daughter  of Huyayi bin Akhtab said: I was the closest child to my father and my uncle Abi Yasir’s heart.
Whenever they saw me with a child of theirs, they should pamper me so tenderly to the exclusion of  anyone else. However, with the advent of the Messenger of Allâh (Peace be upon him) and setting in
Quba’ with Bani ‘Amr bin ‘Awf, my father, Huyayi bin Akhtab and my uncle Abu Yasir bin Akhtab went  to  see him and did not return until sunset when they came back walking lazily and fully dejected. I, as  usually, hurried to meet them smiling, but they would not turn to me for the grief that caught them. I  heard my uncle Abu Yasir say to Ubai and Huyayi: “Is it really he i.e. Muhammad (Peace be upon  him)?” The former said: “It is he, I swear by Allâh!” “Did you really recognize him?” they asked. He  answered: “Yes, and my heart is burning with enmity towards him”
An interesting story that took place on the first day, the Prophet (Peace be upon him) stepped in
Madinah, could be quoted to illustrate the mental disturbance and deep anxiety that beset the Jews.
‘Abdullah bin Salam, the most learned rabbi among the Jews came to see the Prophet (Peace be upon  him) when he arrived, and asked him certain questions to ascertain his real Prophethood. No sooner  did  he hear the Prophet’s answers than he embraced Islam, but added that if his people knew of his
Islamization they would advance false arguments against me. The Prophet (Peace be upon him) sent  for some Jews and asked them about ‘Abdullah bin Salam, they testified to his scholarly aptitude and  virtuous standing. Here it was divulged to them that he had embraced Islam and on the spot, they  imparted categorically opposite testimonies and described him as the most evil of all evils. In another  narration ‘Abdullah bin Salam said, “O Jews! Be Allâh fearing. By Allâh, the only One, you know that  he  is the Messenger of Allâh sent to people with the Truth.” They replied, “You are lying.” ... That was the
Prophet’s first experience with the Jews.
That was the demo-political picture within Madinah. Five hundred kilometres away in Makkah, there  still  lay another source of detrimental threat, the archenemy of Islam, Quraish. For ten years, while at the  mercy of Quraish, the Muslims were subjected to all sorts of terrorism, boycott, harassment and  starvation coupled by a large scale painstaking psychological war and aggressive organized  propaganda. When they had emigrated to Madinah, their land, wealth and property were seized, wives  detained and the socially humble in rank brutally tortured. Quraish also schemed and made attempts  on  the life of the first figure of the Call, Muhammad (Peace be upon him) . Due to their acknowledged  temporal leadership and religious supremacy among the pagan Arabs, given the custodianship of the
Sacred Sanctuary, the Quraishites spared no effort in enticing the Arabians against Madinah and  boycotting the Madinese socially and economically. To quote Muhammad Al-Ghazali: “A state of war  virtually existed between the Makkan tyrants and the Muslims in their abode. It is foolish to blame the
Muslims for the horrible consequences that were bound to ensue in the light of that long-standing  feud.”
The Muslims in Madinah were completely eligible then to confiscate the wealth of those tyrants, mete  out for them exemplary punishment and bring twofold retaliation on them in order to deter them from  committing any folly against the Muslims and their sanctities.
That was a resume of the major problems that the Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) had to  face, and the complicated issues he was supposed to resolve.
In full acknowledgment, we could safely say that he quite honestly shouldered the responsibilities of
Messengership, and cleverly discharged the liabilities of both temporal and religious leadership in
Madinah. He accorded to everyone his due portion whether of mercy or punishment, with the former  usually seasoning the latter in the overall process of establishing Islam on firm grounds among its  faithful adherents.