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Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

from the swords of Allah, which He lets loose against the disbelievers. (1)

Abu Ismaʿil al-Muʾaddib related—from Ismaʿil ibn Abi Khalid, from al-Shaʿbi, from Ibn Abi Awfa— a report traced back to the Prophet with this same meaning.

It is likewise transmitted through other chains on the authority of Abu Hurayrah with similar wording.

Abu al-Miskin al-Taʾi said: Imran ibn Zahr narrated to us; Humayd ibn Munib told me; my grandfather Aws said:

“There was no one more hostile to the Arabs than Hormuz. When we had finished with Musaylimah, we moved toward the Basra region and met Hormuz at Kazimah. Khālid engaged him in single combat and killed him, and al-Ṣiddiq granted Khālid his spoils. Hormuz’s cap alone was valued at one hundred thousand dirhams; it was the custom of the Persians that, when a man of theirs rose to high rank, his ceremonial cap would be valued at a hundred thousand.”

Abu Wāʾil said: Khālid wrote to the Persians,

“With me is an army that loves killing as much as Persia loves wine.”

Hushaym narrated to us—ʿAbd al-Hamid ibn Jaʿfar, from his father—that Khālid ibn al-Walid lost one of his caps on the day of Yarmuk and said, “Look for it.”

They could not find it at first; when it was eventually located, it proved to be an old, worn cap.

Khālid explained, “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ performed ʿumrah and shaved his head. The people rushed to gather his hair, but I reached his forelock before them and placed it in this cap. Never have I entered a battle while it was…"

(1) The transmitters are trustworthy, yet the chain is mursal (missing the Companion). Ibn Saʿd also recorded it, 7/2/120, and al-Haythami cites it in Majmaʿ 9/349, adding: “Abu Yaʿla reported it without naming the Companion, and its narrators are those of the Sahih.” The report of Abu Ismaʿil al-Muʾaddib from Ibn Abi Awfa was produced by al-Hakim, 3/298, who declared it sound; al-Dhahabi objected, noting that Ibn Idris transmitted it from Ibn Abi Khalid, from al-Shaʿbi, as a mursal report—“and that is the more likely form.” Al-Haythami (Majmaʿ 9/349) attributes a shortened version to al-Tabarani in both the Saghir and Kabir, and to al-Bazzar in similar wording, remarking: “al-Tabarani’s narrators are reliable.” As for the hadith of Abu Hurayra, al-Tirmidhi (no. 3845, “Chapters on Merits,” sub-chapter on the merits of Khalid) relates it through the chain: al-Layth – Hisham b. Saʿd – Zayd b. Aslam – Abu Hurayra, and comments: “This hadith is hasan gharib.” However, no direct audition of Zayd b. Aslam from Abu Hurayra is known; therefore, in my view the isnad is mursal.

مِنْ سُيُوْفِ اللهِ، صَبَّهُ عَلَى الكُفَّارِ (١)) . أَبُو إِسْمَاعِيْلَ المُؤَدِّبُ: عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيْلَ بنِ أَبِي خَالِدٍ، عَنِ الشَّعْبِيِّ، عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي أَوْفَى، مَرْفُوْعاً بِمَعْنَاهُ. وَجَاءَ مِنْ طُرُقٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، نَحْوَهُ. أَبُو المِسْكِيْنِ الطَّائِيُّ: حَدَّثَنَا عِمْرَانُ بنُ زحرٍ، حَدَّثَنِي حُمَيْدُ بنُ مُنِيْبٍ، قَالَ جَدِّي أَوْسٌ: لَمْ يَكُنْ أَحَدٌ أَعْدَى لِلْعَرَبِ مِنْ هُرْمُزَ، فَلَمَّا فَرَغْنَا مِنْ مُسَيْلِمَةَ، أَتَيْنَا نَاحِيَةَ البَصْرَةِ، فَلَقِيْنَا هُرْمُزَ بِكَاظِمَةَ، فَبَارَزَهُ خَالِدٌ، فَقَتَلَهُ، فَنَفَلَهُ الصِّدِّيْقُ سَلَبَهُ، فَبَلَغَتْ قُلُنْسُوَتُهُ مَائَةَ أَلْفِ دِرْهَمٍ، وَكَانَتِ الفُرْسُ مَنْ عَظُمَ فِيْهِم، جُعِلَتْ قُلُنْسُوَتُهُ بِمَائَةِ أَلْفٍ. قَالَ أَبُو وَائِلٍ: كَتَبَ خَالِدٌ إِلَى الفُرْسِ: إِنَّ مَعِي جُنْداً يُحِبُّوْنَ القَتْلَ كَمَا تُحِبُّ فَارِسٌ الخَمْرَ. هُشَيْمٌ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الحَمِيْدِ بنُ جَعْفَرٍ، عَنْ أَبِيْهِ: أَنَّ خَالِدَ بنَ الوَلِيْدِ فَقَدَ قُلُنْسُوَةً لَهُ يَوْمَ اليَرْمُوْكِ، فَقَالَ: اطْلُبُوْهَا. فَلَمْ يَجِدُوْهَا، ثُمَّ وُجِدَتْ، فَإِذَا هِيَ قُلُنْسُوَةٌ خَلِقَةٌ. فَقَالَ خَالِدٌ: اعْتَمَرَ رَسُوْلُ اللهِ ﷺ فَحَلَقَ رَأْسَهُ، فَابْتَدَرَ النَّاسُ شَعْرَهُ، فَسَبَقْتُهُم إِلَى نَاصِيَتِهِ، فَجَعَلْتُهَا فِي هَذِهِ القُلُنْسُوَةِ، فَلَمْ أَشْهَدْ قِتَالاً وَهِيَ

(١) رجاله ثقات، لكنه مرسل. وأخرجه ابن سعد ٧ / ٢ / ١٢٠، وذكره الهيثمي في " المجمع " ٩ / ٣٤٩ وقال: رواه أبو يعلى ولم يسم الصحابي ورجاله رجال الصحيح. وحديث أبي إسماعيل المؤدب عن ابن أبي أوفى أخرجه الحاكم ٣ / ٢٩٨ وصححه، وتعقبه الذهبي بقوله: رواه ابن إدريس، عن ابن أبي خالد، عن الشعبي مرسلا وهو أشبه. وذكره الهيثمي في " المجمع " ٩ / ٣٤٩ ونسبه إلى الطبراني في " الصغير " و" الكبير " باختصار، والبزار بنحوه. وقال: ورجال الطبراني ثقات. وأما حديث أبي هريرة فقد أخرجه الترمذي (٣٨٤٥) في المناقب: باب مناقب خالد، من طريق: الليث، عن هشام بن سعد، عن زيد بن أسلم، عن أبي هريرة وقال: هذا حديث حسن غريب. ولا نعرف لزيد بن أسلم سماعا من أبي هريرة وهو مرسل عندي.