Tarikh (al-Tabari) 1620
Mention of Year Nine and Its Designation as the Year of Delegations
قُدُومُ رِفَاعَةَ بْنِ زَيْدٍ الْجُذَامِيِّ [ إِسْلَامُهُ وَحَمْلُهُ كِتَابَ الرَّسُولِ إِلَى قَوْمِهِ ] وَقَدِمَ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ فِي هُدْنَةِ الْحُدَيْبِيَةِ، قَبْلَ خَيْبَرَ، رِفَاعَةُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ الْجُذَامِيُّ ثُمَّ الضُّبَيْبِيُّ، فَأَهْدَى لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ غُلَامًا، وَأَسْلَمَ، فَحَسُنَ إسْلَامُهُ، وَكَتَبَ لَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ كِتَابًا إلَى قَوْمِهِ. وَفِي كِتَابِهِ: بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ؛ هَذَا كِتَابٌ مِنْ مُحَمَّدٍ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ، لِرِفَاعَةِ بْنِ زَيْدٍ. إِنِّي بَعَثْتُهُ إلَى قَوْمِهِ عَامَّةً، وَمَنْ دَخَلَ فِيهِمْ، يَدْعُوهُمْ إلَى اللَّهِ وَإِلَى رَسُولِهِ، فَمَنْ أَقْبَلَ مِنْهُمْ فَفِي حِزْبِ اللَّهِ وَحِزْبِ رَسُولِهِ، وَمَنْ أَدْبَرَ فَلَهُ أَمَانُ شَهْرَيْنِ فَلَمَّا قَدِمَ رِفَاعَةُ عَلَى قَوْمِهِ أَجَابُوا وَأَسْلَمُوا، ثُمَّ سَارُوا إلَى الْحَرَّةِ: حَرَّةِ الرَّجْلَاءِ، وَنَزَلُوهَا.
Translation
✧ The coming of Rifāʿah b. Zayd al-Judhāmī [His Islam and his carrying the Messenger's letter to his people] Rifāʿah b. Zayd al-Judhāmī, then al-Ḍubaybī, came to the Messenger of God ﷺ during the truce of al-Ḥudaybiyah, before Khaybar. He gave the Messenger of God ﷺ a slave as a gift, and he became a Muslim, and his Islam was good. The Messenger of God ﷺ wrote for him a letter to his people. In his letter: In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful; this is a letter from Muḥammad the Messenger of God, to Rifāʿah b. Zayd. I have sent him to his people generally, and to whoever enters among them, calling them to God and to His Messenger. Whoever of them accepts, then he is in the party of God and the party of His Messenger, and whoever turns away, then he has a guarantee of safety for two months. When Rifāʿah came to his people, they responded and became Muslims. Then they traveled to the ḥarrah: Ḥarrat al-Rajlāʾ, and they settled there.
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