"Among the things they asked the Messenger was that they should be allowed to retain their idol al-Lat undestroyed for three years. The Messenger refused and they continued to ask him for a year or two (grace), and he refused. Finally they asked for a month (dispensation) after their return home, but he refused to agree to any set time. All that they wanted, as they were trying to show, was to be safe from their fanatics and women and children by leaving al-Lat, and they did not want to frighten their people by destroying her until they had (all) accepted Islam. The Messenger refused this, but he sent Abu Sufyan and al-Mughira to destroy her (for them). They also asked him that he would excuse them from prayer and that they would not have to break the idol with their own hands. The Messenger said: âWe excuse you from breaking your idols with your own hands, but as for prayer, there is no good in a religion which has no prayers.â They said that they would perform them, though they were demeaning."
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(Ibn Ishaq 1955, pp. 613-614) quoted in F.E. Peters - Muhammad and the Origins of Islam-State University of New York Press (1994)
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