ACCOUNT OF FRATERNIZATION (MUWAKHAH)BETWEEN THE MUHAJIRS AND THE ANSARSEFFECTED BY THE APOSTLE OF ALLAH, MAY ALLAHBLESS HIM

Volume 1, Parts II.64.1
Muhammad Ibn Umar informed us: Muhammad Ibn 'Abd Allah informed us on the authority of al-Zuhri; (second chain) he (Ibn Sa'd) said: Musá Ibn Muhammad Ibn Ibrahim al-Taymi related to us on the authority of his father; (third chain)Abd al-Rahman Ibn Abi al-Zinád
related to us on the authority of Ibrahim Ibn Yahya Ibn Zayd Ibn
Thabit; (fourth chain) he (Ibn Sa`d) said: Musa Ibn Damrah Ibn Sa’id
related to us on the authority of his father; they said:
When the Apostle of Allah, may Allah bless him, arrived at al-Madinah,
he established fraternity between some of the Muhájirs and some others;
and he also established fraternity between the Muhájirs and the Ansárs.
He established this fraternity on the conditions that they would support
each other and sympathize with each other, in what is right and inherit
each other’s property (in preference to) their kith and kin. They were
ninety persons, forty-five Muhájirs and forty-five Ansárs. It is also said:
There were one hundred and fifty Muhájirs and fifty Ansárs. It was done
before Badr. After the Battle of Badr the Almighty Allah revealed: “And
those who are akin are nearer one to another in the ordinance of Allah.
Lo ! Allah is knower of all things”. (Qur’an, 8:75) This verse abrogated
the previous order about fraternization which now ceased (to operate) in
respect of inheritance; and the inheritance of each of them reverted to his
heirs and descendants.
Volume 1, Parts II.64.2
‘Abu Ibn Muslim informed us: Hammàd Ibn Salamah informed us on the

authority of `Asim al-Ahwal (squint eyed), he on the authority of Anas
Ibn Malik, (he said):
Verily, the Apostle of Allah, may Allah bless him, established
(fraternization) between the Muhájirs and Ansars in the house of Anas.
(Cf. Ibn Hisham, vol. I, pp. 303-305)