Khaybar is a green oasis north of Medina, with forts and palm groves where a Jewish community lived long ago. The Muslims took it in 628 CE, and its people kept farming the land until they were moved away later. Old fort ruins still stand among its fields today.
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Khaybar
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Khaybar is a water-rich oasis about 150 km north of Medina, where Jewish communities lived in forts scattered among the palm groves — the best known were Nata, al-Shiqq and al-Katiba. The Prophet conquered it in 7 AH (628 CE), soon after the Hudaybiyya truce, taking the forts one by one; the hardest fighting was at the Qamus fort, taken by Ali. The Prophet let the people stay and farm their land in return for half the harvest, until Umar ibn al-Khattab (may God be pleased with him) later removed the Jews of Khaybar for reasons the sources describe differently. Some families remained into the twentieth century, and the fort ruins still stand among the palms today.
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