32. Jihād and Expeditions

٣٢۔ كتاب الجهاد والسير

32.27 The Prophet ﷺ wrote to the Kings of the Kuffar, inviting them to Islam

٣٢۔٢٧ باب كُتُبِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ إِلَى مُلُوكِ الْكُفَّارِ يَدْعُوهُمْ إِلَى اللَّهِ ﷻ

muslim:1774aYūsuf b. Ḥammād al-Maʿnī > ʿAbd al-Aʿlá > Saʿīd > Qatādah > Anas

It has been narrated on the authority of Anas that the Prophet of Allah ﷺ wrote to Chosroes (King of Persia), Caesar (Emperor of Rome), Negus (King of Abyssinia) and every (other) despot inviting them to Allah, the Exalted. And this Negus was not the one for whom the Messenger of Allah ﷺ had said the funeral prayers.  

مسلم:١٧٧٤aحَدَّثَنِي يُوسُفُ بْنُ حَمَّادٍ الْمَعْنِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الأَعْلَى عَنْ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ أَنَسٍ

أَنَّ نَبِيَّ اللَّهِ ﷺ كَتَبَ إِلَى كِسْرَى وَإِلَى قَيْصَرَ وَإِلَى النَّجَاشِيِّ وَإِلَى كُلِّ جَبَّارٍ يَدْعُوهُمْ إِلَى اللَّهِ تَعَالَى وَلَيْسَ بِالنَّجَاشِيِّ الَّذِي صَلَّى عَلَيْهِ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ  

muslim:1774bMuḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh al-Ruzzī > ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. ʿAṭāʾ > Saʿīd > Qatādah > Anas b. Mālik

" And he was not the Negus for whom the Prophet ﷺ had said the funeral prayers."  

مسلم:١٧٧٤bوَحَدَّثَنَاهُ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الرُّزِّيُّ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَهَّابِ بْنُ عَطَاءٍ عَنْ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ حَدَّثَنَا أَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ بِمِثْلِهِ وَلَمْ يَقُلْ وَلَيْسَ بِالنَّجَاشِي الَّذِي صَلَّى عَلَيْهِ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ  

muslim:1774cmy father > Khālid b. Qays > Qatādah

It has been narrated on the authority of the same narrator through another chain of transmitters with the same difference in the wording.  

مسلم:١٧٧٤cوَحَدَّثَنِيهِ نَصْرُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ الْجَهْضَمِيُّ أَخْبَرَنِي أَبِي حَدَّثَنِي خَالِدُ بْنُ قَيْسٍ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ

عَنْ أَنَسٍ وَلَمْ يَذْكُرْ وَلَيْسَ بِالنَّجَاشِيِّ الَّذِي صَلَّى عَلَيْهِ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ