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tabarani:19051[Chain 1] Hāshim b. Marthad al-Ṭabarānī > Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl b. ʿAyyāsh from my father [Chain 2] Abū ʿAbd al-Malik Aḥmad b. Ibrāhīm al-Dimashqī > Sulaymān b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman > Ismāʿīl b. ʿAyyāsh > Ḍamḍam b. Zurʿah > Shurayḥ b. ʿUbayd > Abū Zuhayr al-Numayrī

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Do not kill the locusts, for they are the soldiers of Allah, the Almighty."  

الطبراني:١٩٠٥١حَدَّثَنَا هَاشِمُ بْنُ مَرْثَدٍ الطَّبَرَانِيُّ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ عَيَّاشٍ ثنا أَبِي ح وَحَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الدِّمَشْقِيُّ ثنا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ ثنا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍ عَنْ ضَمْضَمِ بْنِ زُرْعَةَ عَنْ شُرَيْحِ بْنِ عُبَيْدٍ عَنْ أَبِي زُهَيْرٍ النُّمَيْرِيِّ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ «لَا تَقْتُلُوا الْجَرَادَ فَإِنَّهُ جُنْدُ اللهِ الْأَعْظَمِ»  


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