Sahih al-Bukhari 6943
Whoever preferred to be beaten killed and humiliated rather than to revert to Kufr
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حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ حَدَّثَنَا قَيْسٌ عَنْ خَبَّابِ بْنِ الأَرَتِّ قَالَ
شَكَوْنَا إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ وَهْوَ مُتَوَسِّدٌ بُرْدَةً لَهُ فِي ظِلِّ الْكَعْبَةِ فَقُلْنَا: أَلاَ تَسْتَنْصِرُ لَنَا أَلاَ تَدْعُو لَنَا؟ فَقَالَ: «قَدْ كَانَ مَنْ قَبْلَكُمْ يُؤْخَذُ الرَّجُلُ فَيُحْفَرُ لَهُ فِي الأَرْضِ فَيُجْعَلُ فِيهَا، فَيُجَاءُ بِالْمِنْشَارِ فَيُوضَعُ عَلَى رَأْسِهِ فَيُجْعَلُ نِصْفَيْنِ، وَيُمَشَّطُ بِأَمْشَاطِ الْحَدِيدِ مَا دُونَ لَحْمِهِ وَعَظْمِهِ، فَمَا يَصُدُّهُ ذَلِكَ عَنْ دِينِهِ»، «وَاللَّهِ! لَيَتِمَّنَّ هَذَا الأَمْرُ حَتَّى يَسِيرَ الرَّاكِبُ مِنْ صَنْعَاءَ إِلَى حَضْرَمَوْتَ، لاَ يَخَافُ إِلاَّ اللَّهَ وَالذِّئْبَ عَلَى غَنَمِهِ، وَلَكِنَّكُمْ تَسْتَعْجِلُونَ».
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Musaddad
- Yaḥyá
- Ismāʿīl
- Qays
- Khabbāb b. al-Arat
We complained to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ ˹about our state˺ while he was leaning in the shade of the Kaʿbah. We said, "Will you ask Allah to help us? Will you invoke Allah for us?" He said, "Among those who were before you a ˹believer˺ used to be seized and, a pit used to be dug for him and then he used to be placed in it. Then a saw used to be brought and put on his head which would be split into two halves. His flesh might be combed with iron combs and removed from his bones, yet, all that did not cause him to revert from his religion." "By Allah! This religion will be completed ˹and triumph˺ until a rider goes from Sana to Hadramout fearing nobody except Allah and the wolf lest it should trouble his sheep. But you are hasty."
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Other narrations of this report
Sahih al-Bukhari 3612Sahih al-Bukhari 3852Sunan Abi Dawud 2649Sunan an-Nasa'i 5320Musnad Ahmad 21057
Narrators
- among the first to embrace Islam, and he was tortured for the sake of Allah, and he was present at Badrd. 37 AH, also said: 19 AH, also said: 39 AHخَبَّاب بْن الأَرَتّ التَّمِيمِيّمن السابقين إلى الإسلام ، وكان يعذب في الله ، وشهد بدراعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 84 AH, or: 86 AH, or: 97 AH, or: 98 AHقَيْسٌثقةحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 136 AH, or 145 AH, or 146 AH, or 148 AHإِسْمَاعِيلَثقة ثبتعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam and exemplar (qudwah)d. 198 AHيَحْيَىثقة متقن حافظ ، إمام قدوةحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 228 AHمُسَدَّدٌثقة حافظحدثنا
- a mountain of memorization and the leader of the world in the comprehension of hadith (jabal al-ḥifẓ wa-imām al-dunyā fī fiqh al-ḥadīth)d. 256 AHالْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث
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Commentaries
Sharḥ Riyad al-Salihin (Ibn al-ʿUthaymin)
Dalīl al-Fāliḥīn (Ibn ʿAllān)
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)
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