Our Beloved Master - His Early Life — Page 79
•oUR BELoVED MASTER• 79 When the bravest men of both sides were too exhausted to fight anymore and after thousands of men had been wiped out, Ban u Qais finally had to admit defeat. They relinquished their right to avenge ‘Urwah’s death and the Quraish were victorious. A truce was declared on the condition that the total number of men killed from each side would be counted; and the tribe that had killed more of the other tribe’s men would have to pay compensation for those extra men. After the dead were counted, it was discovered that the Quraish had killed an excess of twenty men from the Ban u Qais. Thus the Quraish had to pay compensation for twenty victims and in this manner the two party returned home in peace. One significant historical aspect of this war is that Ab u Ta lib’s sacred nephew also accompanied the Quraish to the battlefield. He was perhaps fourteen to fifteen years old at the time; or according to some accounts, possibly nineteen to twenty years of age. However, all historians agree that this sacred boy neither killed anyone with his own hands nor raised his sword toward anyone. He only gathered the arrows from