Sirat Ibn Hisham 1554
The arrival of the messenger of the kings of Ḥimyar with their letter
قُدُومُ رَسُولِ مُلُوكِ حِمْيَرَ بِكِتَابِهِمْ [ قُدُومُ رَسُولِ مُلُوكِ حِمْيَرَ ] وَقَدِمَ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ كِتَابُ مُلُوكِ حِمْيَرَ، مَقْدَمَهُ مِنْ تَبُوكَ، وَرَسُولُهُمْ إلَيْهِ بِإِسْلَامِهِمْ، الْحَارِثُ بْنُ عَبْدِ كُلَالٍ، وَنُعَيْمُ بْنُ عَبْدِ كُلَالٍ، وَالنُّعْمَانُ قَيْلُ ذِي رُعَيْنٍ وَمَعَافِرَ وَهَمْدَانَ؛ وَبَعَثَ إلَيْهِ زُرْعَةَ ذُو يَزَنٍ مَا لَكَ ابْنَ مُرَّةَ الرَّهَاوِيَّ بِإِسْلَامِهِمْ، وَمُفَارَقَتِهِمْ الشِّرْكَ وَأَهْلَهُ. [ كِتَابُ الرَّسُولِ إِلَيْهِمْ ] فَكَتَبَ إلَيْهِمْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ: بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ: مِنْ مُحَمَّدٍ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ النَّبِيِّ، إلَى الْحَارِثِ بْنِ عَبْدِ كُلَالٍ، وَإِلَى نُعَيْمِ بْنِ عَبْدِ كُلَالٍ، وَإِلَى النُّعْمَانِ، قَيْلِ ذِي رُعَيْنٍ وَمَعَافِرَ وَهَمْدَانَ. أَمَّا بَعْدُ ذَلِكُمْ، فَإِنِّي أَحْمَدُ إلَيْكُمْ اللَّهَ الَّذِي لَا إلَهَ إلَّا هُوَ، أَمَّا بَعْدُ، فَإِنَّهُ قَدْ وَقَعَ بِهِ رَسُولُكُمْ مُنْقَلَبَنَا مِنْ أَرْضِ الرُّومِ فَلَقِيَنَا بِالْمَدِينَةِ، فَبَلَّغَ مَا أَرْسَلْتُمْ بِهِ، وَخَبَّرَ مَا قَبْلَكُمْ، وَأَنْبَأْنَا بِإِسْلَامِكُمْ وَقَتْلِكُمْ الْمُشْرِكِينَ، وَأَنَّ اللَّهَ قَدْ هَدَاكُمْ بِهُدَاهُ، إنْ أَصْلَحْتُمْ وَأَطَعْتُمْ اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ، وَأَقَمْتُمْ الصَّلَاةَ، وَآتَيْتُمْ الزَّكَاةَ، وَأَعْطَيْتُمْ مِنْ الْمَغَانِمِ خُمُسَ اللَّهِ، وَسَهْمَ الرَّسُولِ وَصَفِيَّهُ، وَمَا كُتِبَ عَلَى الْمُؤْمِنِينَ مِنْ الصَّدَقَةِ مِنْ الْعَقَارِ، عُشْرَ مَا سَقَتْ الْعَيْنُ وَسَقَتْ السَّمَاءُ، وَعَلَى مَا سَقَى الْغَرْبُ نِصْفُ الْعُشْرِ؛ وَأَنَّ فِي الْإِبِلِ الْأَرْبَعِينَ ابْنَةَ لَبُونٍ، وَفِي ثَلَاثِينَ مِنْ الْإِبِلِ ابْنُ لَبُونٍ ذَكَرٍ، وَفِي كُلِّ خُمُسٍ مِنْ الْإِبِلِ شَاةٌ، وَفِي كُلِّ عَشْرٍ مِنْ الْإِبِلِ شَاتَانِ، وَفِي كُلِّ أَرْبَعِينَ مِنْ الْبَقَرِ بَقَرَةٌ؛ وَفِي كُلِّ ثَلَاثِينَ مِنْ الْبَقَرِ تَبِيعٌ، جَذَعٌ أَوْ جَذَعَةٌ؛ وَفِي كُلِّ أَرْبَعِينَ مِنْ الْغَنَمِ سَائِمَةٌ وَحْدَهَا، شَاةٌ، وَأَنَّهَا فَرِيضَةُ اللَّهِ الَّتِي فَرَضَ عَلَى الْمُؤْمِنِينَ فِي الصَّدَقَةِ؛ فَمَنْ زَادَ خَيْرًا فَهُوَ خَيْرٌ لَهُ، وَمَنْ أَدَّى ذَلِكَ وَأَشْهَدَ عَلَى إسْلَامِهِ، وَظَاهَرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلَى الْمُشْرِكِينَ، فَإِنَّهُ مِنْ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ، لَهُ مَا لَهُمْ، وَعَلَيْهِ مَا عَلَيْهِمْ، وَلَهُ ذِمَّةُ اللَّهِ وَذِمَّةُ رَسُولِهِ، وَإِنَّهُ مَنْ أَسْلَمَ مِنْ يَهُودِيٍّ أَوْ نَصْرَانِيٍّ، فَإِنَّهُ مِنْ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ، لَهُ مَا لَهُمْ، وَعَلَيْهِ مَا عَلَيْهِمْ؛ وَمَنْ كَانَ عَلَى يَهُودِيَّتِهِ أَوْ نَصْرَانِيَّتِهِ فَإِنَّهُ لَا يُرَدُّ عَنْهَا، وَعَلَيْهِ الْجِزْيَةُ، عَلَى كُلِّ حَالٍ ذَكَرٍ أَوْ أُنْثَى، حُرٍّ أَوْ عَبْدٍ، دِينَارٌ وَافٍ، مِنْ قِيمَةِ الْمَعَافِرِ أَوْ عِوَضُهُ ثِيَابًا، فَمَنْ أَدَّى ذَلِكَ إلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَإِنَّ لَهُ ذِمَّةُ اللَّهِ وَذِمَّةُ رَسُولِهِ، وَمَنْ مَنَعَهُ فَإِنَّهُ عَدُوٌّ لِلَّهِ وَلِرَسُولِهِ. أَمَّا بَعْدُ، فَإِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مُحَمَّدًا النَّبِيَّ أَرْسَلَ إلَى زُرْعَةَ ذِي يَزَنٍ أَنْ إذَا أَتَاكُمْ رُسُلِي فَأُوصِيكُمْ بِهِمْ خَيْرًا: مُعَاذُ بْنُ جَبَلٍ، وَعَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ زَيْدٍ، وَمَالِكُ بْنُ عُبَادَةَ، وَعُقْبَةُ بْنُ نَمِرٍ، وَمَالِكُ بْنُ مُرَّةَ، وَأَصْحَابُكُمْ وَأَنْ اجْمَعُوا مَا عِنْدَكُمْ مِنْ الصَّدَقَةِ وَالْجِزْيَةِ مِنْ مُخَالِيفِكُمْ، وَأَبْلِغُوهَا رُسُلِي، وَأَنَّ أَمِيرَهُمْ مُعَاذُ بْنُ جَبَلٍ، فَلَا يَنْقَلِبَنَّ إلَّا رَاضِيًا، أَمَّا بَعْدُ. فَإِنَّ مُحَمَّدًا يَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إلَهَ إلَّا اللَّهُ وَأَنَّهُ عَبْدُهُ وَرَسُولُهُ، ثُمَّ إنَّ مَالِكَ بْنَ مُرَّةَ الرَّهَاوِيَّ قَدْ حَدَّثَنِي أَنَّكَ أَسْلَمْتَ مِنْ أَوَّلِ حِمْيَرَ، وَقَتَلْتَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ، فَأَبْشِرْ بِخَيْرِ وَآمُرُكَ بِحِمْيَرَ خَيْرًا، وَلَا تَخُونُوا وَلَا تَخَاذَلُوا، فَإِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ هُوَ وَلِيُّ غَنِيِّكُمْ وَفَقِيرِكُمْ، وَأَنَّ الصَّدَقَةَ لَا تَحِلُّ لِمُحَمَّدِ وَلَا لِأَهْلِ بَيْتِهِ، إنَّمَا هِيَ زَكَاةٌ يُزَكَّى بِهَا عَلَى فُقَرَاءِ الْمُسْلِمِينَ وَابْنِ السَّبِيلِ، وَأَنَّ مَالِكًا قَدْ بَلَّغَ الْخَبَرَ، وَحَفِظَ الْغَيْبَ، وَآمُرُكُمْ بِهِ خَيْرًا، وَإِنِّي قَدْ أَرْسَلْتُ إلَيْكُمْ مِنْ صَالِحِي أَهْلِي وَأُولِي دِينِهِمْ وَأُولِي عِلْمِهِمْ، وَآمُرُكَ بِهِمْ خَيْرًا، فَإِنَّهُمْ مَنْظُورٌ إلَيْهِمْ، وَالسَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ اللَّهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ.
Translation
✧ The arrival of the envoy of the kings of Ḥimyar with their letter [The arrival of the envoy of the kings of Ḥimyar] And the letter of the kings of Ḥimyar came to the Messenger of God ﷺ upon his return from Tabūk, and their envoy to him with their acceptance of Islam was al-Ḥārith b. ʿAbd Kulāl, and Nuʿaym b. ʿAbd Kulāl, and al-Nuʿmān, the qayl of Dhū Ruʿayn, Maʿāfir, and Hamdān; and Zurʿah Dhū Yazan sent to him Mālik b. Murrah al-Rahāwī with their acceptance of Islam and their separation from polytheism and its people. [The letter of the Messenger to them] So the Messenger of God ﷺ wrote to them: In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful: From Muḥammad, the Messenger of God, the Prophet, to al-Ḥārith b. ʿAbd Kulāl, and to Nuʿaym b. ʿAbd Kulāl, and to al-Nuʿmān, the qayl of Dhū Ruʿayn, Maʿāfir, and Hamdān. To proceed: I praise God to you, He besides whom there is no god. To proceed: your envoy met us upon our return from the land of the Romans and met us in Madinah, and he conveyed what you sent and informed of what was before you, and told us of your Islam and your killing of the polytheists, and that God has guided you with His guidance, if you set things right and obey God and His Messenger, and establish prayer, and give the zakāh, and give from the spoils the fifth of God, and the share of the Messenger and his chosen portion, and what is prescribed upon the believers of the alms from real property: a tenth of what the spring irrigates and what the sky waters, and upon what the bucket irrigates half of a tenth; and that in forty camels is a two-year-old she-camel, and in thirty camels is a two-year-old male camel, and in every five camels is a sheep, and in every ten camels are two sheep, and in every forty cattle is a cow; and in every thirty cattle is a one-year-old, male or female; and in every forty sheep, pasturing alone, is a sheep, and that it is the obligation of God which He has imposed upon the believers in alms; so whoever increases in good, it is better for him, and whoever performs that and bears witness to his Islam, and supports the believers against the polytheists, then he is of the believers: he has what they have and upon him is what is upon them, and he has the protection of God and the protection of His Messenger. And whoever accepts Islam from a Jew or a Christian, then he is of the believers: he has what they have and upon him is what is upon them; and whoever remains upon his Judaism or his Christianity, he is not turned away from it, and upon him is the jizyah: upon every adult, male or female, free or slave, a full dinar of the value of the Maʿāfir, or its equivalent in garments. So whoever pays that to the Messenger of God ﷺ, then he has the protection of God and the protection of His Messenger, and whoever withholds it, then he is an enemy of God and of His Messenger. To proceed: the Messenger of God, Muḥammad the Prophet, sent to Zurʿah Dhū Yazan that when my messengers come to you, I commend them to you with good: Muʿādh b. Jabal, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Zayd, and Mālik b. ʿUbādah, and ʿUqbah b. Namir, and Mālik b. Murrah, and your companions, and that you gather what you have of alms and jizyah from your districts and deliver it to my messengers, and that their commander is Muʿādh b. Jabal, so let him not return except pleased. To proceed: Muḥammad bears witness that there is no god but God, and that he is His servant and His Messenger. Then Mālik b. Murrah al-Rahāwī told me that you accepted Islam from the first of Ḥimyar, and you killed the polytheists, so rejoice in good, and I command you with good toward Ḥimyar, and do not betray and do not desert one another, for the Messenger of God is the guardian of your rich and your poor, and alms are not lawful for Muḥammad nor for his household; it is only a purification by which the poor of the Muslims and the wayfarer are purified. And Mālik conveyed the news and preserved the unseen, and I command you with good toward him. And I have sent to you from the righteous of my people and those of their religion and those of their knowledge, and I command you with good toward them, for they are regarded. And peace be upon you, and the mercy of God and His blessings.
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