Mishkat al-Masabih 4035

Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.

Bajala reported: I was a clerk for Juzʾ ibn Muʿawiya, the uncle of al-Ahnaf. A year before ʿUmar ibn al-Khattab’s death, may Allah be pleased with him, a letter from him came to us: ‘Separate every close relative among the Magians.’ ʿUmar had not been taking the jizya from the Magians until ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn ʿAwf testified that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ had taken it from the Magians of Hajar. Al-Bukhari transmitted it. The hadith of Burayda is also mentioned in the chapter ‘Writing to the Disbelievers’: ‘When he appoints a commander over an army...’