A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád'/Introduction/24

[Sidenote: Spread of Islam in the surrounding tribes at Medina after the Hegira I-VI.]

24. During the six eventful years of Mohammad's sojourn at Medina, from the Hegira to the truce of Hodeibia, where he was every year attacked or threatened by other hostile Arab tribes, acting always in self-defence, he had converted several members or almost entire tribes residing round Medina.

Among them were the following:&mdash;


 * 1. The Bani Aslam.
 * 2. Joheina.
 * 3. Mozeina.
 * 4. Ghifár.
 * 5. Saad-bin-Bakr.
 * 6. Bani Ashja.

We never find a single instance even in the Magházis (accounts of the campaigns of Mohammad, however untrustworthy they be) of Mohammad's converting any person, families, or branches of tribes by the scimitar in one hand and the Koran in the other.