Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 2-1402b
"عن أَنس بن مالك أن عمرَ بن الخطاب سأله: إذا حاصرتم المدينة كيف تصنعون؟ قال: نبعث الرجل إلى المدينة ونَصنَع له هنتا من جلود، قال: أرأيت إن رمى بحجر؟ قال: إذا يُقتل، قال: فلا تفعلوا، فوالذى نفسى بيده ما يسرنى أن تفتحوا مدينة فيها أربعة آلاف مقاتل بتضييع رجلٍ مسلم".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Ans b. Mālk n ʿMr b. al-Khṭāb Sʾlh Dhā Ḥāṣrtm al-Mdynh Kyf Tṣnʿwn
Machine translation, not reviewed
"It is narrated from Anas ibn Malik that 'Umar ibn al-Khattab asked him: 'If you besiege a city, what do you do?' He said: 'We send a man towards the city and make for him a hunta of hides.' He said: 'Do you think that if he is struck by a stone?' He said: 'Then he is killed.' He said: 'Then do not do it. By Him in whose hand my soul is, I would not be pleased that you conquer a city in which there are four thousand fighters at the cost of the loss of one Muslim man.'"
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Notes
الشافعى، [ق] البيهقى في السنن
machine translationAl-Shāfiʿī; [Q] al-Bayhaqī in al-Sunan.
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