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We have already spoken about six Madinese who embraced Islam in the pilgrimage season in the eleventh year of Prophethood. They promised to communicate the Message of Islam to their townsfolk. The following year, on the occasion of the pilgrimage, there came a group of twelve disciples ready to acknowledge Muhammad as their Prophet. The group of men comprised five of the six who had met the Prophet [pbuh] the year before, the sixth who stayed away was Jabir bin Abdullah bin Reyab, the other seven were:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
Muadh bin Al-Harith, Ibn Afra, from Khazraj. Dhakwan bin Abd Al-Qais, from Khazraj. Ubadah bin As-Samit, from Khazraj. Yazeed bin Thalabah, from Khazraj. Al-Abbas bin Ubadah bin Nadalah, from Khazraj. Abul Haitham bin At-Taihan, from Aws. Uwaim bin Saidah, from Aws.
They avowed their faith in Muhammad [pbuh] as a Prophet and swore: "We will not worship any one but one Allah; we will not steal; neither will we commit adultery, nor kill our children; we will not utter slander, intentionally forging falsehood and we will not disobey you in any just matter." When they had taken the pledge, Muhammad [pbuh] said: "He who carries it out, Allh will reward him; and who neglects anything and is afflicted in this world, it may prove redemption for him in the Hereafter; and if the sin remains hidden from the eyes of the men and no grief comes to him, then his affair is with Allh. He may forgive him or He may not." [Bukhari 1/550; 2/727; 2/1003]
Ansar (the future Helpers) had Muslims elements, men and women. One family only stood obdurate to the Islamic Dawah (Call). They were under the influence of the poet Qais bin Al-Aslat, who managed to hold them at bay and screen off the Call of Islam from their ears until the year 5 A.H. Shortly before the approach of the following pilgrimage season, i.e. the thirteenth year of Prophethood, Musab bin Umair returned to Makkah carrying to the Prophet [pbuh] glad tidings about the new fertile soil of Islam in Madinah, and its environment rich in the prospects of good, and the power and immunity that that city was bound to provide to the cause of Islam. [Ibn Hisham 1/435; Za'd Al-Ma'ad 2/51]