Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 704-60b
✧ Mursal reports of Sa'id b. al-Musayyib
"عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمسَيَّبِ قَال: كَتَبَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ إِلَى كِسْرَى وَقَيصَرَ وَالنَّجَاشى: أَمَّا بَعْدُ {قُلْ يَاأَهْلَ الْكِتَابِ تَعَالَوْا إِلَى كَلِمَةٍ سَوَاءٍ بَيْنَنَا وَبَيْنَكُمْ أَلَّا نَعْبُدَ إِلَّا اللَّهَ وَلَا نُشْرِكَ بِهِ شَيْئًا وَلَا يَتَّخِذَ بَعْضُنَا بَعْضًا أَرْبَابًا مِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِ فَإِنْ تَوَلَّوْا فَقُولُوا اشْهَدُوا بِأَنَّا مُسْلِمُونَ} قَال سَعِيدٌ: فَمَزَّقَ كِسْرَى الكتاب ولم ينظر فيه، فقال النبى ﷺ: مُزِّقَ وَمُزِّقَتْ أُمَّتُهُ، وأما النَّجَاشِى [فآمن وآمن] مَنْ كَانَ عِنْدَهُ فَأَرْسَلَ إلى رَسُول اللَّهِ ﷺ بِهَدِيةٍ [حُلَّةٍ] فَقَال رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ: اتْرُكُوهُ مَا تَرككُمْ، وَأَمَّا قَيصَر فَقَرأَ كِتَابَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَقَال: هَذَا كتَابٌ لَمْ أَسْمَعْ [به] بَعْدَ سُلَيمَانَ النَّبِىِّ "بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ"، ثُمَّ أَرْسَلَ إِلَى أَبِى سُفْيَانَ وَالْمغِيرةِ بن شُعْبَةَ وَكَانَا تَاجِرَين بأرضه فَسَألَهُمَا عَنْ بَعْضِ شَأْنِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ وَسَأَلَهُمَا مَنْ تَبعَهُ فَقَالا: تَبِعَهُ النِّسَاءُ وَضَعفَةُ النَّاسِ، فَقَال: أَرَأيْتمَا الذين يَدْخُلُونَ مَعَهُ يَرْجِعُونَ؟ [قالا]: لَا، قَال: هَذَا هُوَ النَّبِىُّ لَيملكَنَّ ما تَحْتَ قَدَمَىَّ لَوْ كُنْتُ عِنْدَهُ [لغسلت] قَدَمَيهِ".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Saʿīd b. al-Msayyab
- Katab Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
- Kisrá and Qayṣar Wa-al-Nnajāshá Ammā Baʿd Qul Yāʾahl al-Kitāb Taʿālawā
Machine translation, not reviewed
"From Saʿīd b. al-Musayyab, who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ wrote to Kisrā, Qayṣar and the Najāshī: To proceed: {Say: O People of the Book, come to a word that is equal between us and you: that we worship none but Allah, and associate nothing with Him, and that some of us do not take others as lords besides Allah. But if they turn away, then say: Bear witness that we are Muslims.} Saʿīd said: Kisrā tore up the letter and did not look into it, so the Prophet ﷺ said: He has been torn apart, and his nation will be torn apart. As for the Najāshī, [he believed, and those with him believed], and he sent a gift [a garment] to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: Leave him alone as long as he leaves you alone. As for Qayṣar, he read the letter of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and said: This is a letter the like of which I have not heard [of] since Sulaymān the Prophet: "In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful." Then he sent for Abū Sufyān and al-Mughīrah b. Shuʿbah, who were two merchants in his land, and he asked them about some of the affairs of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and asked them who had followed him. They said: The women and the weak among the people have followed him. He said: Have you seen those who enter with him, do they go back? [They said:] No. He said: This is the Prophet; he will surely rule what is under my feet. If I were with him, [I would wash] his feet."
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Notes
[ش] ابن أبى شيبة
machine translation[Note] Ibn Abī Shaybah
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