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CHAPTER XI

Tabâlah and Jurash

Bakr ibn-al-Haitham from az-Zuhri:—The people of Tabâlah and Jurash^[1] accepted Islam without resistance.^[2] The Prophet left them on the terms agreed upon when they became Moslems, imposing on every adult of the "People of the book"^[3] among them one dînâr, and making it a condition on them to provide the Moslem wayfarers with board and lodging. Abu-Sufyân ibn-Ḥarb was assigned by the Prophet as the governor of Jurash.

 

1. Cities in al-Yaman; Bakri, pp. 191 and 238; Hamdâni, Jazîrat al-ʿArab, p. 127, line 19; Yâḳût, vol. i, p. 817 and vol. ii, p. 60.
2. Ṭabari, vol. i, p. 1730.
3. Jews and Christians.

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