The chief of Yamamah is captured

The chief of Yamamah is captured (92)

Thumama bin Uthal was the chieftain of Yamama. His hatred
of Islam and the Prophet ﷺ impelled him to make an attack on the Prophet’s life. Egged on by Musaylimah the Liar, who pretended to be a prophet and had his own reasons for wanting the Prophet ﷺ dead, Thumama set out in disguise in Muharram, 6 A.H. His objective was to assasinate the Prophet ﷺ , but he was captured by a party of Muslim horsemen returning from a punitive expedition against Banu Bakr bin Kilab.

The Muslims under Muhammad
bin Muslimah took Thumama back with them to Madinah, where they left him bound to a pillar in the Prophet’s ﷺ mosque. The Prophet ﷺ saw the captive and asked him,

“What do you expect, Thumama?”
“I expect good, for if you kill me, you will kill one whose
blood will be avenged. If you show me favour, you will show it to one who is gracious; if you want property, you will be given as much as you wish.”The Prophet ﷺ left him there.

The following day the same
question was asked with the same answer being given. The third day at the end of the same conversation, the Prophet ﷺ ordered Thumama released. Thumama it seems, had spent three days in contemplation of issues more profound than the matter of his release, for upon being freed he bathed and asked to be admitted into Islam.

Later, he said to the Prophet ﷺ, “I swear to Allah, O Muhammad, no face on the face of the earth was more abhorrant to me than yours, but now your face is the dearest of all to me. I also swear to Allah that no religion was more hateful to me than yours in the entire world, but now it is the dearest of all to me.”

Thumama left Madinah to perform Umrah in Makkah, where the Quraysh heaped vituperation on him for his change of heart. Thumama’s answer was swift, “By Allah, not a grain of wheat will reach you from Yamamah until the Prophet
permits.”

Thumama spoke in earnest, and the Quraysh were left in despair, for not a single caravan was allowed to carry wheat to the Quraysh. A letter was sent to the Prophet ﷺ asking for the embargo to be lifted, and only when he recommemded selling grain to the Makkans did Thumama resume trade with them.

The expedition of Banu Lihyan

In Usfan, in the heart of Hijaz, lived Banu Lihyan, the tribe that had ambushed the seventy Muslims at Raj’i. The memory of that tragic incident filled the Prophet ﷺ with the desire to punish Banu Lihyan, but he was forced to deal with several emergencies that demanded his attention, the Battle of the Trench was one among them.

Soon, however, the calm following the failed coilition gave him the opportunity to claim retribution. With an army of two hundred men and twenty cavaliers, he marched upon the murderous Banu Lihyan in Rabi’ Al-Awwal, 6 A.H.

The party reached Batn Gharan, a valley between Amj and
Usfan, the site of the massacre. There the Prophet ﷺ prayed for the martyrs and halted for two days. When Banu Lihyan heard of the march against them, they took refuge in the hills and eluded capture, so the Prophet ﷺ went on to Usfan with a squad of ten cavaliers in the vanguard. They moved up to Karaa’ Al-Ghamaim. After fourteen days, the Muslim forces returned to Madinah.

Next time a joyful event is going to happen .

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