to be true believers, send them not back to the infidels)."[1] And God Most High forbade them to send them back; and He commanded them to send back their dowries. After that the Prophet returned to Madína. And Abú Baṣír, a man of the Quraish, came to him. And he was a Muslim. And they sent two men in search of him; and Muhammad handed him over to the two men, and they went out with him, until, when they arrived at Dhuʾl-Hulaifah, they alighted in order to eat dates which they had. Then Abú Baṣír said to one of the two men, "By God! O so-and-so, verily I perceive that this sword of thine is a good one. Show it me that I may examine it." Then he allowed him. Then Abú Baṣír smote him till he became cold. And the other man fled until he arrived at Madína and entered running into the mosque. Then the Prophet said, "This man has certainly been terrified." The man said, "By God! my companion has been killed, and verily I am in danger of being killed also." Then Abú Baṣír came, and the Prophet said, "Alas his mother! he is a kindler of war if he had any one (to help him)." And when Abú Baṣír heard that, he knew that he would hand him back to them, and he went out until he came to the sea-shore. And Abú Jandal bin Suhail escaped and joined himself to Abú Baṣír. And it came to pass that no man who had embraced Islám went out from the Quraish without joining himself to Abú Baṣír, until there was gathered together from them a troop of men. And by God! they never heard of a caravan of the Quraish going out to Syria without attacking it and killing them and taking their goods. Then the Quraish sent to the Prophet and adjured him by God and their family ties to remonstrate with Abú Baṣír, and his companions. And whoever came to him was safe. Then he sent to them.'—Al Bukhárí.
It is related from Al Barái bin ʿÁzib that he said, 'The Prophet made peace with the polytheists on the day of Ḥudaibah with three stipulations: that whoever came to him from the polytheists, he would send him back to them; but whoever came to them from the Muslims, they would not send him back; and that he (Muḥammad) should enter Mecca the following year and remain in it three days. And he (agreed)
- ↑ Qurʾán, Súratuʾl-Mumtaḥína (lx) 10.
