The Life & Character of the Seal of Prophets (sa) - Volume II — Page 290
Seal of the Prophets - Volume II 290 seems as if in the estimation of God the Exalted, these people were no longer worthy of being left alive on the face of the earth, on account of their evil deeds and crimes. As such, their is a narration that less than one year had passed since the relocation of these people to their place of exile, that an epidemic, broke out among them whereby the entire tribe fell victim to it and was mixed to dust. 1 There is a slight difference of opinion with regards to the date of the Ghazwah of Banū Qainuqā‘. Waqidī and Ibni Sa‘d have stated that it took place in Shawwāl 2 A. H. , and the contemporaries have primarily followed suit. However, Ibni Isḥāq and Ibni Hishām have placed it after the Ghazwah of Sawīq, which is confirmed to have taken place in the month of Dhul-Hijjah 2 A. H. An indication is also found in one narration of Ḥadīth, which establishes that the Ghazwah of Banū Qainuqā‘ took place after the Rukhsatānah of Ḥaḍrat Fāṭimah ra. In this narration, it is mentioned that in order to arrange for the expenses of the Walīmah , Ḥaḍrat ‘Alī ra proposed to take along a Jewish goldsmith from the Banū Qainuqā‘ and go to the forest so that he might procure some grass known as ‘Idhkhir’ and then sell it to the goldsmiths of Madīnah. 2 This proves that until the Rukhsatānah of Ḥaḍrat Fāṭimah ra , which according to all historians, took place near Dhul- Hijjah 2 A. H. , the Banū Qainuqā‘ were still present in Madīnah. It is on the basis of these reasons that I have placed the Ghazwah of Banū Qainuqā‘ in late 2 A. H. , after the Ghazwah of Sawīq and the Rukhsatānah of Ḥaḍrat Fāṭimah ra. 3 ُ وَاللّٰه ُ اَعْلَم At this occasion, it would also be appropriate to mention that whilst describing the cause leading up to the Ghazwah of Banū Qainuqā‘, Mr. Margoliouth has concocted a most strange and unusual theory of his own accord, which is not even remotely alluded to in a single narration. There is a narration in Bukhārī that in a state of intoxication (until then, drinking had not yet been forbidden), Ḥaḍrat Ḥamzah ra killed two camels belonging to Ḥaḍrat ‘Alī ra , which he had received from the spoils of Badr. 4 Attaching this separate incident to the Ghazwah of Banū Qainuqā‘, without any historical 1 Sharḥul-‘Allāmatiz-Zarqānī ‘Alal-Mawāhibil-Ladunniyyah, By Allāmah Shihābuddīn Al-Qusṭalānī, Volume 2, p. 352, Ghazwatu Banī Qainuqā‘ , Dārul-Kutubil-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut, Lebanon, First Edition (1996) 2 Ṣaḥīḥul-Bukhārī, Kitābul-Maghāzī, Chapter 12, Ḥadīth No. 4003 3 And Allāh knows best [Publishers] 4 Ṣaḥīḥul-Bukhārī, Kitābul-Maghāzī, Chapter 12, Ḥadīth No. 4003