An example of the lies of Orientalists and the Jewish Encyclopedia about our Prophet, may the best blessings and peace be upon him, in the Battle of Banu Nadir

 In the summer of 625,

Mohammed attacked and besieged the Banu al-Naḍir. There appears to have been no satisfactory pretext for the attack. Mohammed claimed that he had received a revelation telling him of the treachery of the Jews. After

a
siege of fifteen or twenty days, Abdallah ibn Ubai prevailed on the Naḍir to surrender. They were exiled, being allowed to take their goods with them, and emigrated toward the north, settling in Khaibar and in Syria.
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The lie here is the claim that there is no evidence that Banu Nadir betrayed and broke the covenant, and I claim that all of this goes back to the revelation that came down to our Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, which informed him of the betrayal.
This is a blatant lie and its cause is the terrible ignorance of the authentic narrations.

Our response to this lie will be divided into two parts:
1. Clarifying the weakness of the famous narration in the battles about the reason for the Battle of Banu Nadir, which these liars relied on, and the scholars’ weakening of it .
2. Mentioning the authentic narration about the betrayal of Banu Nadir with the scholars’ verification of it .

First: The weakness of the famous narration about the reason for the Battle of Banu Nadir :
What is meant by the famous narration here is the narration of Ibn Ishaq in the Battles, in which the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, sought the assistance of the Jews of Banu Nadir in order to pay the blood money of Amr ibn Umayyah al-Damri. It has been narrated in several ways, all of which are weak.

First: The way of Ibn Ishaq:
We read in the biography of Ibn Hisham, part two:
Ibn Ishaq said: Then the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, went out to Banu Nadir to ask for their help in paying the blood money for the two men killed from Banu Amir, whom Amr ibn Umayyah ad-Damri had killed, because of the protection that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, had made for them, as Yazid ibn Ruman told me. There was a covenant and an oath between Banu Nadir and Banu Amir. When the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, came to them to ask for their help in paying the blood money for the two men killed, they said: Yes, O Abu al-Qasim, we will help you in whatever you wish, which you have asked us for. Then some of them spoke to one another in private and said: You will not find a man in the same condition as this - and the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, was sitting next to a wall of one of their houses - so who is the man who will climb up this house and throw a rock at him, and relieve us of him? So Amr ibn Jahash ibn Ka`b, one of them, volunteered for that, and said: I will do that. So he climbed up to throw a rock at him as he had said, and the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, was with a group of his companions, among them Abu Bakr, Umar, and Ali, may Allah be pleased with them. Then the news came to the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) from the sky about what the people wanted, so he got up and went back to Medina. When the Prophet (PBUH) had delayed his companions, they got up to look for him, and they met a man coming from Medina, and they asked him about him; he said: I saw him entering Medina. So the companions of the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) came until they reached him (PBUH), and he told them the news, what the Jews wanted to do to him, and the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) ordered them to prepare for war against them, and to march to them.

Verification: The narration is weak due to a reason:
the transmission is from Ibn Ishaq, so he did not witness the event and he was born in the year eighty after the Hijra.
We read in Siyar A’lam An-Nubala’ by Imam Adh-Dhahabi (may Allah have mercy on him), Volume Seven, Sixth Class:
((Muhammad bin Ishaq bin Yasar bin Khayar, and it was said: Ibn Kuthan, the scholar, preserver of traditions... Ibn Ishaq was born in the year eighty and saw Anas bin Malik in Medina, and Saeed bin Al-Musayyab.))

The second path: The path of Al-Waqidi:
We read in Maghazi Al-Waqidi, Volume One:
Muhammad ibn Abdullah, Abdullah ibn Ja`far, Muhammad ibn Salih, Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn Sahl, Ibn Abi Habibah, and Ma`mar ibn Rashid narrated to me, along with men whom I did not name. Each of them narrated to me some of this hadith, and some of the people were more knowledgeable about it than others. I have collected all of those who narrated to me. They said: Amr ibn Umayya came from Ma'una Well until it was in a canal... How can you visit us and come to us? Sit down so we can feed you! The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, was leaning against one of their houses. Then some of them went to one another and whispered to each other. Huyayy ibn Akhtab said: O group of Jews, Muhammad has come to you with a group of his companions who do not number ten. With him were Abu Bakr, Umar, Ali, Az-Zubayr, Talhah, Sa`d ibn Mu`adh, Usaid ibn Hudayr, and Sa`d. Ibn Ubadah: Throw stones at him from above this house which he is under and kill him, for you will not find him empty of it at this hour! For if he is killed, his companions will disperse, and those who were with him from Quraysh will join their sanctuary, and those who remain here from Aws and Khazraj will be your allies. So whatever you wanted to do one day in the past, do it from now on! Amr ibn Jahash said: I will appear at the Kaaba and throw a rock on it. Sallam ibn Mishkam said: O my people, obey me this time and disobey me forever! By God, if you do, it will be reported that we have betrayed him, and this is a breach of the covenant between us and him, so do not do it! By God, if you do what you want, one of them will stand up for this religion until the Day of Resurrection, eradicating the Jews and making his religion prevail! And he prepared [(1)] the rock to send it down to the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, and to lower it. When he reached it, the news came to the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, from the sky about what they intended to do. So the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, got up quickly as if he wanted to fulfill a need, and he headed to Medina. His companions sat talking, thinking that he had risen to decide. A need,))

The investigation: The narration is weak for two reasons :
1. Al-Waqidi is a weak liar who fabricates chains of transmission and is unique in strange things and is accused of fabrication.
We read from his biography in Tahdhib al-Kamal, Part Nine:
((Abu Bakr al-Athram said: I heard Abu Abdullah say in the hadith of Nabhan: This is his saying: “You are both blind.”
He said: This is the hadith of Yunus, and no one else narrated it.
Al-Abu Abdullah: Al-Waqidi narrated it from Muammar, and he smiled, meaning it is not from the hadith of Muammar .
Abdul-Razzaq told us from Ibn al-Mubarak from Yunus.
Zakariya bin Yahya al-Saji said: Muhammad bin Umar bin Waqid al-Aslami, the judge of Baghdad, is accused .
Ahmad bin Muhammad told me, he said: I heard Ahmad bin Hanbal say:We continued to defend Al-Waqidi’s matter until he narrated on the authority of: Muammar, on the authority of Al-Zuhri, on the authority of Nabhan, on the authority of Umm Salamah, on the authority of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace: “Are you both blind?” So he came up with something that was beyond his control. The hadith is the hadith of Yunus, and no one else narrated it .
Abu Ja`far al-`Aqi`i said: `Abdullah ibn Ahmad ibn Hanbal narrated to us: My father narrated to me: I heard Wakee` saying to Abu `Abd al-Rahman, meaning the blind man, and he narrated the hadith of Zam`ah about washing pebbles for the Jamarat, so he said: If you were with al-Waqidi, he would have narrated to you such and such, meaning such and such a hadith. My father said: Al-Waqidi used to send to al-Munbihi to borrow his books, saying: He will include them in his books. We used to think that he had books from al-Zuhri’s books, so he would carry them, and sometimes he would say: He would collect them, saying: So-and-so and so-and-so from al-Zuhri, the hadith of Nabhan from Mu`ammar, and the hadith was not narrated by Mu`ammar, rather it is the hadith of Yunus . `Abd al-Razzaq narrated to us from Yunus, and he used to carry the hadith, but it was not from the hadith of Mu`ammar. He said: And I heard my father another time saying: I have no doubt that al-Waqidi used to turn them upside down, meaning the hadiths, saying: He attributes the hadith of Yunus to Mu`ammar.
Al-Bukhari said: Al-Waqidi, a Madani, lived in Baghdad, his hadith is abandoned. Ahmad, Ibn Numayr, Ibn al-Mubarak, and Ismail Ibn Zakariya abandoned him . He said in another place: Ahmad
called him a liar . Muawiyah Ibn Salih said: Ahmad Ibn Hanbal told me: He is a liar
. Muawiyah also said about Yahya Ibn Ma’in: Weak . He said in another place: He is nothing. He said in another place: I said to Yahya: Why did you not report it to him since you had the book? He said: I am ashamed of his son, and he is a friend of mine. I said: What do you say about him? He said: He used to change the hadith of Yunus, changing it from Muammar. He is not trustworthy . Abbas al-Duri said about Yahya Ibn Ma’in: He is nothing. Abdul Wahhab Ibn al-Furat al-Hamadani said: I asked Yahya Ibn Ma’in about al-Waqidi, and he
said: He is not trustworthy. Al-Mughirah Ibn Muhammad al-Mahlabi said: I heard Ali Ibn al-Madini say: Al-Haytham Ibn Adi is more trustworthy to me than al-Waqidi, and I do not accept him in hadith, genealogies, or anything.
Abu Dawud said: I was informed by someone who heard Ali Ibn al-Madini say: Al-Waqidi narrated thirty thousand strange hadiths.
Muslim said: : His hadith is abandoned
. Al-Nasa'i said: He is not trustworthy
. Al- Hakim Abu Ahmad said: His hadith is lost .
Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Hatim said: My father told me: Mu'awiyah ibn Salih ibn Abi Ubayd Allah al-Ash'ari al-Dimashqi told us: I heard Sunayd ibn Dawud say: We were with Hisham when al-Waqidi entered. Hisham asked him about the chapter on what is forbidden in it. Al-Waqidi said to him: What do you have, O Abu Mu'awiyah? He mentioned five or six hadiths on the chapter, then he said to al-Waqidi: What do you have? He narrated to him thirty hadiths from the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, and his companions, the Tabi’een. Then he said: I asked Malik and I asked Ibn Abi Dhi’b and I asked and I asked, and I saw Hisham’s face change. Al-Waqidi stood up and went out. Hisham said: If he is a liar, then there is no one like him in the world. And if he is truthful, then there is no one like him in the world .

And we read in Tahdhib al-Tahdhib by Ibn Hajar, may God have mercy on him, Part Nine:
((I said: Al-Shafi’i said, in what al-Bayhaqi attributed to al-Waqidi’s books, all of them are lies .
And al-Nasa’i said in al-Du’afa’The liars who are known for lying about the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) are four: Al-Waqidi in Medina, Muqatil in Khurasan, and Muhammad ibn Saeed al-Maslub in Ash-Sham. The fourth was mentioned and Ibn Adi said his hadiths are not preserved and the problem is from him .
Ibn al-Madini said he has twenty thousand hadiths, meaning they have no basis. He said in another place he is not a good person to narrate. Ibrahim ibn Abi Yahya is a liar and in my opinion he is in a better state than al-Waqidi .
Abu Dawud said I do not write down his hadiths nor do I narrate from him. I doubt that he was fabricating hadiths. We do not look at al-Waqidi in a book without his matter becoming clear. He narrated hadiths from al-Zuhri in the conquest of Yemen and the report of al-Ansi that are not from al-Zuhri. Bandar said I have not seen anyone more lying than him.
Ishaq bin Rahawayh said: He is among those who fabricate,
in my opinion. Abu al-Arab narrated on the authority of al-Shafi’i that there were seven men in Madinah who fabricated chains of narration, one of them was al-Waqidi.
Abu Zur’ah al-Razi, Abu Bishr al-Dulabi and al-Uqaili said: His hadith is rejected.
Abu Hatim al-Razi said: We found his hadith from Medinans from unknown sheikhs to be objectionable. We said: It is possible that those hadiths are from him, and it is possible that they are from them. Then we looked at his hadith from Ibn Abi Dhi’b and Mu’ammar, for he recorded their hadiths, and we found that he narrated objectionable hadiths from them, so we knew that it was from him, so we rejected his hadith . Ibn al-Jawzi narrated on the authority of Abu Hatim that he said: He used to fabricate .
Ahmad bin Muhammad, meaning Ibn Mahraz, narrated on the authority of Amr al-Naqid, who said: I said to al-Waqidi: Do you have a memorization from al-Thawri, from Ibn Khathim, from Abd al-Rahman bin Nabhan, from Abd al-Rahman bin Hassan bin Thabit, from his father, regarding the cursing of the visitors of graves? He said: Sufyan narrated to us, so I said: Perhaps it is from me. So he dictated it to me with the chain of narration, and he said: I am Abd al-Rahman bin Thauban. I said: Praise be to Allah who made you happen. You know the lineages of the jinn, and something like this is hidden from you . Al-Saji said: The hadith is the hadith of Qubaysah. What was narrated on the authority of Sufyan by others.
Al-Nawawi said in his explanation of Al-Muhadhdhab in the book of ablution from it, Al-Waqidi is weak by their agreement
. Al-Dhahabi said in Al-Mizan, the consensus is established on the weakness of Al-Waqidi, and some of our sheikhs criticized him with what does not match his words .
Al-Daraqutni said, the weakness is evident in his hadith,
and Al-Jawzajani said, he was not convincing .

2. The transmission from Al-Waqidi’s sheikhs mentioned in the chain of transmission, and none of them witnessed the incident nor met the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace. In any case, the narration is not valid to them due to Al-Waqidi’s extreme weakness .

Third: The path of Musa bin Uqbah:
We read in the campaigns of Musa bin Uqbah, part one, page 292:
On the authority of Musa bin Uqbah, he said: This is the hadith of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, when he went out to Banu Nadir to ask for their help in killing the Kalbiyyin... When the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, asked them to kill the Kalbiyyin, they said: ....))

Verification: The narration is weak for a reason:
The transmission is from Musa bin Uqbah, as Al-Dhahabi, may Allah have mercy on him, considered him from the fourth class of the followers, as he did not witness the incident nor did he live to see the time of the prophethood .

Imam Ibn Hajar, may Allah have mercy on him, weakened the narration in Fath Al-Bari, a commentary on Sahih Al-Bukhari, the book of campaigns, and we will mention his words in the second point


. Second: He mentioned the authentic narration about the treachery of Banu Nadir and their expulsion :

We read in Sunan Abu Dawud, Book of Kharaj, Emirate and Booty, Chapter on the news of Banu Nadir, 3004, narrated to us, Abd al-Razzaq narrated to us, Muammar narrated to us, on the authority of al-Zuhri, on the authority of Abd al-Rahman ibn Ka`b ibn Malik, on the authority of a man from the companions of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, that the infidels of Quraysh wrote to Ibn Ubayy and those who worshipped idols with him from the Aws and Khazraj, and the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, was in Medina at that time before the Battle of Badr: You have given refuge to our companion, and we swear by God that you will fight him or expel him, or we will march against you all together until we kill your fighters and take your women as booty. When that reached Abd Allah ibn Ubayy and those who were with him from the idol worshippers, they gathered to fight the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace. When that reached the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, he met them and said: The threat of Quraysh from you has reached its peak. Their plot against you was greater than what you want to plot against yourselves. You want to fight your sons and brothers. When they heard that from the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, they dispersed, and that reached them. The infidels of Quraysh wrote to the Jews after the Battle of Badr: You are the people of the circle and the fortresses, and you must fight our companion or we will do such and such, and nothing will come between us and the servants of your women, which are the anklets. When their letter reached the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, the Banu Nadir agreed to betray them, so they sent to the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace: Come out to us with thirty men from your companions, and let thirty rabbis go out from us until we meet at the place of justice and hear from you. If they believe you and have faith in you, we will believe in you. So he narrated their story. When the next day came, the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, came to them with battalions and besieged them, and said to them: By God, you will not be safe with me except with a covenant that you make with me. They refused to give him a covenant, so he fought them that day. Then the next day he went to the Banu Qurayzah with battalions and left the Banu Nadir and called upon them to make a covenant with him, so they made a covenant with him. So he turned away from them and went to the Banu Nadir with battalions and fought them until they agreed to leave. The Banu Nadir fled and bore what they had carried. Camels were their belongings, and the doors and wood of their houses were the palm trees of Banu Nadir, and the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, was specifically given to him by Allah and was singled out for him, saying: “And what Allah has bestowed upon His Messenger from them, you did not urge upon it any horses or camels,” meaning without fighting. So the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, gave most of it to the Muhajireen and divided it among them, and he divided some of it to two men from the Ansar, and they were in need. He did not divide it to any of the Ansar except them, and the rest of it was the charity of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, which was in the hands of Banu Fatimah, may Allah be pleased with her .

The scholars’ authentication of the narration :
We read in Sahih and Da’if Sunan Abi Dawud, may Allah have mercy on him, by Al -Albani, may Allah have mercy on him, Hadith No. 3004: ((Its chain of transmission is authentic ))
and we read in Tahqiq Sunan Abi Dawud, may Allah have mercy on him (Takhrij Sunan Abi Dawud, may Allah have mercy on him, by the researcher Shu’ayb Al-Arna’ut), Hadith No. 3004: ((Its chain of transmission is authentic ))
and Al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar, may Allah have mercy on him, also authenticated the narration, and he also stated the weakness of the narration of Ibn Ishaq, may Allah have mercy on him, despite its fame, as he said in Fath Al-Bari, a commentary on Sahih Al-Bukhari, Book Al-Maghazi, Chapter on the Hadith of Banu Nadir:
((Ibn Mardawayh narrated the story of Banu Nadir with a sound chain of transmission.To Muammar, on the authority of Al-Zuhri: “Abdullah bin Abdul Rahman bin Kaab bin Malik informed me, on the authority of a man from the companions of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, who said: The infidels of Quraysh wrote to Abdullah bin Ubayy and others who worshipped idols before Badr, threatening them with sheltering the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, and his companions.... And Abd bin Hamid also included it in his interpretation on the authority of Abd Al-Razzaq, and in that is a response to Ibn Al-Tin’s claim that there is no hadith with a chain of transmission in this story. I said: This is stronger than what Ibn Ishaq mentioned , that the reason for the Battle of Banu Al-Nadir was his request, may God bless him and grant him peace, that they help him with the blood money of the two men, but Ibn Ishaq agreed with most of the people of the battles, and God knows best.” And

the narration has been narrated in a lengthy wording that refutes the claims of the lying Orientalists:
Musannaf Al-Imam Abdul Razzaq, Part Five, Book of Battles, Chapter on the Battle of Banu Al-Nadir
9733 Abd Al-Razzaq, on the authority of Muammar, on the authority of Al-Zuhri, who said: And Abdullah bin Abdul Rahman bin Kaab bin Malik informed me, on the authority of a man from the companions of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace: “That The infidels of Quraysh wrote to Abdullah bin Ubayy bin Al-Salul, and those who worshipped idols from the Aws and Khazraj, while the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, was in Medina at that time, before the Battle of Badr, saying: You have given refuge to our companion, and you are the most numerous of the people of Medina, and we swear by God that you will kill him, or you will expel him, or we will seek help from the Arabs against you, then we will march against you all together until we kill your fighters and take your women as captives. When that reached Ibn Ubayy and those who were with him from the idol worshippers, they corresponded and gathered, and sent, and gathered to fight the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, and his companions. When that reached the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, he met them in a group and said: “The threat of Quraysh from you has reached its peak. It was not possible for you to plot against them more than you want to plot against yourselves. You want to kill your sons and brothers.” When they heard that from the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, they dispersed, and that reached the infidels of Quraysh, and the Battle of Badr took place, so the infidels of Quraysh wrote to the Jews after the Battle of Badr. : You are the people of the circle and the fortresses, and you will fight our companion, or we will do such and such, and nothing will come between us and the servants of your women, which is the anklets. When their letter reached the Jews, Banu Nadir agreed [on] treachery, so they sent to the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, “Come out to us with thirty men from your companions, and we will go out with thirty rabbis until we meet in such and such a place halfway between us and you, so that they may listen to you. If they believe you and have faith in you, we will all believe.” So the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, went out with thirty of his companions, and thirty rabbis from the Jews went out to him. When they came out to a clearing on the ground, some of the Jews said to one another: “How will you get to him, and with him are thirty men from his companions, all of whom would like to die before him?” So they sent to him: “How can you and we understand when we are sixty men?” Go out with three of your companions, and three of our scholars will go out to you, and let them listen to you. If they believe in you, we will all believe and believe you. So the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, went out with three of his companions, and they were armed with daggers, and they wanted to kill the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace. So a sincere woman from Banu Nadir sent to her brother’s sons, who was a Muslim man from the Ansar, and told him the news of what Banu Nadir wanted to do to the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace. So her brother came quickly, until he reached the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, and he told him the news of them before the Prophet , may God bless him and grant him peace, reached them. So the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, returned, and the next day, the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, attacked them with battalions and besieged them...))

And we take from this narration several points with which we respond to the lies of the Jewish Encyclopedia:

1. Their claim that the news of the breach of the covenant by Banu Nadir was limited to revelation is invalid because the news of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, came to him from a woman from within the Banu Nadir tribe who sent the news to her brother who in turn told the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, about their breach.

2. The Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, gave them the opportunity to remain in Medina on the condition that they renew the covenant between him and them, but they refused, which indicates the malice of their intentions and their treachery that the Nadir woman spread to her Muslim brother.

3. They concealed the news of the letter that Quraish sent to them, which indicates that they intended treachery and betrayal, otherwise they would have spread the news of that letter to the Prophet, may God bless him


and grant him peace. Finally, I say to every one who attacks the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace:
You will not succeed, for many have tried before you and failed, and you will fail as they have failed, for the truth is clear and will dissolve what you slander, as God Almighty said: ((As for the foam So it vanishes as nothing, but that which benefits people remains on the earth.
Your situation in trying to attack the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, is as Al-A’sha said in his Mu’allaqat:
Like someone butting a rock one day to weaken it, but it did not harm it, and the ibex weakened his horn.