Tarikh (al-Tabari) 1694
The messengers of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and his correspondence to the kings and the like
إِرْسَالِهِ ﷺ عُبَيْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ عَبْدِ الْخَالِقِ ؓ إِلَى الرُّومِ قَالَ عَبْدُ الْكَرِيمِ فِي شَرْحِ السِّيرَةِ لِعَبْدِ الْغَنِيِّ: وَذَكَرَهُ أَبُو إِسْحَاقَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ يَحْيَى بْنِ الْأَمِينِ الطُّلَيْطِلِيُّ فِي كِتَابِ الِاسْتِدْرَاكِ عَلَى أَبِي عُمَرَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْبَرِّ فِي أَسْمَاءِ الصَّحَابَةِ مِنْ حَدِيثِ أَيُّوبَ بْنِ نَهِيكٍ عَنْ عَطَاءٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ ابْنَ عُمَرَ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: مَنْ يَذْهَبُ بِكِتَابِي هَذَا إِلَى طَاغِيَةِ الرُّومِ ؟ فَعَرَضَ ذَلِكَ ثَلَاثَ مَرَّاتٍ، فَقَالَ عِنْدَ ذَلِكَ: مَنْ يَذْهَبْ بِهِ فَلَهُ الْجَنَّةُ! فَقَامَ رَجُلٌ مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ يُدْعَى عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْخَالِقِ فَقَالَ: أَنَا أَذْهَبُ بِهِ وَلِيَ الْجَنَّةُ وَإِنْ هَلَكْتُ دُونَ ذَلِكَ ؟ فَقَالَ: لَكَ الْجَنَّةُ إِنْ بَلَغْتَ، وَإِنْ قُتِلْتَ، وَإِنْ هَلَكْتَ، فَقَدْ أَوْجَبَ اللَّهُ لَكَ الْجَنَّةَ! فَانْطَلَقَ بِكِتَابِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ حَتَّى بَلَغَ بَابَ الطَّاغِيَةِ، فَقَالَ: أَنَا رَسُولُ رَسُولِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ فَأَذِنَ لَهُ، فَدَخَلَ عَلَيْهِ، فَعَرَفَ طَاغِيَةُ الرُّومِ أَنَّهُ جَاءَ بِالْحَقِّ مِنْ عِنْدَ نَبِيٍّ مُرْسَلٍ، ثُمَّ عَرَضَ كِتَابَ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ، فَجَمَعَ الرُّومَ عِنْدَهُ، ثُمَّ عَرَضَ عَلَيْهِمْ فَكَرِهُوا مَا جَاءَ بِهِ فَآمَنَ بِهِ رَجُلٌ مِنْهُمْ، فَقُتِلَ عِنْدَ إِيمَانِهِ. ثُمَّ إِنَّ الرَّجُلَ رَجَعَ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ فَأَخْبَرَهُ بِالَّذِي كَانَ مِنْهُ وَمَا كَانَ مِنْ قَتْلِ الرَّجُلِ، فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ: ذَلِكَ الرَّجُلُ يُبْعَثُ أُمَّةً وَحْدَهُ- لِذَلِكَ الْمَقْتُولِ ].
Translation
✧ His ﷺ sending ʿUbayd Allāh b. ʿAbd al-Khāliq ؓ to Byzantium ʿAbd al-Karīm said in the commentary on the sīrah by ʿAbd al-Ghanī: And Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Yaḥyā b. al-Amīn al-Ṭulayṭilī mentioned it in the book al-Istidrāk ʿalā Abī ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-Barr concerning the names of the Companions, from the ḥadīth of Ayyūb b. Nuhayk, from ʿAṭāʾ, who said: I heard Ibn ʿUmar say: I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: "Who will take this letter of mine to the tyrant of Byzantium?" He offered that three times. Then he said: "Whoever takes it will have Paradise!" A man from the Anṣār called ʿUbayd Allāh b. ʿAbd al-Khāliq stood up and said: "I will take it, and will I have Paradise even if I perish before that?" He said: "You will have Paradise whether you deliver it, or are killed, or perish, for Allah has made Paradise obligatory for you!" He set off with the letter of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ until he reached the gate of the tyrant. He said: "I am the messenger of the Messenger of the Lord of the worlds." He was granted permission and entered upon him. The tyrant of Byzantium recognized that he had come with the truth from a sent prophet. Then he presented the letter of the Prophet ﷺ. He gathered the Byzantines before him, then presented it to them, and they disliked what he had brought. A man among them believed in it, and he was killed upon his belief. Then the man returned to the Prophet ﷺ and told him what had happened with him and what had happened regarding the killing of the man. The Prophet ﷺ said: "That man will be resurrected as a nation by himself — referring to the one who was killed."
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