Muhammad: Seal of the Prophets — Page 115
MUHAMMAD : SEAL OF THE PROPHETS 115 other good qualities, known as Kamil (perfect), and was also by way of being a poet. The Holy Prophet called on him and invited him to Islam. Having heard a recitation from the Holy Quran, Suwaib expressed his appreciation of it, and though he did not beco me a Muslim, he expressed his approval of the Holy Prophet and did not deny him. After returning to Yathrab, he soon perished in some local tumult. This was before the battle of Bu’ath. Shortly after, still before the battle of Bu’ath, the Holy Prophet, during his rounds on the occasion of the pilgrimage, espied a group of people who turned out to be of Aus, who had arrived in Mecca to procure help from Quraish against Khazraj. The Holy P rophet invited them to Islam, whereupon a young man named Ayas called out, ‘By God, that to which this man calls us is better than that for which we have come here. ’ But the leader of the group took up a handful of gravel and threw it at Ayas, exclaiming, ‘Shut up. We have not arrived here on such an errand. ’ Sometime later, after the Battle of Bu’ath, in Rajab of the eleventh year of prophethood, the Holy Prophet encountered another small group from Yathrab, who were of Khazraj. He asked them courteously whether they would be willing to hear what he wished to say. On their signifying assent, he sat down among them, invited them to Islam and recited some verses of the Holy Quran. When he had finished, they looked at each other and expressed their readiness to accept Islam, lest the Jews should steal a march over them. There were six of them: (1) Abu Amamah, Asad bin Zararah of Banu Najjar, who was the