Banu Jadhimah (Arabic: بنو جذيمة) was one of the Arabian tribes that interacted with Muhammad.
In the year 8 of the Hijrah, Khalid ibn Walid was dispatched by Muhammad to invite the Banu Jadhima to Islam.
[1][2] According to historian Ibn Ishaq, Khalid had persuaded the Jadhima tribesmen to disarm and embrace Islam, which he followed up by executing a number of the tribesmen in revenge for the Jadhima's slaying of his uncle Fakih ibn al-Mughira dating to before Khalid's conversion to Islam.
In the narrative of historian Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani and modern scholar Taha Karaan, Khalid asked the tribesmen to accept Islam, they responded by saying, “saba’na, saba’na,” a phrase that literally means “We have become Sabeans,” but which had come to be understood as a general declaration of changing one's religion.
However, Khalid misunderstood this response, viewing it as a rejection or denigration of Islam due to his unfamiliarity with the Jadhima's accent.