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His Scribes, Peace and Blessings Be upon Him

Abū Bakr, ‘Umar, ‘Uthmān, ‘Alī, al-Zubayr, ‘Āmir ibn Fuhayrah, Ubayy ibn Ka‘b, ‘Amr ibn al-‘Ās, ‘Abd Allāh ibn al-Arqam, Thābit ibn Qays ibn Shammās, Hanzalah ibn al-Rabī‘ al-Usayyidī (1), al-Mughīrah ibn Shu‘bah, ‘Abd Allāh ibn Rawāhah, Khālid ibn al-Walīd, and Khālid ibn Sa‘īd ibn al-‘Ās—who is said to have been the first to write for him. There were also Mu‘āwiyah ibn Abī Sufyān and Zayd ibn Thābit; these two were the most consistently engaged in this work and the most particularly entrusted with it.

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His Letters to the Muslims Concerning Religious Laws

Among these was his letter concerning zakat, which was in Abū Bakr’s possession. Abū Bakr wrote it out for Anas ibn Mālik when he sent him to Bahrain (2). The majority of scholars base their practice on it.

Another was his letter to the people of Yemen, transmitted by Abū Bakr [ibn Muhammad] (3) ibn ‘Amr ibn Hazm, from his father, from his grandfather. Abū Hātim transmitted it in his Sahīh (4), as did al-Nasā’ī and others, with an uninterrupted chain of transmission reaching back to the Prophet (5), while Abū Dāwūd and others transmitted it