صحيح البخاري
Sahih al-Bukhari — Hadith 120
Compiled by Imam al-Bukhari
Arabic Text
حَدَّثَنَا عُثْمَانُ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا جَرِيرٌ عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ عَنْ أَبِي وَائِلٍ عَنْ أَبِي مُوسَى قَالَجَاءَ رَجُلٌ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَقَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَا الْقِتَالُ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ فَإِنَّ أَحَدَنَا يُقَاتِلُ غَضَبًا وَيُقَاتِلُ حَمِيَّةً فَرَفَعَ إِلَيْهِ رَأْسَهُ قَالَ وَمَا رَفَعَ إِلَيْهِ رَأْسَهُ إِلَّا أَنَّهُ كَانَ قَائِمًا فَقَالَ مَنْ قَاتَلَ لِتَكُونَ كَلِمَةُ اللَّهِ هِيَ الْعُلْيَا فَهُوَ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ
English Translation
Telah menceritakan kepada kami ['Utsman] berkata, telah menceritakan kepada kami [Jarir] dari [Manshur] dari [Abu Wa'il] dari [Abu Musa] berkata, "Seorang laki-laki datang menemui Nabi shallallahu 'alaihi wasallam dan bertanya, "Wahai Rasulullah, apakah yang disebut dengan perang fi sabilillah (di jalan Allah)? Sebab di antara kami ada yang berperang karena marah dan ada yang karena semangat?" Beliau lalu mengangkat kepalanya ke arah orang yang bertanya, dan tidaklah beliau angkat kepalanya kecuali karena orang yang bertanya itu berdiri. Beliau lalu menjawab: "Barangsiapa berperang untuk meninggikan kalimat Allah, maka dia perperang di jalan Allah 'azza wajalla."
About Sahih al-Bukhari
Born
194 AH / 810 CE — Bukhara, Uzbekistan
Died
256 AH / 870 CE
Imam al-Bukhari dedicated 16 years to compiling Sahih al-Bukhari, selecting approximately 7,275 hadiths from over 600,000 narrations he examined. His strict conditions for accepting a hadith — requiring narrator continuity, reliable memory, and confirmed meeting between narrators — make it the most rigorously authenticated hadith collection in Islamic scholarship.
Imam al-Bukhari would perform ghusl and pray two rak'ahs before recording each hadith. Sahih al-Bukhari is universally regarded as the most authentic book after the Quran.
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