When Muhammad's age mounted to 20
(P.B.U.H.) he took part in the so-called: Al-Fudhul Treaty
as he himself was calling it. Al-Fudhul Treaty was a treaty which
had come after the last Fujjar War and a treaty may also mean a
covenant which denotes a number of words bearing various shades
of meanings such as:
solidarize, co-operate, agree,
co-ordinate and join together. This treaty was preceded by a
number of other treaties like the treaty of Al-Mutaiyibeen and
Al-La'qa treaty and others as narrated by historical books and
renowned biographies of the Arabs.
The first to call for Al-Fudhul
Treaty was Al-Zubair bin Abdul-Muttalib where they held a meeting
in the house of Bin Jad'an by Hashim's folk, Zahra's folk,
Tamims' folk and Banu Asad to make a treaty with which they agree
to look into the grievances of the wronged people and stand up
for their causes, in addition to enjoining good and forbidding
evil and the meeting was ended with all submerging their hands
into a container filled with the holy Zamzam's water.
Although he treaty was convened in
the pre-Islamic era which Islam had fought, Muhammad (P.B.U.H.)
highly praised it and recommended to follow up such procedures
which flow into the interest of the public even after his
prophet-hood and commented on by saying:
"How lovely it was for me to have
taken part in having a hand in this treaty and been present in
the house of Ibn Jada'n, the most benevolent character and if I
had been requested in Islam to agree to the like of it, I would
have promptly responded to it without hesitation.
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