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Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 1124

The one who is put first in a letter

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حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ زَكَرِيَّا عَنِ ابْنِ عَوْنٍ

عَنْ نَافِعٍ قَالَ كَانَتْ لِابْنِ عُمَرَ حَاجَةٌ إِلَى مُعَاوِيَةَ فَأَرَادَ أَنْ يَكْتُبَ إِلَيْهِ فَقَالُوا ابْدَأْ بِهِ فَلَمْ يَزَالُوا بِهِ حَتَّى كَتَبَ بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ إِلَى مُعَاوِيَةَ

Translation

✧ Nāfiʿ reported: Ibn ʿUmar needed something from Muʿāwiyah, so he wanted to write to him. They said, “Begin with him,” and they kept at him until he wrote: “Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm, to Muʿāwiyah.”

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