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al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 16954

✧ What makes blood unlawful by Islam, whether he is a heretic or otherwise

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( أَخْبَرَنَا ) أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ، أَنْبَأَ أَبُو الْوَلِيدِ الْفَقِيهُ، ثَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ سُفْيَانَ، ثَنَا سَعْدُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ الْفَرَّاءُ، ثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ سِمَاكٍ، عَنْ قَابُوسَ بْنِ الْمُخَارِقِ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ:

أَنَّ مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ أَبِي بَكْرٍ كَتَبَ إِلَى عَلِيٍّ ؓ يَسْأَلُهُ عَنْ زَنَادِقَةٍ مُسْلِمِينَ. قَالَ عَلِيٌّ ؓ: أَمَّا الزَّنَادِقَةُ فَيُعْرَضُونَ عَلَى الْإِسْلَامِ، فَإِنْ أَسْلَمُوا وَإِلَّا قُتِلُوا

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥāfiẓ Anbaʾ Abū al-Walīd al-Faqīh
  2. al-Ḥasan b. Sufyān
  3. Saʿd b. Yazīd al-Farrāʾ
  4. Ḥammād b. Salamah
  5. Simāk
  6. Qābūs b. al-Mukhāriq
  7. his father

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Muhammad b. Abī Bakr wrote to ʿAlī (may God be pleased with him) asking him about heretics (zanādiqah) who were Muslims. ʿAlī (may God be pleased with him) said: "As for the heretics, they are to be presented with Islam. If they accept Islam, well and good; otherwise they are to be killed."

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Narrators

  1. ʿAlī b. Abū Ṭālib
    One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AH
    عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرة
    قال
  2. Mukhāriq b. Sulaym al-Shaybānī
    His status as a Companion is disputed (mukhtalaf fī ṣuḥbatihi)
    أَبِيهِمختلف في صحبته
    عن
  3. Qābūs b. Mukhāriq
    no harm in him (lā baʾs bih)
    قَابُوسَ بْنِ الْمُخَارِقِلا بأس به
    عن
  4. Simāk b. Ḥarb al-Bakrī
    Truthful (ṣadūq); his narrations from ʿIkrimah in particular are inconsistent (muḍṭarib); he changed (taghayyara) towards the end of his life, and at times he would accept prompting (yulaqqan).d. 123 AH
    سِمَاكٍصدوق , وروايته عن عكرمة خاصة مضطربة , وقد تغير بأخرة ، فكان ربما يلقن
    عن
  5. 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
    حدثنا
  6. Saʿd b. Yazīd al-Farrāʾ
    d. 230 AH
    سَعْدُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ الْفَرَّاءُ
    حدثنا
  7. al-Ḥasan b. Sufyān
    d. 303 AH
    الْحَسَنُ بْنُ سُفْيَانَ
    حدثنا
  8. Abū al-Walīd
    d. 349 AH
    أَبُو الْوَلِيدِ الْفَقِيهُ
    أنبأ
  9. al-Ḥākim
    d. 403 AH, or 405 AH
    أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ
    أخبرنا
  10. al-Bayhaqī
    d. 458 AH
    البيهقي

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