Ahmad 7242

Both its chains of transmission are sahih. Ahmad narrated it from two teachers, Walid bin Muslim from Uzai, and from Abu Dawud Tayalisi, from Harb bin Shaddad, both of them from Yahya Abu Kathir. Harb is Ibn Shaddad Yashkuri, and he is trustworthy. The two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) reported from him, Abdul-Samad affirmed his reliability, and Imam Ahmad said, "He is established among all the teachers." Bukhari gave his biography in al-Kabir, 57/1/2-58, and Ibn Abu Hatim in al-Jarh wal-Tadil, 2/1/250-251.The hadith was also narrated by Abu Dawud, 2017, 2:160-161 of Awn al-Mabud, from Ahmad bin Hanbal from Walid bin Muslim, with the first chain given here, but he did not mention in it the request of Abu Shah for the writing, nor Walid's question to Uzai and his answer. Rather he said at the end, "Ibn Musaffa added to it, from Walid," and then mentioned what we have pointed to. It appears that he heard from Imam Ahmad other than this omitted part, and heard what was missing from it from Ibn Musaffa, meaning that it was not Abu Dawud himself who abridged the hadith. His teacher Ibn Musaffa is Muhammad bin Musaffa bin Bahlul Qurashi, the hafiz.Bukhari narrated it, 5:63-64, from Yahya bin Musa. Muslim narrated it, 1:384, from Zuhayr bin Harb and Ubaydullah bin Saeed, all three of them from Walid bin Muslim, with the first chain given here, in similar wording.Bukhari also narrated it, 12:180-184, from Abdullah bin Raja from Harb, with the second chain given here, in similar meaning. Bukhari also narrated it, 1:183-184, 12:180-184, along with the preceding chain. And Muslim, 1:384, both of them through the route of Shayban, who is Ibn Abdul-Rahman Abu Muawiya, from Yahya bin Abu Kathir, in similar meaning.A similar meaning to this hadith has already passed, from the hadith of Ibn Abbas, 2279, 2253, 2898, 3253. See also, regarding the meaning of writing down the hadith, what has already passed from the hadith of Abdullah bin Amr bin As, 2510.His saying, "Allah restrained the elephant from Makkah," hubs means prevented. Hafiz said in al-Fath, 1:183, "What is meant by restraining the elephant is restraining the people of the elephant." By this he points to the well-known story of the Abyssinians, in their raid on Makkah with the elephant, when Allah prevented them from it and sent upon them the flocks of birds, even though the people of Makkah at that time were disbelievers. So the sanctity of its people after Islam is even more binding. However, the Prophet's ﷺ military campaign against it is an exception specific to him, according to the apparent meaning of this hadith and others.His saying, "Its trees may not be cut," yudah means cut down.Abu Shah, ending in a feminine ha. Hafiz said in al-Fath, 12:183, "Silafi related that some people pronounced it with a ya at the end, and he declared that mistaken." He said, "He was a Persian, one of the horsemen of the Persians whom Khosrow sent to Yemen."The addition, "So he said, 'Write for me,'" we have added it from K, and it is missing from H, which is an error by the copyists, since it is established in all the narrations, and it is referred to right after this hadith, in Walid bin Muslim's question to Uzai and his statement, "Write for him," and so on.His saying, "So the uncle of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said," this is Abbas bin Abdul-Muttalib, as is established in the other narrations. Here in K it is established as, "A man from Quraysh said," and above it, written between the lines, is "Abbas."Al-Idhkhir, with the hamzah vowelled with kasrah, and the khaa (a dotted letter) between it and a dhaal (also dotted). Hafiz said in al-Fath, 4:42, "A plant well known to the people of Makkah, pleasant in scent, with a buried root and thin stalks, growing in both plain and rugged land. In the Maghrib there is a variety of it, as Ibn Bitar said. He said the one found in Makkah is the best of it. The people of Makkah roof their houses with it between the wood, and use it to seal the gaps between the bricks in graves, and use it in place of reeds as fuel."Walid's statement to Uzai, "And what do they write for him," it is thus established here in the sources with the noon dropped from yaktubun, without any particle requiring the subjunctive or jussive.The statement of Abu Abdul-Rahman Abdullah bin Ahmad, at the end of his remarks after the hadith, "The Prophet ﷺ did not hear his sermon," this is with khutbatahu in the accusative, as a substitute for the word "the Prophet." It occurs in H as, "and he did not hear," so the addition of the waw has no meaning here, rather it disrupts the flow of the sentence with it. It is not mentioned in K or M.