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muslim:1856f – Muḥammad b. al-Muthanná And Ibn Bashhār > Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar > Shuʿbah > ʿAmr b. Murrah > Sālim b. Abū al-Jaʿd > Saʾalt Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh > Aṣḥāb al-Shajarah

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 Hudaibiya) would have sufficed us, but actually we were one thousand and five hundred.  

مسلم:١٨٥٦f – وَحَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى وَابْنُ بَشَّارٍ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مُرَّةَ عَنْ سَالِمِ بْنِ أَبِي الْجَعْدِ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ جَابِرَ بْنَ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ أَصْحَابِ الشَّجَرَةِ فَقَالَ

لَوْ كُنَّا مِائَةَ أَلْفٍ لَكَفَانَا كُنَّا أَلْفًا وَخَمْسَمِائَةٍ  

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muslim:1856g – [Chain 1] Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah And Ibn Numayr > ʿAbdullāh b. Idrīs [Chain 2] Rifāʿah b. al-Haytham > Khālid / al-Ṭaḥḥān > Ḥuṣayn > Sālim b. Abū al-Jaʿd > Jābir

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

مسلم:١٨٥٦g – وَحَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ وَابْنُ نُمَيْرٍ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ إِدْرِيسَ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا رِفَاعَةُ بْنُ الْهَيْثَمِ حَدَّثَنَا خَالِدٌ يَعْنِي الطَّحَّانَ كِلاَهُمَا يَقُولُ عَنْ حُصَيْنٍ عَنْ سَالِمِ بْنِ أَبِي الْجَعْدِ عَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ

لَوْ كُنَّا مِائَةَ أَلْفٍ لَكَفَانَا كُنَّا خَمْسَ عَشْرَةَ مِائَةً  

ahmad:14181 – Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar > Shuʿbah > ʿAmr b. Murrah > Sālim b. Abū al-Jaʿd > Saʾalt Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh > Aṣḥāb al-Shajarah

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 Hudaibiya) would have sufficed us, but actually we were one thousand and five hundred. (Using translation from Muslim 1856f)  

أحمد:١٤١٨١ – حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مُرَّةَ عَنْ سَالِمِ بْنِ أَبِي الْجَعْدِ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ جَابِرَ بْنَ عَبْدِ اللهِ عَنْ أَصْحَابِ الشَّجَرَةِ قَالَ فَقَالَ

لَوْ كُنَّا مِائَةَ أَلْفٍ لَكَفَانَا كُنَّا أَلْفًا وَخَمْسَ مِائَةٍ