his Companions to go to the place where the utensils were. The vessels were disinterred and the Prophet struck off their heads.
ʿAbdallâh ibn-Rawâḥah. ʿAmr an-Nâḳid and Muḥammad ibn-aṣ-Ṣabbâḥ from ibn-ʿAbbâs:—The Prophet turned Khaibar over with its soil and palm-trees to its inhabitants allowing them half of the produce.
Muḥammad ibn-aṣ-Ṣabbâḥ from ash-Shaʿbi:—The Prophet turned Khaibar over to its inhabitants for one-half of the produce and sent ʿAbdallâh ibn-Rawâḥah to estimate the dates (or perhaps he said the palm-trees). This he estimated and divided into two halves and asked them to choose whichever one they wanted. Upon this they said, "It is by this that heavens and earth have been established."
A certain friend of abu-Yâsuf from Anas:—ʿAbdallâh ibn-Rawâḥah said to the people of Khaibar, "If ye wish, I will estimate and let you choose; otherwise, ye estimate and let me choose." Upon this they said, "It is by this that heavens and earth have been established."
The division of Khaibar. Al-Ḳâsim ibn-Sallâm from az-Zuhri:—The Prophet took Khaibar by force as a result of a fight; and after taking away one-fifth, he divided the remaining four-fifths among the Moslems.
The Jews of Khaibar expelled. ʿAbd-al-Aʿla ibn-Ḥammâd an-Narsi from ibn-Shihâb:—The Prophet said: "There can be no two religions at the same time in the Arabian peninsula."[1] ʿUmar ibn-al-Khaṭṭâb investigated until he found it certain and assured that the Prophet had said, "There can be no two religions at the same time in the Arabian peninsula." Accordingly, he expelled the Jews of Khaibar.
- ↑ Gottheil, "Dhimmis and Moslems in Egypt" in O. T. and Semitic Studies, vol. ii, p. 351.
