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Sahih al-Bukhari 2936

To preach to the people of the Scriptures, or teach them the Holy Book?

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حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ أَخْبَرَنَا يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَخِي ابْنِ شِهَابٍ عَنْ عَمِّهِ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُتْبَةَ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ أَنَّ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ عَبَّاسٍ ؓ أَخْبَرَهُ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ كَتَبَ إِلَى قَيْصَرَ وَقَالَ فَإِنْ تَوَلَّيْتَ فَإِنَّ عَلَيْكَ إِثْمَ الأَرِيسِيِّينَ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Isḥāq
  2. Yaʿqūb b. Ibrāhīm
  3. Ibn Akhī Ibn Shihāb
  4. his uncle
  5. ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUtbah b. Masʿūd
  6. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbbās

Messenger of Allah ﷺ wrote a letter to Caesar saying, "If you reject Islam, you will be responsible for the sins of the tillers (i.e. your people).

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Narrators

  1. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbbās
    One of the Companions who narrated most prolifically (mukthirūn).d. 65 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, also said: 69 AH, also said: 70 AH; also said: 73 AH
    عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابة
    أخبره
  2. ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUtbah b. Masʿūd
    trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), firmly reliable (thabt)d. al-Bukhārī said: died before ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn, 94 AH or 95 AH, and Ibn Numayr said, and others: died 98 AH, Ibn al-Madīnī said: 99 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said: that ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn died 92 AH
    عُبَيْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عُتْبَةَ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍثقة فقيه ثبت
    أخبرني
  3. al-Zuhrī
    The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AH
    عَمِّهِالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبته
    عن
  4. Ibn Akhī Ibn Shihāb
    Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 152 AH, or 157 AH; also said: after it
    ابْنُ أَخِي ابْنِ شِهَابٍصدوق له أوهام
    حدثنا
  5. Yaʿqūb
    Trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil).d. 208 AH
    يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَثقة فاضل .
    أخبرنا
  6. Isḥāq b. Manṣūr
    Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt)d. 251 AH
    إِسْحَاقُثقة ، ثبت
    حدثنا
  7. al-Bukhārī
    a mountain of memorization and the leader of the world in the comprehension of hadith (jabal al-ḥifẓ wa-imām al-dunyā fī fiqh al-ḥadīth)d. 256 AH
    الْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث

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Commentaries

شرح مشكل الآثار
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)

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