"That the offence of usury is alleged in justification of this measure appears to me to disprove the common tradition that a command was said to have been given by Mahomet on his deathbed for the Peninsula to be swept clear of all other religions but Islam."--Muir's Life of Mahomet, Vol. II, pp. 301-2.] [Footnote 90: Descendants of the great Ghatafan tribe already described.] [Footnote 91: Bani Himyar from Yemen. The Himyarites are too well-known to be described. The Himyarite princes of Ro-en, Mu-afir, Hamadan and Bazan, all of the Christian faith in Yemen, embraced Islam and announced their conversion by letter sent to Mohammad through their emissaries which reached him after his return from Tabuk.] [Footnote 92: Either a clan of Lakhm, or a branch of Bani Aamir.] [Footnote 93: A sub-tribe of the Bani Aamir bin Saasaa already described.] [Footnote 94: The King of Oman, together with the people of Oman, embraced Islam during A.H. 8 and 9. The people of Oman were of the Azdite stock.] [Footnote 95: Already described at page 43.] [Footnote 96: A branch of Saad-al-Ashira from the Kahtanite stock. This tribe inhabited Yemen. They had some peculiar prejudice against eating the heart of an animal. Mohammad had caused their chief to break his superstition, which he did by making him eat the roasted heart of an animal. But they returned disgusted when told that his (the chief's) mother who had committed infanticide was in hell. However they sent another deputation a second time and finally embraced Islam.] [Footnote 97: They settled in Dumat-ul-Jundal, now Jal-al-Jowf, north of Arabia. They were a tribe of the Bani Kozaa descended from Himyar.] [Footnote 98: A tribe of the Kahtanite stock at Yemen. They lived in a hilly country of that name in Yemen.] [Footnote 99: They were a tribe of the Kahtanite stock on the coast of Yemen.] [Footnote 100: A clan of the Bani Aamir bin Saasaa of the Hawazin tribe already described.] [Footnote 101: Descendants of Khazima of the Moaddite stock.] [Footnote 102: The Bani Kinda princes, Vail bin Hijar and Al-Ash-as bin Kays; the former, the chief of the coast, and the latter, the chief of the Hazaramaut in the south of Arabia. They with their whole clans embraced Islam. Bani Kinda were a powerful tribe of the Kahalanite stock.] [Footnote 103: A clan of Ozra from Kozaa described at page 46.] [Footnote 104: Descendants of Ghatafan of the Moaddite stock.] [Footnote 105: They inhabited the sea-coast of Yemen, and were a tribe of Muzhie of the Kahtanite stock.] [Footnote 106: A branch of the tribe of Aamir bin Saasaa.] [Footnote 107: A branch of Zobian.] [Footnote 108: They were a tribe of the Kahtanite stock, residing in Yemen. Their deputation consisted of two hundred persons. It is said this was the last deputation received by Mohammad. Some time before this Ali was sent to the Bani Nakh-a and other tribes of the Mudhij stock in Yemen.]