your war is my war, and your peace is my peace—your war (1)—and whoever wages war against the Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—is an unbeliever by consensus.’”

The response—after first saying the following—is:

Allah is Most Great over these mendacious apostates, followers of the apostates who openly arrayed themselves in enmity toward Allah, His Messenger, His Book, and His religion; passed clean out of Islam and cast it behind their backs; opposed Allah, His Messenger, and His believing servants; and allied themselves with the people of apostasy and dissension (2).

Indeed, this passage and others like it in their writings demonstrate that these people—who are fanatically hostile to al-Siddīq—may Allah be pleased with him—and his party [as a matter of their fundamental principles] (3)—are of the same ilk as the unbelieving apostates whom al-Siddīq—may Allah be pleased with him—fought.

This is because the people of al-Yamāmah were Banū Hanīfah, who had come to believe in Musaylimah the Liar. He claimed prophethood during the lifetime of the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—and had come to Medina and outwardly professed Islam. He said, “If Muhammad appoints me (4) to authority after him, I will believe in him.” Then, upon returning to al-Yamāmah, he claimed that he was the Prophet’s partner in prophethood and that the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—had affirmed his claim. Al-Rajjāl ibn Unfuwa (5) testified on his behalf.

He had also composed his own Quran, in which he said:

“By the grinders, grinding; then the kneaders, kneading; then the bakers, baking—melted fat and ghee. Indeed, the land is between us and