عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو رضي الله عنهما، أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ، قَالَ: «بَلِّغُوا عَنِّي وَلَوْ آيَةً، وَحَدِّثُوا عَنْ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ وَلاَ حَرَجَ، وَمَنْ كَذَبَ عَلَيَّ مُتَعَمِّدًا، فَلْيَتَبَوَّأْ مَقْعَدَهُ مِنَ النَّارِ».
109 - Delivery of the religious message
‘Abdullāh ibn ‘Amr narrated that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said:
1. Deliver from me, even though it may be one verse.
2. Relate what you hear from the Children of Israel; there is no harm.
3. Whoever attributes to me something that I have not said shall take his place in the Fire.
Related Quranic Verses
Say: ‘This is my way. I call [all mankind] to God on the basis of sure knowledge, I and all those who follow me. Limitless is God in His glory. I am not one of those who associate partners with Him’.
(12: 108)
Do not say – for any false thing you may utter with your tongues – that ‘This is lawful and this is forbidden’, so as to attribute your lying inventions to God. Indeed those who attribute their lying inventions to God will never be successful.
(16: 116)
Call people to the path of your Lord with wisdom and goodly exhortation, and argue with them in the most kindly manner. Your Lord knows best who strays from His path and who are rightly guided.
(16: 125)
Who speaks better than he who calls people to God, does what is right, and says, ‘I am one of those who have surrendered themselves to God?’
(41: 33)
