The Best of Creation part22

The tenth year after the Migration 

The chief of Bujaylah [a tribe] from Yemen, Jarir ibn ‘Abd- Allāh al-Bajalī, accepted Islam; [it is related] in the two Ṣaḥīḥs that he said, ‘Since the time I accepted Islam, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ has never barred me [from visiting], and he has never seen me except he would laugh.’ ‘Umar used to call him the Yusuf of this Nation because of his immense handsomeness. In spite of accepting Islam late in his life, he contributed immensely in supporting Islam.

He ﷺ sent Jarir ibn ‘Abd-Allāh to destroy Dhī al-Khalsah, the name of an idol [or the house in which it was] that belonged to Khatham and to which they used to make the pilgrimage,circumambulate and offer sacrifices before it, comparing it to the Kaaba; due to this, they used to call it the Yemeni Kaaba. So he [Jarir] set out and [upon reaching it] burnt it.

He ﷺ sent Jarir, also, to Yemen to invite them to Islam, and there he met Dhā Kilā’ and Dhā ‘Amr, who were among the kings of Yemen.

The delegation of Banī al-Harith ibn Ka’b from the people of Najran were brought to the Prophet ﷺ by Khalid ibn al-Walīd. His Most High’s words, ‘O believers, the testimony between yourselves… [Qur’an 5: 106] were revealed.

Farwah ibn ‘Amr al-Judhāmī sent a messenger to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ [informing him] of his acceptance of Islam, along with a horse and a mare as gifts. Farwah used to be a governor for the Byzantines over the neighbouring Arab regions, and his place of residence was Ma’an [in Jordan]. When the Byzantines heard that he had accepted Islam, they imprisoned him; they then smote his neck. When they brought him forth for execution, he began to sing:

Convey to the Muslim nobles that I have  Surrendered to my Lord my bones [i.e. my self] and my status

He sent ‘Ali ibn Abi Talib AlaihisSalam to Yemen after Khalid ibn al-Walīd. Ali’s AlaihisSalam return was in the month of Dhu al-Hijjah, whilst in a state of iḥrām. The Prophet ﷺ was in Mecca at the time during his Farewell Pilgrimage, and [when ‘Ali arrived] he said to him, ‘For which [type of pilgrimage] have you initiated ihrām?’ He replied, ‘That for which the Prophet ﷺ initiated it.’

The Prophet ﷺ sent Mu’adh ibn Jabal and Abū Musā [al-Ash’arī] to Yemen.

Al-Aswad al-‘Ansī, who was a soothsayer, appeared and claimed to be a prophet and the king of Yemen. The situation got out of control, so Mu’ādh ibn Jabal left and passed by Abū Musā in Maʼrib [Yemen], and they fled to Ḥaḍramawt for safety. He ﷺ  sent a message to whoever remained a believer in Yemen to endeavour to kill him; he was eventually killed by Buhmah Fayruz, one of the Yemeni kings. The period between al-Aswad’s emergence and assassination was approximately four months, as mentioned by Ibn al-‘Imād in his Shadharāt.