The Life & Character of the Seal of Prophets (sa) - Volume II — Page 384
Seal of the Prophets - Volume II 384 condition of the Banū Naḍīr and appointed his Companion Muḥammad bin Maslamah ra to supervise the departure of the Banū Naḍīr from Madīnah in peace and security. 1 As such, with great pomp, splendour and magnificence, the Banū Naḍīr took along all their movable belongings and possessions. They even demolished their own homes with their own hands, and dislocated their doors, door-frames, and wood and took them along as well. 2 It is written that these people left Madīnah with such joy, pomp and show, singing and playing their instruments, as if they were a marriage procession. 3 However, their equipment of war, their immovable property, such as orchards, etc. , came in to the hands of the Muslims. Since this wealth had been acquired without any practical war, in light of the Islāmic Sharī‘at , the privilege of its division was solely in the hands of the Messenger of Allāh. The Holy Prophet sa mostly divided this wealth among the poor Muhājirīn , 4 whose means of sustenance was still being borne by the properties of the Anṣār , according to the initial system of brotherhood. In this manner, the Anṣār indirectly became partners in this wealth of spoils as well. 5 When the Banū Naḍīr were departing from Madīnah under the supervision of the Companion Muḥammad bin Maslamah ra , some of the Anṣār attempted to restrain those people who were actually from the progeny of the Anṣār , but had become Jewish due to vows made by the Anṣār , and the Banū Naḍīr desired to take them along. However, this demand of the Anṣār was against the following Islāmic injunction: 1 Aṭ-Ṭabaqātul-Kubrā, By Muḥammad bin Sa‘d, Volume 2, p. 278, Ghazwatu Rasūlillāhi sa Banin-Naḍīr, Dāru Iḥyā’it-Turāthil-‘Arabī, Beirut, Lebanon, First Edition (1996) 2 * Zarīn referenced by Talkhisus-Sihah * Sharḥul-‘Allāmatiz-Zarqānī ‘Alal-Mawāhibil-Ladunniyyah, By Allāmah Shihābuddīn Al-Qusṭalānī, Volume 2, p. 510, Ḥadīthu Banin-Naḍīr, Dārul-Kutubil-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut, Lebanon, First Edition (1996) [Publishers] 3 Tārīkhur-Rusuli Wal-Mulūk (Tārīkhuṭ-Ṭabarī), By Abū Ja‘far Muḥammad bin Jarīr Aṭ-Ṭabarī, Volume 3, p. 91, Thumma Dakhalatis-Sanatur-Rābi‘atu Minal-Hijrah / Khabaru Jalā’i Banin-Naḍīr, Dārul-Fikr, Beirut, Lebanon, Second Edition (2002) 4 Sunanu Abī Dāwūd, Kitābul-Jihād, Bābun Fī Khabarin-Naḍīr , Ḥadīth No. 3004 5 * As-Sīratun-Nabawiyyah, By Abū Muḥammad ‘Abdul-Mālik bin Hishām, p. 606, Amru Ijlā’i Banin- Naḍīr. . . . . , Dārul-Kutubil-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut, Lebanon, First Edition (2001) * Sharḥul-‘Allāmatiz-Zarqānī ‘Alal-Mawāhibil-Ladunniyyah, By Allāmah Shihābuddīn Al-Qusṭalānī, Volume 2, pp. 519-520, Ḥadīthu Banin-Naḍīr, Dārul-Kutubil-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut, Lebanon, First Edition (1996) [Publishers]