Imam Ali wrote:
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The main purpose of sahaba going out in the path of Allah (s.w.t) was dawah (Tabligh), not kitaal. coz that is the main objective of prophethood. The post of brother sulaiman84 explains that.
Later Allah (s.w.t) revealed the below ayats. Subhanallah, the sahaba thought it so important that all would go in the path of Allah (s.w.t), and Allah (s.w.t) had to reveal an ayah for some to stop and acquire knowledge.
"And the believers should not all go out to fight. Of every troop of them, a party only should go forth, that they (who are left behind) may gain sound knowledge in religion, and that they may warn their folk when they return to them, so that they may guard themselves against evil."[Al-Tauba 9:122]
Posted above are from a bayan by mufti naval ur rahman db i heard long ago.
So, which ever sahabi died in the path of Allah (s.w.t), was to do tabligh. There are thousands of them. like bilal ra, abu ayyub ansari ra... etc...
The others that remained was to establish khilafa & propagate knowledge.
So, if any ignorant tablighi brother says, all should go, then give him a big NO. There are other aspects/branches of islam which need to be taken care of.


participated. Sa'id bin Musayyab1 رحمة الله عليه documents 24 whilst Jabir bin Abdullah2 رضي الله عنه reports that there were 21 Ghazwat. Zaid bin Arqam3 رضي الله عنه narrates that the Ghazwat totaled just 19.