CHAPTER: Regarding greeting Ahl-ad-dhimmah.
Narrated Abu Hurairah: Suhayl ibn Abu Salih said: I went out with my father to Syria. The people passed by the cloisters in which there were Christians and began to salute them. My father said: Do not give them salutation first, for Abu Hurairah reported the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم as saying: Do not salute them (Jews and Christians) first, and when you meet them on the road, force them to go to the narrowest part of it.
Narrated Abdullah ibn Umar: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: When one of the Jews greets you saying: Death may come upon you, reply: The same to you. Abu Dawud said: Malik bin Adb Allah bin Dinar transmitted it in a similar manner, and al-Thawri transmitted it from Abdullah bin Dinar. He said in this version: The same to you.
Anas said: The Companions of the prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said to the prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم: The people of the Book salute us. How should we reply to them? He said: say: the same to you.