Sariyya of Ali ibn Abi Talib to Banu Sa'd at Fadak

سرية علي بن أبي طالب إلى بني سعد بفدك

During the Khaybar campaign the Prophet ﷺ sent Ali ibn Abi Talib (may God be pleased with him) with a hundred men to Banu Sa'd at Fadak after hearing they meant to reinforce Khaybar; Ali took their scout, who confessed to a gathering, and the forts were demolished over their heads until they submitted. Waqidi reports that Fadak was assigned to Ali as ghaneema.

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«بعث رسول الله عليا في مائة رجل إلى حي سعد بفدك، وبلغ رسول الله أن لهم جمعا يريدون أن يمدوا يهود خيبر»

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Mentions: Ali ibn Abi Talib· Muhammad· Fadak· Khaybar· The Conquest of Khaybar

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The Conquest of Khaybar· The Incident of the Poisoned Sheep at Khaybar· The Treaty of Hudaybiyya· Muwatta 25· Muwatta 55· Battle of Khaybar — the women who accompanied the army· Abu Sufyan's mission to Medina· The three years of the secret call

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Kitab al-Maghazi by al-Waqidi — al-Maktaba al-Shamila digital text of the Marsden Jones edition (Oxford 1966)

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The Conquest of Khaybar

In Muharram 7 AH, May to June 628 CE, the Prophet Muhammad marched on the oasis of Khaybar, about 150 km from Medina. The Muslims besieged its strongholds one after another until the Jewish inhabitants capitulated and agreed to stay on their land and hand over half its produce. The Encyclopaedia of Islam reports the motives given by Caetani, Montgomery Watt and Haykal, each attributed to its author, and notes that Umar revised the arrangement in 20 AH. It locates the event's importance in the pact itself, which set the pattern for relations between Muslims and the non-Muslim peoples they later ruled.