Moulavi Gerágh Ali

“ The following verse of the Koran will show how far I am true:— "Verily they who believe (Moslems) , and they who follow the Jewish religion, and the Christians and Sabeites, whoever of those believeth in God and the Last Day, and doth that which is right shall have their reward with their Lord: Fear shall not come upon them, neither shall they be grieved."↑ Also a Christian tribe in Yemen descended from the Kahtanite stock of the Bani Madhij, and collateral therefore with Bani Kinda. Two of the embassy, one of them being Akil or Abd-ul-Masih, the chief of the deputation, adopted Islam. ”

“ List of the deputations of conversion received by Mohammad at Medina during A.H. 9 and 10.]
31. Here is a list of the important deputations and embassies as well as the conversion of notable personages during these two years arranged in alphabetical order with geographical and genealogical notes. [1] Sir W. Muir thinks it "tedious and unprofitable" to enumerate them all, [2] while he takes notice of every apocryphal tradition and devours with eagerness all fictions unfavourable to the cause of Islam. ”

“ This tribe inhabited Yemen. They had some peculiar prejudice against eating the heart of an animal. Mohammad had caused their chief to break his superstition, which he did by making him eat the roasted heart of an animal. But they returned disgusted when told that his (the chief's) mother who had committed infanticide was in hell. However they sent another deputation a second time and finally embraced Islam.↑ They settled in Dumat-ul-Jundal, now Jal-al-Jowf, north of Arabia. They were a tribe of the Bani Kozaá descended from Himyar.↑ A tribe of the Kahtanite stock at Yemen. ”