Converting To Islam
In the year 622, prophet Mohammed sent Khalid ibn Al-Walid to Yemen to call them to Islam. However, Khaled managed to push the Najrani and Tihami Yemenis into Islam but he didn't get a warm response from the Hamdani Yemenis of the highlands. So Prophet Mohammed sent over Ali bin Abi Talib and he was much more successful in converting the Hamdani Yemenis.
After the death of prophet Mohammed the Hamdan tribe remained Muslim and didn't join the ridda movement.
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