AI-Mumtaḥanah takes its name from verse 10, where the believers are told to question women who come to them as fugitives from the idolaters and, if they find them sincere converts to Islam, not to return them to the idolaters. This marked a modification of the terms of the Truce of Ḥudaybiyah, by which the Prophet had undertaken to return all fugitives, male and female, while the idolaters were not obliged to give up renegades from Islam. The more terrible persecution which women had to undergo, if extradited, and their helpless social condition were the causes of the change. Instead of giving up women refugees who were sincere, and not fugitives on account of crime or some family quarrel, the Muslims were to pay an indemnity for them; while as for Muslim husbands whose wives might flee to Quraysh, no indemnity was to be paid by the latter, but, when some turn of fortune brought wealth to the Islamic state, they were to be repaid by the state what their wives had taken of their property. Verse 12 names the pledge which was to be taken from the women refugees after their examination. The date of the revelation is the eighth year of the Hijrah.