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Qurʾān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn al-Adab al-Mufrad al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Bukhārī Muslim Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Nasāʾī Ibn Mājah Dārimī Aḥmad Mālik Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
suyuti:17679a –
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السيوطي:١٧٦٧٩a –

"لَنْ يجمَعَ اللهُ عَلَى هَذه الأمَّة سَيفينِ سَيفًا منْهَا وَسَيفًا منْ عَدُوِّهَا".

[د] أبو داود عن عوف بن مالك

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Collected by Abū Dāwūd, Aḥmad, Suyūṭī
abudawud:4301 – [Chain 1] ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. Najdah > Ismāʿīl [Chain 2] Hārūn b. ʿAbdullāh > al-Ḥasan b. Sawwār > Ismāʿīl > Sulaymān b. Sulaym > Yaḥyá b. Jābir al-Ṭāʾī

The Prophet ﷺ said: Allah will not gather two swords upon this community: Its own sword and the sword of its enemy.

أبو داود:٤٣٠١ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَهَّابِ بْنُ نَجْدَةَ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا هَارُونُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ حَدَّثَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ سَوَّارٍ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ حَدَّثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ سُلَيْمٍ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ جَابِرٍ الطَّائِيِّ قَالَ هَارُونُ فِي حَدِيثِهِ عَنْ عَوْفِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ لَنْ يَجْمَعَ اللَّهُ عَلَى هَذِهِ الأُمَّةِ سَيْفَيْنِ سَيْفًا مِنْهَا وَسَيْفًا مِنْ عَدُوِّهَا

ahmad:23989 – al-Ḥasan b. Sawwār Abū al-ʿAlāʾ > Ismāʿīl b. ʿAyyāsh > Sulaymān b. Sulaym > Yaḥyá b. Jābir > ʿAwf b. Mālik

The Prophet ﷺ said: Allah will not gather two swords upon this community: Its own sword and the sword of its enemy. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 4301)

أحمد:٢٣٩٨٩ – حَدَّثَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ سَوَّارٍ أَبُو الْعَلَاءِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍ عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ سُلَيْمٍ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ جَابِرٍ عَنْ عَوْفِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ

سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ لَنْ يَجْمَعَ اللهُ عَلَى هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ سَيْفَيْنِ سَيْفًا مِنْهَا وَسَيْفًا مِنْ عَدُوِّهَا