Hearing this, the Anṣâr began to weep saying, 'By Allah, we said what we said only in our anxiety to spare the Prophet of Allah.' The people then crowded to the house of abu-Sufyân and closed its doors laying down their arms. The Prophet proceeded to the 'stone' and laid hold of it. He then made the circuit of the 'House' and came, with a bow in his hand held at its curved part, to an idol at the side of the Kaʾbah. He began to stab the eye of the idol saying, 'Truth has come and falsehood has vanished, it is the property of vanity to vanish.'[1] When the circuit was done, he came to aṣ-Ṣafa, climbed it until he could see the 'House,' and he raised his hand praising Allah and praying."
The Prophet's orders. Muḥammad ibn-aṣ-Ṣabbâḥ from ʿUbaidallâh ibn-ʿAbdallâh ibn-ʿUtbah:—On the occasion of the conquest of Makkah, the Prophet made the following statement, "Slay no wounded person, pursue no fugitive, execute no prisoner; and whosoever closes his door is safe."
Ibn-Khaṭal proscribed. Al-Wâḳidi states that the invasion in which the conquest was effected was carried on in the month of Ramaḍân in the year 8. On that occasion the Prophet remained in Makkah to the time of the festival at the end of Ramaḍân, after which he proceeded to invade Ḥunain. To the governorship of Makkah he assigned ʿAttâb ibn-Asîd ibn-abi-l-ʿÎṣ ibn-Umaiyah, and ordered the demolishing of the idols and the effacement of the pictures that stood in the Kaʿbah. He also said, "Put ibn-Khaṭal to death, even if ye find him holding the curtains of the Kaʿbah." Accordingly, abu-Barzah[2]-Aslami put him to death. According to abu-al-Yaḳẓân, however, the name of ibn-Khaṭal was Ḳais, and the one who put him to death was abu-Shiryâb al-Anṣâri. This ibn-Khaṭal had two female slave-
