At a glance
«حمد رسول الله إلى قيصر صاحب الروم . فنخر ابن أخ له أحمر أزرق سبط (١) فقال : لا تقرأ الكتاب اليوم فإنه بدأ بنفسه وكتب : صاحب الروم ولم يكتب ملك الروم . قال : فقرئ الكتاب حتى فرغ منه»
A verbatim excerpt of the text, forty words at most; the full text is in the edition cited under sources
Connections
- Mentions
- Correspondence (al-mukatabat)· Muhammad
People and things also explored
The Letters to Rulers and Kings· Sunan Abi Dawud 1505 — Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr· Sunan Abi Dawud 155 — Purification (Kitab Al-Taharah)· Sunan Abi Dawud 1600 — Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)· Sunan Abi Dawud 1629 — Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)· Sunan Abi Dawud 2107 — Marriage (Kitab Al-Nikah)· Sunan Abi Dawud 2108 — Marriage (Kitab Al-Nikah)· Sunan Abi Dawud 2917 — Shares of Inheritance (Kitab Al-Fara'id)
Sources
- al-Bidaya wa-l-Nihaya — Ibn Kathir
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islam.museum contributors. “Ibn Kathir's al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — correspondence with Caesar”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/passage/sira-nabawiyya-ibn-kathir-505-1/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-11.
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