[Footnote 54: These were the sub-tribes of Ghatafan of the Meccan stock. The chief families of Ghatafan were the Bani Ashja, Zobian, and the Bani Abs. Murra and Fezara were the branches of Zobian. They all inhabited Najd. Uyenia, the chief of the Bani Fezara, had committed an inroad upon Medina in A.H. 6. In the same year the Bani Fezara had waylaid a Medina caravan and plundered it.] [Footnote 55: The Bani Suleim, a branch of the Bani Khasafa and a sister tribe to Hawazin, who lived near Mecca, and in whose charge, Mohammad, when but an infant, was placed, were also a tribe of the Meccan stock descended through Khasafa from Mozar and Moadd. Bani Suleim, like Bani Murra and Fezara, branches of Ghatafan, had long continued to threaten Mohammad with attacks. The Bani Suleim having joined Aamir bin Tofeil, chief of Bani Aamir, a branch of the tribe of Hawazin with their clans Usseya, Ril, and Zakawan, had cut to pieces a party of Moslem missionaries at Bir Mauna, invited by Abu Bera Amr ibn Malik, a chief of the Bani Aamir, who had pledged for their security. The Bani Suleim had joined also the Koreish army at the siege of Medina. In the seventh year, they had slain another body of Moslem missionaries sent to them.] [Footnote 56: The Bani Ozra were a tribe of Kozaa, like Joheina. They, together with the Bani Bali and Juzam, inhabited the north of Arabia in the part of the territory belonging to Ghassan. The family of Himyar, descendants from Kahtan in Yemen, had flourished through the line of Kozaa, the Bani Ozza, Joheina and other important tribes to the north of the Peninsula on the border of Syria. It has been quoted by Sir W. Muir from Katib Wakidi that the chief of the Bani Juzam carried back to them a letter from Mohammad to this tenor: "Whoever accepteth the call of Islam, he is among the confederates of the Lord; whoever refuseth the same, a truce of two months is allowed for him for consideration." (Muir's Life of Mahomet, Vol. IV, p. 107, _foot-note_). The words "for consideration" are not in the original Arabic.--_Vide_ Ibn Hisham, p. 963. It is not clear what was meant by the two months' truce he was advised to give them, to make terms before he could commence hostilities, if the tradition for which there is no authority be true. This has nothing to do with their compulsory conversions.] [Footnote 57: Salaba was a branch of the Zobian.] [Footnote 58: The Bani Abd-ul-Kays are a Moaddite tribe, the descendants of Rabia. They inhabited Bahrein on the Persian Gulf.] [Footnote 59: The Bani Tamim were branch of Tabikha, a tribe of the Moaddite stock of Mecca and a sister tribe of Mozeina. They are famous in the history of Najd, a province north-east of Medina, from the confines of Syria to Yemen. Some of these branches were with Mohammad at the expeditions to Mecca and Honain. All the branches of the tribes that had not yet embraced Islam were now converted.]