Guillaume--Life of Muhammad.pdf - Radical Truth

648 The Life of Muhammad
of his own accord and obeys the religion of Islam is a believer with the
same rights and the same obligations. If one of them holds fast to hIs
religion he is not to be turned (T. seduced) from !t. Ev~ry adult, male or
female bond or free must pay a golden dinar or ItS eqUIvalent In clothes.
He who performs this has the guarantee of God and His apostle; he who
withholds it is the enemy of God and His apostle and all behevers.
THE COMING OF RIFA'A B. ZAYD AL-JUDHAMI
Rifa'a b. Zayd al-Judhami of the clan of al-l;>ubayb came to the apostle
during the armistice of aI-Hudaybiya before Khaybar. He gave the apostle
a slave and he became a good Muslim. The apostle gave him a letter to
his people in which he wrote: I
To Rifii'a h. Zayd whom I have sent to his people and those who have
joined them to invite them to God and His apostle. Whosoever comes
forward is of the party of God and His apostle, and whosoever turns back
has two months' grace.
When Rifa'a came to his people they responded and accepted Islam;
then they went to al-HarTa, the Harra of al-Rajla', and stopped there (897).
THE LIARS MUSAYLIMA AL-I;IANAFI AND AL-ASWAD
AL-'ANSI
Now the two arch-liars Musaylima b. Habib and al-Aswad b. Ka'b al-'Ansi
had spoken during the apostle's lifetime, the first in al-Yamama among the
B Hanifa and the second in San'a'. Yazid b. 'Abdullah b. QusaYI told
~e 'from "Ata' b. Yasar, or his brother Sulayman, from Abu Sa'id al­
Khudri, sayi~g: 'I heard the apostle as he was addressing the people from
h's pulpit say "I saw the night of al-qadr and then I was made to
f~rget it, and I saw on my arms two bracelets of gold which I disliked
so I ble~ on them and they flew away. I interpreted it to mean these
two liars the man of al-Yamama and the man of aI-Yarnan.'" .
One V:hom I do not suspect on the authority of Abu Hurayra said:
'I heard the apo;tle say: The hour will not come until thirty antichrists
come forth, each of them claiming to be a prophet.'
THE SENDING OUT OF COLLECTORS OF THE POOR-TAX
The apostle sent out his officials and representatives to ev~:r distric:
subject to Islam to collect the poor-tax. He sent al-Muha)Ir. b. A?u
Umayya b. al-Mughira to $an'a', and al-'Ansi came out agal~~t him whtle
he was there. Ziyad b. Labid, brother of B. Baya