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nasai-kubra:8161Muḥammad b. al-Muthanná > Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd > Ismāʿīl > Qays > Saʿd b. Mālik

"I heard Sa'd bin Abu Waqqas say: 'I am the first of the Arabs to shoot an arrow in the cause of Allah.'" (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 131)   

الكبرى للنسائي:٨١٦١أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا قَيْسٌ قَالَ

سَمِعْتُ سَعْدَ بْنَ مَالِكٍ يَقُولُ «إِنِّي لَأَوَّلُ الْعَرَبِ رَمَى بِسَهْمٍ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ»  


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ibnmajah:131ʿAlī b. Muḥammad > ʿAbdullāh b. Idrīs And Khālī Yaʿlá Wawakīʿ > Ismāʿīl > Qays > Saʿd b. Abū Waqqāṣ

"I heard Sa'd bin Abu Waqqas say: 'I am the first of the Arabs to shoot an arrow in the cause of Allah.'"  

ابن ماجة:١٣١حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ إِدْرِيسَ وَخَالِي يَعْلَى وَوَكِيعٌ عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ عَنْ قَيْسٍ قَالَ

سَمِعْتُ سَعْدَ بْنَ أَبِي وَقَّاصٍ يَقُولُ إِنِّي لأَوَّلُ الْعَرَبِ رَمَى بِسَهْمٍ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ