Jurash

A town in Yemen. Ibn Ishaq describes it as a closed town at that time, containing tribes of Yemen. The editors say that Jurash is a district of the districts of Yemen. ¹

Surad ibn Abd Allah al-Azdi stopped there by the Prophet's order, when Khath'am had taken refuge in it. He besieged it for nearly a month and then turned away. When its people pursued him, he turned on them at the mountain of Shakar and killed them. Its people had sent two men to the Prophet, and he told them of the battle at the moment it happened. Then a delegation from Jurash came and became Muslims, and the Prophet set aside a protected pasture around their village. See the campaign of Surad against Jurash. ¹

Its people and those of Taball became Muslims without fighting, and the Prophet left them with what they had accepted as Muslims. He imposed a dinar on every adult male of the People of the Book in the two towns, on condition of hospitality for the Muslims, and he put Abu Sufyan ibn Harb in charge of Jurash. ²