CHAPTER XIII
Dûmat al-Jandal
Khâlid ibn-al-Walîd captures Ukaidir. The Prophet sent Khâlid ibn-al-Walîd ibn-al-Mughîrah-l-Makhzûmi to Ukaidir ibn-ʿAbd-al-Malik al-Kindi, later as-Sakûni, at Dûmat al-Jandal.[1] Khâlid took him captive, killed his brother, robbed him of a silk cloak[2] interwoven with gold, and brought Ukaidir before the Prophet. Ukaidir accepted Islam,[3] upon which the Prophet wrote for him and the people of Dûmat the following statement:—
"This is a statement from Muḥammad, the Prophet of Allah, to Ukaidir as he accepted Islam and forsook the objects of worship and idols, and to the people of Dûmat:—To us shall belong the water-places outside the city, the untilled lands, the deserts and waste lands, as well as the defensive and offensive weapons, the horses, and the fortress; and to you shall belong the palm-trees within the city, and the running water. Your cattle which are pasturing shall not, for the purpose of taking the ṣadaḳah, be brought together [but shall be numbered on the pasture-land], and what is above the fixed number of animals from which a ṣadaḳah is required shall not be taken into consideration.[4] Your herds shall graze wherever ye want, and ye shall ob-
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