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Sahih al-Bukhari 7162

To bear witness as to the writer of a stamped letter; and the letter of a ruler to a governor, and of a judge to a judge

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حَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ حَدَّثَنَا غُنْدَرٌ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ

لَمَّا أَرَادَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ أَنْ يَكْتُبَ إِلَى الرُّومِ قَالُوا إِنَّهُمْ لاَ يَقْرَءُونَ كِتَابًا إِلاَّ مَخْتُومًا فَاتَّخَذَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ خَاتَمًا مِنْ فِضَّةٍ كَأَنِّي أَنْظُرُ إِلَى وَبِيصِهِ وَنَقْشُهُ مُحَمَّدٌ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Muḥammad b. Bashhār
  2. Ghundar
  3. Shuʿbah
  4. Qatādah
  5. Anas b. Mālik

When the Prophet ﷺ intended to write to the Byzantines, the people said, "They do not read a letter unless it is sealed (stamped)." Therefore the Prophet ﷺ took a silver ring----as if I am looking at its glitter now----and its engraving was: 'Muhammad, Apostle of Allah'.

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Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 13327Sahih Ibn Hibban 6392al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 5837al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 8816al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 9478Musnad Abi Ya'la 3272

Narrators

  1. Anas b. Mālik
    a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AH
    أَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهور
    عن
  2. Qatādah b. Diʿāmah
    trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 117 AH, or: 118 AH
    قَتَادَةَثقة ثبت
    سمعت
  3. Shuʿbah
    Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AH
    شُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقن
    حدثنا
  4. Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar
    Trustworthy (thiqah), his book was sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb), except that he had some heedlessness (ghaflah)d. 192 AH or 193 AH or 194 AH
    غُنْدَرٌثقة صحيح الكتاب إلا أن فيه غفلة
    حدثنا
  5. Muḥammad b. Bashshār
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. 252 AH
    مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍثقة
    حدثني
  6. 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

الاعتبار في الناسخ والمنسوخ
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)

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