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2203. 'Udaisah bint Uhbān bin Ṣafī Al-Ghifārī said: "Alī bin Abī Tālīb came to my father to call him to go out (to fight) with him. My father said to him: 'Indeed my
beloved, the son of your paternal uncle, made a covenant with me, that when the people differ, to take a sword of wood. So I have resigned it, if you wish I will take it out with you.' She said: 'So he left him.'" (Hasan)
[Abū 'Eisā said:] There is something on this topic from Muḥammad bin Maslamah, and this Hadīth is Hasan Gharīb, we do not know of it except as a narration of 'Umar bin 'Ubaid.
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Commentary
To recommend a wooden sword is to exhort the addressee to keep away from Fitnah (conflict) between the Muslims, and the best course in the situation is not to take part in it.
