Sunan an-Nasa'i 3971

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Ziyad ibn Ayyub reported to us; he said: Muhammad ibn Yazid narrated to us; he said: Sufyan narrated to us, from al-Zuhri, from ʿUbaydullah ibn ʿAbdullah ibn ʿUtbah, from Abu Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: ‘I have been commanded to fight the people until they say, “There is no god but Allah.” When they say it, they have made their lives and property inviolable to me, except by a right that is due, and their reckoning is with Allah.’ When the apostasy occurred, ʿUmar said to Abu Bakr: ‘Will you fight them when you heard the Messenger of Allah say such and such?’ He replied: ‘By Allah, I will not separate prayer from zakah, and I will fight whoever separates them.’ We fought alongside him and considered that to be right guidance.

Abu ʿAbd al-Rahman said: ‘Sufyan is not strong in his transmission from al-Zuhri; this is Sufyan ibn Husayn.’