Hadith / Musannaf Ibn Abi Shayba / 36:164

Musannaf Ibn Abi Shayba 36:164

Book of the Military Expeditions (Maghazi)

كتاب المغازي

Hadith 36:164

Ubayd Allah narrated to us, he said: Isra'il informed us, from Abu Ishaq, from Abu Ubaydah, from his father, who said: They were made to appear few in our eyes on the day of Badr, until I said to a companion of mine beside me, "How many do you see them?" He said, "I see them as a hundred." Until we captured a man from them and asked him, and he said, "We were a thousand."

حدثنا عبيد الله قال أخبرنا إسرائيل عن أبي إسحاق عن أبي عبيدة عن أبيه قال لقد قللوا في أعيننا يوم بدر حتى قلت لصاحب لي إلى جنبي كم تراهم تراهم سبعين قال أراهم مائة حتى أخذنا منهم رجلا فسألناه فقال كنا ألفا