Muhammad a Prophet For all Humanity
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16. Hubayrah ibn Abi Wahab Makhzumi, also a
poet, who used to deride the Prophet’s mission. He
was also on the list of those to be killed. He fled to
Najran where he died an infidel.
17. Hind bint ‘Utbah, the wife of Abu Sufyan. Her
hatred of Islam was so great that, in the battle of
Uhud, she extracted Hamzah’s heart and masticated
it. She was to be killed, but she came before the
Prophet, sought forgiveness and accepted Islam.
After the Prophet had forgiven her and admitted
her into the fold of Islam she went home and broke
all the idols in her house, saying: “Truly, you have
misled us.”
It is clear, then, that all the seventeen men and
women who were sentenced to death after the
conquest of Makkah were guilty of specific crimes.
Yet whichever of them sought forgiveness, or had
someone pleaded on his or her behalf, was forgiven.
None of those who appealed for clemency was
killed. Of the seventeen who were sentenced to
death, eleven were forgiven, either directly or
through some mediator. Five people who made no
plea for clemency were put to death. One fled from
