be steadfast when meeting the enemy
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حَدَّثَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ الْحُلْوَانِيُّ وَعَبْدُ بْنُ حُمَيْدٍ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَامِرٍ الْعَقَدِيُّ عَنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ وَهُوَ ابْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْحِزَامِيُّ عَنْ أَبِي الزِّنَادِ عَنِ الأَعْرَجِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ
لاَ تَمَنَّوْا لِقَاءَ الْعَدُوِّ فَإِذَا لَقِيتُمُوهُمْ فَاصْبِرُوا
Translation
Chain of narrators
- al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī al-Ḥulwānī and ʿAbd b. Ḥumayd
- Abū ʿĀmir al-ʿAqadī
- al-Mughīrah Wahū Ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Ḥizāmī
- Abū al-Zinād
- al-Aʿraj
- Abū Hurayrah
- al-Nabī ﷺ
Do not desire an encounter with the enemy; but when you encounter them, be firm.
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Same hadith, other wordings
- Riyadhus Shalihin 1351"لا تتمنوا لقاء العدو، فإذا لقيتموه فاصبروا"
Other narrations of this report
Sahih al-Bukhari 7237Musnad Ahmad 19114Musnad Ahmad 19680al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 18530
Narrators
- The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AHأَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a scholar (ʿālim)d. 110 AH, or 117 AH, 119 AHالْأَعْرَجِثقة ثبت عالمعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), jurist (faqīh)d. 129 AH, or 130 AH, or 131 AH, also said: 132 AHأَبِي الزِّنَادِثقة ، فقيهعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), has unusual narrations (gharāʾib)d. between 171 AH, and: 180 AHالْمُغِيرَةِ ( وَهُوَ ابْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْحِزَامِيُّثقة له غرائبعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 204 AH or 205 AHأَبُو عَامِرٍ الْعَقَدِيُّثقةحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 249 AHوَعَبْدُ بْنُ حُمَيْدٍثقة 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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Commentaries
al-Minhāj (Nawawī)
al-Mufham (Abū al-ʿAbbās)
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