Murder in the Name of Allah — Page 67
Recantation under Islam when she was travelling from Mecca to Medina. Al-Huwayrith goaded. Zaynab's camel. Zaynab was pregnant and had a miscarriage because of the attack and had to return to Mecca. The Prophetsa sent a number of people with orders that if they found Habbar b. al-Aswad or AlHuwayrith they should kill them, 20 but Al-Huwayrith escaped. In another report, Hisham says that Al-Abbas b. Abd al-Muttalib put Fatima and. Umm Kulthum, the two daughters of the Prophetsa on a camel to take them from Mecca to Medina. Al-Huwayrith goaded the beast so it threw the two women. 21 Finally, Ali killed him in Mecca. 22. Maqees b. Subabah came to Medina from Mecca and said: 'I come to you as a Muslim seeking recompense for my brother, who was wrongly killed. ' The Prophetsa ordered that he should be paid for his brother. Hisham. Having received recompense, Maqees stayed with the Prophets for a while. But, as soon as he got an opportunity he killed his brother's slayer, recanted and defected to Mecca. 23 Maqees was executed by. Numaylah b. Abdullah for killing an Ansar, on whose behalf the payment for killing his brother had already been paid. 24. Sarah, who was accused of creating disorder, was not killed during the Prophet's lifetime. . Ikrama b. Abu Jahl fled to the Yemen. His wife, Umm Hakim, became a Muslim and asked immunity for him and this was granted by the Prophetsa 25. There appears to be no evidence to show that the Prophet sa punished anyone for recantation from Islam. . The death of the Prophetsa in 11AH/AD632 confronted the young. Muslim administration with a major crisis. Disorder broke out in parts of the peninsula and many tribes detached themselves from Medina by refusing to pay zakat. This movement is known as Al-Riddah. The main task of the Prophet's successor, Abu Bakr, was to put down this unrest. . His first job, however, was to send the expedition the Holy Prophets had ordered before his death. So an army under the command of Usamah b. . Zayd b. Harith was sent to the Syrian border on the second day after the proclamation of his caliphate. . After Usamah and his army had departed, most of the tribes fell away from Medina. Only Mecca, Medina and their surroundings remained loyal to the central administration. Muslim agents appointed to the rebel tribes by the Prophet just before his death were forced to flee their posts and to return to Medina. It was a full-fledged revolt. . Having decided to fight the rebels, Abu Bakr sent messengers to 67