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Regarding Sending Messengers

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Darussalam · Volume 3

15. The Book Of Jihād

Sunan Abi Dawud Darussalam English translation

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2761. It was reported from Salamah, meaning Ibn Al-Faḍl, from Muḥammad bin Ishāq, who said: "Musailimah wrote to Allāh's Messenger ﷺ." He said: "And Muḥammad bin Ishāq narrated to me, from a Shaikh, from Ashja' named Sa'd bin Ṭāriq, from Salamah bin Nu'aim bin Mas'ūd Al-Ashja'i, from his father, Nu'aim, who said: 'I heard the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ say to the two of them (the messengers) after he was read the letter from Musailimah: "What do you to believe (in)?" They said: "We believe as he believes." He said: "By Allāh! If it wasn't that the messengers are not to be killed, I would have cut off their heads." (Hasan)

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2761 - حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو الرَّازِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا سَلَمَةُ يَعْنِي ابْنَ الْفَضْلِ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَ، قَالَ: كَانَ مُسَيْلِمَةُ كَتَبَ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: وَقَدْ حَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ، عَنْ شَيْخٍ مِنْ أَشْجَعَ يُقَالُ لَهُ سَعْدُ بْنُ طَارِقٍ ، عَنْ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ نُعَيْمِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ الْأَشْجَعِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ نُعَيْمٍ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ لَهُمَا حِينَ قَرَأَ كِتَابَ مُسَيْلِمَةَ: «مَا تَقُولَانِ أَنْتُمَا؟» قَالَا: نَقُولُ كَمَا قَالَ. قَالَ: «أَمَا وَاللَّهِ لَوْلَا أَنَّ الرُّسُلَ لَا تُقْتَلُ لَضَرَبْتُ أَعْنَاقَكُمَا»

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Islam forbids the killing of an envoy or messenger sent by his leader even if he speaks words of disbelief before the Muslim ruler.