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Bulugh al-Maram 1472

‘The Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) set up the ballista while attacking the people of at-Taif’. Related by Abu Dawud with a trustworthy chain of narrators, but it is hadith Mursal.

Makhulnarrated it
Daifgraded daif by Al-Albani
2names in the chain
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وَعَنْ مَكْحُولٍ;

«أَنَّ اَلنَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ نَصَبَ اَلْمَنْجَنِيقَ عَلَى أَهْلِ اَلطَّائِفِ»

‘The Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) set up the ballista while attacking the people of at-Taif’. Related by Abu Dawud with a trustworthy chain of narrators, but it is hadith Mursal.

Bulugh al-Maram 1472, Book 11, Jihad, Hadith 24. 1 min read
The note in this edition

ضعيف. رواه أبو داود في «المراسيل» (335) من طريق سفيان، عن ثور، عن مكحول، به. وهو وإن كان صحيح السند، فهو ضعيف؛ لأنه مرسل. وروي أيضا بسند صحيح، عن الأوزاعي قال: قلت ليحيى بن أبي كثير: أبلغك أن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم رماهم بالمنجنيق؟ فأنكر ذلك. وقال: ما يعرف هذا

The chain

Who passed it on, from Ibn Hajar back to the one who was there.

  1. 1Ibn HajarCompiler, died 852 AH
  2. 2مَكْحُولٍ;From

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