Sayyiduna Abu Umamah Bahili (may Allah be pleased with him) says: I was standing beneath the mount of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) on the occasion of the Farewell Pilgrimage. The Prophet said many excellent things, among which was this: "Whoever among the People of the Book (a Jew or a Christian) becomes a Muslim will receive a double reward, and he will be given the same rights as we have, and the same responsibilities will be imposed upon him as are upon us. And whoever among the polytheists becomes a Muslim will receive a single reward, and he too will have the same rights as we have, and he will have to fulfill the same responsibilities as we fulfill."