أَخْبَرَنَا هَاشِمُ بْنُ الْقَاسِمِ ، حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ ، عَنْ النُّعْمَانِ بْنِ سَالِمٍ ، قَالَ : سَمِعْتُ أَوْسَ بْنَ أَبِي أَوْسٍ الثَّقَفِيَّ ، قَالَ : أَتَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فِي وَفْدِ ثَقِيفٍ، قَالَ : وَكُنْتُ فِي أَسْفَلِ الْقُبَّةِ لَيْسَ فِيهَا أَحَدٌ إِلا النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ نَائِمٌ إِذْ أَتَاهُ رَجُلٌ فَسَارَّهُ، فَقَالَ : " اذْهَبْ فَاقْتُلْهُ "، ثُمَّ قَالَ : " أَلَيْسَ يَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ؟ ".
قَالَ شُعْبَةُ : وَأَشُكُّ مُحَمَّدًا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ؟.
قَالَ : بَلَى.
قَالَ :" إِنِّي أُمِرْتُ أَنْ أُقَاتِلَ النَّاسَ حَتَّى يَقُولُوا : لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ، فَإِذَا قَالُوهَا، حَرُمَتْ عَلَيَّ دِمَاؤُهُمْ وَأَمْوَالُهُمْ إِلا بِحَقِّهَا ".
قَالَ : وَهُوَ الَّذِي قَتَلَ أَبَا مَسْعُودٍ.
قَالَ : وَمَا مَاتَ حَتَّى قَتَلَ خَيْرَ إِنْسَانٍ بِالطَّائِفِ

Hashim bin Al-Qasim told us, Shu’bah told us, on the authority of Al-Nu’man bin Salem, he said: I heard Aws bin Abi Aws Al-Thaqafi, he said: I came The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, in the Thaqif delegation, said: I was at the bottom of the dome and no one was there except the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, sleeping when A man came to him and pleased him, and said: “Go and kill him,” then he said: “Does he not bear witness that there is no god but God?”
Shu'bah said: Do I doubt that Muhammad is the Messenger of God?
He said: Yes.
He said: “I have been commanded to fight people until they say: There is no god but Allah. If they say it, their blood and their property will be forbidden to me unless it is rightfully so.”
He said: He was the one who killed Abu Masoud.
He said: He did not die until he had killed the best human being in Taif.