6 - Chapter: The concession to stay behind for one who has a mother

3104 - 'Abd al-Wahhab ibn 'Abd al-Hakam al-Warraq informed us, saying: Hajjaj narrated to us, from Ibn Jurayj, who said: Muhammad ibn Talhah — and he is the son of 'Abd Allah ibn 'Abd al-Rahman — informed me, from his father Talhah, from Mu'awiyah ibn Jahimah al-Sulami,

That Jahimah came to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and said: O Messenger of Allah, I wanted to go on a military expedition, and I have come to seek your counsel. He said: "Do you have a mother?" He said: Yes. He said: "Then stay with her, for Paradise is beneath her feet."(1)

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= Also narrated by Ahmad (6544) and (6811), and Muslim (2549): (6), via two chains, from Habib ibn Abi Thabit, with it.

And it was narrated with a similar but longer wording by Ahmad (6525), and Muslim (2549): (6), via the chain of Yazid ibn Abi Habib, from Na'im ibn Ujayl, the freed slave of Umm Salamah, from 'Abd Allah ibn 'Amr, with it.

And it was also narrated with a similar wording by Ahmad (6859), and Ibn Hibban (421), via the chain of Ya'la ibn 'Ata', from his father, from 'Abd Allah ibn 'Amr, with it. And 'Ata', the father of Ya'la, is unknown in his condition, as Ibn al-Qattan mentioned in "al-Wahm wa al-Iham" 4/120, and he said: It is not known that anyone narrated from him other than his son Ya'la.

And it will come with a similar wording under number (4163), via the chain of al-Sa'ib, the father of 'Ata', from 'Abd Allah ibn 'Amr, with it.

His saying: "A man came": It is possible that he was Jahimah ibn al-'Abbas ibn Mirdas, as al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar mentioned in "al-Fath" 6/140, and he will be mentioned in the hadith after it.

Al-Sindi said: His saying: "Then strive in them" — that is, strive against yourself or against Satan in seeking their pleasure and preferring their desires over your own. And it was said: The meaning is: exert yourself in serving them, and the use of "jihad" is for rhetorical similarity. The first "fa" is eloquent, and the second is redundant, and its redundancy in such contexts is common, including His saying, the Exalted: {And for that let the competitors compete} [al-Mutaffifin: 26].

(1) Its chain is good. Muhammad ibn Talhah ibn 'Abd Allah ibn 'Abd al-Rahman: he is the son of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq; a group narrated from him, and Ibn Hibban mentioned him in "al-Thiqat." Al-Hafiz said in "al-Taqrib": Truthful. And his father Talhah: a group narrated from him, and Ibn Hibban mentioned him in "al-Thiqat." Ibn Hajar said in "al-Taqrib": Acceptable. Al-Dhahabi said in "al-Kashif": Truthful. The rest of his narrators are trustworthy. Hajjaj: he is Ibn Muhammad al-Missisi.