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In 479 AH the Abbasid khutba was restored in the two holy cities, and the Fatimid (Ubaydid) khutba was ended there ¹.

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The khutba of the Two Sanctuaries had once been given to the Ubaydids and then returned to the Abbasids in the events of that year. The Hijaz was one of the places where the two rival calls overlapped ¹.

The capture of Thumama ibn Uthal al-Hanafi and his acceptance of Islam

Ibn Ishaq relates from Abu Sa'id al-Maqburi from Abu Hurayra: a cavalry party of the Prophet's seized a man of Banu Hanifa without knowing who he was; the Prophet said 'this is Thumama ibn Uthal al-Hanafi, treat your captive well', and had his household's food and his milch-camel sent to him; he kept inviting him to Islam and Thumama answered: if you kill, you kill a man of blood, and if you want ransom, ask what you will; then he ordered him released, and Thumama went to al-Baqi', purified himself and pledged Islam; when he then ate little, the Prophet said the unbeliever eats with seven bowels and the believer with one. Ibn Hisham adds his umra and loud talbiya at Mecca, and his cutting off the grain of al-Yamama from Mecca until the Prophet wrote to him to let the caravans through.

Restoration of the Abbasid Khutba in the Two Harams in 479

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The capture of Thumama ibn Uthal al-Hanafi and his acceptance of Islam