Sahih al-Bukhari
Sahih al-Bukhari 25
حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْمُسْنَدِيُّ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو رَوْحٍ الْحَرَمِيُّ بْنُ عُمَارَةَ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ، عَنْ وَاقِدِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ، قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبِي يُحَدِّثُ، عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ " أُمِرْتُ أَنْ أُقَاتِلَ النَّاسَ حَتَّى يَشْهَدُوا أَنْ لاَ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ اللَّهُ وَأَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ، وَيُقِيمُوا الصَّلاَةَ، وَيُؤْتُوا الزَّكَاةَ، فَإِذَا فَعَلُوا ذَلِكَ عَصَمُوا مِنِّي دِمَاءَهُمْ وَأَمْوَالَهُمْ إِلاَّ بِحَقِّ الإِسْلاَمِ، وَحِسَابُهُمْ عَلَى اللَّهِ ".
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Abdullah ibn Muhammad al-Musnadi narrated to us. He said: Abu Ruh al-Harami ibn Umara narrated to us. He said: Shu'ba narrated to us, from Waqid ibn Muhammad, who said: I heard my father relate, from Ibn Umar, that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ‘I have been commanded to fight the people until they bear witness that there is no deity but Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, establish the prayer, and give zakat. If they do that, they have protected their blood and property from me, except by the right of Islam; and their reckoning is with Allah.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The English witness adds ‘by Allah’ to the command and describes the prayers and zakat with additional qualifications absent from this Arabic wording. The translation preserves the wording about fighting and its stated conditions without supplying a legal scope beyond this passage.
أَنْ أُقَاتِلَ النَّاسَ
This isolated wording does not itself establish the intended scope of ‘the people’ or its legal and historical limits.
What source context and qualified review should determine the scope of this wording before any interpretive or legal explanation is attached?