Hadith 7085

Whoever disliked to increase the number of (those people who practise) Al-Fitan (trials and afflictions) and oppressions (against the believers).

English source

Darussalam · Volume 9

92 - THE BOOK OF AL-FITAN(Trials and afflictions)

Sahih al-Bukhari Darussalam English translation

Arabic source

Shamela Arabic edition

الحديث: 7085 ¦ الجزء: 9 ¦ الصفحة: 52

DarussalamNot foundAl-AlbaniNot found

View bookmarks

Select a passage to highlight it. Click or tap a highlight to remove it.

English translation

7085. Narrated Abū Al-Aswad: An army unit was being recruited from the people of Al-Madina(1) and my name was written among them. Then I met 'Ikrima, and when I informed him about it, he discouraged me very strongly and said, "Ibn 'Abbās told me that there were some Muslims who were with Al-Mushrikūn (polytheists, pagans, idolaters and disbelievers in the Oneness Allāh and His Messenger Muhammad ﷺ) to increase their number against Allāh's Messenger ﷺ (and the Muslim army)(2) So, arrows (from the Muslim army) would hit one of them and kill him or a Muslim would strike him (with his sword) and kill him. So Allāh revealed: 'Verily! As for those whom the angels take (in death) while they are wronging themselves (as they stayed among the disbelievers, even though emigration was obligatory on them), they (angels) say to them: "In what (condition) were you?" They reply: "We were weak and oppressed on the earth." They (angels) say: "Was not the earth of Allāh spacious enough for you to emigrate therein?" Such men will find their abode in Hell — What an evil destination! ...'" (V.4:97) (See H. 4596)

Arabic text

7085 - حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ يَزِيدَ، حَدَّثَنَا حَيْوَةُ، وَغَيْرُهُ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الأَسْوَدِ، وَقَالَ اللَّيْثُ: عَنْ أَبِي الأَسْوَدِ، قَالَ: قُطِعَ عَلَى أَهْلِ المَدِينَةِ بَعْثٌ، فَاكْتُتِبْتُ فِيهِ، فَلَقِيتُ عِكْرِمَةَ، - فَأَخْبَرْتُهُ فَنَهَانِي أَشَدَّ النَّهْيِ ثُمَّ - قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنِي ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ: " أَنَّ أُنَاسًا مِنَ المُسْلِمِينَ كَانُوا مَعَ المُشْرِكِينَ، يُكَثِّرُونَ سَوَادَ المُشْرِكِينَ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، فَيَأْتِي السَّهْمُ فَيُرْمَى فَيُصِيبُ أَحَدَهُمْ فَيَقْتُلُهُ، أَوْ يَضْرِبُهُ فَيَقْتُلُهُ، فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى: {إِنَّ الَّذِينَ تَوَفَّاهُمُ المَلاَئِكَةُ ظَالِمِي أَنْفُسِهِمْ} [النساء: 97] "

My commentary

Personal notes

Your commentary saves automatically in this browser, separate from the published commentary. It stays private unless you include it in a shared study file.

Footnotes

1
(1) (H.7085) To fight the people of Shām.
2
(2) (H.7085) Some of those who had embraced Islām stayed in Makkah after the emigration of the Prophet ﷺ to Al-Madīna. When the Makkah Mushrikūn came out to fight the Muslims of Al-Madīna, some of the Muslims of Makkah came out with them, not to fight but to mislead them. It happened that some of these were killed by the Muslim army and they died with the sin (by staying among the disbelievers).