al-Layth ibn Sa'd

الليث بن سعد

al-Layth ibn Sa'd al-Fahmi of Egypt, the jurist and hadith-master of second-century Egypt; in al-Baladhuri: Abd al-Malik ibn Salih, governor of the marches, wrote consulting him among the jurists of the age about the people of Cyprus when they gave fresh offence, and he ruled them suspect of betraying the Muslims and counselling the Byzantines — advising that their treaty be denounced with a year's grace for them to choose: whoever wished might enter the Muslims' lands as a dhimmi, whoever wished might withdraw to Byzantium, and whoever remained stayed at war — arguing from the verse on denouncing covenants openly when treachery is feared.

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Dhimma (the covenant of protection)

Dhimma in al-Baladhuri is the written covenant of security granted to treaty peoples of the Book: its formula in the Prophet's letter to Najran runs 'they have God's protection and the protection of His messenger over their persons, religion, lands, wealth, absent and present', and its stipulated terms in the Najran peace include that they not be seduced from their religion or its ranks, nor levied nor tithed, and in the letter's text that no bishop be removed from his bishopric, no monk from his monasticism, no right of theirs or their images — crucifixes and icons — be altered, and no army tread their land, while whoever of them took usury the Prophet's protection was quit of him; the letter of the people of Maqna grants 'God's protection and His messenger's' with security and pardon for every blood; and the dhimma was renewed under the caliphs — Abu Bakr wrote to the people of Najran on the model of the Prophet's letter, and Uthman called them 'a people who have a dhimma' when he remitted two hundred of their hullas.

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