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Teaching boys swimming and fighters archery

suyuti:2-1298b – Abī Umāmah b. Sahl b. Ḥunayf

[AI] Umar wrote to Abu Ubaydah ibn al-Jarrah: Teach your boys swimming, and your fighters archery.

[AI] Ibn Wahb; [Ahmad] Ahmad and Ibn al-Jarud; al-Tahawi; [Ibn Hibban] Ibn Hibban; [al-Daraqutni] al-Daraqutni in al-Sunan; [al-Bayhaqi] al-Bayhaqi in al-Sunan.

السيوطي:٢-١٢٩٨b – عَنْ أَبِى أُمَامَةَ بنِ سهلِ بن حنيفٍ قالَ:

كَتَبَ عمرُ إِلَى أبِى عُبَيْدَةَ بْنِ الجراحِ: أَنْ عَلِّمُوا غِلمَانَكُمُ الْعَوْمَ ومُقَاتِلَتِكُمُ الرَّمْىَ.

ابن وهب، [حم] أحمد وابن الجارود، والطحاوى، [حب] ابن حبّان [قط] الدارقطنى في السنن [ق] البيهقى في السنن

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