Majma al-Zawaid — Hadith 10378

Mu'awiyah bin Qurrah narrates from his father, Sayyiduna Qurrah (may Allah be pleased with him): On the day of al-Qadisiyyah, al-Mughirah bin Shu'bah was sent to the ruler of Persia. He said: "Send ten men with me." He fastened his garments on himself, took a shield with him, and set off until they came to him. He said to his companions: "Throw down a burnus (hooded cloak) for me", and he sat on it. The non-Arab chief said: "You Arabs, I know what has brought you to us. You are a people who do not find enough food in your lands to satisfy yourselves. So come, we will give you as much food as you need, for we are a Magian people and we dislike killing you, and you are defiling our land for us." Al-Mughirah said: "By Allah, that is not what has brought us. Rather, we were a people who worshipped stones and idols; when we saw a stone better than another, we threw the first away and took the other. We did not know any Lord, until Allah sent to us a Messenger from among ourselves. He invited us to Islam and we followed him. We have not come for food. He commanded us to fight those of our enemies who abandon Islam. We have not come for food; rather, we have come to kill your fighting men and take your offspring captive. As for the food you mentioned, by my life, we did not find enough food to satisfy ourselves, and at times we did not even find enough water to quench our thirst. Then we came to this land of yours and found plenty of food, so by Allah, we will not leave it until it becomes either ours or yours." The non-Arab chief said in Persian: "He has spoken the truth." Then he said in Persian: "Tomorrow your eye will be put out." And the next day his eye was put out; an arrow struck him.
Al-Tabarani recorded it, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.