Did prophet Muhammed actually preach Islam or just loot other people's valuables?

Question

There is a story in Silamic history books about a battle called "Sareyat Fadak" where prophet Muhammed sent a small army, led by one of his companions (Basheer Ibn Sa'ad), to a neighbouring vilalge called Fadak.

The story tells that when the army reached the village they found most people out in their fields. The Muslim army as much valuables as they could and returned back when people saw them and chased them. Finally people fought the Muslim army and killed many of them and retrieved their valuables back.

The story tells that when prophet Muhammed heard of what happened, he sent another army for REVENGE. When the second Muslim army was also defeated, prophet Muhammed sent a third army who finally killed many of that village's people and looted many valuables and returned back to prophet Muhammed.

Was the way prophet Muhammed preaching his word to those people is by looting their valuables?

The whole story is mentioned in many Islamic history books (in its original Arabic language), including Ibn Hisham, Al Maghazy... etc.

http://sirah.al-islam.com/display.asp?f=mga1513.htm

Answer 1

Hmm, the truth will never be known, but I like the way you concentrate on the religion of Islam. Lol.

Answer 2

Instead of accepting Islam the Jews from Fadak "offered" half of their land to Mohammed. We can see from the following text what he used the income he got from the land for.

"When the Prophet (s) returned from Khayber, he sent Muhisa bin Masood to propagate Islam to the people of Khayber. The leader of the Jews of Khayber at that time was Yusha bin Nun. The people of Fadak refused to accept Islam, but offered to give them half of their Land of Fadak. The Prophet (s) took half the land and allowed them to live there. This half Land of Fadak was property of the Prophet (s), as the Muslims didn't ride horses over it".

Mohammed gave the Land of Fadak to Fatima
"Abu Saeed al Khudri and Abdullah Ibn Abbas narrate that when the verse relating to giving rights to kindred was revealed, the Prophet called Fatima Zahra (as) and gifted the land of Fadak to her".


The income from Fadak

In the authority work of Ahl'ul Sunnah, "Sunan Abu Dawud", v3, p144, Dhikr Fa'y, it is written:

"Abu Dawud says that when Umar bin Abdul-Aziz became Caliph, the income from the property of Fadak was 40,000 Dinars.


The land of Fadak and income from its dates

It is written in "Sharh Ibn Abi Al-Hadeed, v4, p108:

"Umar expelled the Jews from Fadak. And the value of land along with its dates was 50,000 Dirhams."

The income of Fadak was also used for military purposes
These properties were particularly meant for the Holy Prophet (may peace be upon him). He would meet the annual expenditure of his family from the income thereof, and would spend what remained for purchasing horses and weapons as preparation for Jihad.

After the death of Mohammed, Abu Bakr seized it by force.
We read in Ahl'ul Sunnah's esteemed work Insanul Ayun fi Seerah al Halbeeya Volume 3, p487-488, Chapter "The death of the Prophet [s]"

"Umar was angry with Abu Bakr and said, "If you give Fadak back to Fatima, where the expenses for army and defence will come from for at present all the Arabs are fighting against you. He then took the papers of Fadak from Fatima (as), and tore them into shreds

Answer 3

another liar...
May God help you speak the truth...
I have never heard of the above mentioned story and when i google the above word it came up with nothing.. Beleive me the asker is a liar or check it by urself.