Muhammad (saw) – The Perfect Man — Page 384
CHAPTER 17 The Prophet sa as a Summoner to All a h 384 settled in Mad i nah. These tribes were participants of the treaty of Mad i nah, which ensured peace with the Muslims, but they were expelled from Mad i nah one after the other due to their breach of this agreement. Although all the arguments in favour of Islam were clear to them and some of their chiefs had full knowledge of the truth, only one God fearing Jewish scholar had the good fortune to accept Islam, all the other Jews continued their hostile attitude in line with their chiefs. The reason for this was that the chiefs refused to surrender their leadership because of their egotistic and obstinate natures. That is why the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa once said if only ten Jew-chiefs believed in him, the whole nation of Jews would have accepted me. 59 Jews used to come to the meetings with the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa and raised objections. They would ask questions and received satisfactory answers but were not fortunate enough to accept the guidance. The Holy Prophet Muhammad sa tried his utmost to convince the Jews but they remained adamant in their attitude. The Holy Prophet Muhammad sa used to visit their institute of learning, Baitul-Madr a s. Hadrat Ab u Hurairah ra relates that one day they were sitting in the Prophet's Mosque when the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa came. He said, "Today let us go and visit the Jews. " So they