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tabarani:18943 – Abū Khalīfah al-Faḍl b. al-Ḥubāb > Ibrāhīm b. Bashhār al-Ramādī > Sufyān > Ibn Jurayj > ʿAṭāʾ > Ṣafwān b. Yaʿlá from his father

[Machine] I participated in the Battle of Tabuk with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ , alongside Abu Bakr As-Siddiq. This battle was one of my greatest achievements, and I hired a helper to fight alongside me. During the battle, my helper got into a fight with another man and he bit his hand, causing him to lose his two fingers. The injured man then complained to the Prophet ﷺ about what happened. The Prophet ﷺ dismissed the complaint and said, "Would you want your hand to make him suffer by biting it like a stallion bites?"  

الطبراني:١٨٩٤٣ – حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو خَلِيفَةَ الْفَضْلُ بْنُ الْحُبَابِ ثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ الرَّمَادِيُّ ثَنَا سُفْيَانُ ثَنَا ابْنُ جُرَيْجٍ عَنْ عَطَاءٍ عَنْ صَفْوَانَ بْنِ يَعْلَى عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

غَزَوْتُ مَعَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ غَزْوَةَ تَبُوكَ عَلَى بَكْرٍ صَعْبٍ فَكَانَ أَوْثَقَ أَعْمَالِي فِي نَفْسِي وَاسْتَأْجُرْتُ أَجِيرًا فَقَاتَلَ أَجِيرِي رَجُلًا فَعَضَّ يَدَهُ فَانْتَزَعَ ثَنِيَّتَهُ فَخَاصَمَهُ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ فَأَهْدَرَهَا وَقَالَ أَيَدَعُ يَدَهُ فِي فِيكَ تَقْضَمُهَا كَقَضْمِ الْفَحْلِ  

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bukhari:2973 – ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad > Sufyān > Ibn Jurayj > ʿAṭāʾ > Ṣafwān b. Yaʿlá from his father

I participated in the Ghazwa of Tabuk along with Messenger of Allah ﷺ and I gave a young camel to be ridden in Jihad and that was, to me, one of my best deeds. Then I employed a laborer who quarrelled with another person. One of them bit the hand of the other and the latter drew his hand from the mouth of the former pulling out his front tooth. Then the former instituted a suit against the latter before the Prophet who rejected that suit saying, "Do you expect him to put out his hand for you to snap as a male camel snaps (vegetation)?"  

البخاري:٢٩٧٣ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ جُرَيْجٍ عَنْ عَطَاءٍ عَنْ صَفْوَانَ بْنِ يَعْلَى عَنْ أَبِيهِ ؓ قَالَ

غَزَوْتُ مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ غَزْوَةَ تَبُوكَ فَحَمَلْتُ عَلَى بَكْرٍ فَهْوَ أَوْثَقُ أَعْمَالِي فِي نَفْسِي فَاسْتَأْجَرْتُ أَجِيرًا فَقَاتَلَ رَجُلاً فَعَضَّ أَحَدُهُمَا الآخَرَ فَانْتَزَعَ يَدَهُ مِنْ فِيهِ وَنَزَعَ ثَنِيَّتَهُ فَأَتَى النَّبِيَّ ﷺ فَأَهْدَرَهَا فَقَالَ أَيَدْفَعُ يَدَهُ إِلَيْكَ فَتَقْضَمُهَا كَمَا يَقْضَمُ الْفَحْلُ  

nasai:4767 – ʿAbd al-Jabbār Marrah Ukhrá > Sufyān > ʿAmr > ʿAṭāʾ > Ṣafwān b. Yaʿlá > Yaʿlá And Ibn Jurayj > ʿAṭāʾ > Ṣafwān b. Yaʿlá > Yaʿlá

he hired a worker who fought with a man and bit his hand, and his from tooth fell out. So he referred the dispute to the Prophet who said: "Do you want to bite his hand as a stallion bites?"  

النسائي:٤٧٦٧ – أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الْجَبَّارِ مَرَّةً أُخْرَى عَنْ سُفْيَانَ عَنْ عَمْرٍو عَنْ عَطَاءٍ عَنْ صَفْوَانَ بْنِ يَعْلَى عَنْ يَعْلَى وَابْنِ جُرَيْجٍ عَنْ عَطَاءٍ عَنْ صَفْوَانَ بْنِ يَعْلَى عَنْ يَعْلَى

أَنَّهُ اسْتَأْجَرَ أَجِيرًا فَقَاتَلَ رَجُلاً فَعَضَّ يَدَهُ فَانْتُزِعَتْ ثَنِيَّتُهُ فَخَاصَمَهُ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ فَقَالَ أَيَدَعُهَا يَقْضِمُهَا كَقَضْمِ الْفَحْلِ  

ذِكْرُ إِسْقَاطِ الْقَوَدِ عَنِ الثَّنَايَا الْعَاضِّ إِنْسَانًا آخَرَ

ibnhibban:5997 – ʿUmar b. Muḥammad al-Hamdānī > Abū al-Ṭāhir b. al-Sarḥ > Ibn Wahb > Ibn Jurayj > ʿAṭāʾ > Ṣafwān b. Yaʿlá b. Umayyah > Yaʿlá b. Umayyah

"I went on a campaign with the Messenger of Allah in the Army of Hardship, and this was the deed of which I was most sure. I had a hired man who fought with another person. One of them bit the finger of the other, who pulled his finger away and a front tooth fell out. He went to the Prophet who considered the tooth to be in vain, and said: "Would he put his hand in your mouth for you to bite it?" (Using translation from Nasāʾī 4769)   

ابن حبّان:٥٩٩٧ – أَخْبَرَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْهَمْدَانِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الطَّاهِرِ بْنُ السَّرْحِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ وَهْبٍ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي ابْنُ جُرَيْجٍ عَنْ عَطَاءٍ أَنَّ صَفْوَانَ بْنَ يَعْلَى بْنِ أُمَيَّةَ حَدَّثَهُ عَنْ يَعْلَى بْنِ أُمَيَّةَ قَالَ

غَزَوْتُ مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ غَزْوَةَ الْعُسْرَةِ وَكَانَتْ أَوْثَقَ أَعْمَالِي فِي نَفْسِي وَكَانَ لِي أَجِيرٌ فَقَاتَلَ إِنْسَانًا فَعَضَّ أَحَدُهُمَا صَاحِبَهُ فَانْتَزَعَ أُصْبُعَهُ فَسَقَطتْ ثَنِيَّتَاهُ فَجَاءَ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ فَأَهْدَرَ ثَنِيَّتَهُ قَالَ وَحَسِبْتُ أَنَّ صَفْوَانَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ «أَيَدَعُ يَدَهُ فِي فِيكَ فَتَقْضِمُهَا كَقَضْمِ الْفَحْلِ؟ »