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the men was a slave belonging to the children of Al Hajjaj, the other was Arid
Abu Yasar from the children of Al-As. With stealth, Ali, Zubair, Sa'd and the
others overcame them and took them back to the Prophet as prisoners.
Upon their return to the camp they found the Prophet occupied in his prayer and
as they waited for him a crowd gathered and started to question the prisoners.
The prisoners told them that they were only Koraysh water-men, whereupon their
inquisitors started to beat them hoping that they had lied and were from the
caravan. It became clear to the water-men that their captors wanted to hear them
say that they were Abu Sufyan's men so they retracted their first claim and told
them what they wanted to hear.
After the Prophet, praise and peace be upon him, concluded his prayer, he told
them that they should not have treated their prisoners in such a way and
informed them that the prisoners were from the Koraysh and not from Abu
Sufyan's caravan.
When the Prophet asked the prisoners where the Koraysh were camped, they
told him, without coercion, pointing to the hill of Akankal and told him that their
Abu Yasar from the children of Al-As. With stealth, Ali, Zubair, Sa'd and the
others overcame them and took them back to the Prophet as prisoners.
Upon their return to the camp they found the Prophet occupied in his prayer and
as they waited for him a crowd gathered and started to question the prisoners.
The prisoners told them that they were only Koraysh water-men, whereupon their
inquisitors started to beat them hoping that they had lied and were from the
caravan. It became clear to the water-men that their captors wanted to hear them
say that they were Abu Sufyan's men so they retracted their first claim and told
them what they wanted to hear.
After the Prophet, praise and peace be upon him, concluded his prayer, he told
them that they should not have treated their prisoners in such a way and
informed them that the prisoners were from the Koraysh and not from Abu
Sufyan's caravan.
When the Prophet asked the prisoners where the Koraysh were camped, they
told him, without coercion, pointing to the hill of Akankal and told him that their