صحیح مسلم · Hadith 4630

It has been narrated on the authority of al-Bara' b. 'Azib who said: 'Ali b. Abu Talib penned the treaty between the Prophet ( ‌صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم ‌ ) and the polytheists on the Day of Hudaibiya. He wrote: This is what Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, has settled. They (the polytheists) said: Do not write words the Messenger of Allah . If we knew that you were the Messenger of Allah, we would not fight against you. The Prophet ( ‌صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم ‌ ) said to 'Ali: Strike out these words. He (Ali) said: I am not going to strike them out. So the Prophet ( ‌صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم ‌ ) struck them out with his own hand. The narrator said that the conditions upon which the two sides had agreed included that the Muslims would enter Mecca (next year) and would stay there for three days, and that they would not enter bearing arms except in their sheaths or bolsters.

Translated by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan · Reviewed by Islamic University of Madinah · Published March 2020