In this year his holy and prophetic lordship sent Muhammad B. Moslamah to the Bani Kallâb, saying: ‘Possibly thou wilt vanquish Thamâmah B. Athâl Annakha’y.’ It is recorded in the Mostaqadza that when the apostle of God sent, in the sixth year after the Flight, a detachment of his companions to Najd, they captured a man of the Bani Hanyfah, called Thamâmah, whom they brought to the lord of the apostolate, by whose orders he was tied to a column of the mosque. When the prophet left his house and entered that mosque, he asked: ‘What is the news of Thamâmah?’ He replied: ‘I have good news, O Muhammad. If thou killest me, thou killest a professor [of thy religion], and if thou sparest me thou sparest a grateful man. If thou wantest property, ask for it.’ The next day the apostle repeated his question, and received the same answer, as well as the third time. Then the apostle of God issued orders to liberate Thamâmah, whereon the latter immediately departed from the mosque, washed himself, again returned to the mosque, and said: ‘I testify that there is no God but Allah, and I testify that thou art the apostle of Allah. O Muhammad, ere this I hated no religion more than thine, and no town more than thine; but at present I love nothing more than both these. O apostle of God, I went to Mekkah to perform the ceremonies of the pilgrimage, and they people captured me. What are now thy commands?’ His lordship congratulated Thamâmah, and told him to go on pilgrimage to Mekkah. It is said that when Thamâmah made his appearance in the sanctuary a man said to him: ‘Thou hast become a Sabæan;’ but he replied: ‘I have entered the religion of Islâm, and have selected the way of truth, and I swear by God that you will not receive a single grain of wheat from Thamâmah, except by the command of Muhammad, the apostle of God—u. w. b.’ When Thamâmah arrived in his country he told the people not to carry grain any longer to Mekkah, and the Qoraish being distressed thereby, sent a letter to Madinah, requesting his lordship to order Thamâmah to deal with them as formerly. According to the exuberance of benevolence and kind-heartedness peculiar to his lordship, he complied, and the inhabitants of the sanctuary escaped from famine. It is related that in this journey Muhammad B. Moslamah fought a battle with the Bani Kallâb, in which the infidels lost two men and the rest of them fled, but one hundred and fifty camels with three thousand sheep of the idolaters fell to the share of the professors of Islâm. Muhammad B. Moslamah says: ‘Ten nights of the month Moharram had elapsed when we marched out, and one night of the same month was yet remaining when we arrived in Madinah. Our whole number amounted to thirty men; we travelled during the night, and remained concealed during the day.’