al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 2406
✧ Writing to the Polytheists Before Invading Them
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قَالَ أَبُو يَعْلَى وَالْبَزَّارُ مَعًا: حَدَّثَنَا نَصْرُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ، ثَنَا نُوحُ بْنُ قَيْسٍ، عَنْ أَخِيهِ خَالِدِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ، عَنْ قَتَادَةَ، عَنْ أَنَسٍ ؓ قَالَ:
إِنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ كَتَبَ إِلَى بَكْرِ بْنِ وَائِلٍ: مِنْ مُحَمَّدٍ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ إِلَى بَكْرِ بْنِ وَائِلٍ، أَسْلِمُوا تَسْلَمُوا. قَالُوا: فَمَا وَجَدْنَا مَنْ يَقْرَؤُهُ إِلَّا رَجُلًا مِنْ بَنِي ضُبَيْعَةَ فَهُمْ يُسَمَّوْنَ بَنِي الْكَاتِبِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Yaʿlá and -al-Bazzār Maʿ
- Naṣr b. ʿAlī
- Nūḥ b. Qays
- Akhīh Khālid b. Qays
- Qatādah
- Anas
✧ Indeed, the Prophet ﷺ wrote to Bakr b. Wa'il: 'From Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, to Bakr b. Wa'il: Submit and you will be safe.' They said: 'We found no one to read it except a man from Banu Dubay'ah, so they were called Banu al-Katib.'
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Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 20667Sahih Ibn Hibban 6558al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 308Musnad Abi Ya'la 2948
Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AHأَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهورعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 117 AH, or: 118 AHقَتَادَةَثقة ثبتعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), narrates unusual reports (yughrib).خَالِدِ بْنِ قَيْسٍصدوق يغرب.عن
- truthful (ṣadūq), accused of Shīʿism (tashayyuʿ)d. 183 AH, or: 184 AHنُوحُ بْنُ قَيْسٍصدوق رمي بالتشيعحدثنا
- Trustworthy and firmly reliable (thiqah thabt); he was asked to take the judgeship (qaḍāʾ) but declinedd. 250 AH, also said: 251 AHنَصْرُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّثقة ثبت ، طلب للقضاء فامتنعحدثنا
- d. 291 AH or 292 AH or 294 AHوَالْبَزَّارُ
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