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21 The Treaty of Hudaibiyah I n the sixth year after Hijrah, in the month of Dh u l- Qa‘dah, the Holy Prophet sa , along with fourteen hundred Muslims, set out for Makkah to perform ‘Umrah. The Holy Prophet sa had already announced that the Muslims were going to perform ‘Umrah, and that they did not want to fight the Makkans. For this reason they wore their I h r a m (special dress for performing H ajj and ‘Umrah) and had brought along with them animals to sacrifice. On the way there, the Holy Prophet sa learned that the Makkans would not allow the Muslims to perform ‘Umrah, and that if they tried to do so, the Makkans would fight them. Hearing this, the Holy Prophet sa stopped at H udaibiyah. Several