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Sahih Muslim 1856bصحيح مسلم 1856b
وَحَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، ح وَحَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ نُمَيْرٍ، حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ، عَنْ جَابِرٍ، قَالَ لَمْ نُبَايِعْ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم عَلَى الْمَوْتِ إِنَّمَا بَايَعْنَاهُ عَلَى أَنْ لاَ نَفِرَّ .
It has been narrated (through a different chain of transmitters) on the authority of Jabir who said: While swearing fealty to the Prophet (ﷺ) we did not take the oath to death but that we would not run away (from the battlefield).
Grading
Sahih (authentic by the consensus of hadith scholars)
Chain of narrators
محمد بن عبد الله ← سفيان بن عيينة ← محمد بن مسلم بن تدرس ← جابر بن عبد الله
Muhammad ibn Abdullah → Sufyan ibn Uyayna → Muhammad ibn Muslim ibn Tadrus → Jabir