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Quraish announced a heavy reward for apprehending any Muslim living.
This announcement tempted even non-believer and infidel of Arabia to set into
search of Muslims. A group of thirty believers on a mission to preach Islam
were came under the attack of infidels who wanted to arrest them alive but the
Muslims fought so desperately that only three out of those thirty survived and
were arrested. On their way to Makka one of them escaped the Bedouin bandits.
They chased him and when couldn't catch him they killed him and threw him in
the desert after cutting him into pieces. These Bedouin brought the remaining
two to Makka. When they saw that everyone wanted to have them, they decided to
auction them instead of accepting the announced reward. Sufwan Bin Umiyah who
was considered the most powerful leader after Abu Sufyan was the highest
successful bidder. He purchased Umair Bin Sahit and the other Muslim was sold
to another chieftain of Makka.
When the Makkans saw that these two rich men want to kill these two
Muslims to have vengeance at their own they protested that they also had
suffered at the hands of Muslims and had grievances against them as their
relatives were also killed in Baddar and Uhad so they, too, had the right to
see them killed.
They suggested that these two
he killed in the large ground of Makka in the open, as they also wanted to see
them die a painful death. Sufwan said that he had spent a large amount of money
to buy that Muslim so he would like to auction the head of that Muslim and the
buyer could use his skull as a jar to drink water and bidding started for the
skull of the Muslim. When they had killed him and the successful buyer of the
skull approached the dead body of Umair he found it covered with golden wasps,
which did not let him take off the head.
He decided to take it off in the night but after the sunset, it
started raining and it rained so heavily that the rainwater carried the body
with it. The other Muslim was taken out of the city and was put on a cross.
In a similar incident in June 625 AD (3rd AH) a group of forty
Muslims was attacked near Maoona Well, Muslims resisted and fought bravely till
their death and the infidels martyred them all.
MOHAMMAD (PBUH) The Prophet Of God - Part I
KHWAJA SHAMS-UD-DEEN AZEEMI
By the Time, verily man is in great loss,
except those who strive to act upon the teachings
of Holy Prophet and the Quran.
