[1]

Abu Burdah narrates from his father ʿAbd Allah b. Qays [ra] that the Messenger of God [pbuh] said:

“This ummah (in which I have been sent) is one upon which great mercy has been bestowed. The punishment upon it will come at the hands of its own people. Then, when the Day of Resurrection arrives, every person from among their ahl al-dhimmah or the polytheists will be handed over to someone from this ummah, and it will be said: ‘This is your ransom from the Hellfire.’”

(Musnad ʿAbd b. Ḥumayd, No. 545)

[2]

It is narrated from Iyaz Himar al-Mujashi‘i [ra] that the Messenger of God [pbuh] one day said in his sermon:

“O people, listen! My Lord has commanded me to teach you what He has taught me today—things of which you were previously unaware. My Lord has said: ‘Every wealth that I have given to any of My servants is lawful for them. I have created all My servants upon an innate inclination to turn toward the truth (hanif), but the devils came to them and turned them away from their religion. They declared unlawful for them that which I had made lawful and incited them to associate with Me those for whom I had sent down no authority, and they urged them to alter the natural form that I had created.’

Furthermore, God looked upon the people of the earth and, apart from a few remnants from among the People of the Book, was displeased with all Arabs and non-Arabs. He said: ‘O Muḥammad, I have sent you in order to test you, and to test others through you. I have sent down to you a Book which water will not wash away. You will recite it while asleep and awake. Verily, God has commanded me to burn the Quraysh.’

I submitted, ‘My Lord, if I do so, they will crush my head and turn it into a piece of chewed bread.’

God said: ‘Command them to leave, just as they commanded you to leave. Fight them, and We shall fight alongside you. Spend on your fighters, and soon We shall grant you. Dispatch your army, and We shall send five times their number to support them. And wage this war using your obedient followers to combat your disobedient ones.’”

(Sahih Muslim, No. 5113)

[3]

It is narrated from Ibn ʿUmar [ra] that the Messenger of God [pbuh] said:

“I have been sent before the Hour with the sword so that God alone may be worshipped—without associating any partner with Him. Verily, God has placed my sustenance beneath the shade of my spear. And whoever opposes my command, humiliation and subjugation have been decreed for him. Know well: Whoever lives with a people in their manner shall be counted among them.”

(Muṣannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah, No. 18833)