“I heard Tamim Ad- Dari say: ‘I said: O Messenger of Allah, what is the Sunnah concerning a man from among the People of the Book who becomes a Muslim at the hands of another man?’ He said: ‘He is the closest of all people to him in life and in death.’” (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 2752)
سَمِعْتُ تَمِيمًا الدَّارِيَّ يَقُولُ سَأَلْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ مَا السُّنَّةُ فِي الرَّجُلِ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْكُفْرِ يُسْلِمُ عَلَى يَدَيِ الرَّجُلِ مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ؟ فَقَالَ هُوَ أَوْلَى النَّاسِ بِحَيَاتِهِ وَمَوْتِهِ