[Machine] Regarding the killing of infants and whether women used to participate in war with the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ , and whether he used to strike them with an arrow, Yazid ibn Hurmuz said, "I wrote a letter from Ibn Abbas to Najda, and he replied to me. You ask me about the killing of infants and say that the scholar, the companion of Moses, killed a boy. If you knew about infants what that scholar knew, you would have killed them. But you do not know, so avoid killing them, for indeed the Messenger of Allah ﷺ prohibited killing them. You also asked me about women. Did they used to participate in war with the Prophet ﷺ and whether he used to strike them with an arrow? Women used to indeed participate with the Prophet ﷺ . As for striking them with an arrow, he did not do so, and he used to be lenient with them."  

عَنْ قَتْلِ الْوِلْدَانِ وَهَلْ كُنَّ النِّسَاءُ يَحْضُرْنَ الْحَرْبَ مَعَ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ؟ وَهَلْ كَانَ يَضْرِبُ لَهُنَّ بِسَهْمٍ؟ قَالَ يَزِيدُ بْنُ هُرْمُزَ وَأَنَا كَتَبْتُ كِتَابَ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ إِلَى نَجْدَةَ كَتَبَ إِلَيْهِ كَتَبْتَ تَسْأَلُنِي عَنْ قَتْلِ الْوِلْدَانِ وَتَقُولُ إِنَّ الْعَالِمَ صَاحِبَ مُوسَى قَدْ قَتَلَ الْغُلَامَ فَلَوْ كُنْتَ تَعْلَمُ مِنَ الْوِلْدَانِ مِثْلَ مَا كَانَ يَعْلَمُ ذَلِكَ الْعَالِمُ قَتَلْتَ وَلَكِنَّكَ لَا تَعْلَمُ فَاجْتَنِبْهُمْ فَإِنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَدْ نَهَى عَنْ قَتْلِهِمْ وَكَتَبْتَ تَسْأَلُنِي عَنِ النِّسَاءِ هَلْ كُنَّ يَحْضُرْنَ الْحَرْبَ مَعَ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ؟ وَهَلْ كَانَ يَضْرِبُ لَهُنَّ بِسَهْمٍ؟ وَقَدْ كُنَّ يَحْضُرْنَ مَعَ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ فَأَمَّا أَنْ يَضْرِبَ لَهُنَّ بِسَهْمٍ فَلَمْ يَفْعَلْ وَقَدْ كَانَ يَرْضَخُ لَهُنَّ