of Allah ﷺ felt secure in Mecca, he circumambulated the Kaʿbah on his camel, touching the Black Stone with a hooked staff. He then entered the Kaʿbah and found a small dove fashioned from wood; he broke it, carried it to the doorway of the Kaʿbah—while I was watching—and flung it away.

Aṣbāṭ related, on the authority of al-Suddi, from Muṣʿab ibn Saʿd, from his father, who said: When the day of the Conquest of Mecca came, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ granted safety to the people except for four men and two women. He declared, “Kill them even if you find them clinging to the curtains of the Kaʿbah: ʿIkrimah ibn Abī Jahl, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Kḥaṭl, Miqīs ibn Ṣabābah, and ʿAbd Allāh ibn Saʿd ibn Abī Sarḥ.”

Ibn Kḥaṭl was overtaken while he was holding on to the curtains; Saʿīd ibn Ḥarith and ʿAmmār ibn Yāsir both rushed toward him, but Saʿīd outpaced ʿAmmār and killed him. Miqīs was slain in the marketplace. ʿIkrimah boarded a ship—his story is well known—and later became Muslim. As for Ibn Abī Sarḥ, he hid with ʿUthmān. When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ summoned the people to give the pledge of allegiance, ʿUthmān brought him and made him stand before the Prophet ﷺ, saying, “Messenger of Allah, accept ʿAbd Allāh’s pledge.” The Prophet raised his head and looked at him three times, refusing each time; after the third look he accepted his pledge. He then turned to his Companions and said, “Was there not a discerning man among you who, when he saw me hold back, would rise up and kill him?” They answered, “Messenger of Allah, we did not know what was in your heart. Why did you not signal to us with your eyes?” He replied, “It is not fitting for a prophet to employ treacherous glances.”

Ibn Isḥāq said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Bakr told me that Miqīs ibn Ṣabābah came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ in Medina, outwardly professing Islam, to seek compensation for the blood of his brother Hishām, who had been killed by a Muslim on the day of Banū al-Muṣṭaliq, the killer not realizing