The Book of Jihad, Expeditions, and Authority-10b
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The reciter: And Muhammad ibn al-Muthanna and Ibn Bashshar narrated to us, and they said: Muhammad ibn Ja'far narrated to us, Shu'bah narrated to us from Amr ibn Murrah from Salim ibn Abi al-Ja'd, who said: .
The Shaykh : The reconciliation between this and what was mentioned previously, that they were one thousand and four hundred, is that in the phrase "one thousand and four hundred," the fractional part was dropped, while in the phrase "one thousand and five hundred," the fractional part was completed. This is a matter in which the Arabs are lenient, meaning that they sometimes omit the fractional part and sometimes complete it.
I asked Jabir ibn 'Abd Allah about the companions of the tree, and he said: If we had been one hundred thousand, that would have been sufficient for us; we were one thousand and five hundred.
سَأَلْتُ جَابِرَ بْنَ عَبْدِ اللهِ، عَنْ أَصْحَابِ الشَّجَرَةِ، فَقَالَ : لَوْ كُنَّا مِائَةَ أَلْفٍ لَكَفَانَا، كُنَّا أَلْفًا وَخَمْسَ مِائَةٍThe Shaykh : The reconciliation between this and what was mentioned previously, that they were one thousand and four hundred, is that in the phrase "one thousand and four hundred," the fractional part was dropped, while in the phrase "one thousand and five hundred," the fractional part was completed. This is a matter in which the Arabs are lenient, meaning that they sometimes omit the fractional part and sometimes complete it.