Khalid then set off toward al-Yamamah, while Mutammim ibn Nuwayrah came to Abu Bakr and recited an elegy he had composed for his brother. He implored him about his brother’s blood and about the captives who had been taken. Abu Bakr returned the captives to him, and when ʿUmar continued to demand retaliation he said, “Khalid is not liable for what you allege; grant that he exercised his own judgment and was mistaken.”

I (the author) say: among the verses of that lament are:
“We were like Jadīmah’s two boon-companions for an age—
people said the bond between us would never break.
But once we were parted, Malik and I,
though long together, passed not a single night side by side.”

Al-Thawri, transmitting from Qays ibn Muslim, from Ṭariq ibn Shihab, said: When the delegation from Buzakhah—men of Asad and Ghatafan—came to Abu Bakr seeking a truce, Abu Bakr gave them the choice between “a war that will drive you out” or “a humiliating settlement.” They said, “O Successor to the Messenger of God, we know what war is; what, then, is the humiliating settlement?” He replied, “You will surrender your chain-mail and your mounts; some of your people will be left trailing the tails of camels until God shows His Prophet’s successor and the believers a course whereby you may be excused. You will return whatever you seized from us, while we will keep what we seized from you. You will testify that our slain are in Paradise and that your slain are in the Fire. You will pay blood money for our dead, whereas we will not pay for yours.”

ʿUmar objected, saying, “As for your stipulation that they pay blood money for our dead, our men were killed in the cause of God; no blood money is due for them.” He then deferred to Abu Bakr, and regarding the rest of the terms he said, “An excellent judgment you have rendered.”