We will not say to you as the Bani Israel did to Musa...

“May Allah give you a good reward,” added the Prophet, as Miqdad took his seat, and again called on his followers to express their minds, his object being to bring out the Ansaris, who composed the greater part of his army, and who had pledged themselves at Aqbah that if he came to Medina, they would protect him as they did their nearest relatives. His fear was that they would consider themselves obligated by the league to protect him at the…