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tabarani:8959al-Ḥusayn b. Isḥāq al-Tustarī > Yaḥyá al-Ḥimmānī > Qays b. al-Rabīʿ > Abū Isḥāq > Ḥārithah b. Muḍarrib > ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to Ibn al-Nawwaha, "Do you bear witness that I am the Messenger of Allah?" He replied, "Do you bear witness that Musaylimah is the Messenger of Allah?" The Prophet ﷺ then said, "If it was not for the fact that you are a messenger, I would have killed you."  

الطبراني:٨٩٥٩حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ التُّسْتَرِيُّ ثنا يَحْيَى الْحِمَّانِيُّ ثنا قَيْسُ بْنُ الرَّبِيعِ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ حَارِثَةَ بْنِ مُضَرِّبٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ لِابْنِ النَّوَّاحَةِ «أَتَشْهَدُ أَنِّي رَسُولُ اللهِ؟» قَالَ أَتَشْهَدُ أَنْتَ أَنَّ مُسَيْلِمَةَ رَسُولُ اللهِ؟ فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ «لَوْلَا أَنَّكَ رَسُولٌ لَقَتَلْتُكَ»  


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bayhaqi:18778Abū Ṭāhir al-Faqīh > Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn al-Qaṭṭān > Muḥammad b. Yaḥyá > Abū ʿĀṣim > Sufyān > ʿĀṣim > Abū Wāʾil > ʿAbdullāh

[Machine] "That the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to Ibn Nawwaha, 'If it were not for the fact that you are a Messenger, I would have killed you.'"  

البيهقي:١٨٧٧٨أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو طَاهِرٍ الْفَقِيهُ أنبأ أَبُو بَكْرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ الْقَطَّانُ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى ثنا أَبُو عَاصِمٍ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ عَنْ عَاصِمٍ عَنْ أَبِي وَائِلٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ ؓ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ لِابْنِ النَّوَّاحَةِ لَوْلَا أَنَّكَ رَسُولٌ لَقَتَلْتُكَ