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1496. Narrated Abū Maʿbad, the slave of Ibn ʿAbbās: Allāh's Messenger ﷺ said to Muʿād̄h when he sent him to Yemen, "You will go to the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians). So, when you reach there, invite them to testify that Lā ilāha illallāh (none has the right to be worshipped but Allāh), and that Muḥammad is Allāh's Messenger (Islāmic Monotheism). And if they obey you in that, tell them that Allāh has enjoined on them five Ṣalāt (prayer) in each day and night (24 hours). And if they obey you in that, tell them that Allāh has made it obligatory on them to pay the Ṣadaqā (Zakāt) which will be taken from the rich among them and given to the poor among them. If they obey you in that, then avoid taking the best of their possessions, and be afraid of the curse of an oppressed person because there is no screen between his invocation and Allāh." (See H. No. 1395).
