Campaign against Banu Qurayza — the roles of Aisha, Umm Salama and Ali

غزوة بني قريظة — مواقف عائشة وأم سلمة وعلي

After the Confederates withdrew, the Prophet ﷺ besieged Banu Qurayza for breaking their treaty until they accepted Sa'd ibn Mu'adh's arbitration and their men were executed. The chapter carries reports of the wives: Aisha on Qarra bint Ka'b and Umm Salama on Abu Lubaba's repentance descending in her house, and Ali's presence among those who killed them by the sword.

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«كانت عائشة تقول: قتلت بنو قريظة يومهم حتى قتلوا بالليل على شعل السعف»

A verbatim excerpt of the text, forty words at most; the full text is in the edition cited under sources

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Mentions: Aisha bint Abi Bakr· Umm Salama (Hind bint Abi Umayya)· Ali ibn Abi Talib· Sa'd ibn Mu'adh· Muhammad· The Siege and Judgment of Banu Qurayza

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Medina· The Battle of the Trench (al-Ahzab)· The Hijra· Ahl al-Bayt· The Companions· Mecca· Ahl al-Hikma (People of Wisdom) lesson series· Muktatafat min al-Sira (lecture series)

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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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Medina

City in the Hejaz to which the Prophet migrated in 622 CE; site of the Prophet's Mosque and the first Muslim community. The Prophet declared it a sanctuary as Abraham declared Mecca — its bounds 'between 'Ayr and Thawr' (or 'to Uhud' in the reading Abu 'Ubayd and al-Hazimi preferred) and 'between its two lava fields'; within them hunting and tree-cutting are forbidden and the bloodwit for unintended killing is heavier. Samhudi counts nearly ninety-five names for it, among them Tayba, Taba and Yathrib. The Encyclopaedia of Islam describes it as the residence of the Prophet after the hijra and one of the sacred cities of Islam: before Islam an oasis of scattered settlements shared by Arab clans and Jewish groups, then the seat of the first caliphs until the centre of the caliphate moved away from it in 656 CE, and afterwards a quieter city that came under Saudi rule in December 1925.