Jami' at-Tirmidhi — Hadith #27741

Ahmad bin Abdul Rahman Abu Al-Walid Al-Dimashqi told us, Al-Walid bin Muslim told us, on the authority of Sa’id bin Bashir, on the authority of Qatada, on the authority of Al-Hasan, on the authority of Samurah ibn Jundub, that the Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, said, “Kill the sheikhs of the polytheists and spare their elders alive.” The boys who did not grow up. Abu Issa said: This is a good, authentic, and strange hadith. Al-Hajjaj bin Artat narrated it on the authority of Qatada, similar to it. .