Muslim 16 — Islam is built on five

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«قال رسول الله: «بني الإسلام على خمس: شهادة أن لا إله إلا الله وأن محمدا رسول الله، وإقام الصلاة، وإيتاء الزكاة، والحج، وصوم رمضان»»

A verbatim excerpt of the text, forty words at most; the full text is in the edition cited under sources

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Mentions: Abdullah ibn Umar ibn al-Khattab· Muhammad· The shahada
Basis for: Islam (the religion and the term)

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Arba'un 8 — I was ordered to fight the people· Muslim 22 — I was commanded to fight the people until they testify· The five pillars of Islam· The Battle of the Trench (al-Ahzab)· Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf's detachment to Dumat al-Jandal· Arba'un 3 — Islam is built on five· Muslim 8 — The Jibril hadith: Islam, iman, ihsan· Muslim 40 — The Muslim is one from whose tongue and hand Muslims are safe

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Sahih Muslim

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Arba'un 8 — I was ordered to fight the people

Abdullah ibn Umar's hadith, the eighth of al-Nawawi's Forty and of Ibn Rajab's commentary; transmitted by al-Bukhari (25) and Muslim (22) through Waqid ibn Muhammad from his father from his grandfather Ibn Umar — the words 'except by the right of Islam' being unique to al-Bukhari's wording — and reported in the same sense from Anas, Mu'adh ibn Jabal, Abu Hurayra, Jabir and Abu Malik al-Ashja'i from his father; Ibn Rajab explains that the Prophet accepted the two testimonies alone from whoever came wishing to enter Islam, thereby protecting his blood and counting him a Muslim without first stipulating prayer and zakat, and answers Sufyan ibn Uyayna's claim that this belonged to the beginning of Islam before the duties were imposed, noting that the transmitters accompanied the Prophet only in Medina and that he had been ordered to fight after the hijra (Jami' al-Ulum wal-Hikam pp. 205–217).