English Translation

Isma'il informed us, Bahz ibn Hakim informed us, from his father, from his grandfather, who said: I came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) when I came to him, and said, "By Allah, I did not come to you until I had sworn more than the number of these" - and Bahz joined his palms together - "not to come to you nor to your religion. And I have come to a people among whom I understand nothing except what Allah, Blessed and Exalted, and His Messenger have taught me. I ask you by the face of Allah: with what did Allah send you to us?" He said, "With Islam." I said, "And what are the signs of Islam?" He said, "That you say, 'I have submitted my face to Allah and forsaken other than Him,' that you establish the prayer, and pay the zakat. Every Muslim is inviolable to every other Muslim; two brothers, helpers of one another. Allah does not accept from a polytheist any deed after he becomes Muslim if he associates partners again, and it is required that you separate from the polytheists to join the Muslims. What is wrong with me, that I hold back your waist-wraps from the Fire? Indeed, my Lord, Mighty and Majestic, will call me and ask me whether I conveyed the message to His servants, and I will say, 'Lord, I have indeed conveyed it to them; so let the one present among you convey it to the one absent.' Then you will be summoned, your mouths stopped up with a plug; then the first thing to make clear about one of you will be his thigh and the palm of his hand." I said, "O Prophet of Allah, is this our religion?" He said, "This is your religion, and wherever you do good, it will suffice you."