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Sahih Muslim 1856gصحيح مسلم 1856g
وَحَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ، وَابْنُ، نُمَيْرٍ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ إِدْرِيسَ، ح وَحَدَّثَنَا رِفَاعَةُ بْنُ الْهَيْثَمِ، حَدَّثَنَا خَالِدٌ، - يَعْنِي الطَّحَّانَ - كِلاَهُمَا يَقُولُ عَنْ حُصَيْنٍ، عَنْ سَالِمِ بْنِ أَبِي الْجَعْدِ، عَنْ جَابِرٍ، قَالَ لَوْ كُنَّا مِائَةَ أَلْفٍ لَكَفَانَا كُنَّا خَمْسَ عَشْرَةَ مِائَةً .
It has been narrated on the authority of Jabir who said: If we had been a hundred thousand in number, it (the water) would have sufficed us, but actually we were fifteen hundred.
Grading
Sahih (authentic by the consensus of hadith scholars)
Chain of narrators
رفاعة بن الهيثم بن الحكم ← خالد بن عبد الله ← حصين بن عبد الرحمن ← سالم بن أبي الجعد ← جابر بن عبد الله
Rifa'a ibn al-Haytham ibn al-Hakam → Khalid ibn Abdullah → Husayn ibn Abd al-Rahman → Salim ibn Abi al-Ja'd → Jabir