What they said on polytheists who call Muslims to what is improper: do they comply or not when forced to it?

Al-Hasan al-Basri (may Allah have mercy on him) said: The spies of Musaylimah the Liar seized two men of the Muslims and took them both to Musaylimah the Liar. He said to one of them: "Do you bear witness that Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) is the Messenger of Allah?" He said: "Yes!" He asked again: "Do you bear witness that Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) is the Messenger of Allah?" He said: "Yes!" He asked: "Do you bear witness that I am the Messenger of Allah?" That Companion pointed to his ears and said: "I am deaf." Musaylimah the Liar said: "What calamity is upon you, that when I ask you whether you bear witness that I am the Messenger of Allah, you say that you are deaf?" So he gave the order and that Companion was killed. Musaylimah the Liar said to the other man: "Do you bear witness that Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) is the Messenger of Allah?" He said: "Yes!" He asked again: "Do you bear witness that I am the Messenger of Allah?" He said: "Yes!" So he let him go. This man came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: "O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)! I am ruined!" He (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "What has happened?" He related what had happened to him and to his companion, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "As for your companion, he died in a state of faith; and as for you, you acted upon the concession."

Tariq bin Shihab (may Allah have mercy on him) said that Sayyiduna Salman (may Allah be pleased with him) stated: One man entered Paradise because of a fly, and one man entered Hell because of a fly. It was in this way: two men passed by a people who were occupied in worshipping their idols. They said: "No one will pass by us today without offering something." They said to one of the two: "Offer something." He refused, so he was killed. They said to the other: "Offer something." They said: "Offer, even if it is only a fly." The man said: "And what is a fly?" He offered a fly, and so this man entered Hell. At this Sayyiduna Salman (may Allah be pleased with him) said: This man entered Paradise because of a fly, and this man entered Hell because of a fly.

Qays bin Sa'd (may Allah have mercy on him) said that Ata stated, concerning a man whom the enemy seized and compelled to drink wine and eat swine: He (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "If he eats swine and drinks wine, that is a concession. And if he is killed, he has attained something good."

Burd (may Allah have mercy on him) said that Makhul (may Allah have mercy on him) stated: "There is no concession for drinking wine, because it never quenches thirst."

Umar bin Atiyyah (may Allah have mercy on him) said: I heard Abu Ja'far (may Allah have mercy on him) saying: "Taqiyyah (concealing one's faith under threat) is not permissible except in the way that carrion is permissible for one in dire need."

Awf (may Allah have mercy on him) said that al-Hasan al-Basri (may Allah have mercy on him) stated: "Taqiyyah is permissible for the believer until the Day of Resurrection, except that he may not practise taqiyyah in killing someone."

Ibn Jurayj (may Allah have mercy on him) reports from a man that Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) stated: "Taqiyyah is only with the tongue, not with the hand."

Al-Rabi' (may Allah have mercy on him) said that Abu al-Aliyah (may Allah have mercy on him) stated in the explanation of this verse: "Except that you wish to guard yourselves against their evil with some form of protection" [Al Imran: 28], that taqiyyah is with the tongue, not with action.

Abd al-A'la (may Allah have mercy on him) said that Ibn al-Hanafiyyah (may Allah have mercy on him) stated: "Whoever does not practise taqiyyah has no faith."

Al-Harith bin Suwayd (may Allah have mercy on him) said that Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) stated: "There is no speech which I could speak before a ruler, and which would spare me from one or two of his lashes, except that I would certainly speak it."

Jabir (may Allah have mercy on him) said that Abu Ja'far (may Allah have mercy on him) stated: "Taqiyyah has as much vastness as the space between the heavens and the earth."

Fudayl bin Marzuq (may Allah have mercy on him) said that al-Hasan bin al-Hasan (may Allah have mercy on him) stated: "Taqiyyah is certainly a concession. What is better is to stand firm upon the command of Allah."

Abu Qilabah (may Allah have mercy on him) said that Sayyiduna Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) stated: "I have certainly bought part of my religion with another part, for fear that all of the religion would go."

Al-Nazzal bin Sabrah (may Allah have mercy on him) said: Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) and Sayyiduna Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) both went in to Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him). Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) asked Sayyiduna Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him): "It has reached me that you said such and such?" He (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "No, by Allah! I did not say that." When Sayyiduna Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) came out, Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) said to him: "He asked you, and you did not admit to what I heard you say?" He said: "I have certainly bought part of my religion with another part, for fear that all of the religion would go."