How authentic is the aforementioned Hadith regarding the Prophetic covenant with the Christians: "It is the guarantee of Allah and the pledge of Muhammad the Prophet, Messenger of Allah, that I will protect their side - meaning the Christians - and defend them, their churches, their places of worship, their monasteries, their hermitages, and the dwelling places of their pilgrims, wherever they may be, whether in a mountain or a valley, a cave or a settlement, a plain or sand. And I will guard their religion and their creed wherever they may be, whether on land or sea, east or west, with what I protect myself, my kin, and the people of Islam from my nation"?
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The aforementioned text is fabricated and forged, and has not been narrated by any scholar, ancient or modern. Muhammad Hamidullah mentioned it in his book "Majmu'at al-Watha'iq al-Siyasiyyah lil-'Ahd al-Nabawi wal-Khilafah al-Rashidah" and attributed it to "Tarikh al-Nasturiyyin" (History of the Nestorians), emphasizing that there is not the slightest doubt that it is among the fabricated narrations.
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