4-F: THE HUDYBIA TREATY AS THE FIRST TREATY IN ISLAM

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Suhail Bin 'Omroo approached the Holy Prophet (blessings and salutations of Allah on him) and after much discussion, truce was settled on the following terms:

1.This year the Holy Prophet (blessings and salutations of Allah on him) and all his companions (Allah is pleased with them all) will go back without performing Hajj or Omrah.

2.They will perform Hajj (Muslim pilgrimage in and around Makkah) next year provided they stay not more than three days.

3.The Muslims will bear no arms in the Hajj next year except self defence sheathed swords.

4.The validity of the truce was agreed to be ten years.

5.The Quraysh will not fight the allies of the Holy Prophet Salallaho Alaihi Wasallam and the Holy Prophet Salallaho Alaihi Wasallam will not fight the allies of the Quraysh.

6.If any of the Quraysh embraces Islaam, the Holy Prophet will return him to the Quraysh; but if a Muslim turns apostate and joins Quraish, he will not be returned at any cost.

This last condition was extremely disturbing and disgusting to the Holy Prophet's Salallaho Alaihi Wasallam companions (Allah is pleased with them). Hadhrat 'Omar (Allah is pleased with him) was extremely enraged, and he firmly solicited before the Holy Prophet (blessings and salutations of Allah on him) that the last condition is very humiliating. The Holy Prophet (blessings and salutations of Allah on him) smiled and replied that any one who turns apostate and joins them is of no use to us; and if some one becomes Muslim from amongst them and comes to us, but we return him to them,Allah the Sublime will create better conditions for us somehow or the other that such returned Muslim will become an asset there. Meanwhile Aboo Jandal was thrown to the Muslims badly beaten and chained. He was the son of Suhail, the truce and treaty maker of the Quraish. Treaty was not yet signed so the Holy Prophet Salallaho Alaihi Wasallam and all the Muslims were swayed from the shrieks of Aboo Jandal but his father Suhail told that the Treaty is operative. Thus Aboo Jandal was returned and treaty was signed. The Holy Prophet Salallaho Alaihi Wasallam honored his words before being confirmed which further made his truthful deals as the most effective pattern of his life throughout. Briefly, this truce was settled with great difficulty.