al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3165
✧ Greeting the Disbelievers While Honoring the Elders Among Them
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قَالَ مُسَدَّدٌ: حَدَّثَنَا شَرِيكٌ، عَنْ عَمَّارٍ الدُّهْنِيِّ، عَنْ كُرَيْبٍ قَالَ:
إِنَّ ابْنَ عَبَّاسٍ ؓ كَتَبَ إِلَى ذِمِّيٍّ، فَبَدَأَهُ بِالسَّلَامِ، فَقُلْتُ لَهُ: أَتَبْدَأُ بِالسَّلَامِ ؟ فَقَالَ: « إِنَّ اللهَ هُوَ السَّلَامُ »
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Musaddad
- Sharīk
- ʿAmmār al-Duhnī
- Kurayb
✧ Ibn Abbas ؓ wrote to a dhimmi and began with the greeting of peace. I said to him, 'Do you initiate the greeting?' He said, '«God is Peace.»'
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Other narrations of this report
Musnad Abi Ya'la 6569Musnad Abi Ya'la 6578al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3217
Narrators
- One of the Companions who narrated most prolifically (mukthirūn).d. 65 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, also said: 69 AH, also said: 70 AH; also said: 73 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابةإن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 98 AHكُرَيْبٍثقةعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), inclined to Shīʿismd. 133 AHعَمَّارٍ الدُّهْنِيِّصدوق يتشيععن
- Truthful (ṣadūq) who made many mistakes (yukhṭiʾ kathīran); his memory changed after he was appointed judge of Kufa; he was just, virtuous, devout, and severe against the people of innovation (ahl al-bidaʿ)d. 177 AH, or 178 AHشَرِيكٌصدوق يخطئ كثيرا , تغير حفظه منذ ولي القضاء بالكوفة ، وكان عادلا فاضلا عابدا شديدا على أهل البدعحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 228 AHمُسَدَّدٌثقة حافظ
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