Related Considerations
Reference in this passage is to those Bedouin tribes who were invited by Allah's Messenger ﷺ to join the party of 1400 Muslims who were marching to Hudaibiyah but on one pretext or another, they requested to be excused. This was narrated in part (1) of the story of Hudaibiyah. According to some versions, some of those people later repented and became sincere Muslims.