Sunan an-Nasa'i 3971

Translation

"The Messenger of Allah [SAW] said: 'I have been commanded to fight the people until they say La ilaha illallah. If they say it then their blood and their wealth are safe from me, except for a right that is due, and their reckoning will be with Allah.' When the people apostatized, 'Umar said to Abu Bakr: 'Will you fight them when you heard the Messenger of Allah [SAW] say such and such?' He said: 'By Allah, I do not separate Salah and Zakah, and I will fight whoever separates them.' So we fought alongside him, and we realized that that was the right thing."

Notes

• قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ سُفْيَانُ فِي الزُّهْرِيِّ لَيْسَ بِالْقَوِيِّ وَهُوَ سُفْيَانُ بْنُ حُسَيْنٍ

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• Aḥmad ibn Shuʿayb al-Nasāʾī

  سفيان في الزهري ليس بالقوي وهو سفيان بن حسين

  in سنن النسائي, p. 3981
• Dāraquṭnī

  يرويه الزهري واختلف عنه فممن رواه عنه على الصواب شعيب بن أبي حمزة ويحيى بن سعيد الأنصاري ومحمد بن الوليد الزبيدي ويونس وعقيل وعبد الرحمن بن خالد ابن مسافر والنعمان بن راشد وسفيان بن حسين وسليمان بن كثير ومحمد بن إسحاق وجعفر بن برقان وعبد الرحمن بن يزيد بن تميم فرووه عن الزهري عن عبيد الله بن عبد الله بن عتبة عن أبي هريرة قال قال عمر لأبي بكر واختلف عن سفيان بن حسين فأسنده عنه محمد بن يزيد الواسطي عن الزهري عن عبيد الله عن أبي هريرة وأرسله يزيد بن هارون فأسقط منه أبا هريرة ورواه معمر بن راشد واختلف عنه فأسنده رباح بن زيد عن معمر عن الزهري عن عبيد الله عن أبي هريرة بمتابعة من تقدم حديثه وأرسله عبد الرزاق عن معمر عن الزهري عن عبيد الله لم يذكر أبا هريرة ورواه عمران القطان عن معمر وقال عن الزهري عن أنس بن مالك عن أبي بكر ووهم فيه على معمر ورواه يحيى بن أبي أنيسة عن الزهري عن سعيد بن المسيب عن أبي هريرة عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم ووهم أيضا في ذكر سعيد ورواه صالح بن أبي الأخضر فقال عن الزهري عن سعيد وأبي سلمة عن أبي هريرة ورواه الوليد بن مسلم عن شعيب ومرزوق بن أبي الهذيل وسفيان بن عيينة عن الزهري عن سعيد عن أبي هريرة ووهم فيه على شعيب وعلي ابن عيينة لأن شعيبا يرويه عن الزهري عن عبيد الله عن أبي هريرة وابن عيينة يرويه عن الزهري مرسلا لا يذكر فوقه أحدا والقول الأول هو الصواب

  machine translationAl-Zuhrī narrates it, and there is disagreement about him. Among those who narrated it from him correctly are Shuʿayb b. Abī Ḥamzah, Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd al-Anṣārī, Muḥammad b. al-Walīd al-Zubaydī, Yūnus, ʿUqayl, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Khālid b. Musāfir, al-Nuʿmān b. Rāshid, Sufyān b. Ḥusayn, Sulaymān b. Kathīr, Muḥammad b. Isḥāq, Jaʿfar b. Burqān and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Yazīd b. Tamīm. They narrated it from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUtbah, from Abū Hurayrah, who said: ʿUmar said to Abū Bakr. There is disagreement about Sufyān b. Ḥusayn: Muḥammad b. Yazīd al-Wāsiṭī narrated it from him as connected (musnad), from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUbaydullāh, from Abū Hurayrah, while Yazīd b. Hārūn narrated it as mursal, omitting Abū Hurayrah. Maʿmar b. Rāshid also narrated it, and there is disagreement about him: Rabāḥ b. Zayd narrated it as connected from Maʿmar, from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUbaydullāh, from Abū Hurayrah, in agreement with those mentioned before, but ʿAbd al-Razzāq narrated it as mursal from Maʿmar, from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUbaydullāh, without mentioning Abū Hurayrah. ʿImrān al-Qaṭṭān narrated it from Maʿmar and said: from al-Zuhrī, from Anas b. Mālik, from Abū Bakr, and he erred in this regarding Maʿmar. Yaḥyā b. Abī Unaysah narrated it from al-Zuhrī, from Saʿīd b. al-Musayyab, from Abū Hurayrah, from the Prophet ﷺ, and he also erred in mentioning Saʿīd. Ṣāliḥ b. Abī al-Akhḍar narrated it and said: from al-Zuhrī, from Saʿīd and Abū Salamah, from Abū Hurayrah. Al-Walīd b. Muslim narrated it from Shuʿayb, and Marzūq b. Abī al-Hudhayl and Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah from al-Zuhrī, from Saʿīd, from Abū Hurayrah, and he erred in this regarding Shuʿayb and Ibn ʿUyaynah, because Shuʿayb narrates it from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUbaydullāh, from Abū Hurayrah, and Ibn ʿUyaynah narrates it from al-Zuhrī as mursal, mentioning no one above him. The first view is the correct one. Report a problem

  in سنن النسائي, p. 3981

Other narrations of this report

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Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Hurayrah al-Dawsī

   The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
   أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
   عن
2. 2
   ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUtbah b. Masʿūd

   trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), firmly reliable (thabt)d. al-Bukhārī said: died before ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn, 94 AH or 95 AH, and Ibn Numayr said, and others: died 98 AH, Ibn al-Madīnī said: 99 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said: that ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn died 92 AH
   عُبَيْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عُتْبَةَثقة فقيه ثبت
   عن
3. 3
   al-Zuhrī

   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 AH
   الزُّهْرِيِّالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبته
   عن
4. 4
   Sufyān b. Ḥusayn

   Trustworthy (thiqah) in narrations other than those from al-Zuhrī, by their agreementd. Ibn Saʿd said: during the caliphate of al-Mahdī; Ibn Khirāsh said: during the time of al-Mahdī; and Ibn Ḥibbān said: during the rule of Hārūn
   سُفْيَانُثقة في غير الزهري باتفاقهم
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Muḥammad b. Yazīd

   trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), devout (ʿābid)d. Ibn Ḥibbān and others said: 188 AH. He said elsewhere: 190 AH, also said: 189 AH. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥaḍramī said: 191 AH. Also said: 192 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَزِيدَثقة ثبت عابد
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Ziyād b. Ayyūb

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 252 AH
   زِيَادُ بْنُ أَيُّوبَثقة حافظ
   أخبرنا
7. 7
   al-Nasāʾī

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

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