It is narrated from Hazrat Qais bin Abi Hazim that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, sent some people from among the tribe of Khath'am as envoys to their own people. When the Muslims surrounded them, those people sought protection through prostrations (i.e., they expressed their Islam by prostrating). The narrator says: So those people prostrated. The narrator says: Yet the Muslims killed some of those who were prostrating. This matter reached the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, so he said: Pay half the blood money for them because of their prayers. Then the Noble Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: Beware! Whoever lives with a polytheist, I, Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), am free from him.