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مسند أبي يعلى الموصلي
Musnad Abi Ya'la al-Mawsili
مسند جابر
Musnad of Jabir
مُسْنَدُ جَابِرٍ
Musnad of Jabir
Musnad Abi Ya'la 1920 — the Messenger of Allah ﷺ sent us
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو خَيْثَمَةَ ، حَدَّثَنَا جَرِيرٌ ، عَنْ لَيْثٍ ، عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ ، عَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ : بَعَثَنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ - صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - سِتَّمِائَةِ رَجُلٍ مَعَ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ بْنِ الْجَرَّاحِ وَمَا مَعَنَا إِلَّا جِرَابٌ مِنْ تَمْرٍ ، قَالَ : فَاقْتَسَمْنَاهُ ، فَأَصَابَ كُلُّ رَجُلٍ مِنَّا خَمْسَ تَمَرَاتٍ ، أَوْ سَبْعَ تَمَرَاتٍ ، فَأَكَلْنَا حَتَّى بَلَغَنَا الْجُوعُ ، قَالَ : فَجَعَلْنَا نَمُصُّ نَوَاهُ ، فَلَمَّا بَلَغَنَا الْجُوعُ سَاحَلْنَا الْبَحْرَ ، فَإِذَا حُبَابٌ مِثْلُ الْكَثِيبِ الضَّخْمِ قَدْ نَضَبَ عَنْهُ الْمَاءُ ، فَقَالَ بَعْضُنَا : أَنَأْكُلُ هَذَا وَهُوَ مَيْتَةٌ ؟ فَقَالَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ : أَنْتُمْ غُزَاةٌ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ ، كُلُوا فَلَا بَأْسَ ، فَأَكَلْنَا مِنْهُ وَمَلَحْنَا مِنْهُ وَتَزَوَّدْنَا ، فَلَمَّا انْتَهَيْنَا إِلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ - صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - ذَكَرْنَا لَهُ ذَلِكَ ، فَقَالَ : لَا بَأْسَ بِهِ ، هَلْ مَعَ أَحَدٍ مِنْكُمْ شَيْءٌ مِنْهُ يُطْعِمْنِيهِ ؟ قَالَ : فَقَالَ بَعْضُنَا لِبَعْضٍ : نَعَمْ ، فَبَعَثْنَا إِلَيْهِ مِنْهُ .
It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) sent us (on an expedition) with an army of six hundred men under the command of Sayyiduna Abu Ubaydah bin al-Jarrah (may Allah be pleased with him), and we had nothing with us except a bag of dates. He said: We divided the dates among ourselves, and each man got five or seven dates. We kept eating them until, when hunger struck us, we began sucking the date stones. Then, when the hunger grew severe, we reached the seashore, and there lay a creature (an ambergris whale) like a huge sand dune, from which the water had receded. Some of us said: "Shall we eat it, when it is carrion?" Sayyiduna Abu Ubaydah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "You are fighters in the path of Allah; eat it, there is no harm in it." So we ate from it, salted some of it to preserve it, and also took some along as provisions. When we came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and mentioned the incident to him (peace and blessings be upon him), he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "There is no harm in it. Does any of you have some of it left, so that he may feed me too?" He said: We said to one another: "Yes (there is some)." So we sent some of it to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him).
