So, they descended from the backs of his camels and said,...

So, they descended from the backs of his camels and said, ‘We have reached where we wanted to be, therefore we do not have any need for your camels, and so you can go to wherever you like’. And they wrote to their brothers who were at Fadak and Khyber, ‘We have got to the place so come to us’. They wrote back to them, ‘We have settled in the houses and acquired assets, and there is no one closer to us than you are.

Therefore, when that event transpires (emigration of Prophet Mohammed -saww ), we would quickly come to you’.

When their wealth increased, it (news) reached Tubba (King of disbelievers) and he attacked them. They fortified themselves from him, so he surrounded them. They felt sympathetic towards the weak ones of Tubba and they would throw the dates and the barley towards them at night. So (the news of) that reached Tubba, and he sympathised with them and granted them amnesty. They came down to him. He said to them, ‘I have come to like your city and would like to reside among you’.

So, they said to him, ‘It is not for you to dwell in that place, for a Prophet -saww would be emigrating and that is not for anyone until that happens’. He said to them, ‘I will leave behind among you members of my family, so when that happens, they would support him -saww and help him -saww ’.