حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ يَزِيدَ حَدَّثَنَا حَيْوَةُ وَغَيْرُهُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْأَسْوَدِ وَقَالَ اللَّيْثُ عَنْ أَبِي الْأَسْوَدِ قَالَ قُطِعَ عَلَی أَهْلِ الْمَدِينَةِ بَعْثٌ فَاکْتُتِبْتُ فِيهِ فَلَقِيتُ عِکْرِمَةَ فَأَخْبَرْتُهُ فَنَهَانِي أَشَدَّ النَّهْيِ ثُمَّ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ أَنَّ أُنَاسًا مِنْ الْمُسْلِمِينَ کَانُوا مَعَ الْمُشْرِکِينَ يُکَثِّرُونَ سَوَادَ الْمُشْرِکِينَ عَلَی رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّی اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَيَأْتِي السَّهْمُ فَيُرْمَی فَيُصِيبُ أَحَدَهُمْ فَيَقْتُلُهُ أَوْ يَضْرِبُهُ فَيَقْتُلُهُ فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَی إِنَّ الَّذِينَ تَوَفَّاهُمْ الْمَلَائِکَةُ ظَالِمِي أَنْفُسِهِمْ
صحیح بخاری · Hadith 7085
Narrated Abu Al-Aswad: An army unit was being recruited from the people of Medina and my name was written among them. Then I met `Ikrima, and when I informed him about it, he discouraged me very strongly and said, "Ibn `Abbas told me that there were some Muslims who were with the pagans to increase their number against Allah's Apostle (and the Muslim army) so arrows (from the Muslim army) would hit one of them and kill him or a Muslim would strike him (with his sword) and kill him. So Allah revealed:-- 'Verily! As for those whom the angels take (in death) while they are wronging themselves (by staying among the disbelievers).' (4.97)
Translated by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan · Reviewed by Islamic University of Madinah · Published March 2020