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al-Nujayr

النجير

A fortress of Banu Kinda in Hadramawt in which al-Ash'ath ibn Qays and the chiefs of Kinda fortified themselves in their apostasy; Ziyad ibn Labid and al-Muhajir ibn Abi Umayya besieged it until they were exhausted and came down on terms; women were found there who had gloated at the Prophet ﷺ's death and Abu Bakr ordered their hands and feet cut, and its captives were ransomed back at four hundred dirhams a head.

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al-Nujayr: a fortress of Banu Kinda in Hadramawt. 1

The siege

Al-Ash'ath ibn Qays and the notables of Kinda took refuge in it during their apostasy. Ziyad ibn Labid and al-Muhajir ibn Abi Umayya besieged it until they were exhausted, and they came down on terms of safe-conduct. 1

After the siege

al-Baladhuri reports that women were found in the fortress who rejoiced at the death of the Prophet, and Abu Bakr ordered that their hands and feet be cut off. The captives of the fortress were returned for ransom, at four hundred dirhams per head. 1

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Hadramawt

People and things also explored

The Ridda Wars· Kinda· Abu Bakr al-Siddiq· al-Ash'ath ibn Qays al-Kindi· al-Muhajir ibn Abi Umayya al-Makhzumi· Ikrima ibn Abi Jahl· Ziyad ibn Labid al-Bayadi· Daw'an

Sources

  1. Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition) , p.141-145
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The Ridda Wars

In al-Baladhuri: when Abu Bakr succeeded, groups of the Arabs apostatized and withheld the alms, some saying 'we keep the prayer but will not pay the zakat', whereupon Abu Bakr said 'if they withheld from me a hobbling-cord — some say a she-goat kid — I would fight them', the 'iqal being a year's alms; Abdullah ibn Masud said the Muslims had stood after the Prophet at a station where they nearly perished had God not graced them with Abu Bakr: they had all agreed not to fight over a young she-camel or a weaned camel 'and to eat the Arab villages' yield and worship God until certainty came to us', but God resolved him to fight, and he accepted from them only the humiliating condition or the annihilating war — the first that they confess their slain are in the Fire and return what they took of Muslim property, the second that they leave their homes; in Tariq ibn Shihab's report he offered the Buzakha delegation the choice of the annihilating war or the humiliating peace: surrender of armour and mounts, return of what was taken, blood-money for the slain Muslims, their own slain in the Fire; Aisha said 'when the Prophet died there befell my father what would have crushed the firm mountains — hypocrisy reared its head in Medina and the Arabs apostatized'; Abu Bakr went out to al-Qassa directing the columns against the apostates, was attacked by Kharija ibn Hisn and Manzur ibn Zabban the Fazaris who were routed with Talha ibn Ubaydillah pursuing them to lower Thaniyyat Awsaja, then appointed Khalid ibn al-Walid over the army and Thabit ibn Qays over the Ansar, beginning with Tulayha ibn Khuwaylid at Buzakha, followed by the affairs of Yamama, Bahrain, Oman, Yemen, Hadramawt, Mecca, Tihama and Iraq.