" indeed, the swords are the keys to paradise." It was recorded by Ibn Abī Shaybah in "al-Muṣannaf" (7/145/2): Zayd ibn Ḥabbāb narrated to us from Jaʿfar ibn Sulaymān al-Ḍubʿī, who informed us from Abū ʿImrān al-Jawnī from Abū Bakr ibn Abī Mūsá al-Ashʿarī who said: I heard my father facing the enemy say: I heard the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam): and he mentioned it. Then a man of shabby appearance said to him: Did you hear this from the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam)? He said: Yes, then he drew his sword, broke its sheath, turned to his companions and said: I bid you peace, then he advanced towards the enemy and fought until he was killed. I say: This isnād is good, all its men are reliable, the men of the two Shaykhs except for Zayd ibn Ḥabbāb and his teacher al-Ḍubʿī, for they are only the men of Muslim, and there is some discussion about them that does not harm [the narration]. It has a corroborating narration from Yazīd ibn Abī Ziyād - who is the Hāshimī, their client - from Mujāhid from Yazīd ibn Shajarah in a khuṭbah of his, he said at its end: "I have been informed that the swords are the keys to paradise." It was narrated by al-Ṭabarānī through two routes, one of which is good and authentic as al-Mundhirī said (2/195). Al-Haythamī said (5/294): "Its men are the men of the authentic [collections]." I say: He narrated it in "al-Kabīr" (22/246-247) through two routes, one of them from ʿAbd al-Razzāq, and this is in "al-Muṣannaf" (5/256-257) from al-Thawrī from Manṣūr from Mujāhid with it.

" indeed, the swords are the keys to paradise." It was recorded by Ibn Abī Shaybah in "al-Muṣannaf" (7/145/2): Zayd ibn Ḥabbāb narrated to us from Jaʿfar ibn Sulaymān al-Ḍubʿī, who informed us from Abū ʿImrān al-Jawnī from Abū Bakr ibn Abī Mūsá al-Ashʿarī who said: I heard my father facing the enemy say: I heard the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam): and he mentioned it. Then a man of shabby appearance said to him: Did you hear this from the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam)? He said: Yes, then he drew his sword, broke its sheath, turned to his companions and said: I bid you peace, then he advanced towards the enemy and fought until he was killed. I say: This isnād is good, all its men are reliable, the men of the two Shaykhs except for Zayd ibn Ḥabbāb and his teacher al-Ḍubʿī, for they are only the men of Muslim, and there is some discussion about them that does not harm [the narration]. It has a corroborating narration from Yazīd ibn Abī Ziyād - who is the Hāshimī, their client - from Mujāhid from Yazīd ibn Shajarah in a khuṭbah of his, he said at its end: "I have been informed that the swords are the keys to paradise." It was narrated by al-Ṭabarānī through two routes, one of which is good and authentic as al-Mundhirī said (2/195). Al-Haythamī said (5/294): "Its men are the men of the authentic [collections]." I say: He narrated it in "al-Kabīr" (22/246-247) through two routes, one of them from ʿAbd al-Razzāq, and this is in "al-Muṣannaf" (5/256-257) from al-Thawrī from Manṣūr from Mujāhid with it