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Short anecdote from the Syirah

Beautiful anecdote one that has a lot of interest and benefit and it intersects with Islamic history and with Western or outside history

After the sixth year of the Hijrah one the professor said him enacted the Treaty of Padebiya this gave him the

leeway to start negotiating and writing letters to other rulers and so after the sixth year of the Hijrah he began writing to the

leaders of the Roman Empire and of the Sassanid or the Persian Empire and as you're all aware he wrote to both

Khusra which is the leader of the Sassanid Empire and to the Byzantine Empire in Rome and so one of the letters

he sent was to Khusra and he sent Abdallah bin Houdafah to deliver hand deliver the letter to the emperor of the Sassanid Empire

Abdallah bin Houdafah traveled all the way to Iran to the capital Tessiphon and of course the

capital itself is still preserved to this day it is one of the UN World Heritage sites it's a very

magnificent structure still preserved to this day so he traveled to Tessiphon and

he hand delivered the letter to Khusra after a long negotiation because Khusra refused to see him first

and then he insisted that there's a new ruler in Arabia and he's sending you a letter he's a

prophet of Allah he's sending you a letter so then he said to his dignitary or his minister you take the

letter and Abdallah bin Houdafah said my prophet salallahu wa sallam was commanded that I hand this to

your hand I'm not going to give it to anybody else and so he was already with an attitude Khusra so

he said okay hand it to me so Abdallah bin Houdafah then gave it directly to Kisra in his hand

so Kisra opened it up and he read in Muhammad Rasool Allah Ila Kisra Ali mi Faris from Muhammad

the prophet salallahu wa sallam to Kisra to Kisra is his title Khusra is his name Ali mi Faris the

ruler of Faris soon as he read this he said who is this man to put his name before my name

from Muhammad Rasool Allah to Kisra Ali mi Faris automatically he gets given who is this man to

put his name he should put my name before his name and then the rest of the letter goes on us

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