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QUESTION OF HERACLIUS, EMPEROR OF ROME

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(Heraclius, Emperor of Rome asked), ‘What does he (the Prophet,) teach you?’ Abu Sufyan replied: ‘He teaches us to worship Allah alone and not to associate anything with Him. To abandon what our ancestors said and he commands us to establish the prayer, to tell the truth, to be chaste and to strengthen the ties of kinship.’"

Bukhari and Muslim with a chain up to Abu Sufyan who related that during the course of his meeting with Heraclius the latter asked him this.