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Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 1101

When a dhimmi writes and gives the greeting, he is answered

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حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ بِشْرٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا الْحَكَمُ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبَّادٌ يَعْنِي ابْنَ عَبَّادٍ عَنْ عَاصِمٍ الأَحْوَلِ

عَنْ أَبِي عُثْمَانَ النَّهْدِيِّ قَالَ كَتَبَ أَبُو مُوسَى إِلَى رُهْبَانٍ يُسَلِّمُ عَلَيْهِ فِي كِتَابِهِ فَقِيلَ لَهُ أَتُسَلِّمُ عَلَيْهِ وَهُوَ كَافِرٌ؟ قَالَ إِنَّهُ كَتَبَ إِلَيَّ فَسَلَّمَ عَلَيَّ فَرَدَدْتُ عَلَيْهِ

Translation

✧ From Abu ʿUthman al-Nahdi, who said: “Abu Musa wrote to a monk, greeting him in his letter. It was said to him, ‘Do you greet him when he is an unbeliever?’ He said, ‘He wrote to me and greeted me, so I returned the greeting to him.’”

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