He goes on to say: “What shows this clearly is that when we fight the People of the Book, we do so only ‘so that there be no persecution and so that all religion belongs to Allah’—and that objective is achieved once they pay the jizyah with their own hands while humbled.”

He makes the same point in al-Safdiyyah (2/321): “If they pay the jizyah with their own hands while humbled, then the fighting that was commanded has taken place.”

Sixth example: Shaykh al-Islām states in the abridged epistle: “The meaning is that I have only been ordered to fight up to this limit; it is not intended that I have been commanded to fight every single person until that limit.”

Likewise, in al-Safdiyyah (2/321) he says: “Their fighting is not required up to that limit; rather, once they pay the jizyah with their own hands while humbled, the prescribed fighting has been carried out.”

Seventh example: Shaykh al-Islām remarks in the abridged epistle: “Indeed, his practice was that whoever made peace with him, he would not fight him.”

His student Ibn al-Qayyim voiced the same view in Hidāyat al-Ḥayārā (1/12).