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al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 5126

✧ Letter of the Prophet ﷺ to Caesar

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قَالَ الْحَارِثُ: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عُبَيْدٍ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبَّادُ بْنُ الْعَوَّامِ، عَنْ حُصَيْنِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ شَدَّادٍ، رَفَعَهُ قَالَ:

كَتَبَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ إِلَى هِرَقْلَ صَاحِبِ الرُّومِ: مِنْ مُحَمَّدٍ رَسُولِ اللهِ إِلَى هِرَقْلَ صَاحِبِ الرُّومِ، إِنِّي أَدْعُوكَ إِلَى الْإِسْلَامِ، فَإِنْ أَسْلَمْتَ فَلَكَ مَا لِلْمُسْلِمِينَ، وَعَلَيْكَ مَا عَلَيْهِمْ، فَإِنْ لَمْ تَدْخُلْ فِي الْإِسْلَامِ فَأَعْطِ الْجِزْيَةَ، فَإِنَّ اللهَ تَعَالَى يَقُولُ: قَاتِلُوا الَّذِينَ لا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِاللهِ الْآيَةَ، وَإِلَّا فَلَا تَحُلْ بَيْنَ الْفَلَّاحِينَ وَبَيْنَ الْإِسْلَامِ أَنْ يَدْخُلُوا فِيهِ أَوْ يُعْطُوا الْجِزْيَةَ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. al-Ḥārith
  2. Abū ʿUbayd
  3. ʿAbbād b. al-ʿAwwām
  4. Ḥuṣayn b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman
  5. ʿAbdullāh b. Shaddād Rafaʿah

✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ wrote to Heraclius, the ruler of the Romans: 'From Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, to Heraclius, the ruler of the Romans. I call you to Islam. If you submit, you will have what the Muslims have, and you will be responsible for what they are responsible for. If you do not enter Islam, then pay the jizyah, for Allah, the Exalted, says: Fight those who do not believe in Allah [Quran 9:29]... Otherwise, do not come between the farmers and Islam, that they may enter it or pay the jizyah.'

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Narrators

  1. ʿAbdullāh b. Shaddād b. al-Hād al-Laythī
    Al-ʿIjlī mentioned him among the leading trustworthy (thiqah) Followers, and he was counted among the jurists.d. 81 AH, or 82 AH, or 83 AH
    عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ شَدَّادِ بْنِ الْهَادِ اللَّيْثِيُّذكره العجلي من كبار التابعين الثقات ، وكان معدودا في الفقهاء
    عن
  2. Ḥuṣayn
    trustworthy (thiqah), his memory changed at the endd. 136 AH, or 139 AH
    حُصَيْنِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِثقة ، تغير حفظه في الآخر
    عن
  3. ʿAbbād b. al-ʿAwwām
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. 183 AH, or: 185 AH, or: 186 AH, or: 187 AH
    عَبَّادُ بْنُ الْعَوَّامِثقة
    حدثنا
  4. Abū ʿUbayd al-Qāsim b. Sallām
    trustworthy (thiqah), virtuous, authord. 224 AH, and it is the correct view, or 223 AH
    أَبُو عُبَيْدٍثقة فاضل ، مصنف
    حدثنا
  5. al-Ḥārith
    d. 279 AH or 282 AH
    الْحَارِثُ

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