al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3168
✧ Greeting the Disbelievers While Honoring the Elders Among Them
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وَحَدَّثَنَا عَبَّادُ بْنُ عَبَّادٍ، حَدَّثَنَا عَاصِمٌ الْأَحْوَلُ، عَنْ أَبِي عُثْمَانَ النَّهْدِيِّ قَالَ:
إِنَّ أَبَا مُوسَى ؓ كَتَبَ إِلَى دِهْقَانٍ فَسَلَّمَ عَلَيْهِ فِي كِتَابِهِ، فَقِيلَ لَهُ: تُسَلِّمُ عَلَيْهِ، وَهُوَ كَافِرٌ ؟ قَالَ: إِنَّهُ كَتَبَ إِلَيَّ يُسَلِّمُ عَلَيَّ، فَرَدَدْتُ عَلَيْهِ
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Chain of narrators
- ʿAbbād b. ʿAbbād
- ʿĀṣim al-Aḥwal
- Abū ʿUthmān al-Nahdī
✧ Abu Musa ؓ wrote to a Persian nobleman and greeted him with peace in his letter. It was said to him, 'You greet him when he is a disbeliever?' He said, 'He wrote to me greeting me, so I returned it to him.'
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- a well-known Companiond. 42 AH, or 44 AH, or 50 AH, or 52 AH, or 53 AH, also said 49 AH, also said 51 AHأَبُو مُوسَى الْأَشْعَرِيُّصحابي مشهورأن
- trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), devout (ʿābid)d. 75 AH, or 81 AH, or 95 AH, or 100 AH, or shortly after it, also said: after the year 95 AHأَبِي عُثْمَانَ النَّهْدِيِّثقة ثبت عابدعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 141 AH, or: 142 AH, or: 143 AHعَاصِمٌ الْأَحْوَلُثقةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), though he sometimes erred (rubbamā wahima)d. 177 AH, or: 179 AH, or: 180 AH, or: 181 AHعَبَّادُ بْنُ عَبَّادٍثقة ، ربما وهمحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 228 AHمسدد بن مسرهدثقة حافظ
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