18 Preface ۞ لَقَد رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنِ المُؤمِنينَ إِذ يُبايِعونَكَ تَحتَ الشَّجَرَةِ فَعَلِمَ ما في قُلوبِهِم فَأَنزَلَ السَّكينَةَ عَلَيهِم وَأَثابَهُم فَتحًا قَريبًاYusuf AliGod’s Good Pleasure1 was on the Believers when they swore Fealty to thee under the Tree:2 He knew3 what was in their hearts, and He sent down Tranquillity4 to them; and He rewarded them with a speedy Victory;5The noun from the very radiya is ridwan (Good Pleasure); hence the name of this Bay'ah, Bay'at al Ridwan, the Fealty of God’s Good Pleasure: see n. 4877 to 48:10.The great ceremony of the Fealty of God’s Good Pleasure took place while the Prophet sat under a tree in the plain of Hudaybiyah. (R).Or tested: seen. 4855 to 47:31.Sakinah = Peace, calm, sense of security and confidence, tranquillity. Cf. above 48:4, and n. 4869. The same word is used in connection with the battle of Hunayn in 9:26, and in connection with the Cave of Thawr at an early stage in the Hijrat: 9:40.The Treaty of Hudaybiyah itself was a “speedy Victory”: it followed immediately after the Bay'ah.