Sunan an-Nasa'i 3144

Translation

"O Ka'b! Tell us a Hadith from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and be careful." He said: "I heard him say: 'Whoever develops one gray hair in Islam, in the cause of Allah, it will be light for him on the Day of Resurrection.'" He said to him: "Tell us about the Prophet ﷺ and be careful." He said: "I heard him say: 'Shoot, and whoever hits the enemy with an arrow, Allah will raise him one degree in status thereby.'" Ibn An-Nahhan said: 'O Messenger of Allah, what is a degree?' He said: 'It is not like the doorstep of your mother; [1] rather (the distance) between two degrees is (that if) a hundred years.'" [1] As explained after it; the degree of distance is greater than such a degree in this world.

Notes

• قَالَ لَهُ حَدِّثْنَا عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ وَاحْذَرْ قَالَ سَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ ارْمُوا مَنْ بَلَغَ الْعَدُوَّ بِسَهْمٍ رَفَعَهُ اللَّهُ بِهِ دَرَجَةً قَالَ ابْنُ النَّحَّامِ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ وَمَا الدَّرَجَةُ قَالَ أَمَا إِنَّهَا لَيْسَتْ بِعَتَبَةِ أُمِّكَ وَلَكِنْ مَا بَيْنَ الدَّرَجَتَيْنِ مِائَةُ عَامٍ

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Other narrations of this report

Sunan an-Nasa'i 3142Musnad Ahmad 17020Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 19730al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 4340

Narrators

1. 1
   Kaʿb b. Murrah al-Bahzī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Dhahabī said: died after the year 50 AH, also said: 57 AH, and Ibn Ḥibbān and Ibn Ḥajar stated it definitively, also said: 59 AH, and Ibn Abī Ḥātim and al-Mizzī stated it definitively
   كَعْب بْن مُرَّة البَهْزِيصحابي
   صريح في السماع
2. 2
   Shuraḥbīl b. al-Simṭ

   Ibn Saʿd affirmed that he came in a delegationd. the author of "Tārīkh Ḥimṣ" said: 36 AH. Abū Dāwūd said: he died at Ṣiffīn, Yazīd b. ʿAbd Rabbih said: 40 AH, others said: 42 AH. In Abū Nuʿaym's book "al-Ṣaḥābah": 63 AH
   شُرَحْبِيلَ بْنِ السِّمْطِجزم ابن سعد بأن له وفادة
   عن
3. 3
   Sālim b. Abī al-Jaʿd al-Ghaṭafānī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), but he used to narrate with omission of the Companion (irsāl) frequentlyd. 99 AH, Muṭayyan said: 100 AH, also said: 101 AH. Abū Nuʿaym said: 97 AH or 98 AH, and Ibn Ḥibbān said likewise in al-Thiqāt
   سَالِمِ بْنِ أَبِي الْجَعْدِثقة وكان يرسل كثيرا
   عن
4. 4
   ʿAmr b. Murrah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), devout; he did not practice concealment (tadlīs), and he was accused of Irjāʾd. 118 AH, also said: before it
   عَمْرِو بْنِ مُرَّةَثقة عابد كان لا يدلس ورمي بالإرجاء
   عن
5. 5
   al-Aʿmash

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AH
   الْأَعْمَشُثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلس
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Abū Muʿāwiyah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), the best memorizer of people for the hadith of al-Aʿmash, though he may err in the hadith of othersd. 194 AH, or 195 AH
   أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَثقة ، أحفظ الناس لحديث الأعمش ، وقد يهم في حديث غيره
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Abū Kurayb

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 248 AH. Also said: 247 AH, which is a mistake
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْعَلَاءِثقة حافظ
   أخبرنا
8. 8
   al-Nasāʾī

   the preserver (al-Ḥāfiẓ)d. 302 AH, or 303 AH
   النَّسَائِيُّالحافظ

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