al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3167
✧ Greeting the Disbelievers While Honoring the Elders Among Them
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وَحَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى، عَنْ سُفْيَانَ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ عُثْمَانَ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ أَبَا بُرْدَةَ ؓ، يَقُولُ:
« إِنَّ رَجُلًا مِنَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ كَتَبَ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ بِالسَّلَامِ، فَكَتَبَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ يَرُدُّ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Yaḥyá
- Sufyān
- ʿAmr b. ʿUthmān
- Abū Burdah
✧ «A man from the polytheists wrote to the Messenger of God ﷺ with the greeting of peace, so the Messenger of God ﷺ wrote back returning the greeting.»
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Other narrations of this report
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- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 103 AH, or: 104 AH, or: 107 AHأَبُو بُرْدَةَ بْنُ أَبِي مُوسَى الْأَشْعَرِيُّثقةسمعت
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 151 and 160 AHعَمْرِو بْنِ عُثْمَانَثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid), an imam and authority (ḥujjah)d. 159 AH or 160 AH or 161 AH or 162 AHسُفْيَانَثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam and exemplar (qudwah)d. 198 AHيَحْيَىثقة متقن حافظ ، إمام قدوةحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 228 AHمسدد بن مسرهدثقة حافظ
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