dispatched Saʿd ibn Zayd al-Ashhalī at the head of 20 horsemen until they reached the idol. A naked black woman with disheveled hair came out toward Saʿd, calling down a torrent of calamities. The custodian cried to her, “Mānāt, curb some of your anger!” Saʿd struck her and killed her, then turned to the idol and, together with his men, pulled it down with six nights of Ramadan still remaining.

Mansūr related—through Mujāhid, from Ṭāwūs, from Ibn ʿAbbās—that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “There is no emigration after the Conquest, only struggle and intention; and if you are summoned to mobilize, then go forth.” He uttered this on the Day of the Conquest. Agreed upon.

ʿAmr ibn Murrah said: I heard Abū al-Bukhtarī narrate from Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī: When the verse “When Allah’s help comes and the Conquest” (al-Naṣr 1) was revealed, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ recited it and then declared, “I and my Companions are one group, and humanity is another; there is no emigration after the Conquest.” I later reported this to Marwān ibn al-Ḥakam—who was then governor of Medina—and he retorted, “You have lied.” With him on the couch were Zayd ibn Thābit and Rāfiʿ ibn Khadīj. I said, “If these two wished, they could relate it to you. But this one”—meaning Zayd—“fears you will cut off his share of the charity funds, and the other fears you will remove him from his post as the herald of his clan.” Marwān raised his rod against me, and when the two men saw that, they said, “He has spoken the truth.”

Hammād ibn Zayd reported—from Ayyūb—that Abū Qilābah told him on the authority of ʿAmr ibn Salamah. Ayyūb then said, “He is still alive—why not meet him and hear it directly?” So I met ʿAmr, and he recounted: “We lived along the route people traveled. Riders would pass by and we would ask, ‘What is this affair? Why all the commotion?’ They would answer, ‘A Prophet claims that Allah has sent him, and that Allah has revealed to him such-and-such.’ The Arabs were delaying their acceptance of Islam until the Conquest, saying…”