Sahih Bukhari 4596

حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ يَزِيدَ الْمُقْرِئُ ، حَدَّثَنَا حَيْوَةُ وَغَيْرُهُ ، قَالَا : حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ أَبُو الْأَسْوَدِ ، قَالَ : قُطِعَ عَلَى أَهْلِ الْمَدِينَةِ بَعْثٌ ، فَاكْتُتِبْتُ فِيهِ ، فَلَقِيتُ عِكْرِمَةَ مَوْلَى ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ فَأَخْبَرْتُهُ ، فَنَهَانِي عَنْ ذَلِكَ أَشَدَّ النَّهْيِ ، ثُمَّ قَالَ : أَخْبَرَنِي ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ ، أَنَّ نَاسًا مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ كَانُوا مَعَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ ، يُكَثِّرُونَ سَوَادَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ ، يَأْتِي السَّهْمُ فَيُرْمَى بِهِ ، فَيُصِيبُ أَحَدَهُمْ ، فَيَقْتُلُهُ أَوْ يُضْرَبُ فَيُقْتَلُ ، فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ : إِنَّ الَّذِينَ تَوَفَّاهُمُ الْمَلائِكَةُ ظَالِمِي أَنْفُسِهِمْ سورة النساء آية 97 الْآيَةَ . رَوَاهُ اللَّيْثُ ، عَنْ أَبِي الْأَسْوَدِ .

Narrated Muhammad bin `Abdur-Rahman Abu Al-Aswad: The people of Medina were forced to prepare an army (to fight against the people of Sham during the caliphate of `Abdullah bin Az-Zubair at Mecca), and I was enlisted in it; Then I met `Ikrima, the freed slave of Ibn `Abbas, and informed him (about it), and he forbade me strongly to do so (i.e. to enlist in that army), and then said, Ibn `Abbas informed me that some Muslim people were with the pagans, increasing the number of the pagans against Allah's Messenger . An arrow used to be shot which would hit one of them (the Muslims in the company of the pagans) and kill him, or he would be struck and killed (with a sword). Then Allah revealed:-- Verily! as for those whom the angels take (in death) while they are wronging themselves (by staying among the disbelievers) (4.97) Abu Aswad added, Except the weak ones among men, women,... (4.98)