one, and their battle is one, yet some of them deem it permissible to kill each other. He said: Do not be surprised, for I heard my father tell me that he heard the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) say it, and he mentioned it. It was recorded by al-Bukhārī in "al-Tārīkh" and al-Ḥākim (4/353-254) who said: "Its isnād is authentic." al-Dhahabī agreed with him. I said: It is as they said, except for the man from the Anṣār who was not named. Then it was recorded by al-Ḥākim (1/49 and 4/254), as well as al-Ṭaḥāwī in "al-Mushkil" (1/105) and al-Khaṭīb in "al-Tārīkh" (4/205) through the route of Abū Ḥuṣayn from Abū Burdah from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yazīd, raised [to the Prophet] with the wording: "The punishment of this nation is in its worldly life." al-Ḥākim said, and the addition is his: "Authentic according to the conditions of the two Shaykhs," and al-Dhahabī agreed with him, but it is only according to the conditions of al-Bukhārī alone, for Abū Bakr ibn ʿAyyāsh was not recorded by Muslim. al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥakam al-Nakhaʿī narrated it from Abū Burdah without the addition. It was recorded by al-Ḥākim (1/50).

"The martyr does not feel the pain of being killed except as one of you feels the pain of a pinch." It was narrated by al-Nasāʾī (2/62), al-Tirmidhī (3/19), Ibn Mājah (2802), al-Dārimī (2/205), Ibn Bishrān in "al-Amālī" (18/7/2), Abū Nuʿaym in "al-Ḥilyah" (8/264-265), al-Bayhaqī (9/164), and al-Baghawī in "Sharḥ al-Sunnah" (3/141/1), all of them from