Peace Maker

Category / theme: Qur’anic evidence • Peace Maker

Published English translation: And if they incline to peace, incline thou also to it, and trust in Allah. Lo! He, even He, is the Hearer, the Knower.

Source: Al-Anfal (8:61)

Translation: Marmaduke Pickthall — Tanzil text, en.pickthall

Status: Arabic and the identified published translation checked.

Relevance (compiler): A direct instruction to reciprocate an inclination to peace; preparation in 8:60 must not be isolated from this adjoining directive.

Best use: Principle / argument

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Category / theme: Qur’anic evidence • Peace Maker

Published English translation: Lo! We have given thee (O Muhammad) a signal victory,

Source: Al-Fath (48:1)

Translation: Marmaduke Pickthall — Tanzil text, en.pickthall

Status: Arabic and the identified published translation checked.

Relevance (compiler): The verse announces a manifest victory. Its connection with Hudaybiyyah is established through commentary and reports, not by a place-name in this verse.

Best use: Principle / argument

Related references: 050, 149

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Category / theme: Qur’anic evidence • Peace Maker

Published English translation: And He it is Who hath withheld men's hands from you, and hath withheld your hands from them, in the valley of Mecca, after He had made you victors over them. Allah is Seer of what ye do.

Source: Al-Fath (48:24)

Translation: Marmaduke Pickthall — Tanzil text, en.pickthall

Status: Arabic and the identified published translation checked.

Relevance (compiler): Distinguishes possessing an advantage from necessarily using it for further bloodshed.

Best use: Principle / argument

Related references: 147

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Category / theme: Qur’anic evidence • Peace Maker

Published English translation: And if two parties of believers fall to fighting, then make peace between them. And if one party of them doeth wrong to the other, fight ye that which doeth wrong till it return unto the ordinance of Allah; then, if it return, make peace between them justly, and act equitably. Lo! Allah loveth the equitable.

Source: Al-Hujurat (49:9)

Translation: Marmaduke Pickthall — Tanzil text, en.pickthall

Status: Arabic and the identified published translation checked.

Relevance (compiler): Addresses conflict between believers and conditions settlement on justice; it is not an unqualified endorsement of passivity or a verbatim modern international-law rule.

Best use: Principle / argument

Related references: 150

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Category / theme: Qur’anic evidence • Peace Maker

Published English translation: The believers are naught else than brothers. Therefore make peace between your brethren and observe your duty to Allah that haply ye may obtain mercy.

Source: Al-Hujurat (49:10)

Translation: Marmaduke Pickthall — Tanzil text, en.pickthall

Status: Arabic and the identified published translation checked.

Relevance (compiler): Adds the moral relationship behind the preceding settlement procedure: fraternity entails active reconciliation.

Best use: Principle / argument

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Category / theme: Qur’anic evidence • Peace Maker

Published English translation: Allah forbiddeth you not those who warred not against you on account of religion and drove you not out from your homes, that ye should show them kindness and deal justly with them. Lo! Allah loveth the just dealers.

Source: Al-Mumtahanah (60:8)

Translation: Marmaduke Pickthall — Tanzil text, en.pickthall

Status: Arabic and the identified published translation checked.

Relevance (compiler): An explicit distinction between religious difference and belligerency; kindness and justice are both named.

Best use: Principle / argument

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Category / theme: Qur’anic evidence • Peace Maker

Published English translation: Allah forbiddeth you only those who warred against you on account of religion and have driven you out from your homes and helped to drive you out, that ye make friends of them. Whosoever maketh friends of them - (All) such are wrong-doers.

Source: Al-Mumtahanah (60:9)

Translation: Marmaduke Pickthall — Tanzil text, en.pickthall

Status: Arabic and the identified published translation checked.

Relevance (compiler): Read the translation’s “friends” with the verse’s explicit qualifications of religious warfare, expulsion and assistance in expulsion, and with 60:8.

Best use: Principle / argument

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Category / theme: Qur’anic evidence • Peace Maker

Published English translation: There is no good in much of their secret conferences save (in) him who enjoineth almsgiving and kindness and peace-making among the people. Whoso doeth that, seeking the good pleasure of Allah, We shall bestow on him a vast reward.

Source: An-Nisa (4:114)

Translation: Marmaduke Pickthall — Tanzil text, en.pickthall

Status: Arabic and the identified published translation checked.

Relevance (compiler): Gives constructive purposes for private deliberation and links peacemaking with intention, not merely public prestige.

Best use: Principle / argument

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Category / theme: Qur’anic evidence • Peace Maker

Published English translation: There is no compulsion in religion. The right direction is henceforth distinct from error. And he who rejecteth false deities and believeth in Allah hath grasped a firm handhold which will never break. Allah is Hearer, Knower.

Source: Al-Baqarah (2:256)

Translation: Marmaduke Pickthall — Tanzil text, en.pickthall

Status: Arabic and the identified published translation checked.

Relevance (compiler): A central text for non-compulsion in faith. Claims about all later legal applications require separate juristic evidence.

Best use: Principle / argument

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Category / theme: Hadith / transmitted report • Peace Maker

Published English excerpt: I hope that Allah will let them beget children who will worship Allah Alone

Source / numbering: Sahih al-Bukhari, 3231; Book 59, Beginning of Creation; 3231; Sunnah.com numbering.

Narrator: ʿA’ishah

Status / grading: Sahih collection report; Arabic/English excerpt checked.

Translation access: Sunnah.com English; individual translator not independently identified.

Relevance (compiler): After describing severe rejection, the Prophet declines the mountain angel’s offer to crush the people. Hope for their descendants is explicit; popular extra details are not supplied by this excerpt.

Best use: Textual evidence / example

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Category / theme: Hadith / transmitted report • Peace Maker

Published English excerpt: I have not been sent as the invoker of curse, but I have been sent as mercy.

Source / numbering: Sahih Muslim, 2599; Book 45, Virtue, kinship and manners; chapter 24; Sunnah.com numbering.

Narrator: Abu Hurayrah

Status / grading: Sahih collection report; Arabic/English excerpt checked.

Translation access: Sunnah.com English; individual translator not independently identified.

Relevance (compiler): The response is to a request to curse the polytheists. It states the mission’s character, not a claim that no imprecation appears in any other context.

Best use: Textual evidence / example

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Category / theme: Hadith / transmitted report • Peace Maker

Published English excerpt: He who makes peace between the people by inventing good information or saying good things, is not a liar.

Source / numbering: Sahih al-Bukhari, 2692; Book 53, Peacemaking; chapter 2; Sunnah.com numbering.

Narrator: Umm Kulthum bint ʿUqbah

Status / grading: Sahih collection report; Arabic/English excerpt checked.

Translation access: Sunnah.com English; individual translator not independently identified.

Relevance (compiler): The accessed English version uses “inventing”; the scope of permissible conciliatory speech requires juristic qualification. This is not permission for fraud, false testimony or fabricated research.

Best use: Textual evidence / example

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Category / theme: Hadith / transmitted report • Peace Maker

Published English excerpt: The Prophet (ﷺ) went to them along with some of his companions in order to make peace between them.

Source / numbering: Sahih al-Bukhari, 2690; Book 53, Peacemaking; chapter 1; Sunnah.com numbering.

Narrator: Sahl ibn Saʿd

Status / grading: Sahih collection report; Arabic/English excerpt checked.

Translation access: Sunnah.com English; individual translator not independently identified.

Relevance (compiler): The dispute concerns Banu ʿAmr ibn ʿAwf. His absence extended into prayer time, showing mediation as an actual public responsibility rather than an abstract recommendation.

Best use: Textual evidence / example

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Category / theme: Hadith / transmitted report • Peace Maker

Published English excerpt: may Allah make peace between two big groups of Muslims through him.

Source / numbering: Sahih al-Bukhari, 2704; Book 53, Peacemaking; chapter 9; Sunnah.com numbering.

Narrator: Abu Bakrah, reported by al-Hasan al-Basri

Status / grading: Sahih collection report; Arabic/English excerpt checked.

Translation access: Sunnah.com English; individual translator not independently identified.

Relevance (compiler): The prophetic saying is embedded in al-Hasan al-Basri’s account of the later settlement. Keep that later narrative distinct from the words attributed directly to the Prophet; the Arabic names Abu Bakrah, not Abu Bakr.

Best use: Textual evidence / example

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Category / theme: Hadith / transmitted report • Peace Maker

Published English excerpt: Get up and pay him the rest.

Source / numbering: Sahih al-Bukhari, 2710; Book 53, Peacemaking; chapter 14; Sunnah.com numbering.

Narrator: Kaʿb ibn Malik, through his son ʿAbd Allah

Status / grading: Sahih collection report; Arabic/English excerpt checked.

Translation access: Sunnah.com English; individual translator not independently identified.

Relevance (compiler): Kaʿb agrees to waive half, after which Ibn Abi Hadrad is told to pay. Reconciliation combines the creditor’s concession with the debtor’s remaining responsibility.

Best use: Textual evidence / example

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Category / theme: Hadith / transmitted report • Peace Maker

Published English excerpt: No, I only intercede for him.

Source / numbering: Sahih al-Bukhari, 5283; Book 68, Divorce; chapter 16; Sunnah.com numbering.

Narrator: Ibn ʿAbbas

Status / grading: Sahih collection report; Arabic/English excerpt checked.

Translation access: Sunnah.com English; individual translator not independently identified.

Relevance (compiler): Barirah asks whether returning to Mughith is a command; the Prophet distinguishes intercession, and she declines. The historical setting includes enslavement and emancipation, not a generic modern divorce procedure.

Best use: Textual evidence / example

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Category / theme: Hadith / transmitted report • Peace Maker

Published English excerpt: O Allah! Give guidance to the people of Daus, and let them embrace Islam.

Source / numbering: Sahih al-Bukhari, 2937; Book 56, Jihad and Siyar; chapter 100; Sunnah.com numbering.

Narrator: Abu Hurayrah

Status / grading: Sahih collection report; Arabic/English excerpt checked.

Translation access: Sunnah.com English; individual translator not independently identified.

Relevance (compiler): Tufayl’s request for a prayer against Daws receives a prayer for guidance instead. This supplies a named encounter, distinct from the general statement of mercy in Muslim 2599.

Best use: Textual evidence / example

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Category / theme: Hadith / transmitted report • Peace Maker

Published English excerpt: Whoever killed a person having a treaty with the Muslims, shall not smell the smell of Paradise

Source / numbering: Sahih al-Bukhari, 3166; Book 58, Jizyah and treaties; chapter 5; Sunnah.com numbering.

Narrator: ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAmr

Status / grading: Sahih collection report; Arabic/English excerpt checked.

Translation access: Sunnah.com English; individual translator not independently identified.

Relevance (compiler): The warning treats the protected non-Muslim’s life as a grave obligation. It must not be diluted into protection only for Muslims.

Best use: Textual evidence / example

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Category / theme: Hadith / transmitted report • Peace Maker

Published English excerpt: Is it not a living being (soul)?

Source / numbering: Sahih al-Bukhari, 1312; Book 23, Funerals; chapter 49; grouped 1312–1313; Sunnah.com numbering.

Narrator: Sahl ibn Hunayf and Qays ibn Saʿd, through Ibn Abi Layla

Status / grading: Sahih collection report; Arabic/English excerpt checked.

Translation access: Sunnah.com English; individual translator not independently identified.

Relevance (compiler): The Prophet stands at a Jewish funeral procession. The report supports recognition of shared human mortality; it does not by itself settle every juristic ruling on standing for funerals.

Best use: Textual evidence / example

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Category / theme: Hadith / transmitted report • Peace Maker

Published English excerpt: Yes, keep good relation with her.

Source / numbering: Sahih al-Bukhari, 2620; Book 51, Gifts; chapter 29; Sunnah.com numbering.

Narrator: Asma’ bint Abi Bakr

Status / grading: Sahih collection report; Arabic/English excerpt checked.

Translation access: Sunnah.com English; individual translator not independently identified.

Relevance (compiler): Asma’ receives permission to maintain good relations with her non-Muslim mother. Family kindness is not made conditional on conversion.

Best use: Textual evidence / example

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Category / theme: Hadith / transmitted report • Peace Maker

Published English excerpt: Release Thumama.

Source / numbering: Sahih al-Bukhari, 4372; Book 64, Maghazi; chapter 70; Sunnah.com numbering.

Narrator: Abu Hurayrah

Status / grading: Sahih collection report; Arabic/English excerpt checked.

Translation access: Sunnah.com English; individual translator not independently identified.

Relevance (compiler): The sequence places release before bathing and the declaration of faith. The grain embargo at the report’s end is Thumamah’s statement, not automatically a quoted prophetic order.

Best use: Textual evidence / example

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Category / theme: Hadith / transmitted report • Peace Maker

Published English excerpt: He (the Holy Prophet) captured them but spared their lives.

Source / numbering: Sahih Muslim, 1808; Book 32, Jihad and expeditions; chapter 46; Sunnah.com numbering.

Narrator: Anas ibn Malik

Status / grading: Sahih collection report; Arabic/English excerpt checked.

Translation access: Sunnah.com English; individual translator not independently identified.

Relevance (compiler): The report identifies eighty armed men descending from al-Tanʿim and connects the event with Qur’an 48:24. Count the report and the Qur’anic passage as different source texts, not multiple retellings of the report.

Best use: Textual evidence / example

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Category / theme: Hadith / transmitted report • Peace Maker

Published English excerpt: Who enters the house of Abu Sufyan, he will be safe.

Source / numbering: Sahih Muslim, 1780a; Book 32, Jihad and expeditions; chapter 31; Sunnah.com numbering.

Narrator: Abu Hurayrah, through ʿAbd Allah ibn Rabah

Status / grading: Sahih collection report; Arabic/English excerpt checked.

Translation access: Sunnah.com English; individual translator not independently identified.

Relevance (compiler): This is a checked promise of safety within a report that also records fighting and killing. Do not replace it with an unverified universal-amnesty speech or describe the entire conquest as bloodless.

Best use: Textual evidence / example

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Category / theme: Tafsir • Peace Maker

Scholarly position / paraphrased argument: The commentary identifies Hudaybiyyah as the immediate victory and explains its benefit through secure contact, encounters and the spread of religious teaching.

Author / work: Ibn Kathir; Tafsir al-Qur’an al-ʿAzim; accessed English abridgment on Quran.com; 48:1–3; “The Reason behind revealing Surat Al-Fath” and explanation of 48:1

Verification / limitation: Commentary passage checked; English abridgment, not a critical Arabic edition

Relevance (compiler): An attributed explanation of outcomes, distinct from the treaty’s actual wording.

Best use: Interpretation / critical analysis

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Category / theme: Tafsir • Peace Maker

Scholarly position / paraphrased argument: Ibn Kathir notes that the verse calls both fighting groups believers and uses that description against treating every major sin as unbelief.

Author / work: Ibn Kathir; Tafsir al-Qur’an al-ʿAzim; accessed English abridgment on Quran.com; commentary on 49:9–10

Verification / limitation: Commentary passage checked; English abridgment, not a critical Arabic edition

Relevance (compiler): Supports careful religious classification during internal conflict; it does not erase the verse’s demand for justice.

Best use: Interpretation / critical analysis

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Category / theme: Modern academic discussion • Peace Maker

Scholarly position / paraphrased argument: Anjum distinguishes major intergroup disputes in §42 from the wider referral of believers’ disagreements in §23.

Author / work: Ovamir Anjum; The “Constitution” of Medina: Translation, Commentary, and Meaning Today; Yaqeen Institute, 4 February 2021; updated 22 July 2024; §§37–42, commentary on §42 contrasted with §23

Verification / limitation: Modern analysis checked; document transmission and readings disputed; early sources accessed only through this analysis

Relevance (compiler): Match arbitration claims to the relevant clause.

Best use: Critical analysis / qualification

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