al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 2202
✧ The Ruling on the Apostate
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قَالَ مُسَدَّدٌ: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ، ثَنَا حَجَّاجٌ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ شُعَيْبٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ جَدِّهِ، قَالَ:
كَتَبَ عَمْرُو بْنُ الْعَاصِ ؓ إِلَى عُمَرَ ؓ يَسْأَلُهُ عَنْ رَجُلٍ أَسْلَمَ ثُمَّ كَفَرَ، ثُمَّ أَسْلَمَ ثُمَّ كَفَرَ، بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ مِرَارًا، أَيُقْبَلُ مِنْهُ الْإِسْلَامُ ؟ فَكَتَبَ إِلَيْهِ عُمَرُ ؓ: اقْبَلْ مِنْهُمْ مَا قَبِلَ اللهُ مِنْهُمُ، اعْرِضْ عَلَيْهِ الْإِسْلَامَ، فَإِنْ قَبِلَ وَإِلَّا اضْرِبْ عُنُقَهُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Musaddad
- Abū Muʿāwiyah
- Ḥajjāj
- ʿAmr b. Shuʿayb
- his father
- his father
✧ 'Amr b. al-'As ؓ wrote to 'Umar ؓ asking him about a man who embraced Islam, then disbelieved, then embraced Islam, then disbelieved, after that several times. Should Islam be accepted from him? 'Umar ؓ wrote to him: 'Accept from them what Allah accepted from them. Offer him Islam; if he accepts, then leave him, otherwise strike his neck.'
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Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- Commander of the Faithful (amīr al-muʾminīn), well-known, of abundant virtues (jamm al-manāqib)d. 23 AH, also said: 24 AHعُمَر بْن الْخَطَّابأمير المؤمنين مشهور جم المناقبفكتب إليه
- One of the early Companions (sābiqūn), among those who narrated abundantly, and one of the jurist ʿAbdullāhs (al-ʿabādilah)d. 63 AH, or 65 AH, or 68 AH, or 69 AH; also said 67 AH, also said 73 AH, also said 77 AHجَدِّهِأحد السابقين ، المكثرين من الصحابة ، وأحد العبادلة الفقهاءعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq); his hearing from his grandfather is established (thābit)d. between 81 and 90 AHأَبِيهِصدوق ، ثبت سماعه من جدهعن
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 118 AHعَمْرِو بْنِ شُعَيْبٍصدوقعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq), who made many errors and practiced much concealment (tadlīs)d. 145 AH, or before it, or 147 AHحَجَّاجٌصدوق كثير الخطأ والتدليسحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), the best memorizer of people for the hadith of al-Aʿmash, though he may err in the hadith of othersd. 194 AH, or 195 AHأَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَثقة ، أحفظ الناس لحديث الأعمش ، وقد يهم في حديث غيرهحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 228 AHمُسَدَّدٌثقة حافظ
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