فَإِنْ أَبَوْا فَادْعُهُمْ إِلَى إِعْطَاءِ الْجِزْيَةِ فَإِنْ فَعَلُوا فَاقْبَلْ مِنْهُمْ وَ اكْفُفْ عَنْهُمْ فَإِنْ أَبَوْا فَاسْتَعِنْ بِاللَّهِ وَ قَاتِلْهُمْ وَ إِنْ أَنْتَ حَاصَرْتَ أَهْلَ حِصْنٍ أَوْ مَدِينَةٍ فَأَرَادُوا أَنْ تَسْتَنْزِلَهُمْ عَلَى حُكْمِ اللَّهِ فَلَا تَسْتَنْزِلْهُمْ عَلَى حُكْمِ اللَّهِ وَ لَكِنْ أَنْزِلْهُمْ عَلَى حُكْمِكَ فَإِنَّكَ لَا تَدْرِي أَ تُصِيبُ حُكْمَ اللَّهِ فِيهِمْ أَمْ لَا If they refuse, then call them to give the tribute (taxes), so if they do so then accept from them and refrain from them.
But if they refuse then seek Assistance with Allah -azwj and fight them; and if you were to besiege the people of a fort or a city and they intend to descend to you upon the Judgment of Allah -azwj , do not let them descend upon the Judgment of Allah -azwj , but descend them upon your decision, for you do not know whether you will hit the correct Judgment of Allah -azwj regarding them or not.
And in a report of Abbas Bin Usman, ‘From Al-Sadiq -asws : ‘He -saww made/appointed Ja’far -asws upon them, so if he -asws is killed, then Zayd, and if he is killed then Ibn Rawaha. Then they went out until they descended Ma’an and it reached them that Hercules king of Rome has descended at Ma’arib among a hundred thousand from the Romans and one hundred thousand from the Arabs’. [2] و قال ابن عبد البر في الاستيعاب كانت سن جعفر ع يوم قتل إحدى و أربعين سنة.
And Ibn Abd Al-Birr said in (the book) ‘Al-Istiyaab’ – ‘The age of Ja’far -asws on the day he -asws was killed was forty-one years’’.
[3] Background: المناقب لابن شهرآشوب ابْنُ مَهْدِيٍّ الْمَامَطِيرِيُ فِي مَجَالِسِهِ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ كَتَبَ إِلَى كِسْرَى مِنْ مُحَمَّدٍ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ إِلَى كِسْرَى بْنِ هُرْمُزْدَ أَمَّا بَعْدُ فَأَسْلِمْ تَسْلَمْ وَ إِلَّا فَأْذَنْ بِحَرْبٍ مِنَ اللَّهِ وَ رَسُولِهِ وَ السَّلامُ عَلى مَنِ اتَّبَعَ الْهُدى (The book) ‘Al-Manaqib of Ibn Shehr Ashub – Ibn Mahdi Al Mamatiri, in his gatherings – ‘The Prophet -saww wrote to Chosroe: ‘From Muhammad -saww Rasool -saww of Allah -azwj to Chosroe Bin Hurmuzd.