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Musnad Ahmad 16694

✧ Messenger Caesar to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ

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قَالَ عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو عَامِرٍ حَوْثَرَةُ بْنُ أَشْرَسَ إِمْلَاءً عَلَيَّ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ خُثَيْمٍ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ أَبِي رَاشِدٍ قَالَ

كَانَ رَسُولُ قَيْصَرَ جَارًا لِي زَمَنَ يَزِيدَ بْنِ مُعَاوِيَةَ، فَقُلْتُ لَهُ: أَخْبِرْنِي عَنْ كِتَابِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ إِلَى قَيْصَرَ، فَقَالَ: إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ أَرْسَلَ دِحْيَةَ الْكَلْبِيَّ إِلَى قَيْصَرَ، وَكَتَبَ مَعَهُ إِلَيْهِ كِتَابًا - فَذَكَرَ نَحْوَ حَدِيثِ عَبَّادِ بْنِ عَبَّادٍ، وَحَدِيثُ عَبَّادٍ أَتَمُّ وَأَحْسَنُ اقْتِصَاصًا لِلْحَدِيثِ، وَزَادَ - قَالَ: فَضَحِكَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ حِينَ دَعَاهُ إِلَى الْإِسْلَامِ، فَأَبَى أَنْ يُسْلِمَ، وَتَلَا هَذِهِ الْآيَةَ إِنَّكَ لا تَهْدِي مَنْ أَحْبَبْتَ وَلَكِنَّ اللهَ يَهْدِي مَنْ يَشَاءُ ثُمَّ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: إِنَّكَ رَسُولُ قَوْمٍ، وَإِنَّ لَكَ حَقًّا، وَلَكِنْ جِئْتَنَا وَنَحْنُ مُرْمِلُونَ، فَقَالَ عُثْمَانُ بْنُ عَفَّانَ: أَنَا أَكْسُوهُ حُلَّةً صَفُّورِيَّةً، وَقَالَ رَجُلٌ مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ: عَلَيَّ ضِيَافَتُهُ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. ʿAbdullāh b. Aḥmad
  2. Abū ʿĀmir Ḥawtharah b. Ashras Imlāʾ ʿAlay
  3. Ḥammād b. Salamah
  4. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUthmān b. Khuthaym
  5. Saʿīd b. Abū Rāshid

✧ The messenger of Caesar was a neighbor of mine during the time of Yazid b. Mu'awiyah. I said to him: 'Tell me about the letter of the Messenger of God ﷺ to Caesar.' He said: 'The Messenger of God ﷺ sent Dihyah al-Kalbi to Caesar, and he sent with him a letter to him' — and he mentioned something like the hadith of 'Abbad b. 'Abbad, and the hadith of 'Abbad is more complete and better in its narration of the story, and he added — he said: 'The Messenger of God ﷺ laughed when he invited him to Islam, and he refused to become Muslim, and he recited this verse: "Indeed, you do not guide whom you love, but God guides whom He wills." Then the Messenger of God ﷺ said: "You are a messenger of a people, and you have a right, but you came to us while we were without provisions." 'Uthman b. 'Affan said: "I will clothe him in a Saffuri robe." And a man from the Ansar said: "His hospitality is upon me."

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Narrators

  1. al-Tanūkhī rasūl Hiraql
    التَّنُوخِيُّ رَسُولُ هِرَقْلَ
    في حكم العنعنة
  2. Saʿīd b. Abī Rāshid
    acceptable (maqbūl)
    سَعِيدِ بْنِ أَبِي رَاشِدٍمقبول
    عن
  3. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUthmān b. Khuthaym
    truthful (ṣadūq)d. 132 AH, or 133 AH, Ibn Ḥibbān said: died before the year 144 AH, and it has been said: 135 AH, Ibn Saʿd said: died at the end of Abū al-ʿAbbās's caliphate or the beginning of Abū Jaʿfar's caliphate
    عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ خُثَيْمٍصدوق
    عن
  4. Ḥammād b. Salamah
    trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid), the most reliable of people in narrating from Thābit; his memory changed towards the end of his lifed. 167 AH, or 165 AH.
    حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَثقه عابد ، أثبت الناس في ثابت ، وتغير حفظه بآخره
    أخبرني
  5. Ḥawtharah b. Ashras
    d. 231 AH, al-Dhahabī said: 232 AH
    أَبُو عَامِرٍ ج٧ / ص٣٦٧٣حَوْثَرَةُ بْنُ أَشْرَسَ
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  6. ʿAbdullāh
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. 290 AH, or 297
    عَبْدُ اللهِثقة

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