35. [3] Quoted from...

35.[3] Quoted from: Ibne Athir: Al-Kamil fit Tarikh, Vol. 2, Pg. 331 [4] Quoted from: Shaykh Mufeed: Al-Jamal, Pg. 119 [We would like to add that this narration is related by many. Some among them are Abu Mikhnaf Lut bin Yahya al-Azadi. His source is Muhammad bin Sayyid al-Kalbi and Abu Salih.

The green light shown to them by Umar resulted in that the people had no alternative but to pay allegiance to Abu Bakr or to be beaten by the Arabs.] That is why afterwards many tried to justify these atrocities to exempt them from shame of desert dwelling and being nomads.

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