others.
When they were all gathered together, he informed the Prophet saying: “This group of the Helpers  have  just arrived to meet you in compliance with your orders.” As soon as the Messenger (peace be upon  him) faced them he thanked Allâh and praised Him, then said to them inquiring, “I have been told that  you are angry with me. Didn’t I come to you when you were astray and Allâh guided you? You were  poor and Allâh gave you wealth. Weren’t you foes and Allâh made you love one another.” “Yes,” they  said, “Allâh and His Messenger are better and more gracious.” Then he said: “What prevents you from  replying to the Messenger of Allâh, O tribe of Helpers?” They said, “What should be the reply, O
Messenger of Allâh, while to the Lord and to his Messenger belong all benevolence and grace.”
The Prophet (peace be upon him) again said:
“But by Allâh, you might have answered and answered truly, for I would have testified to its truth  myself: ‘You came to us belied and rejected and we accepted you; you came to us as helpless  and we helped you; a fugitive, and we took you in; poor and we comforted you’.
You Helpers, do you feel anxious for the things of this world, wherewith I have sought to incline  these people unto the Faith in which you are already established?
Are you not satisfied, O group of Helpers that the people go with ewes and camels while you go  along with the Messenger of Allâh (peace be upon him) to your dwellings. By Him in Whose Hand  is my life, had there been no migration, I would have been one of the Helpers. If the people  would go through a valley and passage, and the Helpers go through another valley and passage,
I would go through the valley and passage of the Helpers. Allâh! Have mercy on the Helpers,  their children and their children’s children.”
The audience wept until tears rolled down their beards as they said:
“Yes, we are satisfied, O Prophet of Allâh (peace be upon him) ! with our lot and share.”
Then the Prophet (peace be upon him) left the gathering and the people also dispersed.
ARRIVAL O FTHE HAWAZIN DELEGATION:
Hawazin’s delegation arrived a Muslims just after the distribution of spoils. They were fourteen men  headed by Zuhair bin Sard. The Messenger’s fosteruncle was one of them. They asked him to bestow  upon them some of the wealth and spoils. They uttered so touching words that the Messenger of Allâh
(peace be upon him) said to them: “You surely see who are with me. The most desirable speech to me  is the most truthful. Which is dearer to you, your wealth or your women and children?” They replied:
“Nothing whatsoever compares with kinship.” Then when I perform the noon prayer, stand up and  say:
“We intercede with the Messenger of Allâh (peace be upon him) to exhort the believers, and we  intercede with the believers to exhort the Messenger of Allâh (peace be upon him) to forego the  captives of our people fallen to their lot.” So when the Messenger of Allâh (peace be upon him)  performed the noon prayer, they stood up and said what they had been told to say. The Messenger
(peace be upon him) , then, said: “As for what belongs to me and to the children of Abdul Muttalib,  you  may consider them, from now on, yours. And I will ask my folksmen to give back theirs.” Upon  hearing  that the Emigrants and the Helpers said: “What belongs to us is, from now on, offered to the
Messenger  of Allâh (peace be upon him) .” But Al-Aqra‘ bin Habis said, “We will grant none of what belongs to me  and to Bani Tamim,”; so did ‘Uyaina bin Hisn, who said: “As for me and Bani Fazarah, I say ‘No’.” Al-
‘Abbas bin Mirdas also refused and said: “No” for Bani Saleem and him. His people, however, said  otherwise: “Whatever spoils belong to us we offer to the Messenger of Allâh (peace be upon him) ”
“You  have undermined my position.” Said Al-‘Abbas bin Mirdas spontaneously. Then the Messenger of Allâh
(peace be upon him) said: “These people have come to you as Muslims. For this I have already tarried  the distribution of the booty. Besides, I have granted them a fair option but they refused to have  anything other than their women and children. Therefore he who has some of theirs and will prefer  willingly to give them back, let them do. But those who favours to keep what he owns to himself, let  them grant them back too, and he will be given as a recompense six times as much from the first  booty  that Allâh may provide us.” People then said, “We will willingly offer them all for the sake of the
Messenger of Allâh.” The Messenger of Allâh (peace be upon him) said: “But in this way we are not  able  to find out who is content and who is not. So go back and we will be waiting for your chiefs to convey