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Sahih Muslim
كتاب السلام
The Book of Greetings
" لاَ تَبْدَءُوا الْيَهُودَ وَلاَ النَّصَارَى بِالسَّلاَمِ فَإِذَا لَقِيتُمْ أَحَدَهُمْ فِي طَرِيقٍ فَاضْطَرُّوهُ إِلَى أَضْيَقِهِ "
Do not greet the Jews and the Christians before they greet you and when you meet any one of them on the roads force him to go to the narrowest part of it.
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- Hadith 2233a
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- Hadith 2191e
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- Hadith 2209d
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- Hadith 2205b
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- Hadith 2228a
I said: Allah's Messenger, the kahins used to tell us about things (unseen) and we found them to be true. Thereupon he said: That is a word pertaining to truth…
- Hadith 2177e
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