3041 - Musarrif ibn ʿAmr al-Yāmī narrated to us, Yūnus ibn Bukayr narrated to us, Asbāṭ ibn Naṣr al-Hamdānī narrated to us, from Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Qurashī, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said:

The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, made peace with the people of Najrān upon two thousand garments: half in Ṣafar and half in Rajab, which they would pay to the Muslims, and a loan of thirty coats of mail, thirty horses, thirty camels, and thirty of every kind of weapon, with which they would fight, and the Muslims would be guarantors for them until they returned them to them, if there was treachery or deceit in Yemen — on the condition that no church of theirs be demolished, no priest of theirs be expelled, and they not be turned away from their religion, as long as they did not introduce an innovation or consume usury. Ismāʿīl said: And they did consume usury.

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(1) Its chain is ḥasan on account of Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Qurashī — who is al-Suddī — and Asbāṭ ibn Naṣr and Yūnus ibn Bukayr. What al-Mundhirī said in "Mukhtaṣar al-Sunan" — that al-Suddī's hearing from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbbās is questionable — is refuted by the statement of the two ḥāfiẓs, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Mandah, as found with Abū al-Shaykh in "Ṭabaqāt al-Muḥaddithīn bi-Aṣbahān" 1/334, and Abū Jaʿfar ibn al-Akhram in "Tahdhīb al-Kamāl" in the biography of al-Suddī, where they both said: His hearing from Ibn ʿAbbās is not to be denied; he had seen Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ. We say: Saʿd died in the year fifty-five according to the well-known view, and Ibn ʿAbbās died in the year sixty-eight. So what they said is entirely plausible, and Allah Most High knows best. Musarrif ibn ʿAmr: he is Ibn al-Sarī.

It was also narrated by Abū al-Shaykh in "Ṭabaqāt al-Muḥaddithīn bi-Aṣbahān" 1/334, and al-Bayhaqī 9/187, 195, and 202, and Ḍiyāʾ al-Maqdisī in "Mukhtāratuh" 9/(492), via the path of Yūnus ibn Bukayr, with this chain.

It was also narrated in similar form, lengthened, by al-Ṭabarī in his "Tafsīr" 3/300, via the path of Aḥmad ibn al-Mufaḍḍal al-Ḥafarī, from Asbāṭ, from al-Suddī, as a mursal report.

Regarding the statement "The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, made peace with the people of Najrān upon two thousand garments," it is also narrated from ʿAmr ibn Dīnār as a mursal report, who said: In the letter of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, to the people of Najrān: They have the protection of Allah Most High and the guarantee of Muḥammad, peace and blessings be upon him =