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كتاب الإمارة
The Book on Government
" أَنْتُمُ الْيَوْمَ خَيْرُ أَهْلِ الأَرْضِ "
We were one thousand and four hundred on the Day of Hudaibiya when the Prophet (ﷺ) said to us: Today you are the best people on the earth. And Jabir said: If I had the eyesight, I could show you the place of the tree.
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- Hadith 1856d
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- Hadith 1856f
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- Hadith 1856c
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- Hadith 1856g
If we had been a hundred thousand in number, it (the water) would have sufficed us, but actually we were fifteen hundred.
- Hadith 1856b
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- Hadith 1856h
I asked Jabir: How many were you on the Day of Hudaibiya? He said: One thousand and four hundred.