74 - Chapter on Banners and Standards (1)

2591 - Ibrahim ibn Musa al-Razi narrated to us, saying: Ibn Abi Za'idah informed us, saying: Abu Ya'qub al-Thaqafi informed us, saying: Yunus ibn 'Ubayd, the freed slave of Muhammad ibn al-Qasim, narrated to me, saying:

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= It was also recorded by al-Shafi'i in his "Musnad" 2/120, Sa'id ibn Mansur (2858), Ahmad (15722), and from his chain by al-Tabarani in "al-Kabir" (6669). It was also recorded by Ibn Sa'd in "al-Tabaqat" 2/46 via the chain of 'Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak, Ibn Majah (2806) from Hisham ibn 'Ammar, al-Tirmidhi (104), and al-Baghawi in "Sharh al-Sunnah" (2658) via the chain of Ibn Abi 'Umar al-'Adani, al-Nasa'i in "al-Kubra" (8529) from 'Abdullah ibn Muhammad al-Da'if, Ibn al-Jarud in "al-Muntaqa" (1060) from 'Abdullah ibn Hashim, al-Shashi (22) via the chain of Ibrahim ibn Bashshar al-Ramadi, Abu al-Shaykh in "Akhlaq al-Nabi, may Allah bless him and grant him peace" p. 142 via the chain of 'Ali ibn al-Madini, al-Bayhaqi in "al-Sunan al-Kubra" 9/46, and al-Baghawi in "Sharh al-Sunnah" (2659) via the chain of Yahya ibn al-Rabi' al-Makki — all of them (al-Shafi'i, Sa'id ibn Mansur, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, 'Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak, Hisham ibn 'Ammar, Ibn Abi 'Umar, 'Abdullah ibn Hashim, 'Abdullah ibn Muhammad al-Da'if, Ibrahim ibn Bashshar, 'Ali ibn al-Madini, and Yahya ibn al-Rabi') from Sufyan ibn 'Uyaynah, from Yazid ibn 'Abdullah ibn Khusayfah, from al-Sa'ib ibn Yazid, without going beyond him. This is what al-Daraqutni favored in "al-'Ilal" 4/218. Al-Sa'ib ibn Yazid was a Companion, so in any case the chain is sound, and al-Sa'ib's raising it to the Prophet is an interrupted transmission from a Companion, and the interrupted transmission of a Companion is sound. On this chapter, there is also a hadith from al-Zubayr ibn al-'Awwam recorded by Ibn Hisham in "al-Sirah al-Nabawiyyah" 3/91, al-Tirmidhi in his "Jami'" (1787), and in "al-Shama'il" (103), al-Hakim 3/25, al-Bayhaqi 6/370, and al-Diya' al-Maqdisi in "al-Mukhtarah" (861) and (862). Its chain is good.

And from Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas, recorded by al-Dawraqi in "Musnad Sa'd" (90), Ibn 'Adi in "al-Kamil" 2/746, and al-Khatib al-Baghdadi in his "Tarikh" 7/305. The chains of Ibn 'Adi and al-Khatib are good.

(1) It is mentioned in "Badhl al-Majhud" 12/92: Ibn al-Athir said in "al-Nihayah" 3/526: The banner (al-rayah) is the large standard, and the name of the Prophet's banner, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, was al-'Uqab. In "al-Mughrib": the standard (al-liwa') is the army's flag, and it is smaller than the banner, because it is a piece of cloth that is folded and tied to the shaft of a spear. The banner (al-rayah) is the army's flag, and it is called the mother of war, and it is above the standard. Al-Turbashti said: The banner (al-rayah) is the one that the commander of war takes charge of and fights upon, while the standard (al-liwa') is a sign of the commander's company that moves with him wherever he moves.