Arabic (Original)
al-Sayyid Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn b. Dāwud al-ʿAlawī ؒ Imlāʾ > Abū Ḥāmid b. al-Sharqī > Muḥammad b. ʿAqīl > Ḥafṣ b. ʿAbdullāh > Ibrāhīm b. Ṭahmān > Mūsá b. ʿUqbah > Abū al-Zinād > ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Aʿraj > Abū Hurayrah > Rasūl حَدَّثَنَا السَّيِّدُ أَبُو الْحَسَنِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ دَاوُدَ الْعَلَوِيُّ رَحِمَهُ اللهُ إِمْلَاءً أنبأ أَبُو حَامِدِ بْنُ الشَّرْقِيِّ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَقِيلٍ ثنا حَفْصُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ ثنا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنِ طَهْمَانَ عَنْ مُوسَى بْنِ عُقْبَةَ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي أَبُو الزِّنَادِ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْأَعْرَجِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ؓ أَنَّهُ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ دَاوُدَ عَلَيْهِمَا السَّلَامُ لَأَطُوفَنَّ اللَّيْلَةَ عَلَى سَبْعِينَ امْرَأَةً كُلُّ وَاحِدَةٍ تَأْتِي بِفَارِسٍ يُقَاتِلُ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ فَقَالَ لَهُ صَاحِبُهُ قُلْ إِنْ شَاءَ اللهُ فَلَمْ يَفْعَلْ وَلَمْ يَقُلْ إِنْ شَاءَ اللهُ فَطَافَ عَلَيْهِنَّ جَمِيعًا فَلَمْ تَحْمِلْ مِنْهُنَّ إِلَّا امْرَأَةٌ وَاحِدَةٌ جَاءَتْ بِشِقِّ رَجُلٍ وَايْمُ الَّذِي نَفْسُ مُحَمَّدٍ بِيَدِهِ لَوْ قَالَ إِنْ شَاءَ اللهُ لَجَاهَدُوا فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ أَجْمَعُونَ
English Translation
Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Sulayman ibn Dawud (peace be upon them both) said: Tonight I will go around to seventy women, each of whom will bear a horseman who will fight in the cause of Allah. His companion said to him: Say 'in sha Allah (if Allah wills).' But he did not say it. He went around to all of them, but none of them conceived except one woman who gave birth to a half-formed child. By the One in Whose hand is Muhammad's soul, had he said 'in sha Allah,' they would have all fought as horsemen in the cause of Allah.