He (Ibn Sa`d) said: Isma’il Ibn Ibrahim al-Asadi Ibn ‘Ulayyah informed
us on the authority of al-Jariri, he on the authority of Abu al-‘Ala; he
said: I was in the company of Mutarrif in the Suq al-Ibil (camel market)
when an A’ràbi came with a piece of leather or a leather wallet and said:
Who will read it? Or he said: Is there any one among you who will read
it? I said: yes, I will read it. He said: Take this; verily, the Apostle of
Allah, may Allah bless him, wrote this to me. It contained this: In the
name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. From Muhammad, the
Prophet, to Banu Zuhayr Ibn Ugaysh, a sub-tribe of ‘Ukal. If they bear
witness to, (the formula that) there is no god save Allah and that
Muhammad is the Apostle of Allah, they dissociate themselves with the,
polytheists and promise to pay one-fifth of their booty as the general and
particular shares of the Prophet, they will be safe under the protection of
Allah and His Apostle. Then the people or some of them said to him: Have you heard some thing from (the lips of) the Apostle of Allah;
reproduce the same before us. I said: Yes. They said: Repeat before us,
may Allah show you mercy. I said: I heard him saying: He who likes that
his breast may be free from intense rancour, should keep fasts in the
month of forbearance (i.e. Ramadan), and for three days in every month.
The people or some of them said to him: Have you heard it from the
Apostle of Allah. He said: I think you fear that I will fabricate a lie on the
Apostle of Allah, may Allah bless him. By Allah I shall never relate a
tradition after today.
Aal-e-Qutub Aal-e-Syed Abdullah Shah Ghazi 