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Fleeing On The Day Of The March

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Darussalam · Volume 3

15. The Book Of Jihād

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الحديث: 2646 ¦ الجزء: 3 ¦ الصفحة: 46

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2646. It was reported from 'Ikrimah, from Ibn 'Abbās who said: "When the following Verse was revealed: 'If there are twenty steadfast persons amongst you, they will overcome two hundred..., it became very difficult on the Muslims since Allāh decreed upon them, that one should not flee from ten. Then a lighter decree was revealed, He said: Now Allāh has lightened your (task). — (The narrator) Abū Tawbah recited it up to; 'They shall overcome two hundred,[1] — when Allāh lightened upon them the numbers, patience also decreased according to the number lightened from them." (Ṣaḥīḥ)

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2646 - حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو تَوْبَةَ الرَّبِيعُ بْنُ نَافِعٍ، حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ، عَنْ جَرِيرِ بْنِ حَازِمٍ، عَنِ الزُّبَيْرِ بْنِ خِرِّيتٍ، عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، قَالَ: " نَزَلَتْ {إِنْ يَكُنْ مِنْكُمْ عِشْرُونَ صَابِرُونَ يَغْلِبُوا مِائَتَيْنِ} فَشَقَّ ذَلِكَ عَلَى الْمُسْلِمِينَ حِينَ فَرَضَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِمْ أَنْ لَا يَفِرَّ وَاحِدٌ مِنْ عَشَرَةٍ، ثُمَّ إِنَّهُ جَاءَ تَخْفِيفٌ فَقَالَ: {الْآنَ خَفَّفَ اللَّهُ عَنْكُمْ} [الأنفال: 66]، قَرَأَ أَبُو تَوْبَةَ إِلَى قَوْلِهِ {يَغْلِبُوا مِائَتَيْنِ} ". قَالَ: «فَلَمَّا خَفَّفَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى عَنْهُمْ مِنَ العِدَّةِ نَقَصَ مِنَ الصَّبْرِ بِقَدْرِ مَا خَفَّفَ عَنْهُمْ»

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This indicates that according to these figures it is required to resist with persistence or allowed to retreat.