The Life & Character of the Seal of Prophets (sa) - Volume II — Page 496
Seal of the Prophets - Volume II 496 and in particular Muḥammad bin Ka‘b, who later became a Muslim of great standing. 1 False Incident of Raiḥānah Various historians write that one person from among the prisoners of Banū Quraiẓah, was a lady named Raiḥānah, and the Holy Prophet sa kept her as a slave-girl for himself. It is on the basis of this very narration that Sir William Muir has raised a very hurtful allegation against the Holy Prophet sa. However, in actual fact, this narration is absolutely false and baseless. Firstly, the narration of Ṣaḥīḥ Bukhārī which has been quoted above 2 in which it has been stated that the Holy Prophet sa distributed the prisoners of Banū Quraiẓah amongst the Companions disproves this narration. If the Holy Prophet sa had selected a female prisoner for himself, naturally, this would have been 1 * Tahzībut-Tahzīb, By Al-Imām Shihābuddīn Abul-Faḍl Aḥmad bin Ḥajar Al-‘Asqalānī, Volume 4, p. 146, ‘Aṭiyyatul-Quraẓiyyu, Dāru Iḥyā’it-Turāthil-‘Arabī, Beirut, Lebanon, Second Edition (1993) * Tahzībut-Tahzīb, By Al-Imām Shihābuddīn Abul-Faḍl Aḥmad bin Ḥajar Al-‘Asqalānī, Volume 3, p. 359, ‘Abdur-Raḥmānibnuz-Zubairi, Dāru Iḥyā’it-Turāthil-‘Arabī, Beirut, Lebanon, Second Edition (1993) * Tahzībut-Tahzīb, By Al-Imām Shihābuddīn Abul-Faḍl Aḥmad bin Ḥajar Al-‘Asqalānī, Volume 5, p. 269-270, Muḥammadubnu Ka‘bin, Dāru Iḥyā’it-Turāthil-‘Arabī, Beirut, Lebanon, Second Edition (1993) * Al-Iṣābah Fī Tamīziṣ-Ṣaḥābah, By Aḥmad bin ‘Alī bin Ḥajar Al-‘Asqalānī, Volume 4, p. 422, ‘Aṭiyyatul-Quraẓiyyu , Dārul-Kutubil-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut, Lebanon (2005) * Al-Iṣābah Fī Tamīziṣ-Ṣaḥābah, By Aḥmad bin ‘Alī bin Ḥajar Al-‘Asqalānī, Volume 4, pp. 258-259, ‘Abdur-Raḥmānibnuz-Zubairi , Dārul-Kutubil-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut, Lebanon (2005) * Al-Iṣābah Fī Tamīziṣ-Ṣaḥābah, By Aḥmad bin ‘Alī bin Ḥajar Al-‘Asqalānī, Volume 5, pp. 446-447, Ka‘bubnu Sulaimin , Dārul-Kutubil-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut, Lebanon (2005) * Al-Iṣābah Fī Tamīziṣ-Ṣaḥābah, By Aḥmad bin ‘Alī bin Ḥajar Al-‘Asqalānī, Volume 6, p. 273, Muḥammadubnu Ka‘bil-Quraẓiyyu , Dārul-Kutubil-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut, Lebanon (2005) * Usdul-Ghābah Fī Ma‘rifatiṣ-Ṣaḥābah, By ‘Izzuddīn Ibnul-Athīr Abul-Ḥasan ‘Alī bin Muḥammad, Volume 3, p. 542, ‘Aṭiyyatul-Quraẓiyyu , Dārul-Fikr, Beirut, Lebanon (2003) * Usdul-Ghābah Fī Ma‘rifatiṣ-Ṣaḥābah, By ‘Izzuddīn Ibnul-Athīr Abul-Ḥasan ‘Alī bin Muḥammad, Volume 4, pp. 341-342, ‘Abdur-Raḥmānibnuz-Zubairi , Dārul-Fikr, Beirut, Lebanon (2003) * Usdul-Ghābah Fī Ma‘rifatiṣ-Ṣaḥābah, By ‘Izzuddīn Ibnul-Athīr Abul-Ḥasan ‘Alī bin Muḥammad, Volume 4, p. 169, Ka‘bubnu Sulaimil-Quraẓiyyu , Dārul-Fikr, Beirut, Lebanon (2003) * Al-Istī‘ābu Fī Ma‘rifatil-Aṣḥāb, By Abū ‘Umar Yūsuf bin ‘Abdillāh bin Muḥammad, Volume 2, pp. 375-376, ‘Abdur-Raḥmānibnuz-Zubairil-Quraẓiyy, Dārul-Kutubil-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut, Lebanon (2002) * Al-Istī‘ābu Fī Ma‘rifatil-Aṣḥāb, By Abū ‘Umar Yūsuf bin ‘Abdillāh bin Muḥammad, Volume 3, p. 181, ‘Aṭiyyatul-Quraẓiyy, Dārul-Kutubil-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut, Lebanon (2002) * Al-Istī‘ābu Fī Ma‘rifatil-Aṣḥāb, By Abū ‘Umar Yūsuf bin ‘Abdillāh bin Muḥammad, Volume 3, p. 376, Ka‘bubnu Sulaimil-Quraẓiyyu , Dārul-Kutubil-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut, Lebanon (2002) * Al-Istī‘ābu Fī Ma‘rifatil-Aṣḥāb, By Abū ‘Umar Yūsuf bin ‘Abdillāh bin Muḥammad, Volume 3, p. 433, Muḥammadubnu Ka‘bil-Quraẓiyyu , Dārul-Kutubil-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut, Lebanon (2002) 2 Ṣaḥīḥul-Bukhārī, Kitābul-Maghāzī, Bābu Ḥadīthi Banin-Naḍīr, Ḥadīth No. 4028