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suyuti:165-57bJābir > Kunnā
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" عَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ: كُنَّا يَوْمَ الْحُديْبِيَةِ أَلْفًا وَأرْبَعَ مِائَةٍ، فَقَالَ لَنَا رَسُولُ الله ﷺ : أَنْتُمُ الْيَوْمَ خَيْرُ أَهْلِ الأَرْضِ ".  

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Collected by Bukhārī, Aḥmad, Suyūṭī
bukhari:4840Qutaybah b. Saʿīd > Sufyān > ʿAmr > Jābir

We were one thousand and four hundred on the Day of Al-Hudaibiya.  

البخاري:٤٨٤٠حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ عَمْرٍو عَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ

كُنَّا يَوْمَ الْحُدَيْبِيَةِ أَلْفًا وَأَرْبَعَمِائَةٍ  

bukhari:4154ʿAlī > Sufyān > ʿAmr > Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh

On the day of Al-Hudaibiya, Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to us' "You are the best people on the earth!" We were 1400 then. If I could see now, I would have shown you the place of the Tree (beneath which we gave the Pledge of Allegiance)." Salim said, "Our number was 1400."  

البخاري:٤١٥٤حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيٌّ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ قَالَ عَمْرٌو سَمِعْتُ جَابِرَ بْنَ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ؓ قَالَ قَالَ

لَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَوْمَ الْحُدَيْبِيَةِ أَنْتُمْ خَيْرُ أَهْلِ الأَرْضِ وَكُنَّا أَلْفًا وَأَرْبَعَمِائَةٍ وَلَوْ كُنْتُ أُبْصِرُ الْيَوْمَ لأَرَيْتُكُمْ مَكَانَ الشَّجَرَةِ  

تَابَعَهُ الأَعْمَشُ سَمِعَ سَالِمًا سَمِعَ جَابِرًا أَلْفًا وَأَرْبَعَمِائَةٍ
ahmad:14313Sufyān > ʿAmr > Jābir

We were one thousand and four hundred on the Day of Al-Hudaibiya. (Using translation from Bukhārī 4840)  

أحمد:١٤٣١٣حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ عَمْرٍو سَمِعْتُ جَابِرًا قَالَ

كُنَّا يَوْمَ الْحُدَيْبِيَةِ أَلْفًا وَأَرْبَعَ مِائَةٍ فَقَالَ لَنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ أَنْتُمُ الْيَوْمَ خَيْرُ أَهْلِ الْأَرْضِ