of my kids. You are welcome as my cousin. Do not be afraid, I will protect you. Sit here and I will be back.
Zaynab left quietly for dawn prayers with her family members. She stood amongst the female congregation, in the front row, with her sisters. As she saw her father with a congregation of men, Zaynab waited for a moment of silence and cried out with all her heart, “O people, I give protection to Abul-Aas.”
In respect to her situation, that she is no longer his wife, her father hurried over to Zaynab. She repeated her message to the Prophet and he calmly reminded her “Receive him with all honor, but let him not come to you as a husband, for you are not his by law.”
The Prophet Muhammad then turned to his followers and beseeched them to have mercy upon his former son-in-law who was also his late wife’s nephew.
On the way to Mecca
Abul-Aas took back the goods that he possessed. Then he went to Mecca.
On his way to Mecca Abul-Aas said to himself:
What I am doing? For how long I will be stubborn? I know that Muhammad is trustful; for how long I will worship statues made of stones? Etc.
After returning the goods to Mecca, Abul-Aas said to the pagans of Mecca: Am I a debtor to anyone? They said: No
He said: then I want to tell you that I am a witness that there no god but Allah and Muhammad is his Messenger; I embraced Islam!
Abul-Aas made his way back to Al-Madina
He went directly to the Prophet Muhammad and said:
O Messenger of Allah! Now I am a Muslim.
The Prophet Muhammad was very happy to hear that.
Then Abul-Aas said: Would you allow me to have Zaynab again as a wife?
The Prophet Muhammad said to him: I have