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status within their tribe as more of their fellow tribesmen started to embrace Islam.
These people posed an undetectable source of treachery which was a factor the Prophet
(salla Allahu alihi wa sallam) had not had to contend with in Mecca.
Shortly after the Prophet's arrival in Medina, the Koraysh sent a letter to Abdullah,
Ubbay's son, who was a newly elected chieftain and among those who had accepted
Islam as a matter of politics and not out of conviction. The letter read: "You have
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sheltered one of our men. We tell you either to kill him or throw him out of Medina. If you
do not, we swear by Allah we will attack, destroy you, and seize your women."
When the Prophet (salla Allahu alihi wa sallam) learned of the Koraysh letter, he went to
Abdullah and asked if he intended to fight against his own kinsmen for many of them had
embraced Islam and were now his supporters. Abdullah weighed the implications and
decided it would be more prudent to ignore the letter.
These people posed an undetectable source of treachery which was a factor the Prophet
(salla Allahu alihi wa sallam) had not had to contend with in Mecca.
Shortly after the Prophet's arrival in Medina, the Koraysh sent a letter to Abdullah,
Ubbay's son, who was a newly elected chieftain and among those who had accepted
Islam as a matter of politics and not out of conviction. The letter read: "You have
16
sheltered one of our men. We tell you either to kill him or throw him out of Medina. If you
do not, we swear by Allah we will attack, destroy you, and seize your women."
When the Prophet (salla Allahu alihi wa sallam) learned of the Koraysh letter, he went to
Abdullah and asked if he intended to fight against his own kinsmen for many of them had
embraced Islam and were now his supporters. Abdullah weighed the implications and
decided it would be more prudent to ignore the letter.