is one, and whose military campaigns are one, yet some of them deem it lawful to kill others.” He said, “Do not be astonished, for I heard my father relate that he heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, say it.”

Al-Bukhārī narrated it in The History, as did al-Ḥākim (4/353–254), who said: “Its chain of transmission is authentic.” Al-Dhahabī agreed with him.

I say: It is as they both said, were it not for the unnamed Anṣārī man. Al-Ḥākim also narrated it (1/49 and 4/254), as did al-Ṭaḥāwī in The Problematic Reports (1/105) and al-Khaṭīb in The History (4/205), through Abū Ḥuṣayn, from Abū Burdah, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yazīd, attributed to the Prophet, with the wording: “The punishment of this community has been placed in this world.” Al-Ḥākim said, “Authentic according to the conditions of the two Shaykhs,” and his version alone contains the additional words, “in this world.” Al-Dhahabī agreed with him. In fact, it is only according to the conditions of al-Bukhārī, since Muslim did not narrate from Abū Bakr ibn ʿAyyāsh. Al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥakam al-Nakhaʿī also narrated it from Abū Burdah, but without this addition. Al-Ḥākim narrated it (1/50).

960 — “The martyr feels no more of the pain of being killed than one of you feels from a pinch.”

It was narrated by al-Nasāʾī (2/62), al-Tirmidhī (3/19), Ibn Mājah (2802), al-Dārimī (2/205), Ibn Bishrān in The Dictations (18/7/2), Abū Nuʿaym in The Adornment (8/264–265), al-Bayhaqī (9/164), and al-Baghawī in The Explanation of the Sunnah (3/141/1), all of them through