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Levying Jizyah On The Zoroastrians

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Darussalam · Volume 3

19. The Book Of Kharāj, Fai'And Imārah (Leadership)

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الحديث: 3043 ¦ الجزء: 3 ¦ الصفحة: 168

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3043. It was narrated that 'Amr bin Dīnār heard Bajālah telling 'Amr bin Aws and Abū Ash-Sha'thā: "I was the scribe of Jaz' bin Mu'āwiyah, the paternal uncle of Al-Ahnaf bin Qais, when the letter of 'Umar came to us one year before his death (saying): 'Kill every practitioner of witchcraft, and separate all Mahram couples among the Zoroastrians, and forbid them to murmur.' In one day we killed three practitioners of witchcraft, and we separated every Zoroastrian man from his wife who was forbidden to him in marriage according to the Book of Allāh. He made a great deal of food and invited them, then he placed his sword on his thigh, and they ate but they did not murmur, and they threw on the ground one or two mule-loads of silver. 'Umar did not take the Jizyah from the Zoroastrians until 'Abdur-Raḥmān bin 'Awf bore witness that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ had taken it from the Zoroastrians of Hajar. (Sāhīh)

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3043 - حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدُ بْنُ مُسَرْهَدٍ، حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ دِينَارٍ، سَمِعَ بَجَالَةَ، يُحَدِّثُ عَمْرَو بْنَ أَوْسٍ، وَأَبَا الشَّعْثَاءِ، قَالَ: كُنْتُ كَاتِبًا لِجَزْءِ بْنِ مُعَاوِيَةَ عَمِّ الْأَحْنَفِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ إِذْ جَاءَنَا كِتَابُ عُمَرَ قَبْلَ مَوْتِهِ بِسَنَةٍ: اقْتُلُوا كُلَّ سَاحِرٍ، وَفَرِّقُوا بَيْنَ كُلِّ ذِي مَحْرَمٍ، مِنَ الْمَجُوسِ وَانْهَوْهُمْ عَنِ الزَّمْزَمَةِ، فَقَتَلْنَا فِي يَوْمٍ ثَلَاثَةَ سَوَاحِرَ، وَفَرَّقْنَا بَيْنَ كُلِّ رَجُلٍ مِنَ الْمَجُوسِ وَحَرِيمِهِ فِي كِتَابِ اللَّهِ، وَصَنَعَ طَعَامًا كَثِيرًا فَدَعَاهُمْ فَعَرَضَ السَّيْفَ عَلَى فَخْذِهِ، فَأَكَلُوا وَلَمْ يُزَمْزِمُوا، وَأَلْقَوْا وِقْرَ بَغْلٍ أَوْ بَغْلَيْنِ مِنَ الوَرِقِ، وَلَمْ يَكُنْ عُمَرُ أَخَذَ الْجِزْيَةَ مِنَ الْمَجُوسِ حَتَّى شَهِدَ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ عَوْفٍ «أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ أَخَذَهَا مِنْ مَجُوسِ هَجَرَ»

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