…a meal and, to begin with, sent for Dādawayh. When the latter arrived, Qays sprang upon him and killed him. He then dispatched a summons to Fayrūz, commanding him to come. While Fayrūz was partway along the road he overheard a woman say to another, “By Allah, this one too will be slain just as his companion was.” At once he turned back, informed his comrades of Dādawayh’s murder, and went to his maternal uncles of the tribe of Khawlān, where he fortified himself. The clans of ʿAqīl, ʿAkk, and a large number of others rallied to his side.
Qays now turned against the families of Fayrūz, Dādawayh, and the Abnāʾ, driving them out of Yemen: some he sent overland, others by sea. Fayrūz, enraged, marched out with a great host. He and Qays met in battle, fought fiercely, and Fayrūz routed Qays together with his motley following and the remnants of al-Aswad al-ʿAnsī’s army; they were defeated on every front. Qays and ʿAmr ibn Maʿdīkarib were captured—ʿAmr too had apostatized and pledged allegiance to al-Aswad. Al-Muhājir ibn Abī Umayyah sent the two of them in chains to Abū Bakr. The Caliph rebuked and scolded them; they offered their excuses, and he accepted their outward repentance, consigning what lay hidden in their hearts to Allah—exalted is He—then released them and sent them back to their people.
The governors whom the Messenger of Allah ﷺ had appointed in Yemen returned, after long warfare, to the posts they had held during his lifetime (peace be upon him). To relate those struggles in full would be interminable, but their gist is this: there was not a single region of the Arabian Peninsula in which some of the inhabitants had not apostasized. Al-Ṣiddīq therefore dispatched armies and commanders to support the believers in every area, and whenever idolaters and Muslims met in battle, the force sent by al-Ṣiddīq prevailed over the local apostates—praise and thanks be to Allah. Vast numbers of the rebels were killed, abundant spoils were taken, and with these gains the Muslims grew stronger. They forwarded the statutory one-fifth of the booty to al-Ṣiddīq, who distributed it among the people; thus they, too, gained strength and made ready with those resources to fight the Persians and Byzantines, as will be explained in detail.
Matters continued in this way until no one remained in the Peninsula but those obedient to Allah and His Messenger, together with those under a dhimmah covenant granted by al-Ṣiddīq, such as the people of Najrān and others like them—praise be to Allah.
Most of these campaigns took place toward the end of the year 11 AH and the beginning of 12 AH. After recounting these events, let us mention—in Allah do we seek help—those notable figures who died during that year.
In that same year Muʿādh ibn Jabal returned from Yemen, and Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq kept ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb (may Allah be pleased with him) close at hand.
[Those who died in this year]
We mean the year 11 AH among the eminent and well-known, including those killed at al-Yamāmah, for some say that battle occurred in 11 AH, though the more famous view is that it took place in Rabīʿ of 12 AH.
In it the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, Muḥammad son of ʿAbd Allāh, the foremost of the children of Adam in this world and the next, passed away on Monday, the twelfth of Rabīʿ al-Awwal, according to the well-known opinion, as we have already set forth.