Hadith 11

em. If she does not happen to be from the children of Israel, and she was from a people know of their entry into that religion before addressing the alterations and the Abrogation to it. Regarding permissibility of marrying her, there are two words, and the majority are upon the allowing it, and even if she was from a people their entry into that religion is known after the alteration and before the Abrogation. If they were to adhere with the truth and shun the prohibitions, it would be as if they had entered into it before the alteration. And if they had entered in the altered, there are two words regarding it, and the most well-known with them is the refusal, but they would be accepting upon the paying of the taxes. And if she was from a people their entry into that after the alteration and the Abrogation, she cannot be married, for they were professing Oneness and being Christian after the Sending of our Prophet-saww, they cannot be married. And regarding the Unitarians after Sending of Isa-asws, the well-known between them is, they were not marrying from them and were not accepting upon the taxes as well. And if she was from a people, it is unknown whether they entered into this religion before the alteration or after it, or before the Abrogation or after it, so marrying her would be taken with harshness, and it is allowed their acceptance with the taxes, in preference to the saving (of blood). They said, ‘And by it was the ruling by the companions, regarding the Arab Christians, and they were (clans of) Bahra, and Tanoukh, and Taglib’. And if she was an Israelite, so that which they freed was allowance of marrying her from without looking at her forefathers when they had entered into this religion before the alteration or after it. And as for when they had entered into it after the Abrogation and Sending of our Prophet-saww Muhammad-saww, so you cannot separate in it the Israelite women and others. This is what the Shafiies mentioned regarding that, and rather I have referred it over here as a commentary on the speech of the Sheykh, may Allah-azwj have Mercy on him and as a clarification of what has been referred in the Ahadeeth from the Arab Christian, and (clan of) Taglib, and to reveal to you the cause of particularising the ruling with them, and it is either the aspect which they have mentioned or in accordance with them in that as Taqiyya (dissimulation), so ponder’.