Jami' at-Tirmidhi 1675
What Has Been Related About The Permission To Lie And Be Deceitful In War
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حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنِيعٍ وَنَصْرُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ دِينَارٍ سَمِعَ جَابِرَ بْنَ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ يَقُولُ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
الْحَرْبُ خُدْعَةٌ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad b. Manīʿ and Naṣr b. ʿAlī
- Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah
- ʿAmr b. Dīnār
- Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
That the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "War is deceit."
Notes
[Abu 'Eisa said:] There are narrations on this topic from 'Ali, Zaid bin Thabit, 'Aishah, Ibn 'Abbas, Abu Hurairah, Asma' bint Yazid bin As-Sakan, Ka'b bin Malik and Anas bin Malik. This Hadith is Hasan Sahih.
قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى وَفِي الْبَابِ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ وَزَيْدِ بْنِ ثَابِتٍ وَعَائِشَةَ وَابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ وَأَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ وَأَسْمَاءَ بِنْتِ يَزِيدَ بْنِ السَّكَنِ وَكَعْبِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ وَأَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ وَهَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Sound | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Ahmad Muhammad Shakir | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Bashar Awad Maarouf | Hasan Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- al-Tirmidhi
حديث حسن صحيح
machine translationA good and sound (ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ) hadith.
in جامع الترمذي, p. 1788
Same hadith, other wordings
- Arba'in Dahlawi 2الْحَرْبُ خُدَعَةٌ
- Arba'in 2الْحَرْبُ خُدَعَةٌ
- Sunan Abu Dawud 2636الْحَرْبُ خُدْعَةٌ
- Shahih al-Bukhari 3030الْحَرْبُ خُدْعَةٌ
- Misykatul Mashabih 3939وَعَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسلم: «الْحَرْب خدعة»
- Shahih Muslim 1739الْحَرْبُ خَدْعَةٌ
- Shahih Muslim 1740الْحَرْبُ خُدْعَةٌ
Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 27597Musnad Ahmad 912Sahih Ibn Hibban 3370al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 17171al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 18519Musnad al-Bazzar 514
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in some reports from them: 68 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 72 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī in another report: 73 AH. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān said: 77 AH. Abū ʿAwn al-Madanī and others said: 78 AH. Abū Nuʿaym and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in another report said: 79 AHجَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابيسمع
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 125 AH, or 126 AH, or 129 AH, also said: 116 AHعَمْرِو بْنِ دِينَارٍثقة ثبتعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an imam and a proof (ḥujjah), except that his memory changed towards the end of his life; he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), but only from trustworthy narrators.d. 197 AH or 198 AHسُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَثقة حافظ فقيه , إمام حجة إلا أنه تغير حفظه بأخرة , وكان ربما دلس لكن عن الثقاتحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 244 AH, or 243 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنِيعٍثقة حافظحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 279 AH, in Ikmāl al-Tahdhīb: 275 AHالتِّرْمِذِيُّثقة حافظ
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