The chronicles provide the first record for the Jizya tax which at that time bought the Jacobites protection from persecutors both Arabs and Chalcedonian Orthodox Christians which held control in the region from Constantinople to Syria. The Maronite Chronicles refute traditionalistic chronology of Muslim history such as the Islamic tradition of the "year of the Hajj", when Muawiyah I made an Abrahamic pilgrimage to the Hijaz and it records that Muhammad was seated in a throne of the region yet was unworthy of even a visit by the 5th Caliph.