Ibn Taymiyyah on Jihad: The Prophet did not initiate fighting with anyone

Ibn Taymiyyah said, “The Prophet’s biography shows that he did not fight whoever made peace with him among the unbelievers; and the books of biography, prophetic traditions, exegesis, jurisprudence, and history
are full of such acts and this is widely narrated in his biography. Thus, the Prophet did not initiate fighting with anyone, and had Allah commanded him to fight every disbeliever, then he would have initiated fighting with them.”

[Qa’idah fi Qital Al-Kuffar]

قال ابن تيمية وكانت سيرته أن كل من هادنه من الكفار لا يقاتله وهذه كتب السير والحديث والتفسير والفقه والمغازي تنطق بهذا وهذا متواتر من سيرته فهو لم يبدأ أحدًا بقتال ولو كان الله أمره أن يقتل كل كافر لكان يبتدئهم بالقتل والقتال

قاعدة في قتال الكفار