Al-Kafi 5990

Translation

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Abu Yahya Al Wasity, from one of our companions who said, ‘Abu Abdullah^asws was asked about the Magians, ‘Was there a Prophet^as for them?’ So he^asws said: ‘Yes. Has it not reached you a letter of Rasool-Allah^saww to the people of Makkah: ‘Either you become Muslims or else we shall initiate a war against you’. So they wrote to Rasool-Allah^saww, ‘If you^saww could take the tax from us and leave us upon the worship of the idols’. So the Prophet^saww wrote to them: ‘The taxation is not to be taken except from the People of the Book’. So they wrote to him, intending by that to belie him^saww, ‘You^saww are alleging that you^saww do not take the taxation from except from the People of the Book, then you^saww take the tax from the Magians who emigrated’. So the Prophet^saww wrote to them: ‘It was so that the Magians had a Prophet^as for them, but they killed him^as, and (they had) a Book which they burnt. Their Prophet^saww came to them with their Book in twelve thousand skins of bulls’.

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