ʿUbādah stood up and said, “O Messenger of Allah, were you to command us to plunge into the sea, we would plunge into it; and were you to order us to spur our mounts all the way to Bark al-Ghimād, we would do so.” (1)
Abū Ḥudhayfah narrated: Sufyān told us, from al-Kalbī, from Abū Ṣāliḥ, from Ibn ʿAbbās:
On the Day of Badr the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Whoever brings a captive shall have whatever he is carrying.” So Abū al-Yasar brought two captives. Saʿd ibn ʿUbādah said, “O Messenger of Allah, we have been guarding you out of fear for your safety.” Then the verse was revealed: “They ask you about the spoils (of war) …” (2). ʿAbd al-Razzāq also transmitted it from Sufyān.
ʿAlī ibn Baḥr reported: ʿAbd al-Muhaymin ibn ʿAbbās ibn Sahl narrated to us, saying, “My father related from my grandfather that the Prophet ﷺ, when proposing to a woman and fixing her bridal gift, would stipulate: ‘The platter of Saʿd will accompany me wherever I go to you.’ Consequently, Saʿd used to send a platter to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ every night.” (3)
Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Yasār transmitted a similar report, mursal, from his father.
(1) Reported by Ahmad, 3/220, and by Muslim, no. 1779 (Book of Jihad, “The Expedition of Badr”). Al-Hakim, 3/253, declared it sound and al-Dhahabi did not object. – The expression “that we strike their livers” (an nadriba akbada-ha) is an idiom for spurring mounts, for a rider urges his animal forward by striking it with his legs at the spot of the liver. – Barak: with an open b and a quiescent r. – al-Ghimad: with a dotted ghayn, read either with kasra or damma; it is a place five days beyond Makka toward the coast, though some count two localities, and al-Qadi and others situate it on the far borders of Hajar.
(2) Chain weak. – al-Kalbi is Muhammad b. al-Saib Abu al-Nadr al-Kufi, the exegetical story-teller. Yahya and Ibn Mahdi abandoned him. ‑ ʿAli related: “Yahya told us, from Sufyan, that al-Kalbi said to me, ‘Everything I have reported to you from Abu Salih is a lie.’” Ibn Maʿin judged him unreliable, and al-Darqutni and others deemed him discarded. – ʿAbd al-Razzaq, no. 9483, likewise transmits it through al-Thawri, from Muhammad b. al-Saib al-Kalbi, from Abu Salih, from Ibn ʿAbbas: on the day of Badr the Prophet said, “Whoever kills an enemy combatant shall have such-and-such,” whereupon they killed seventy and captured seventy. – Al-Suyuti added the isnad in ad-Dur al-Manthur, 3/160 (from ʿAbd b. Humayd and Ibn Mardawayh); see also Ibn Kathir on the verse’s occasion of revelation.
(3) Chain weak owing to ʿAbd al-Muhaymin b. ʿAbbas. The report appears in biographical collections without a chain, and Ibn Ishaq’s isnad is mursal, as the author notes.