Mishkat al-Masabih #3402
Retaliation
Abud Darda’ reported God’s Messenger as saying, “He who gets land on which tax is due 1 has sought to rescind his emigration,2 and he who takes an infidel’s lowliness from his neck and puts it on his own 3 has turned his back on Islam.”
Abu Dawud transmitted it.
1. The word for "tax" here is jizya. Eventually a distinction was made between jizya and kharaj, the former being used for poll-tax and the latter for land-tax.
2. i.e. to make himself like a dhimmi.
3. i.e. undertakes the responsibility of paying his tax for him.
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This hadith is #3402 from Mishkat al-Masabih, in the Book of Retaliation. Mishkat al-Masabih contains 4,428 hadiths across 25 books.