Sahih al-Bukhari 6260

Translation

that Heraclius had sent for him to come along with a group of the Quraish who were trading in Sha'm, and they came to him. Then Abu Sufyan mentioned the whole narration and said, "Heraclius asked for the letter of Messenger of Allah ﷺ. When the letter was read, its contents were as follows: 'In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. From Muhammad, Allah's slave and His Apostle to Heraclius, the Chief of Byzantines: Peace be upon him who follows the right path (guidance)! Amma ba'du (to proceed )...' (See Hadith No 6, Vol 1 for details)

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 4553Sunan Abi Dawud 5136al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 7295al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 7297Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 9826

Narrators

1. 1
   Ṣakhr b. Ḥarb raʾīs Quraysh

   well-known Companion, accepted Islam in the year of the Conquestd. Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ and others said: 31 AH. Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī and others said: 32 AH. Al-Zubayr b. Bakkār said: 33 AH. Abū al-Ḥasan al-Madāʾinī and others said: 34 AH
   صَخْر بْن حَرْب رَئِيس قُرَيْشصحابي شهير ، أسلم عام الفتح
   أخبره
2. 2
   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
3. 3
   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 عُتْبَةَثقة فقيه ثبت
   أخبرني
4. 4
   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
   الزُّهْرِيِّالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبته
   عن
5. 5
   Yūnus

   Trustworthy (thiqah), except that in his narration from al-Zuhrī there are slight errors (awhām), and in his narration from others there is error (khaṭaʾ)d. Ibn Saʿd said: 152 AH, al-Bukhārī and others: 159 AH (and it is the correct view), Muḥammad b. ʿAzīz said: 160 AH
   يُونُسُثقة ، إلا أن في روايته عن الزهري وهما قليلا ، وفي غير الزهري خطأ
   أخبرنا
6. 6
   ʿAbdullāh b. al-Mubārak

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh) and scholar, generous and a fighter in the way of God, in whom the qualities of goodness were gathered.d. 181 AH, or 182 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِثقة ثبت ، فقيه عالم ، جواد مجاهد ، جمعت فيه خصال الخير
   أخبرنا
7. 7
   Muḥammad b. Muqātil

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 226 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مُقَاتِلٍ أَبُو الْحَسَنِثقة
   حدثنا
8. 8
   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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Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.