Mishkat al-Masabih #3780
Jihad
As-Sa‘b b. Jaththama told that God’s Messenger was asked about the polytheists whose settlements were attacked at night when some of their women and offspring were smitten, and replied that they were of their number. A version has it that they were regarded in the same way as their parents.
(Bukhari and Muslim.)
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This hadith is #3780 from Mishkat al-Masabih, in the Book of Jihad. Mishkat al-Masabih contains 4,428 hadiths across 25 books.