Arabic (Original)
حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ أَنَا مَعْمَرٌ عَنْ أَيُّوبَ عَنْ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ هِلَالٍ الْعَدَوِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي بُرْدَةَ قَالَ قَدِمَ عَلَى أَبِي مُوسَى مُعَاذُ بْنُ جَبَلٍ بِالْيَمَنِ فَإِذَا رَجُلٌ عِنْدَهُ قَالَ مَا هَذَا قَالَ رَجُلٌ كَانَ يَهُودِيًّا فَأَسْلَمَ ثُمَّ تَهَوَّدَ وَنَحْنُ نُرِيدُهُ عَلَى الْإِسْلَامِ مُنْذُ قَالَ أَحْسَبُهُ شَهْرَيْنِ فَقَالَ وَاللَّهِ لَا أَقْعُدُ حَتَّى تَضْرِبُوا عُنُقَهُ فَضُرِبَتْ عُنُقُهُ فَقَالَ قَضَى اللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُ أَنَّ مَنْ رَجَعَ عَنْ دَيْنِهِ فَاقْتُلُوهُ أَوْ قَالَ مَنْ بَدَّلَ دَيْنَهُ فَاقْتُلُوهُ.
English Translation
Abd al-Razzaq told us, Ma'mar told us, from Ayyub, from Humayd ibn Hilal al-Adawi, from Abu Burdah, who said: Mu'adh ibn Jabal came to Abu Musa in Yemen, and there was a man with him. He said: What is this? He said: A man who had been a Jew, then became a Muslim, then reverted to Judaism, and we have been wanting him to return to Islam for — he said, I think — two months. He said: By Allah, I will not sit until you strike off his neck — so his neck was struck off. He said: Allah and His Messenger have decreed that whoever reverts from his religion, kill him — or he said: whoever changes his religion, kill him.