Refraining From Harming One Who Says: Lā Ilāha Illallāh
Darussalam · Volume 5
36. The Chapters On TribulationsSunan Ibn Majah Darussalam English translation
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Source no. 3927 · Volume 8 · Page 427
Sahih
صحيح، الصحيحة (٤٠٧) ، صحيح أبي داود (١٣٩١ - ١٣٩٣ و ٢٣٧٣)
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3927. It was narrated from Abu Hurairah that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: "I have been commanded to fight the people until they say: Lā ilāha illallāh. If they say it, then their blood and wealth are protected from me, except for a right that is due from it, and their reckoning will be with Allāh." (Sahih)
3927 - حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ، وَحَفْصُ بْنُ غِيَاثٍ، عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: " أُمِرْتُ أَنْ أُقَاتِلَ النَّاسَ حَتَّى يَقُولُوا: لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ، فَإِذَا قَالُوهَا، عَصَمُوا مِنِّي دِمَاءَهُمْ وَأَمْوَالَهُمْ، إِلَّا بِحَقِّهَا، وَحِسَابُهُمْ عَلَى اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ "
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Everyone who pronounces the fundamental word of Islam (Lā Ilāha Illallāh and Muhammadur-Rasululāh), all the rulings of Islam applies to him in this world. If he does not have faith in his heart he will be punished in the Hereafter. 'Blood and wealth are protected' means that they are not killed by waging war against them, and their property is not taken as booty or Fai' (i.e. booty gained without fighting). 'Except for a right' means punishing them for their crimes such as cutting off the hand of a thief, and flogging those who accuse chaste women of adultery, killing someone as punishment for murdering an innocent person, etc. 'Except for a right' also means forcing them to give Zakāh and paying the obligatory expenses, collecting the blood money for an intentional murder with the agreement of the heirs of the one who is killed, and demanding the blood money from the murderer or his tribe in an accidental killing, with the agreement of the heirs of the one who is killed, etc.