56. Jihạd (Fighting for the Cause of Allah)

٥٦۔ كتاب الجهاد والسير

56.24 Bravery and cowardice in the battle

٥٦۔٢٤ باب الشَّجَاعَةِ فِي الْحَرْبِ وَالْجُبْنِ

bukhari:2820Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-Malik b. Wāqid > Ḥammād b. Zayd > Thābit > Anas

The Prophet ﷺ was the best, the bravest and the most generous of all the people. Once when the people of Medina got frightened, the Prophet ﷺ rode a horse and went ahead of them and said, "We found this horse very fast."  

البخاري:٢٨٢٠حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ وَاقِدٍ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ عَنْ ثَابِتٍ عَنْ أَنَسٍ ؓ قَالَ

كَانَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ أَحْسَنَ النَّاسِ وَأَشْجَعَ النَّاسِ وَأَجْوَدَ النَّاسِ وَلَقَدْ فَزِعَ أَهْلُ الْمَدِينَةِ فَكَانَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ سَبَقَهُمْ عَلَى فَرَسٍ وَقَالَ وَجَدْنَاهُ بَحْرًا  

bukhari:2821Abū al-Yamān > Shuʿayb > al-Zuhrī > ʿUmar b. Muḥammad b. Jubayr b. Muṭʿim > Muḥammad b. Jubayr > Jubayr b. Muṭʿim

Jubair bin Mutʿim told me that while he was in the company of Messenger of Allah ﷺ with the people returning from Hunain, some people (bedouins) caught hold of the Prophet ﷺ and started begging of him so much so that he had to stand under a (kind of thorny tree (i.e. Samurah) and his cloak was snatched away. The Prophet ﷺ stopped and said, "Give me my cloak. If I had as many camels as these thorny trees, I would have distributed them amongst you and you will not find me a miser or a liar or a coward."  

البخاري:٢٨٢١حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْيَمَانِ أَخْبَرَنَا شُعَيْبٌ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي عُمَرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرِ بْنِ مُطْعِمٍ أَنَّ مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ جُبَيْرٍ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي جُبَيْرُ بْنُ مُطْعِمٍ

أَنَّهُ بَيْنَمَا هُوَ يَسِيرُ مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ وَمَعَهُ النَّاسُ مَقْفَلَهُ مِنْ حُنَيْنٍ فَعَلِقَهُ النَّاسُ يَسْأَلُونَهُ حَتَّى اضْطَرُّوهُ إِلَى سَمُرَةٍ فَخَطِفَتْ رِدَاءَهُ فَوَقَفَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ فَقَالَ أَعْطُونِي رِدَائِي لَوْ كَانَ لِي عَدَدُ هَذِهِ الْعِضَاهِ نَعَمًا لَقَسَمْتُهُ بَيْنَكُمْ ثُمَّ لاَ تَجِدُونِي بَخِيلاً وَلاَ كَذُوبًا وَلاَ جَبَانًا