Thursday, October 2, 2014

Prophet Muhammad (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) part 26 :



Prophet Muhammad (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) part 26 :
A) More Mutiny as Charter(agreement) members cause dispute :
The Jews also were not slow to involve in trouble the Prophet(ﷺ) and his followers. They tried to create disaffection among his people and slandered him and his adherents. They mispronounced the words of the Qur'an so as to give them an offensive meaning. They also caused their poets, who were superior in culture and intelligence, to use their influence to sow agitation among the Muslims. One of their distinguished poets, called Ka'b, of the Bani An-Nadir, spared no efforts in publicly condemning the ill success of the idolaters after their failure at Badr.
By his mockery against the Prophet(ﷺ) and his disciples, and his poetic form of lamenting on the dead of the Meccans who had fallen at Badr, Ka'b succeeded in exciting the Quraish to that madness of revenge which broke out at Uhud. He then returned to Medina, where he continued to attack the Prophet (ﷺ) and the Muslims, men and women, in terms of the most indecent character. Though he belonged to the tribe of Bani An Nadir, which had entered into the compact with the Muslims and pledged itself both for the internal and external safety of the State, he openly directed his acts against the commonwealth of which he was a member.
Another Jew, Sallam by name, of the same tribe, behaved equally fiercely and bitterly against the Muslims. He lived with a party of his tribe at Khaibar, a village five days' journey northwest of Medina. He made every effort to excite the neighboring Arab tribes against the Muslims. The Muslim commonwealth with the object of securing safety among the community, passed a sentence of lawlessness upon Ka'b and Sallam.The members of another Jewish tribe, namely Bani Qainuqa', were sentenced to expulsion from the Medinite territory for having openly and knowingly disobeyed the terms of the compact.
It was necessary to put an end to their aggressive actions of the sake of maintaining peace and security. The Prophet(ﷺ) had to go to their headquarters, where he required them to enter definitively into the Muslim commonwealth by embracing Islam or to leave Medina. To this they replied in the most offensive terms: "You have had a quarrel with men ignorant of the art of war. If you are desirous
of having any dealings with us, we shall show you that we are men." They then shut themselves up in their fortress and set the Prophet(ﷺ) and his authority at opposition. The Muslims decided to reduce them and laid blockade to their fortress without loss of time. After fifteen days they surrendered. Though the Muslims at first intended to inflict some severe punishment on them,they contented themselves by expelling the Bani Qainuqa'(another tribe of jews).
In sha Allah , will be continued. {Ref: stories of Prophets by Ibn Kathir(Rahimahullah)}

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