The kind treatment and mercy that the Prophet ﷺ showed to his servants, even those who were from the People of the Book, was exemplary. He ﷺ was always keen to guide them to Islam. In this hadeeth, Anas ibn Maalik (may Allah be pleased with him) reports that there was a Jewish boy (Ghulaam) who was in the service of the Prophet ﷺ. [The Arabic word Ghulaam is used in reference to boys whose agesrange from birth to prepubescent.] One day, this young boy became sick, and the news reached the Prophet ﷺ,so he visited him to check on his health. He ﷺ sat next to his head and asked him to embrace Islam. The boy looked at his father [for approval], and it is thought this was either due to reluctancetoaccept Islam or purely out of fear of his father. However, his father responded by telling the boy obey Aboo al-Qaasim- This was the Kunya (a teknonym in Arabic names, which is the name of an adult derived from their eldest child) of the Prophet ﷺ. Thus, the boy accepted the invitation of the Prophet ﷺ to Islam. Accepting Islam requires the utterance of the two Testimonies of Faith, which are“I bear witness that there is no god worthy of worship except Allah”, and “that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah”, as reported in the hadeeth found in Sunan al-Nisaa’iee al-Kubra. After this, the Prophet ﷺ left the house while praising Allah for saving this boy from the Hellfire. From this hadeeth, we can perceive that it is permissible for Muslims to hire disbelievers to workfor them, so long as they are certain they will not be subjects to their plots and deceit. This hadeeth also teaches us that we should be kind to others, regardless of religion, and propose Islam to young boys too. .