Jihad & Military Expeditions

Sahih Muslim

The Book on Government

Another version of the tradition narrated on the same authority attributes the same words to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) except that it replaces kariha with ankhara and vice versa.

Sahih Muslim

The Book on Government

Another version omits a portion at the end of the tradition-a portion which begins with man radiya wa taba and ends with the last word of the tradition.

Sahih Muslim

The Book on Government

The best of your rulers are those whom you love and who love you, who invoke God's blessings upon you and you invoke His blessings upon them. And the worst of your rulers are those whom you hate and who...

Sahih Muslim

The Book on Government

The best of your rulers are those whom you love and who love you, upon whom you invoke God's blessings and who invoke His blessing upon you. And the worst of your rulers are those whom you hate and who...

Sahih Muslim

The Book on Government

The above hadith has been narrated through addtional chains of transmitters.

Sahih Muslim

The Book on Government

We were one thousand and four hundred on the Day of Hudaibiya. We swore fealty to hiin (the Holy Prophet) and 'Umar was holding the latter's hand (when he was sitting) under the tree (called) Samura (to administer the oath...

Sahih Muslim

The Book on Government

While swearing fealty to the Prophet (ﷺ) we did not take the oath to death but that we would not run away (from the battlefield).

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The Book on Government

We were fourteen hundred. We swore fealty to him, and Umar was holding his hand while he was sitting under the tree (to administer the oath). The tree was a samura (a wild tree found in deserts). All of as...

Sahih Muslim

The Book on Government

No! But he offered his prayers at that place, and he administered the oath of fealty nowhere except near the tree in (the plain oo Hudaibiya. Ibn Juraij said that he was informed by Abu Zabair who heard Jabir b....

Sahih Muslim

The Book on Government

We were one thousand and four hundred on the Day of Hudaibiya when the Prophet (ﷺ) said to us: Today you are the best people on the earth. And Jabir said: If I had the eyesight, I could show you...

Sahih Muslim

The Book on Government

I asked Jabir b. 'Abdullah about the number of the Companions (of the Prophet who took the oath of fealty under) the tree. He said: If we were a hundred thousand, it (i. e. the water in the well at...

Sahih Muslim

The Book on Government

If we had been a hundred thousand in number, it (the water) would have sufficed us, but actually we were fifteen hundred.

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The Book on Government

I asked Jabir: How many were you on the Day of Hudaibiya? He said: One thousand and four hundred.

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The Book on Government

The Companions of the Tree (i e. those who swore fealty under the tree) were one thousand and three hundred, and the people of Aslam tribe were one-eighth of the Muhajirs.

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The Book on Government

The same tradition has been handed down through a different chain of transmitters.

Sahih Muslim

The Book on Government

I remember being present on the Day of the Tree, and the Prophet (ﷺ) was taking the oath of the people and I was holding a twig of the tree over his head. We were fourteen hundred (in number). We...

Sahih Muslim

The Book on Government

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Yunus with the same chain of transmitters.

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The Book on Government

My father was one of those who swore fealty to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) near the tree. When we passed that way next year intending to perform the Hajj, the place of the tree was hidden to us. If...

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The Book on Government

I had seen the tree. When I came to the spot afterwards, I could not recognise it.

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The Book on Government

1 asked Salama as to what effect he had sworn fealty to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) on the Day of Hudaibiya. He said: To the effect that we will die fighting.