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TheBattleOfKhybar, page : 18
Muslims by wearing and flaunting their excessive wealth and fineries before
the impoverished Muslims as they rode defiantly out of the City.
Kinanah could not fathom why they Ghatafan had not as yet come to their
aid, however, he had not given up hope. Each day he would look for distant
clouds of dust to herald their arrival but there were none. Two weeks later
when it was apparent that the Ghatafan were not coming he finally sent
word to the Prophet that he wished to surrender.
TERMS OF SURENDER:
The Prophet, praise and peace be upon him, accepted, so Kinanah and
several members of his family left the fortress to sign the terms of
surrender. The terms were such that it was agreed that none of his people
should be put to death, nor yet taken prisoner in return for the confiscation
of all their wealth and property, and that they would leave Khybar.
However, the Prophet warned that the terms of safe passage would not
apply to any one who tried to smuggle or hide any of their wealth or
the impoverished Muslims as they rode defiantly out of the City.
Kinanah could not fathom why they Ghatafan had not as yet come to their
aid, however, he had not given up hope. Each day he would look for distant
clouds of dust to herald their arrival but there were none. Two weeks later
when it was apparent that the Ghatafan were not coming he finally sent
word to the Prophet that he wished to surrender.
TERMS OF SURENDER:
The Prophet, praise and peace be upon him, accepted, so Kinanah and
several members of his family left the fortress to sign the terms of
surrender. The terms were such that it was agreed that none of his people
should be put to death, nor yet taken prisoner in return for the confiscation
of all their wealth and property, and that they would leave Khybar.
However, the Prophet warned that the terms of safe passage would not
apply to any one who tried to smuggle or hide any of their wealth or