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bought them. He said that he felt that now that Allah had blessed them with Islam,
guided and strengthened them with it and sent them His Prophet, praise and peace be
upon him, he did not see why they should be given their property. Then Sa'd swore by
Allah that the Ghatafan would be given nothing except the sword until such time that
Allah decided between them.

The Prophet, praise and peace be upon him, was pleased by Sa'ds strong belief and
agreed to abandon the gesture. Othman, who had by this time, finished drawing up the
peace treaty, now struck the message through and wrote: "Do your worst!"

NU'AYM FROM THE GHATAFAN TRIBE OF ASHJA:

After Nu'aym's encounter with the Muslims of Medina before the second challenge of
Badr, his heart inclined still further to Islam. Now that Abu Sufyan had called upon the
support of the Ghatafan tribe, his branch tribe, the tribe of Ashja, had lent their support
and so reluctantly he had been drawn into the conflict.

It was shortly after the Prophet, praise and peace be upon him, decided not to proceed
with the peace treaty with the two other branches of the Ghatafan, that Nu'aym knew