When O’thmân, Abu Khodaiqah Bin O’tbah Bin Rabia’h, Zobeir Bin Ala’vâm, A’bd-ur-rahman Bin A’wuf heard that the idolaters had submitted, they deemed it best to return to the noble city of Mekkah, in the neighbourhood whereof they arrived after duly performing the journey. But there they were informed that the people had retracted their conciliatory steps and had again begun to persecute and to injure the professors of Islâm. As they thought it very hard again to retrace their steps to Abyssinia, each of the monotheists took refuge with an inhabitant and entered Mekkah, except A’bdullah Bin Masu’d, who alighted at his own house without a protector. Some assert that the last-mentioned individual was one of the refugees of the second emigration, who went again to Abyssinia with a great multitude of companions and the permission of his holy and prophetic lordship—u. w. b.—on account of the persecutions of the infidels, which increased day by day. The idolaters sent A’mru A’ass and O’mmârah Bin Wolid with gifts and presents to the Najâshi, hoping that he would comply with their request and surrender the refugees to the envoys. It is related that whilst on the voyage these two individuals happened to quarrel in a drinking bout in so violent a manner that O’mmârah watched his opportunity and threw A’mru overboard; the latter, however, took hold of the edge of the ship and was saved by the crew from that peril; but he nursed his rancour in his heart until the time arrived when he was able to take revenge upon his foe during their sojourn at the court of the Najâshi, as follows: One day both of them were sitting in the assembly of the Najâshi, one of whose most beautiful slave girls was now and then casting glances at O’mmârah during the audience, he being a young man of very pleasing appearance. When the meeting was over the envoys returned home, and A’mru said to O’mmârah: ‘I found that girl of the king inclined towards thee. Make friendship with her, and ask some of the king’s special perfume from her, because she may possibly aid us in our negotiations.’ Accordingly, O’mmârah commenced, by the intervention of an accommodating friend, a love intrigue with the girl, and obtained some perfume from her, which A’mru got hold of, took to the king, and said: ‘My companion had intercourse with your majesty’s slave-girl, and this perfume which she sent to O’mmârah is a proof of it.’ The Najâshi was so irritated by this information that he intended to slay the culprit; on second thoughts, however, he considered it improper to shed the blood of a man who had entered the country on a promise of safety, therefore he appointed sorcerers over him, who blew mercury into his sexual organ, in consequence whereof he avoided mankind and associated with animals. He wandered about in the desert until a company of the Qoraish laid a snare, caught, and imprisoned him; but his captivity distressed him so much that he soon departed to the infernal regions.