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tirmidhi:1583Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman Abū al-Walīd al-Dimashqī > al-Walīd b. Muslim > Saʿīd b. Bashīr > Qatādah > al-Ḥasan > Samurah b. Jundab

That the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "Kill the elder men among the idolaters and spare the Sharkh amont them." And the Sharkh are the boys who did not begin to grow pubic hair.  

[Abu 'Eisa said:] This Hadith is Hasan Sahih. Hajjaj bin Artah narrated similarly from Qatadah.
الترمذي:١٥٨٣حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ أَبُو الْوَلِيدِ الدِّمَشْقِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ بَشِيرٍ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ سَمُرَةَ بْنِ جُنْدَبٍ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ اقْتُلُوا شُيُوخَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ وَاسْتَحْيُوا شَرْخَهُمْ وَالشَّرْخُ الْغِلْمَانُ الَّذِينَ لَمْ يُنْبِتُوا  

قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ غَرِيبٌ وَرَوَاهُ الْحَجَّاجُ بْنُ أَرْطَاةَ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ نَحْوَهُ

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ahmad:20145Abū Muʿāwiyah > al-Ḥajjāj > Qatādah > al-Ḥasan > Samurah b. Jundub

The Prophet ﷺ said: Kill the old men who are polytheists, but spare their children. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 2670)  

أحمد:٢٠١٤٥حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ حَدَّثَنَا الْحَجَّاجُ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ سَمُرَةَ بْنِ جُنْدُبٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ اقْتُلُوا شُيُوخَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ وَاسْتَحْيُوا شَرْخَهُمْ  

tabarani:6900[Chain 1] al-ʿAbbās b. al-Faḍl al-Asfāṭī > ʿAmr b. ʿAwn > Hushaym > al-Ḥajjāj b. Arṭaʾah [Chain 2] ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz > ʿUthmān b. Saʿīd al-Madanī > al-Minhāl b. Khalīfah > al-Ḥajjāj > Qatādah > al-Ḥasan > Samurah

[Machine] On the authority of the Prophet ﷺ, he said, "Kill the leaders of the polytheists and despise their followers."  

الطبراني:٦٩٠٠حَدَّثَنَا الْعَبَّاسُ بْنُ الْفَضْلِ الْأَسْفَاطِيُّ ثنا عَمْرُو بْنُ عَوْنٍ ثنا هُشَيْمٌ عَنِ الْحَجَّاجِ بْنِ أَرْطَأَةَ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ ثنا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الْمَدَنِيُّ ثنا الْمِنْهَالُ بْنُ خَلِيفَةَ عَنِ الْحَجَّاجِ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ سَمُرَةَ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ «اقْتُلُوا شُيُوخَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ وَاسْتَحْيُوا شَرْخَهُمْ»  

tabarani:6901ʿUbayd b. Ghannām > Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah > Abū Muʿāwiyah > al-Ḥajjāj > Qatādah > al-Ḥasan > Samurah

The Prophet ﷺ said: Kill the old men who are polytheists, but spare their children. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 2670)  

الطبراني:٦٩٠١حَدَّثَنَا عُبَيْدُ بْنُ غَنَّامٍ ثنا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ ثنا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ عَنِ الْحَجَّاجِ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ سَمُرَةَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «اقْتُلُوا شُيُوخَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ وَاسْتَحْيُوا شَرْخَهُمْ»  

tabarani:6902Ibrāhīm b. Duḥaym al-Dimashqī from my father > al-Walīd b. Muslim > Saʿīd b. Bashīr > Qatādah > al-Ḥasan > Samurah

The Prophet ﷺ said: Kill the old men who are polytheists, but spare their children. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 2670)  

الطبراني:٦٩٠٢حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ دُحَيْمٍ الدِّمَشْقِيُّ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي ثنا الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ ثنا سَعِيدُ بْنُ بَشِيرٍ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ سَمُرَةَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «اقْتُلُوا شُيُوخَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ وَاسْتَحْيُوا شَرْخَهُمْ»