Sirat Ibn Hisham 1566
Musaylimah's letter to the Prophet and the reply to it
كِتَابُ مُسَيْلِمَةَ إلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ وَالْجَوَابُ عَنْهُ وَقَدْ كَانَ مُسَيْلِمَةُ بْنُ حَبِيبٍ، قَدْ كَتَبَ إلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ: مِنْ مُسَيْلِمَةَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ، إلَى مُحَمَّدٍ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ: سَلَامٌ عَلَيْكَ؛ أَمَّا بَعْدُ، فَإِنِّي قَدْ أُشْرِكْتُ فِي الْأَمْرِ مَعَكَ، وَإِنَّ لَنَا نِصْفَ الْأَرْضِ، وَلِقُرَيْشٍ نِصْفَ الْأَرْضِ، وَلَكِنَّ قُرَيْشًا قَوْمٌ يَعْتَدُونَ. فَقَدِمَ عَلَيْهِ رَسُولَانِ لَهُ بِهَذَا الْكِتَابِ. قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: فَحَدَّثَنِي شَيْخٌ مِنْ أَشْجَعَ، عَنْ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ نُعَيْمِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ الْأَشْجَعِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ نُعَيْمٍ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ لَهُمَا حِينَ قَرَأَ كِتَابَهُ: فَمَا تَقُولَانِ أَنْتُمَا ؟ قَالَا: نَقُولُ كَمَا قَالَ، فَقَالَ: أَمَا وَاَللَّهِ لَوْلَا أَنَّ الرُّسُلَ لَا تُقْتَلُ لَضَرَبْتُ أَعْنَاقَكُمَا. ثُمَّ كَتَبَ إلَى مُسَيْلِمَةَ: بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ، مِنْ مُحَمَّدٍ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ، إلَى مُسَيْلِمَةَ الْكَذَّابِ: السَّلَامُ عَلَى مَنْ اتَّبَعَ الْهُدَى. أَمَّا بَعْدُ، فَإِنَّ الْأَرْضَ لِلَّهِ يُورَثُهَا مَنْ يُشَاءُ مِنْ عِبَادِهِ، وَالْعَاقِبَةُ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ. وَذَلِكَ فِي آخِرِ سَنَةِ عَشْرٍ.
Translation
✧ Musaylimah's letter to the Messenger of Allah and the reply to it Musaylimah b. Ḥabīb had written to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ: From Musaylimah, Messenger of Allah, to Muḥammad, Messenger of Allah: Peace be upon you. Now then, I have been made a partner in the affair with you. We shall have half the land, and Quraysh shall have half the land, but Quraysh are a people who transgress. Two messengers of his came to him with this letter. Ibn Isḥāq said: A shaykh from Ashjaʿ narrated to me, from Salamah b. Nuʿaym b. Masʿūd al-Ashjaʿī, from his father Nuʿaym, who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say to the two of them when he had read his letter: "What do you two say?" They said: "We say as he says." He said: "By Allah, were it not that messengers are not to be killed, I would strike off your necks." Then he wrote to Musaylimah: In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate. From Muḥammad, Messenger of Allah, to Musaylimah the liar: Peace be upon him who follows guidance. Now then, the earth belongs to Allah; He gives it as inheritance to whom He wills of His servants, and the final outcome is for the God-fearing. That was at the end of the year ten.
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