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Hadith – Abu Dawud

1103

Prohibition on killing non-combatants even in battle on a battlefield.

Narrated Anas ibn Malik

The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: Go in Allah's name, trusting in Allah, and adhering to the religion of Allah's Apostle. Do not kill a decrepit old man, or a young infant, or a child, or a woman; do not be dishonest about booty, but collect your spoils, do right and act well, for Allah loves those who do well.

Hadith – Abu Dawud

1127

Prohibition on killing non-combatants even in battle on a battlefield.

Narrated Rabah ibn Rabi'

When we were with the Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) on an expedition, he saw some people collected together over something and sent a man and said: See, what are these people collected around? He then came and said: They are round a woman who

has been killed. He said: This is not one with whom fighting should have taken place. Khalid ibn al-Walid was in charge of the vanguard; so he sent a man and said: Tell Khalid not to kill a woman or a hired servant.

Hadith - Bukhari

5

380

Hypocrites amongst Muslims turned back from battle, making their hypocrisy evident.

Hadith 5.380

Narrated Zaid bin Thabit:

When the Prophet set out for (the battle of) Uhud, some of those who had gone out with him, returned. The companions of the Prophet were divided into two groups. One group said, "We will fight them (i.e. the enemy)," and the other group said, "We will not fight them." So there came the Divine Revelation:  "(O Muslims!) Then what is the matter within you that you are divided. Into two parties about the hypocrites? Allah has cast them back (to disbelief) BeCause of what they have earned." (4.88)  On that, the Prophet said, "That is Taiba (i.e. the city of Medina) which clears one from one's sins as the fire expels the impurities of silver."

Hadith - Bukhari

6

181

One  explanation of Quran Ch. 9 v. 12

Narrated Zaid bin Wahb:

We were with Hudhaifa and he said, "None remains of the people described by this Verse (9.12):  'Except three, and of the hypocrites except four.' " A bedouin said, "You the companions of Muhammad! Tell us (things) and we do not know that about those who break open our houses and steal our precious things?" He (Hudhaifa) replied, "Those are Al Fussaq (rebellious wrongdoers, not disbelievers or hypocrites). Really, none remains of them (hypocrites) but four, one of whom is a very old man who, if he drinks water, does not feel its coldness."

Hadith - Bukhari

8

28

God’s love and mercy is greater than a mother for her baby

Narrated 'Umar bin Al-Khattab:

Some Sabi (i.e. war prisoners, children and woman only) were brought before the Prophet and behold, a woman amongst them was milking her breasts to feed and whenever she found a child amongst the captives, she took it over her chest and nursed it (she had lost her child but later she found him). The Prophet said to us, "Do you think that this lady can throw her son in the fire?" We replied, "No, if she has the power not to throw it (in the fire)." The Prophet then said, "Allah is more merciful to His slaves than this lady to her son."

Hadith - Bukhari

9

388

Fighting Muslims who turn renegade, revert to disbelief, or refuse to follow one of the pillars of Islam.

Fighting people refers primarily to the people of Arabia, the pagans who had fought the Prophet and the Muslims in Sura 9.  Though the hadith does not indicate this limitation, but it also can not be interpreted to mean a command to conquer the world and force people to become Muslim, which is contrary to the Quran.

Narrated Abu Huraira:

When Allah's Apostle died and Abu Bakr was elected as a Caliph after him, some of the Arabs reverted to disbelief. 'Umar said to Abu Bakr, "How dare you fight the people while Allah's Apostle said, I have been ordered to fight the people till they say 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah.' And whoever says: 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah' saves his wealth and his life from me unless he deserves a legal punishment justly, and his account will be with Allah! Abu Bakr said, "By Allah, I will fight him who discriminates between Zakat and prayers, for Zakat is the compulsory right to be taken from the wealth. By Allah, if they refuse to give me even a tying rope which they used to give to Allah's Apostle, I would fight them for withholding it." 'Umar said, "By Allah, it was nothing, except I saw that Allah had opened the chest of Abu Bakr to the fight, and I came to know for certain that was the truth."