Sahih Muslim 95a
The prohibition of killing a disbeliever after he says La ilaha illallah
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حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ حَدَّثَنَا لَيْثٌ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ رُمْحٍ وَاللَّفْظُ مُتَقَارِبٌ أَخْبَرَنَا اللَّيْثُ عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ اللَّيْثِيِّ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَدِيِّ بْنِ الْخِيَارِ عَنِ الْمِقْدَادِ بْنِ الأَسْوَدِ أَنَّهُ أَخْبَرَهُ أَنَّهُ قَالَ
يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَرَأَيْتَ إِنْ لَقِيتُ رَجُلاً مِنَ الْكُفَّارِ فَقَاتَلَنِي فَضَرَبَ إِحْدَى يَدَىَّ بِالسَّيْفِ فَقَطَعَهَا ثُمَّ لاَذَ مِنِّي بِشَجَرَةٍ فَقَالَ أَسْلَمْتُ لِلَّهِ أَفَأَقْتُلُهُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ بَعْدَ أَنْ قَالَهَا قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ لاَ تَقْتُلْهُ قَالَ فَقُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّهُ قَدْ قَطَعَ يَدِي ثُمَّ قَالَ ذَلِكَ بَعْدَ أَنْ قَطَعَهَا أَفَأَقْتُلُهُ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ لاَ تَقْتُلْهُ فَإِنْ قَتَلْتَهُ فَإِنَّهُ بِمَنْزِلَتِكَ قَبْلَ أَنْ تَقْتُلَهُ وَإِنَّكَ بِمَنْزِلَتِهِ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَقُولَ كَلِمَتَهُ الَّتِي قَالَ
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Chain of narrators
- [Chain 1] Qutaybah b. Saʿīd
- Layth [Chain 2] Muḥammad b. Rumḥ and -al-Lafẓ Mutaqārib
- al-Layth
- Ibn Shihāb
- ʿAṭāʾ b. Yazīd al-Laythī
- ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAdī b. al-Khiyār
- al-Miqdād b. al-Aswad
If I encountered a person amongst the infidels (in the battlefield) and he attacked me and struck me and cut off one of my hands with the sword. Then he (in order to protect himself from me) took shelter of a tree and said: I become Muslim for Allah's sake. Messenger of Allah, can I kill him after he had uttered this? The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: Do not kill him. I (the narrator) said: Messenger of Allah, he cut off my hand and uttered this after amputating it; should I then kill him? The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: Don't kill him, for I you kill him, verily he would be in a position where you had been before killing him and verily you would be in a position where he had been before uttering (kalima).
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Other narrations of this report
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Narrators
- A well-known Companion (ṣaḥābī), among the earliest to accept Islam (al-sābiqūn)d. 33 AHالْمِقْدَاد بْن عَمْرو بْن ثَعْلَبَة الْبَهْرَانِيّصحابي مشهور ، من السابقينأخبره
- He was of discerning age at the Conquest, and so was counted among the Companions. Al-ʿIjlī and others counted him among the trustworthy senior Successorsd. 95 AH or 96 AHعُبَيْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَدِيِّ بْنِ الْخِيَارِوكان هو في الفتح مميزا فعدّ في الصحابة لذلك . وعدّه العجلي وغيره في ثقات كبار التابعينعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 105 AH, or 107 AHعَطَاءِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ اللَّيْثِيِّثقةعن
- The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AHابْنِ شِهَابٍالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبتهعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh), a well-known imamd. 175 AH, or 176 AH, or 177 AHاللَّيْثُثقة ثبت ، فقيه إمام مشهورأخبرنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 242 AH or 243 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ رُمْحٍثقة ثبتحدثنا
- 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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