The Hawazin Captives Returned, and the Ji'rana Umrah

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains:

The Prophet ﷺ had waited nearly a month at Jiʿrānah for Hawāzin to come and accept Islam, for then, as with Juwayriyah's people at Medina, all would be returned to them. (Yes, this is an incentive to believe; but Islam, holding itself the truth, offers what is lawful without coercion, and once tasted it wins the heart, as marriage-converts often outstrip born Muslims.) They came too late, after the spoils were shared, so he made them choose: their wealth or their families. "Our families," of course. He taught them to stand after the prayer and ask the Muslims' intercession; then he gave up his own tribe's captives first, and the leaders followed, until all the Hawāzin captives were freed, some Najdī Bedouins only for a promised payment from the next spoils. Their chief Mālik ibn ʿAwf accepted Islam and was set over his people.

❧The Third Umrah

Setting out from Jiʿrānah back to Makkah, the Prophet ﷺ put on iḥrām and performed ʿUmrah, the third of his life (he counted four: Ḥudaybiyah, rewarded though undone; the ʿUmrat al-Qaḍāʾ; this at Jiʿrānah; and the one within his Ḥajj). From this the scholars note that the Sunnah is one ʿUmrah per entry to Makkah, he and the senior Companions never went out to Tanʿīm to repeat it, not that repeating is forbidden or an innovation, but that it is khilāf al-awlā, less than the best, keeping the ʿUmrah's dignity (though ʿĀʾishah, weeping in her menses at having missed hers, was sent to Tanʿīm by the Prophet ﷺ with her brother).