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Riyad as-Salihin (The Meadows of the Righteous)
by Imam Nawawi


49. Chapter: Judging people according to the outward while leaving their secrets to Allah Almighty


Allah Almighty says, "If they repent and establish the prayer and pay zakat, let them go on their way." (Quran 9:5)


390. Ibn 'Umar reported that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said,
"I have been commanded to fight people until they testify that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah and establish the prayer and pay the zakat. If they do that, their lives and property are protected from me except for the right of Islam, and their reckoning is in the hands of Allah."
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391. Abu 'Abdullah Tariq ibn Ashyam said "I heard the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, say,
'If anyone says, "There is no god but Allah" and rejects everything that is worshipped other than Allah, his property and life are inviolate and his reckoning is in the hands of Allah Almighty."
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392. Abu Ma'bad al-Miqdad ibn al-Aswad said, "I asked the Messenger of Allah
'What do you think if I meet a man of the unbelievers and we fight and he strikes one of my hands with his sword and cuts it off and then takes shelter from me behind a tree and says, "I have surrendered to Allah." Should I kill him, Messenger of Allah, after he has said that?'

He said, 'Do not kill him.'

I said, 'Messenger of Allah, he cut off one of my hands and then said it after he cut it off!'

He said, 'Do not kill him. If you kill him, then he is in the position you were in before you killed him and you are in the position he was in before he said the words he said.'"

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'Abdullah ibn 'Utba ibn Mas'ud reported that he heard 'Umar ibn al-Khattab(ra) say,

"Some people were dealt with by the revelation in the time of the Messenger of Allah . The revelation has ceased.
Now we deal with you according to what is clear to us from your actions.
If anyone shows us good, we trust him and honour him. We know nothing of his inward.
Allah will call him to reckoning in respect of his inward.
If anyone shows us evil, we do not trust him and do not believe him, even if he says that his inward is good."

[al-Bukhari]