al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 10375
✧ The translation of the heading "الِاسْتِنْصَارُ عِنْدَ اللِّقَاءِ" into English is "The resilience in the face of meeting".
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أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُثْمَانَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا بَهْزُ بْنُ أَسَدٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ الْمُغِيرَةِ عَنْ ثَابِتٍ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي لَيْلَى عَنْ صُهَيْبٍ قَالَ
كَانَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ إِذَا صَلَّى هَمَسَ شَيْئًا وَلَا يُخْبِرُنَا بِهِ قَالَ «أَفَطِنْتُمْ لِي» قَالُوا نَعَمْ قَالَ ذَكَرْتُ نَبِيًّا مِنَ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ أُعْطِيَ جُنُودًا مِنْ قَوْمِهِ فَقَالَ مَنْ يُكَافِئُ هَؤُلَاءِ أَمْ يَقُومُ لَهُمْ؟ قَالَ سُلَيْمَانُ كَلِمَةً شَبِيهَةً بِهَذِهِ فَقِيلَ لَهُ اخْتَرْ لِقَوْمِكَ بَيْنَ إِحْدَى ثَلَاثٍ بَيْنَ أَنْ أَبْسُطَ عَلَيْهِمْ عَدُوًّا مِنْ غَيْرِهِمْ أَوِ الْجُوعَ أَوِ الْمَوْتَ فَقَالُوا أَنْتَ نَبِيُّ اللهِ كُلُّ ذَلِكَ إِلَيْكَ فَخِرْ لَنَا فَقَالَ فِي صَلَاتِهِ وَكَانُوا إِذَا فَزِعُوا فَزِعُوا إِلَى الصَّلَاةِ فَقَالَ أَمَّا عَدُوٌّ مِنْ غَيْرِهِمْ فَلَا وَأَمَّا الْجُوعُ فَلَا وَلَكِنِ الْمَوْتُ فَسُلِّطَ عَلَيْهِمْ ثَلَاثَةَ أَيَّامٍ فَمَاتَ سَبْعُونَ أَلْفًا فَالَّذِي تَرَوْنَ أَنِّي أَقُولُ رَبِّي بِكَ أُقَاتِلُ وَبِكَ أُصَاوِلُ وَلَا حَوْلَ وَلَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِكَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. ʿUthmān
- Bahz b. Asad
- Sulaymān b. al-Mughīrah
- Thābit
- Ibn Abū Laylá
- Ṣuhayb
✧ When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ prayed, he would murmur something but would not inform us of it. He said: “Did you notice me?” They said: “Yes.” He said: “I remembered a prophet among the prophets who was given troops from his people. He said: ‘Who can match these, or stand against them?’ Sulayman said something similar to this. It was said to him: ‘Choose for your people one of three things: either that I unleash upon them an enemy from other than them, or famine, or death.’ They said: ‘You are the prophet of Allah; all of that is up to you, so choose for us.’ He said in his prayer—and when they were frightened, they would turn to prayer—: ‘As for an enemy from other than them, no; as for famine, no; but death.’ So it was unleashed upon them for three days, and seventy thousand died. The reason you see me saying: ‘My Lord, with You I fight and with You I contend; there is no might nor power except with You.’”
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