CHAPTER XV
Al-Yaman
The people of al-Yaman embrace Islâm. When the news of the rise of the Prophet and the success of his righteous cause reached the people of al-Yaman, they sent their envoys, and the Prophet gave them a written statement confirming them in the possession of whatever property, lands, and buried treasures were included in their terms when they became Moslems. Thus they accepted Islâm; and the Prophet sent them his messengers and ʿâmils to acquaint them with the laws of Islâm and its institutes and to receive their ṣadaḳah and the poll-tax of those among them who still held to Christianity, Judaism or Magianism.
The Prophet's letter. Al-Ḥusain ibn-al-Aswad from al-Ḥasan:—The Prophet wrote to the people of al-Yaman, "Whosoever repeats our prayer, turns his face to the ḳiblah as we do,[1] and eat what we slaughter, such a one is a Moslem and has the security of Allah and the security of his Prophet. But whosoever refuses to do so, tax is binding upon him."
A similar tradition was communicated to me by Hudbah on the authority of al-Ḥasan.
The governor of Ṣanʿâʾ. It is reported by al-Wâḳidi that the Prophet sent Khâlid ibn-Saʿîd ibn-al-ʿÂṣi as a commander over Ṣanʿâʾ and its land. Al-Wâḳidi adds that some say that the Prophet assigned al-Muhâjir ibn-abi-Umaiyah ibn-al-Mughîrah-l-Makhzûmi to be governor of Ṣanʿâ, in which position he died. Still others say, according{{center block|
- ↑ Turning the face towards Makkah during prayer.
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