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Sahih Muslim 1858a

It is recommended for the army to swear allegiance to the ruler when intending to fight, and an account of Bay'at Ar-Ridwan beneath the tree

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وَحَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ يَحْيَى أَخْبَرَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ زُرَيْعٍ عَنْ خَالِدٍ عَنِ الْحَكَمِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الأَعْرَجِ عَنْ مَعْقِلِ بْنِ يَسَارٍ قَالَ

لَقَدْ رَأَيْتُنِي يَوْمَ الشَّجَرَةِ وَالنَّبِيُّ ﷺ يُبَايِعُ النَّاسَ وَأَنَا رَافِعٌ غُصْنًا مِنْ أَغْصَانِهَا عَنْ رَأْسِهِ وَنَحْنُ أَرْبَعَ عَشْرَةَ مِائَةً قَالَ لَمْ نُبَايِعْهُ عَلَى الْمَوْتِ وَلَكِنْ بَايَعْنَاهُ عَلَى أَنْ لاَ نَفِرَّ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Yaḥyá b. Yaḥyá
  2. Yazīd b. Zurayʿ
  3. Khālid
  4. al-Ḥakam b. ʿAbdullāh b. al-Aʿraj
  5. Maʿqil b. Yasār

I remember being present on the Day of the Tree, and the Prophet ﷺ was taking the oath of the people and I was holding a twig of the tree over his head. We were fourteen hundred (in number). We did not take oath to the death, but to the effect that we would not run away from the battlefield.

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  1. a Companion, among those who pledged allegiance under the Treed. 62 AH, or at the end of Muʿāwiyah's caliphate, also said: in the caliphate of Yazīd b. Muʿāwiyah, or between 60 AH and 70 AH
    مَعْقِلُ بْنُ يَسَارٍ الْمُزَنِيُّصحابي ، ممن بايع تحت الشجرة
    عن
  2. trustworthy (thiqah), though he sometimes erred (rubbamā wahima)d. between 101 and 110 AH
    الْحَكَمِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الْأَعْرَجِثقة ، ربما وهم
    عن
  3. Trustworthy (thiqah); he narrates with omission of the intermediary (yursil).d. 141 AH, or 142 AH, or more.
    خَالِدٍثقة يرسل.
    عن
  4. trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt).d. 182 AH, also said: 183 AH.
    يَزِيدُ بْنُ زُرَيْعٍثقة ثبت .
    أخبرنا
  5. trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), an imam (imām).d. 226 AH, or 224 AH, or 225 AH; both of the latter two are mistaken.
    يَحْيَى بْنُ يَحْيَىثقة ثبت إمام .
    حدثنا
  6. 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 AH
    مُسْلِمٌثقة حافظ ، إمام ، مصنف ، عالم بالفقه

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Commentaries

al-Minhāj (Nawawī)
al-Mufham (Abū al-ʿAbbās)

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