After several days of negotiations, the terms for the surrender of Jeddah and the effective unification of most of the Arabian Peninsula were settled. Ali bin Husain sought only two conditions of surrender; that he and his family should be allowed to depart the country unmolested and that the Ikhwan, whom the people of the Hijaz feared not entirely without reason, should not be allowed into the city. Ibn Saud granted both requests and Ali departed for Iraq, to live in exile with his brother Faisal.

The leading citizens of Jeddah came to swear loyalty to Ibn Saud who received them in a tented pavilion just outside the city walls. Hajji Abdullah Alireza handed over the keys of the city of Jeddah to the new ruler, together with his own resignation as Governor. Ibn Saud responded by accepting the keys but refusing the resignation.

In the terms of the surrender, it was agreed that there should be a general amnesty for all those who had supported the Hashemite rulers of the Hijaz, that the civil servants of the Hijaz should retain their posts, that the soldiers should be given funds to enable them to return to their homes and that the Hashemites should be allowed to keep all the lands they had owned before the accession of Shareef Husain bin Ali.

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