Hadith #67
Arabic Text
حَدَّثَنَا زِيَادُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ يَعْنِي الْبَكَّائِيَّ قَالَ ثَنَا مَنْصُورٌ عَن شَقِيقِ بْنِ سَلَمَةَ عَن أَبِي مُوسَى الْأَشْعَرِيِّ قَالَ سَأَلَ رَجُلٌ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَهُوَ مُنَكِّسٌ فَقَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَا الْقِتَالُ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى فَإِنَّ أَحَدَنَا يُقَاتِلُ حَمِيَّة
ً وَيُقَاتِلُ غَضَبًا فَلَهُ أَجْرٌ قَالَ فَرَفَعَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ رَأْسَهُ إِلَيْهِ وَلَوْلَا أَنَّهُ كَانَ قَائِمًا أَوْ كَانَ قَاعِدًا الشَّكُّ مِنْ زُهَيْرٍ مَا رَفَعَ رَأْسَهُ إِلَيْهِ فَقَالَ مَنْ قَاتَلَ لِتَكُونَ كَلِمَةُ اللَّهِ هِيَ الْعُلْيَا فَهُوَ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ
Isnad Chain
زياد بن عبد الله ي
البكائي
شقيق بن سلمة
أبو موسى الأشعري
English Translation
Ziyād ibn ʿAbd Allāh — meaning al-Bakkāʾī — narrated to us, he said: Manṣūr narrated to us, from Shaqīq ibn Salamah, from Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī who said: A man asked the Prophet ﷺ while he was lowering his head, saying: O Messenger of Allah, what is fighting in the cause of Allah تعالى? For one of us fights out of zealotry and fights out of anger — is there reward for him? He said: the Messenger of Allah ﷺ raised his head toward him — and had it not been that the man was standing, or had he been sitting — the doubt is from Zuhayr — he would not have raised his head toward him — and he said: ‘Whoever fights so that the word of Allah is supreme, then he is in the cause of Allah.’
Quran References
Reference: Musnad Ahmad, Book 37, Hadith 67
Sunnah.com ref: Musnad Ahmad 18905
Islam.wiki ID: IWH-55295