3143 - Muhammad ibn Abd al-A'la informed us, saying: Khalid narrated to us, saying: Hisham narrated to us, saying: Qatadah narrated to us, from Salim ibn Abi al-Ja'd, from Ma'dan ibn Abi Talhah, from Abu Najih al-Sulami, who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, say: "Whoever shoots an arrow in the cause of Allah, it is for him a degree in Paradise." So on that day I shot sixteen arrows. He said: And I heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, say: "Whoever shoots an arrow in the cause of Allah, it is equivalent to the freeing of a slave."

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= His son's "Maraasil" p. 85: Sulaym ibn Amir did not meet Amr ibn Abasah.

It was also narrated by Ahmad (19440) with similar wording, and al-Tirmidhi (1635) via the route of Kathir ibn Murrah, and Ahmad (17024), and the compiler in "al-Sunan al-Kubra" (4868) and (4869) via the route of Abd al-Rahman ibn Usaylah al-Sunabihi, and Ahmad (17023) and (19439) via the route of Abi Zabyah al-Kala'i, and Ahmad (19437) via the route of Abi Umamah al-Bahili, and Ibn Majah (2812) via the route of al-Qasim ibn Abd al-Rahman — all five of them from Amr ibn Abasah, with this report, and some narrations are abridged, and in some of them there is an addition, and in the chain of each of them there is some weakness.

It will also come via the route of Khalid ibn Zayd, from Shurahbil, with this report, under number (3145).

And it will come after it in abridged form via the route of Ma'dan ibn Abi Talhah, from Amr ibn Abasah (who is Abu Najih al-Sulami), and it is more complete than this one in Ahmad (17022), and its chain is sound.

(1) His statement: "in the cause of Allah," is from (R) and (H) and the margin of (K).
(2) His statement: "in Paradise," is not in (R).
(3) Its chain is sound: Khalid is Ibn al-Harith, and Hisham is Ibn Abi Abd Allah al-Dastuwa'i, and Qatadah is Ibn Di'amah, and Abu Najih al-Sulami is Amr ibn Abasah, may Allah be pleased with him. It is in "al-Sunan al-Kubra" under number (4336).

It was also narrated by Ahmad (17022) and (19428), Abu Dawud (3965), al-Tirmidhi (1638), and Ibn Hibban (4615) via multiple routes, from Hisham al-Dastuwa'i, with this chain. Some narrations are lengthy, and some are abridged. Al-Tirmidhi said: A hasan sahih hadith.

It was also narrated with similar wording by Ahmad (19429) via the route of Sa'id ibn Abi Arubah, from Qatadah, with this report. =