Musnad Ahmad 1672

Translation

✧ When the Magian left the presence of the Messenger of God ﷺ, I asked him, and he told me that the Prophet ﷺ gave him a choice between the jizyah and death, and he chose the jizyah.

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• Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī

  سليمان بن موسى لم يدرك عبد الرحمن بن عوف

  in مسند أحمد, p. 1678

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. ʿAwf b. ʿAbd ʿAwf al-Qurashī

   One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 31 AH, or 32 AH, also said: 33 AH
   عَبْد الرَّحْمَن بْن عَوْف بْن عَبْد عَوْف القُرَشِيأحد العشرة
   عن
2. 2
   Sulaymān b. Mūsá al-Ashdaq

   truthful (ṣadūq), jurist, there is some softness in his hadith, and his mind became confused shortly before his deathd. 115 AH, or 119 AH
   سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ مُوسَىصدوق , فقيه , في حديثه بعض لين , وخولط قبل موته بقليل
   حدثني
3. 3
   Saʿīd b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Tanūkhī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), an imām; Aḥmad ranked him equal to al-Awzāʿī, and Abū Mushir preferred him over him, but he became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his lifed. 167 AH or 168 AH
   سَعِيدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِثقة إمام ، سواه أحمد بالأوزاعي ، وقدمه أبو مسهر ، لكنه اختلط في آخر أمره
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Abū al-Mughīrah

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 212 AH, or 215, 222 AH
   أَبُو الْمُغِيرَةِثقة
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his view
   أحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

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