Rules of Jihad -Shaykh Salih Al-Fawzaan ~ العلامة صالح الفوزان أدب الجهاد - رسالة إلى داعش

It is reported on the authority of Buraidah (ra) that he said: "Whenever Allah's Messenger (may Peace Be Upon Him) charged someone with leadership in the army or sent someone on an expedition, he would admonish him to fear Allah and be good to the Muslims who were with him: He would say: "Fight in the Name of Allah and in Allah's cause and fight those who disbelieve in Allah . Do not take excessive booty and do not break treaties and do not mutilate (the enemies' dead) and do not kill children. When you meet your enemies from among the polytheists, call them to three virtues - if they respond (in a positive manner), respond them in like fashion and accept it from them and cease making war upon them: (i) Invite them to Islam and if they respond positively, accept it from them and (ii) ask them to leave their land and migrate to the land of the Muhajirun.1 Inform them that after migrating, they will be entitled to everything to which the Muhajirun are entitled and they will be under the same obligations as the Muhajirun. If they refuse to migrate, then tell them that they will have the same status as the bedouin Muslims, subject to the Commands of Allah , like other Muslims, but they will not receive any share of the booty or returns of war unless they fight jihad with the Muslims. If they refuse to embrace Islam, then impose the jizyah upon them and if they agree to this, then accept it from them and cease fighting them. But if they refuse, then seek Allah's Help and fight them. When you besiege a people in their fort, and they beseech you for protection in Allah's Name and His Prophet, do not grant them the Covenant of Allah and His Prophet (may Peace Be Upon Him), but grant them your covenant and that of your companions, for it is a lesser sin if the covenant of you and your companions is broken than if the Covenant of Allah and His Prophet (may Peace Be Upon Him) is broken. When you besiege a fort and they request you to let them out in accordance with Allah's Command, do not let them out in accordance with His Command, but do so at your own command, for you know not whether you will be able to carry out Allah's Command with regard to them." (Narrated by Muslim) Benefits Derived From This Hadith 1. The lawfulness of a Commander and of guiding him towards correct behaviour. 2. The forbiddance of excessive seizure of war booty, breaking treaties, mutilating the war dead and killing no-combatants, especially children. 3. The obligation to call the enemy to Islam before declaring war on them, if the call to Islam has not previously reached them and the preferability of doing so if they have been called to Islam previously but refused the call. 4. That if the disbelievers refuse the call of the Commander of the Mujahideen to Islam, he must order them to pay the jizyah or else fight. 2 5. The preferability of emigrating from the land of disbelief to the land of Islam and of calling the people to that. 6. That the spoils of war are only for the Muhaajirun and not for the nomadic Arabs, unless they participate in Jihad. 7. That it is not permissible to grant a covenant in Allah's Name or that of His Prophet (may Peace Be Upon Him). 8. The forbiddance of breaking treaties. 9. That not everyone who resorts to ijtihad 3 reaches the correct conclusion; the one who does so is he who has sufficient knowledge of fiqh, tafseer, Hadith and related Islamic subjects and uses his knowledge in accordance with the Commands of Allah and His Prophet (may Peace Be Upon Him) and with the rules of usool al-fiqh.