Taghlib showed such tenacity and asked permission to emigrate. ʿUmair asked ʿUmar's advice on this matter. ʿUmar wrote back ordering him to double on all their pasturing cattle[1] and land the amount of ṣadaḳah ordinarily taken from Moslems; and if they should refuse to pay that, he ought to war with them until he annihilates them or they accept Islâm. They accepted to pay a double ṣadaḳah[2] saying, "So long as it is not the tax of the 'uncircumcized,' we shall pay it and retain our faith."[3]
The terms with the banu-Taghlib. ʿAmr an-Nâḳid from Dâʾûd ibn-Kurdûs:—After having crossed the Euphrates and decided to leave for the land of the Greeks, the banu-Taghlib made terms with ʿUmar ibn-al-Khaṭṭâb, agreeing not to immerse [baptize] a child or compel him to accept their faith, and to pay a double ṣadaḳah. Dâʾûd ibn-Kurdûs used to repeat that they had no claim to security [dhimmah], because they used immersion in their ritual—referring to baptism.
Only they pay double ṣadaḳah. Al-Ḥusain ibn-al-Aswad from az-Zuhri:—None of the "people of the Book" pay ṣadaḳah on their cattle except the Christian banu-Taghlib or—he perhaps said—the Christian Arabs, whose whole possessions consist of cattle. These pay twice what the Moslems pay.
Zurʿah intercedes in their behalf. Saʿîd ibn-Sulaimân Saʿdawaih from Zurʿah ibn-an-Nuʿmân:—The latter interceded with ʿUmar in favor of the Christians of the banu-Taghlib, saying, "They are Arabs too proud to pay the poll-tax, and are possessors of tillable land and cattle." ʿUmar had decided to take tax from them and they became dispersed in the whole country. At last, ʿUmar made terms
