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ahmad:3855 – ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Mahdī > Sufyān > ʿĀṣim > Abū Wāʾil > ʿAbdullāh

[Machine] Indeed, the Prophet ﷺ said to a man, "If it were not for the fact that you are a messenger, I would have killed you."  

أحمد:٣٨٥٥ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مَهْدِيٍّ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ عَنْ عَاصِمٍ عَنْ أَبِي وَائِلٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ لِرَجُلٍ لَوْلَا أَنَّكَ رَسُولٌ لَقَتَلْتُكَ  

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Collected by Ibn Ḥibbān, Nasāʾī's Kubrá, Bayhaqī

ذِكْرُ الْإِخْبَارِ عَنِ الزَّجْرِ عَنْ قَتْلِ رُسُلِ الْكُفَّارِ إِذَا قَدِمُوا بُلْدَانَ الْإِسْلَامِ

ibnhibban:4878 – Aḥmad b. ʿAlī b. al-Muthanná > Muḥammad b. Abū Bakr al-Muqaddamī > Ibn Mahdī > Sufyān > ʿĀṣim > Abū Wāʾil > ʿAbdullāh

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "If it were not for the fact that you are a messenger, I would have killed you," meaning the messenger of Musaylimah.  

ابن حبّان:٤٨٧٨ – أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْمُثَنَّى حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الْمُقَدَّمِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ مَهْدِيٍّ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ عَنْ عَاصِمٍ عَنْ أَبِي وَائِلٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ «لَوْلَا أَنَّكَ رَسُولٌ لَقَتَلْتُكَ» يَعْنِي رَسُولَ مُسَيْلِمَةَ  

nasai-kubra:8623 – ʿUbaydullāh b. Saʿīd > ʿAbd al-Raḥman > Sufyān > ʿĀṣim > Abū Wāʾil > ʿAbdullāh

[Machine] "The Prophet ﷺ said, 'If it weren't for the fact that you are a messenger, meaning a messenger of Musaylimah, I would have killed you.'"  

الكبرى للنسائي:٨٦٢٣ – أَخْبَرَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللهِ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ عَاصِمٍ عَنْ أَبِي وَائِلٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ «لَوْلَا أَنَّكَ رَسُولٌ يَعْنِي رَسُولًا لمُسَيْلِمَةَ لَقَتَلْتُكَ»  

bayhaqi:18778 – Abū Ṭāhir al-Faqīh > Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn al-Qaṭṭān > Muḥammad b. Yaḥyá > Abū ʿĀṣim > Sufyān > ʿĀṣim > Abū Wāʾil > ʿAbdullāh

[Machine] "That the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to Ibn Nawwaha, 'If it were not for the fact that you are a Messenger, I would have killed you.'"  

البيهقي:١٨٧٧٨ – أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو طَاهِرٍ الْفَقِيهُ أنبأ أَبُو بَكْرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ الْقَطَّانُ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى ثنا أَبُو عَاصِمٍ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ عَنْ عَاصِمٍ عَنْ أَبِي وَائِلٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ ؓ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ لِابْنِ النَّوَّاحَةِ لَوْلَا أَنَّكَ رَسُولٌ لَقَتَلْتُكَ