Holy Prophet of Islam - Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa — Page 161
The Holy Prophet of Islam, Hadrat Muḥammad Mustafa sa sa then killed their men and distributed their women, children and property among the Muslims, but some of them came to the Holy Prophet and he granted them safety, and they embraced Islām. He exiled all the Jews from. Medina. They were the Jews of Banu Qainuqā'; the tribe of ‘Abdullāh bin. Salām and the Jews of Banu Haritha and all of the other Jews. " (Sahih Bukhari, Kitāb al-Maghazi, Bab Hadith Banü Nadır wa Ghadrihim bi 58. Rasūlillah) sa sa sa. Until the expulsion of Banu Nadir from Medina, a Jew did all the correspondence for the Holy Prophet" as he could write letters in Hebrew,. Syriac and Arabic. When Banu Naḍīr and Banū Quraizah fought against the Holy Prophet (violating their peace treaty) the Holy Prophet no longer trusted a non-Muslim to write letters for him. Accordingly, the Holy. Prophet told Hadrat Zaid bin Thabit to learn the Hebrew and Syriac languages and assigned him the job of writing letters for him. This is stated in the following tradition: sa га ra sa. Hadrat Zaid bin Thabit relates that the Holy Prophet" told him to learn the Syriac language. ra. Another version is that the Holy Prophet" told him to learn the language which the Jews use for correspondence, as he had no confidence in what the Jews said or wrote about him. Hadrat Zaid bin Thabit further relates that within fifteen days he learned to read and write the Syriac language. After this, whenever the Holy Prophet needed to write anything to the Jews he dictated it to me and whenever he received any correspondence from the Jews, he read it to him. sa (Jami' Tirmidhi, Abwäbul Adab, Bab ma ja'a fi ta'limul siryaniyyah) 161