Volume 4, Book 53, Number 384:
Narrated ‘Umar bin Dinar:
I was sitting with Jabir bin Zaid and ‘Amr bin Aus, and Bjalla was narrating to them in 70 A.H. the
year when Musab bin Az-Zubair was the leader of the pilgrims of Basra. We were sitting at the steps
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of Zam-zam well and Bajala said, “I was the clerk of Juz bin Muawiya, Al-Ahnaf’s paternal uncle. A
letter came from ‘Umar bin Al-Khattab one year before his death; and it was read:– “Cancel every
marriage contracted among the Magians between relatives of close kinship (marriages that are re –
garded illegal in Islam: a relative of this sort being called Dhu-Mahram.)” ‘Umar did not take the
Jizya from the Magian infidels till ‘Abdur-Rahman bin ‘Auf testified that Allah’s Apostle had taken
the Jizya from the Magians of Hajar.