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tabarani:11159 – Muḥammad b. al-Faḍl al-Saqaṭī > Abū Kāmil al-Jaḥdarī > ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Ziyād > Ibn Abū Najīḥ > Mujāhid > Ibn ʿAbbās

[Machine] The Prophet ﷺ did not fight a people until he invited them.  

الطبراني:١١١٥٩ – حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْفَضْلِ السَّقَطِيُّ ثنا أَبُو كَامِلٍ الْجَحْدَرِيُّ ثنا عَبْدُ الْوَاحِدِ بْنُ زِيَادٍ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي نَجِيحٍ عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ

كَانَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ «لَا يُقَاتِلُ قَوْمًا حَتَّى يَدْعُوَهُمْ»  

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ahmad:2053 – Ḥafṣ b. Ghiyāth > Ḥajjāj b. Arṭāh > Ibn Abū Najīḥ from his father > Ibn ʿAbbās

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ did not fight any people until he called them.  

أحمد:٢٠٥٣ – حَدَّثَنَا حَفْصُ بْنُ غِيَاثٍ حَدَّثَنَا حَجَّاجُ بْنُ أَرْطَاةَ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي نَجِيحٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ

مَا قَاتَلَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ قَوْمًا حَتَّى يَدْعُوَهُمْ  

bayhaqi:18232 – [Chain 1] Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥāfiẓ > Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb > Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbd al-Ḥakam > Ibn Wahb > Sufyān al-Thawrī [Chain 2] Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. ʿAbdān > Abū al-Qāsim Sulaymān b. Aḥmad al-Ṭabarānī > Muʿādh b. al-Muthanná And Yūsuf al-Qāḍī > Ibn Kathīr > Sufyān > Ibn Abū Najīḥ from his father > Ibn ʿAbbās

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ never fought a people until he invited them.  

البيهقي:١٨٢٣٢ – أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ ثنا أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْحَكَمِ أنبأ ابْنُ وَهْبٍ أَخْبَرَنِي سُفْيَانُ الثَّوْرِيُّ ح وَأَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو الْحَسَنِ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ عَبْدَانَ أنبأ أَبُو الْقَاسِمِ سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ الطَّبَرَانِيُّ ثنا مُعَاذُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى وَيُوسُفُ الْقَاضِي قَالَا ثنا ابْنُ كَثِيرٍ ثنا سُفْيَانُ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي نَجِيحٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ ؓ قَالَ

مَا قَاتَلَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ قَوْمًا قَطُّ حَتَّى يَدْعُوَهُمْ