And when some of them grew older; and resisted; they were not quicker than to turn away and seek safety by entering into what he ﷺ made a sign of security; and Hamasa ibn Qais, the brother of Banu Bakr; when he entered his house; said to his wife: "Close the door on me;" and she reproached him for the defeat after she had been forbidding him from opposing the Muslims; yet he did not stop and said to her: "I must serve some of them:

If you had witnessed the day of the battle of Handamah ∗∗∗ when Safwan fled and Ikrimah fled ∗∗∗ and we were met with the Muslim swords

∗∗∗ cutting every arm and skull

A strike that could only be heard as a murmuring ∗∗∗ I have forbidden our creation and murmuring

You did not utter the slightest word in blame

And when this was applicable to the day of the conquest; and that day had made the disbelievers in a position where they had no consideration; he said: "And see;" dropping their pronoun; meaning: see what you want of your affairs that concern you to look into; as for them, they became in a position where they are not cared for; and their matter is not thought of; and they are not turned to; for we have exchanged their honor for humiliation; and from their multitude, a few; and we have stripped those lands of the filth of polytheism; and we have made in them the purity of glorification and the sanctity of praise; and so it was; for he ﷺ said to them; while he was on the steps of the Kaaba; and they were beneath him like sheep gathered on a rainy day; after he said: "There is no deity but Allah alone; He has no partner; He fulfilled His promise; and supported His servant and honored His army; and defeated the confederates alone:" "What do you think I will do with you, O assembly of Quraysh?" They said: "Good; a noble brother and a noble nephew;" he said: "Go, for you are the freed ones;" And Safwan ibn Umayyah said to him: "Make me have the option for two months;" he said: "You are given the option for four months;" and he did not impose Islam upon any of them; until they embraced willingly from the last of them; and when he besieged Ta'if and it became difficult for him, he turned away from it; and they did not remain but that they sent to him their messengers; and they embraced Islam; and their Islam was good; and none of them turned back in apostasy; and this is from the meaning of "So they will soon see."