Governors, Teachers, and the Idols Cast Down

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains:

Through the remaining months, the Prophet ﷺ subdued the smaller tribes and, for the first time, organized the state on political lines, appointing governors, teachers of Qurʾān and prayer, and collectors of zakāt and jizyah across Arabia, sometimes all three roles in one man. A bureaucracy was taking shape.

He also sent parties to cast down the idols that yet remained, he was not at peace while any were worshipped in the peninsula (Sūrat al-Tawbah would soon bar the idolaters from it). Ṭufayl ibn ʿAmr went with four hundred to burn Dhū al-Kaffayn, the idol of his own tribe Daws, which they had housed in a rival "Kaʿbah"; Jarīr ibn ʿAbdullāh he asked, "Will you not rid me of Dhū al-Khalaṣah?", and it too was destroyed; and ʿAlī he sent against the tribe of Ṭayy, breaking their great idol and bringing captives back to Medina.