Life-of-Muhammad

134Life of Muhammad saan aggressive adventurer with designs on Iran. Soonafter, the Chosroes wrote to the Governor of Yemen,saying that one of the Quraish in Arabia had announcedhimself a Prophet sa . His claims were becoming excessive.The Governor was asked to send two men charged withthe duty of arresting this Quraishite and bringing him tothe court of Iran. Badhan, the Governor of Yemen underthe Chosroes, sent an army chief with a mountedcompanion to the Prophet sa . He also gave them a letteraddressed to the Prophet sa , in which he said that onreceipt of the letter the Prophet sa should at onceaccompany the two messengers to the court of Iran. Thetwo planned to go first to Mecca. When somewhere nearTa’if, they were told that the Prophet sa lived in Medina.So they went to Medina. On arrival this army chief toldthe Prophet sa that Badhan, the Governor of Yemen, hadbeen ordered by the Chosroes to arrange for theProphet's sa arrest and despatch to Iran. If the Prophet sarefused to obey, he and his people were to be destroyedand their country made desolate. Out of compassion forthe Prophet sa , this delegate from Yemen insisted that theProphet sa should obey and agree to be led to Iran.Having listened to this, the Prophet sa suggested that thedelegates should see him again the following day.Overnight the Prophet sa prayed to God Who informedhim that the insolence of the Chosroes had cost him hislife. "We have set his own son against him, and this sonwill murder his father on Monday the l0th Jumad al-’Ulaof this year." According to some reports, the revelationsaid, "The son has murdered the father this very night."It is possible that that very night was the l0th Jumad al-’Ula In the morning, the Prophet sa sent for the Yemendelegates and told them of what had been revealed tohim overnight. Then he prepared a letter for Badhansaying that the Chosroes was due to be murdered on acertain day of a certain month. When the Governor ofYemen received the letter he said, "If this man be a trueProphet sa , it will be even as he says. If he be not true,then God help him and his country." Soon after, a boat