Was prophet Muhammed fair to kick out a whole tribe and take over their lands and money based on allegations?

Question

I read that prophet Muhammed (PBUH) kicked a complete tribe (Banu Nadir) out of their lands and took over all their possessions, lands , and money. His only reason was that his allegations that two men of that tribe were planning to kill him while he was visiting them to lend him money.

None of his companions, who were sitting with him, saw anything. Banu Nadir also denied such allegations. The only ground that prophet Muhammed had to kick them out was HIS OWN accusations, which he said was revealed from god.

My question is:
even if those two men were trying to kill him (although nobody saw them, even his own companions), was the punishment supposed to be for the whole tribe? and what was the reason to take over their lands and money?

I hope if anyone wants to answer to give me a short answer right to the point. This time I am not giving any references, but you can read the whole story in Bukhary. I am just trying to teach lazy people to do some homework.

Answer 1

Everything he preached or got his people to do had to be backed by a revelation from God, or his people wouldn't have done it, nor followed him as is the case in this story as well. He wanted to take over the Banu Nadir properties and expel them from their land, and what better way of doing it other than by telling his people that it was a revelation that there are some of them who wants to harm their leader, him! Fair!!! no that was not fair not by a long shot. Many things he did were not fair, and that was one of them.

Answer 2

I believe the reason had to do with treason. The Banu Nadir Had stayed in Medina and Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) as the chosen leader in Medina( his help was requested by two fighting tribes in Medina and they wanted him to lead them), had committed all tribes of Medina to a treaty where all would protect Medina from outside forces, notably Meccan pagans. The jewish tribes were part of this treaty, but they didn't adhere by it, they would attempt to assist the Meccan pagans, despite the fact that they lived in peace and prophet Muhammad (pbuh) preached monotheism. That is why what happened to them happened, their act of treason.

Answer 3

Direct solutions on your question could be that The plan to kill prophet became a secret one ( which potential its no longer logical for anybody else to be attentive to aside from Allah which became printed to the prophet for which he took action) The punishment for the tribe has a number of different root reasons like the "Killing Plot" and supporting with different tribes to salary war on Muslims (who're in contract to guard them) "no longer basically THE PLOT TO KILL" such as you pronounced This qualifies that they are at war with Muslims at which element they have been granted risk-free passage out of Medina (with permission to hold something they desire of their camels) Allah has made regulation complete what became left over of war for this reason that have been taken via the Muslims = this could properly be a quick answer given which you be attentive to o.k. the tale in the back of (and the rule of thumb of war in Islam and place of Allah)in case you desire added readability please permit me be attentive to

Answer 4

Why Is Bush allowed to go to Iran and Iraq and steal there oil? after all he is doing the same thing you stated earlier. He is destroying those people's life's because he thinks that Iran wants to attack us when they did not find any evidence of such thing. What you said is not true. I have Bukhary BTW. Its a really good book and now I realize that Ur just posting stuff out of context! GROW UP LOSER!

Answer 5

yawn

'History makes it clear however, that the legend of fanatical Muslims sweeping through the world and forcing Islam at the point of the sword upon conquered races is one of the most fantastically absurd myths that historians have ever repeated.'

De Lacy O'Leary,
Islam at the Crossroads, London, 1923 p. 8.

Answer 6

Typical, religion used as justification for theft and war. Still going on today.

Answer 7

bro i think you should go to an imam to really go behind what hapend cause what ever people are gonn apost i think they dont ave that kinda knowledge

Answer 8

In Medina, the chief casualties of this Muslim success were the three Jewish tribes of Qaynuqah, Nadir and Qurayzah, who were determined to destroy Muhammad and who all independently formed alliances with Mecca. They had powerful armies, and obviously posed a threat to the Muslims, since their territory was so situated that they could easily join a besieging Meccan army or attack the ummah from the rear. When the Qaynuqah staged an unsuccessful rebellion against Muhammad in 625, they were expelled from Medina, in accordance with Arab custom. Muhammad tried to reassure the Nadir, and made a special treaty with them, but when he discovered that they had been plotting to assassinate him they too were sent into exile, where they joined the nearby Jewish settlement of Khaybar, and drummed up support for Abu Sufyan among the northern Arab tribes. The Nadir proved to be even more of a danger outside Medina, so when the Jewish tribe of Qurayzah sided with Mecca during the Battle of the Trench, when for a time it seemed that the Muslims faced certain defeat, Muhammad showed no mercy. The seven hundred men of the Qurayzah were killed, and their women and children sold as slaves.

The massacre of the Qurayzah was a horrible incident, but it would be a mistake to judge it by the standards of our own time. This was a very primitive society: the Muslims themselves had just narrowly escaped extermination, and had Muhammad simply exiled the Qurayzah they would have swelled the Jewish opposition in Khaybar and brought another war upon the ummah. In seventh-century Arabia an Arab chief was not expected to show mercy to traitors like the Qurayzah. The executions sent a grim message to Khaybar and helped to quell the pagan opposition in Medina, since the pagan leaders had been the allies of the rebellious Jews. This was a fight to the death, and everybody had always known that the stakes were high. The struggle did not indicate any hostility towards Jews in general, but only towards the three rebel tribes. The Quran continued to revere Jewish prophets and to urge Muslims to respect the People of the Book. Smaller Jewish groups continued to live in Medina, and later Jews, like Christians, enjoyed full religious liberty in the Islamic empires. Anti-semitism is a Christian vice. Hatred of the Jews became marked in the Muslim world only after the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 and the subsequent loss of Arab Palestine. It is significant that Muslims were compelled to import anti-Jewish myths from Europe, and translate into Arabic such virulently anti-semitic texts as the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, because they had no such traditions of their own. Because of this new hostility towards the Jewish people, some Muslims now quote the passages in the Quran that refer to Muhammad's struggle with the three rebellious Jewish tribes to justify their prejudice. By taking these verses out of context, they have distorted both the message of the Quran and the attitude of the Prophet, who himself felt no such hatred of Judaism.

Muhammad's intransigence towards the Qurayzah had been designed to bring hostilities to an end as soon as possible. The Quran teaches that war is such a catastrophe that Muslims must use every method in their power to restore peace and normality in the shortest possible time.18 Arabia was a chronically violent society, and the ummah had to fight its way to peace. Major social change of the type that Muhammad was attempting in the peninsula is rarely achieved without bloodshed. But after the Battle of the Trench, when Muhammad had humiliated Mecca and quashed the opposition in Medina, he felt that it was time to abandon the jihad and begin a peace offensive. In March 628 he set in train a daring and imaginative initiative that brought the conflict to a close. He announced that he was going to make the hajj. to Mecca, and asked for volunteers to accompany him. Since pilgrims were forbidden to carry arms, the Muslims would be walking directly into the lions' den and putting themselves at the mercy of the hostile and resentful Quraysh. Nevertheless, about a thousand Muslims agreed to join the Prophet and set out for Mecca, dressed in the traditional white robes of the hajji. If the Quraysh forbade Arabs to approach the Kabah or attacked bona fide pilgrims they would betray their sacred duty as the guardians of the shrine. The Quraysh did, however, dispatch troops to attack the pilgrims before they reached the area outside the city where violence was forbidden, but the Prophet evaded them and, with the help of some of his Bedouin allies, managed to reach the edge of the sanctuary, camped at Hudaybiyyah and awaited developments. Eventually the Quraysh were pressured by this peaceful demonstration to sign a treaty with the ummah. It was an unpopular move on both sides. Many of the Muslims were eager for action, and felt that the treaty was shameful, but Muhammad was determined to achieve victory by peaceful means.

Hudaybiyyah was another turning point. It impressed still more of the Bedouin, and conversion to Islam became even more of an irreversible trend. Eventually in 630, when the Quraysh violated the treaty by attacking one of the Prophet's tribal allies, Muhammad marched upon Mecca with an army of ten thousand men. Faced with this overwhelming force and, as pragmatists, realizing what it signified, the Quraysh conceded defeat, opened the city gates, and Muhammad took Mecca without shedding a drop of blood. He destroyed the idols around the Kabah, rededicated it to Allah, the one God, and gave the old pagan rites of the hajj, an Islamic significance by linking them to the story of Abraham, Hagar and Ismail. None of the Quraysh was forced to become Muslim, but Muhammad's victory convinced some of his most principled opponents, such as Abu Sufyan, that the old religion had failed. When Muhammad died in 632, in the arms of his beloved wife Aisha, almost all the tribes of Arabia had joined the ummah as Confederates or as converted Muslims. Since members of the ummah could not, of course, attack one another, the ghastly cycle of tribal warfare, of vendetta and counter-vendetta, had ended. Single-handedly, Muhammad had brought peace to war-torn Arabia.

Answer 9

no!