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The Muslims in Makkah are freed 
The clan of Banu Khuzaa sided with the Prophet in the 
wake of the recent treaty and ultimately joined hands with the 
Muslims. They had been allies of the Banu Hashim (the Prophet’s 
clan) even during the Age of Ignorance, while Banu Bakr, their 
rivals, went to the side of the Quraysh and ultimately became the 
cause of the conquest of Makkah. 
The Muslims who had been unable to leave Makkah 
continued to face persecution. One of them, Abu Baseer, escaped 
and headed straight for Madinah. The Quraysh sent two of their 
own men to the Prophet to demand his return, and the 
Prophet handed him over. At Adhul Hulayfa, Abu Baseer 
killed one of his captors, while the other, who escaped, 
reappeared before the Prophet saying, “My companion was 
killed, and I too am about to be killed.” Just then Abu Baseer 
arrived on the scene, and when the Prophet rebuked him, in 
fear of being sent back to the pagans, he fled and settled on the 
coast. Abu Jandal also escaped and joined Abu Baseer. 
Henceforth everyone who fled Makkah after embracing Islam 
joined Abu Baseer. 
Eventually these Muslims formed a colony. With their new 
found strength, they began intercepting each and every trade 
caravan of the Quraysh en route to Syria, falling on them and 
seizing their goods and men. The Quraysh were so unnerved by 
this new stronghold of Muslims on their doorstep that they 
pleaded with the Prophet to call the band of Muslims to 
Madinah. The Quraysh, for their part, guaranteed that anybody 
going to the Muslim side would be left in peace. The Prophet

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asked the Muslims to come to Madinah, which they were happy 
to do. 
Effects of the truce 
The truce that ensued with the Treaty of Hudaybia 
profoundly affected the spread of Islam. Muslims were able to 
mix with other Arabs and invite them to Islam with such success 
that more people became Muslim in the following two years than 
had done in the previous nineteen. Even the elite among the 
Quraysh, Amr bin As, Khalid bin Waleed and Uthman bin Talha 
appeared before the Prophet with the confession of faith on 
their lips, willing to give their lives, property, and power for Allah. 
As they came up to the Prophet , he remarked, “Makkah has 
entrusted the lobes of its heart to us.”