Arabic (Original)
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْمُغِيرَةِ حَدَّثَنَا صَفْوَانُ حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو زِيَادٍ يَحْيَى بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ الْغَسَّانِيُّ عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ قُطَيْبٍ عَنْ مُعَاذٍ أَنَّهُ كَانَ يَقُولُ بَعَثَنِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ إِلَى الْيَمَنِ فَقَالَ لَعَلَّكَ أَنْ تَمُرَّ بِقَبْرِي وَمَسْجِدِي وَقَدْ بَعَثْتُكَ إِلَى قَوْمٍ رَقِيقَةٍ قُلُوبُهُمْ يُقَاتِلُونَ عَلَى الْحَقِّ مَرَّتَيْنِ فَقَاتِلْ بِمَنْ أَطَاعَكَ مِنْهُمْ مَنْ عَصَاكَ ثُمَّ يَعُودُونَ إِلَى الْإِسْلَامِ حَتَّى تُبَادِرَ الْمَرْأَةُ زَوْجَهَا وَالْوَلَدُ وَالِدَهُ وَالْأَخُ أَخَاهُ فَانْزِلْ بَيْنَ الْحَيَّيْنِ السَّكُونَ وَالسَّكَاسِكَ.
English Translation
Abu al-Mughirah told us, Safwan told us, Abu Ziyad Yahya ibn Ubayd al-Ghassani told me, from Yazid ibn Qutayb, from Mu'adh, who used to say: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, sent me to Yemen and said: Perhaps you will pass by my grave and my mosque. I have sent you to a people whose hearts are tender; they fight for the truth twice over — so fight, with those who obey you among them, those who disobey you — then they will return to Islam until the wife hurries to defend her husband, and the child his father, and the brother his brother. So encamp between the two tribes of al-Sakun and al-Sakasik.