Al-Ala' ibn al-Hadrami's mission to al-Mundhir ibn Sawa and his conversion

Before the conquest of Mecca the Prophet sent al-Ala ibn al-Hadrami to al-Mundhir ibn Sawa al-Abdi, lord of Bahrain. He became a Muslim and his Islam was good. ¹

Ibn Ishaq relates the account at the end of the delegation of Abd al-Qays: the Prophet had sent al-Ala ibn al-Hadrami (may God be pleased with him) to al-Mundhir ibn Sawa before the conquest of Mecca; he became a Muslim and his Islam was good. He died after the Messenger of God, before the apostasy of the people of Bahrain, while al-Ala was with him as the Prophet's governor over Bahrain. ¹ Later sources place this dispatch among the letters to the rulers and kings at the end of the sixth year and the beginning of the seventh. ²

• Ibn Ishaq gives the year of the dispatch only as "before the conquest of Mecca". ¹