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2608. Anas bin Mālik narrated that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: "I have been ordered to fight the people until they bear witness to Lā Ilāha Illallāh, and that Muḥammad is His servant and Messenger, and they face our Qiblah, eat our slaughtered (meat), and perform our Ṣalāt. And if they do that, then their blood and wealth will be unlawful for us, except with its due right. For them shall be whatever is for the Muslims, and they shall be obliged with that with which the Muslims are obliged." (Ṣaḥīḥ)
There are narrations on this topic from Mu'ādh bin Jabal and Abū Hurairah.
[Abū 'Eisā said:] This Ḥadīth is
Hasan Ṣaḥīḥ Gharīb from this route. Yaḥya bin Ayyūb reported it similarly from Ḥumaid from Anas.
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Commentary
This Hadīth also explains the same purpose just like the previous ones that whomever we fight it is just for the sake of religion and guiding the people to the Truth by bringing them out of disbelief, polytheism and ignorance. As these were the apparent symbols of Faith and Islam in that time and atmosphere that a person bore witness of the Word of Islam, offered prayers according to way of Muslims, directed his face towards Ka'bah in prayer and ate of meat slaughtered according to the way of the Muslims; therefore the Messenger of Allāh mentioned these acts. It does not mean at all that Islam consists of only these few things; and that whoever follows only these few acts but still wants to deny Zakāt or Hajj and wants to believe in a new prophet, he will still be treated as a Muslim!
