Mukhshun – the man referred to in the words, “If We pardon a party of you” (al-Tawbah 9:66) – therefore took the name ʿAbd al-Raḥmān and prayed that Allah would grant him martyrdom in a place where no one would know of him. He was killed on the Day of al-Yamāmah, and no trace of his body was ever found.

When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ arrived at Tabuk, Yūḥannā ibn Ruʾbah, the ruler of Aylah, came to him. The Prophet concluded a peace treaty with him and accepted the jizya. The people of Jarbāʾ and Adhruh also came and paid the jizya, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ wrote them a charter that remained in their possession.

Mūsā ibn ʿUqbah relates that Ibn Shihāb said: On that campaign the Messenger of Allah ﷺ advanced only as far as Tabuk and did not go beyond it; he stayed there for “a few-teen” nights—that is, somewhat over ten days.

Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr, transmitting from Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Thawbān, from Jābir, reports that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ remained at Tabuk for twenty days, shortening the prayers. Abū Dāwūd recorded this report, and its chain is sound.

Note: Ibn Isḥāq states that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ gave the people of Aylah a cloak along with their treaty document, and later Abū al-ʿAbbās ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad—al-Saffāḥ—bought it from them for three hundred dinars.

Yūnus narrates from Ibn Isḥāq, who said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Bakr and Yazīd ibn Rumān told me that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ dispatched Khālid ibn al-Walīd to Ukaydir ibn ʿAbd al-Malik, a man of Kindah who ruled Dūmat al-Jandal and was a Christian. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to Khālid, “You will find him hunting wild cattle.” Khālid set out, and when he came within sight of Ukaydir’s fortress on a clear, moonlit night, Ukaydir was standing on the roof with his wife. A herd of wild cows approached and began rubbing their horns against the castle gate. His wife exclaimed, “Have you ever seen anything like this?” He replied, “By Allah, no.” She said, “Who could pass up a chance like this?” He answered, “No one.” He then went down, ordered his horse to be saddled, and rode out with several members of his household, among them his own brother