Sayyiduna Tamim ad-Dari (may Allah be pleased with him) says: I asked the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him): O Messenger of Allah! If a person from among the disbelievers accepts Islam at the hands of a Muslim, what is the ruling regarding him? The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: “The one who brought him to Islam is closer to him, in both his life and his death.”