al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 8579
✧ Supplication when one fears a people
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أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُثْمَانَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا بَهْزٌ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ ثَابِتٍ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي لَيْلَى عَنْ صُهَيْبٍ
أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ كَانَ يُحَرِّكُ شَفَتَيْهِ أَيَّامَ حُنَيْنٍ بَعْدَ صَلَاةِ الْفَجْرِ فَقَالُوا يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ «إِنَّكَ تُحَرِّكُ شَفَتَيْكَ بِشَيْءٍ؟» قَالَ إِنَّ نَبِيًّا مِمَّنْ كَانَ قَبْلَكُمْ ثُمَّ ذَكَرَ كَلِمَةً مَعْنَاهَا أَعْجَبَتْهُ كَثْرَةُ أُمَّتِهِ فَقَالَ لَنْ يَرُومَ هَؤُلَاءِ أَحَدٌ بِشَيْءٍ فَأَوْحَى اللهُ إِلَيْهِ أَنَّ خَيِّرْ أُمَّتَكَ بَيْنَ إِحْدَى ثَلَاثٍ أَنْ أُسَلِّطَ عَلَيْهِمْ عَدُوًّا مِنْ غَيْرِهِمْ فَيَسْتَبِيَحَهُمْ وَإِمَّا أَنْ أُسَلِّطَ عَلَيْهِمُ الْجُوعَ وَإِمَّا أَنْ أُرْسِلَ عَلَيْهِمُ الْمَوْتَ؟ فَقَالُوا «أَمَّا الْجُوعُ وَالْعَدُوُّ فَلَا طَاقَةَ لَنَا بِهِمَا وَلَكِنَّ الْمَوْتَ فَأُرْسِلَ عَلَيْهِمُ الْمَوْتُ فَمَاتَ مِنْهُمْ فِي لَيْلَةٍ سَبْعُونَ أَلْفًا» فَأَنَا أَقُولُ «اللهُمَّ بِكَ أُحَاوِلُ وَبِكَ أُصَاوِلُ وَبِكَ أُقَاتِلُ»
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Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. ʿUthmān
- Bahz
- Ḥammād b. Salamah
- Thābit
- Ibn Abū Laylá
- Ṣuhayb
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was moving his lips during the days of Hunayn after the dawn prayer. They said, "O Messenger of Allah, you are moving your lips with something?" He said, "A prophet among those before you admired the large number of his community and said, 'No one will be able to overwhelm these with anything.' Then Allah revealed to him: 'Give your community a choice among three things: that I send upon them an enemy from other than themselves who will make them lawful, or that I send upon them famine, or that I send upon them death.' They said, 'As for famine and the enemy, we have no strength against them, but death.' So death was sent upon them, and seventy thousand of them died in one night. So I say, 'O Allah, by You I strive, by You I assault, and by You I fight.'"
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