The Truth about the Alleged Punishment for Apostasy in Islam — Page 103
103 Naghm a n their king. Soon afterwards, the governors of the Holy Prophet sa sent reports that the high and low had rebelled in all the regions and the rebels were persecuting the Muslims in all sorts of ways. In the beginning Hadrat Ab u Bakr ra continued to have a dialogue with the rebels in the manner that the Holy Prophet sa used to hold negotiations with the rebels through the emissaries. However, the tribes of ‘Abs and Dhuby a n started advancing their army towards Medina while brutally murdering the unarmed Muslims of their region. The other tribes followed suit. At this Hadrat Ab u Bakr vowed that in return of every single Muslim killed, he would kill one rebel. In fact he would kill more. Subsequently, that is exactly what he did. He sent a message to Kh a lid bin Wal i d ra that promptly after the capture, he was to kill a each rebel who had killed a Muslim in a most exemplary way. Before his demise, the Holy Prophet sa had sent Hadrat ‘Amr bin al-‘ As ra to Jaifar (‘Umm a n). When he returned after the death of the Holy Prophet sa the Muslims gathered around him to hear the situation of the rebels. He recounted that the rebels were encamped along the entire route of Daba to Medina. The instigation of rebellion and apostasy took place in the time of the Holy Prophet sa by Aswad ‘Ans i in the region of Yemen. The tribe of Madh h aj joined them and the havoc of its rebellion started spreading like wildfire. In addition to its infantry, the