An-Nawawi's Forty Hadiths
Hadith 8, 40 Hadith an-Nawawi
عَنْ ابْنِ عُمَرَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمَا، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه و سلم قَالَ: "أُمِرْتُ أَنْ أُقَاتِلَ النَّاسَ حَتَّى يَشْهَدُوا أَنْ لَا إلَهَ إلَّا اللَّهُ وَأَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ، وَيُقِيمُوا الصَّلَاةَ، وَيُؤْتُوا الزَّكَاةَ؛ فَإِذَا فَعَلُوا ذَلِكَ عَصَمُوا مِنِّي دِمَاءَهُمْ وَأَمْوَالَهُمْ إلَّا بِحَقِّ الْإِسْلَامِ، وَحِسَابُهُمْ عَلَى اللَّهِ تَعَالَى" . [رَوَاهُ الْبُخَارِيُّ] ،[وَمُسْلِمٌ]
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
On the authority of Ibn ‘Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both), 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 the zakah. When they do that, they have protected their blood and property from me, except by a right of Islam, and their reckoning is with Allah, the Exalted.” [Narrated by al-Bukhari and Muslim].
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه و سلم قَالَ: "أُمِرْتُ أَنْ أُقَاتِلَ النَّاسَ حَتَّى يَشْهَدُوا أَنْ لَا إلَهَ إلَّا اللَّهُ وَأَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ،
The source’s wording and scope have significant interpretive and legal implications; the supplied passage alone does not settle the intended referent or application, and the English witness adds a parenthetical legal gloss to the exception.
What source-based contextual interpretation should govern the referent and scope of “the people” and the exception? This requires qualified human review; no ruling is inferred here.
فَإِذَا فَعَلُوا ذَلِكَ عَصَمُوا مِنِّي دِمَاءَهُمْ وَأَمْوَالَهُمْ إلَّا بِحَقِّ الْإِسْلَامِ،
The English witness supplies bracketed wording about acts punishable in Islam, which is more explicit than the Arabic phrase.
Should the supplied witness’s bracketed gloss be treated as interpretation? The translation retains the source’s broader wording.