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TAMIL - AUTHOR : MUFTI A.UMAR SHARIF KASHIMI
10. [pahJ ,g;D ygPJ (uop) - `ou kTj; (akd; ehl;bYs;s Xu;
Cu;)
ENGLISH- THE SEALED NECTAR – MEMORIES OF THE PROPHET (PBUH)-AUTHOR- ISSAM DIAB
Arrival of the Hawazin Delegation
Hawazin’s delegation arrived a Muslims just after the distribution of spoils. They were
fourteen men headed by Zuhair bin Sard. The Messenger’s foster uncle was one of them.
They asked him to bestow upon them some of the wealth and spoils. They uttered so
touching words that the Messenger of Allâh [pbuh] said to them: "You surely see who are
with me. The most desirable speech to me is the most truthful. Which is dearer to you, your
wealth or your women and children?" They replied: "Nothing whatsoever compares with
kinship." Then when I perform the noon prayer, stand up and say: "We intercede with the
Messenger of Allâh [pbuh] to exhort the believers, and we intercede with the believers to
exhort the Messenger of Allâh [pbuh] to forego the captives of our people fallen to their lot."
So when the Messenger of Allâh [pbuh] performed the noon prayer, they stood up and said
what they had been told to say. The Messenger [pbuh], then, said: "As for what belongs to
me and to the children of Abdul Muttalib, you may consider them, from now on, yours. And
I will ask my folksmen to give back theirs." Upon hearing that the Emigrants and the
Helpers said: "What belongs to us is, from now on, offered to the Messenger of Allâh
[pbuh]." But Al-Aqra‘ bin Habis said, "We will grant none of what belongs to me and to Bani
Tamim,"; so did ‘Uyaina bin Hisn, who said: "As for me and Bani Fazarah, I say ‘No’." Al-
‘Abbas bin Mirdas also refused and said: "No" for Bani Saleem and him. His people,
however, said otherwise: "Whatever spoils belong to us we offer to the Messenger of Allâh
([pbuh].)" "You have undermined my position." Said Al-‘Abbas bin Mirdas spontaneously.
Then the Messenger of Allâh [pbuh] said: "These people have come to you as Muslims. For
this I have already tarried the distribution of the booty. Besides, I have granted them a fair
option but they refused to have anything other than their women and children. Therefore he
who has some of theirs and will prefer willingly to give them back, let them do. But those
who favours to keep what he owns to himself, let them grant them back too, and he will be
given as a recompense six times as much from the first booty that Allâh may provide us."
People then said, "We will willingly offer them all for the sake of the Messenger of Allâh."
The Messenger of Allâh [pbuh] said: "But in this way we are not able to find out who is
content and who is not. So go back and we will be waiting for your chiefs to convey to us
your decisions." All of them gave back the women and children. The only one who refused
to comply with the Messenger’s desire was ‘Uyaina bin Hisn. He refused to let an old woman
of theirs go back at first. Later on he let her go back. The Messenger of Allâh [pbuh] gave
every captive a garment as a gift.
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When he first came to Madinah, he was pursued and wanted. He was seeking a
secure shelter. He was a lonely stranger who sought companionship and comfort.
The people of Madinah welcomed him, gave him residence and aided him and
embraced the light of Islam, which had been sent down upon him. They, for his sake,
did not care about the enmity of other peoples. Here he is entering Madinah again,
after the lapse of eight years of that first visit. Madinah, the town that had received
him once, when he was a frightened Emigrant; it receives him once again when
Makkah has become in his hands and at his disposal. It is Makkah that has got rid of
its pride and Jahiliyah (i.e. pre-Islamic period and traditions). It is now proud again
and mighty in Islam. The Messenger of Allâh forgave all the errors and wrongs of its
people.
"Verily, he who fears Allâh with obedience to Him (by abstaining from sins
and evil deeds, and by performing righteous good deeds), and is patient,
then surely, Allâh makes not the reward of the good-doers to be lost." [Al-
Qur'an 12:90] [Fiqh-us-Seerah 303; Za'd Al-Ma'ad 2/160-201; Ibn Hisham 2/389-
501; Sahih Bukhari: Chapter Fath Ghazwal, Hunian, Awtas and At-Ta'if 2/612-622.
Fath Al-Bari 8/3-58]
Upon returning from this long successful travel, the Messenger of Allâh [pbuh]
stayed in Madinah where he received delegates and dispatched agents and appointed
preachers and callers to Islam everywhere. Those whose hearts were still full of
prejudice against Islam and therefore were too proud to embrace Allâh’s religion,
were decisively muffled on their non-acquiescence in the status quo prevalent then in
Arabia.
Here is a mini-image about the believed ones. We have already stated that the
Messenger’s arrival in Madinah was by the last days of the eighth year of Al-Hijra. No
sooner the crescent of Muharram of the ninth year turned up than the Messenger of
Allâh [pbuh] dispatched the believed ones, to the tribes as shown in the list below:
Some of these agents were despatched in Muharram, 7 A.H., others were sent later
until the tribes they were heading for had completely converted into Islam. Such a
move clearly demonstrates the great success that the Islamic Da‘wah (Call) enjoyed
after Al-Hudaibiyah Treaty. However, shortly after the conquest of Makkah, people
began to embrace Islam in large hosts.
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