Bakr ibn-al-Haitham from az-Zuhri:—ʿUmar ibn-al-Khaṭṭâb gave the people of Fadak the price of one-half of their land and palm-trees.
Al-Ḥusain ibn-al-Aswad from az-Zuhri, ʿAbdallah ibn-abi-Bakr and certain sons of Muḥammad ibn-Maslamah:—Only a remnant of the Khaibar was spared. They betook themselves to the fortifications and asked the Prophet to save their lives and let them go off. The people of Fadak having heard of that surrendered on the same conditions.[1] Thus Fadak became the special share of the Prophet, for the Moslems "pressed not against it with horse and camel."
A similar tradition was transmitted to us by al-Ḥusain from ʿAbdallâh ibn-abi-Bakr, with one addition, that among those who were intermediary between the two parties was Muḥaiyiṣah ibn-Masʿûd.
Al-Ḥusain from ʿUmar:—The Prophet had three portions appropriated to himself exclusive of his men: the land of banu-an-Naḍîr which was unalienable and to meet the expenses of the accidents that might befall him, Khaibar which he divided into three parts, and Fadak the income of which was reserved for wayfarers.
The wives of the Prophet demand an inheritance. ʿAbdallâh ibn-Ṣâliḥ al-ʿIjli from ʿUrwah ibn-az-Zubair:—The wives of the Prophet delegated ʿUthmân ibn-ʿAffân to ask abu-Bakr to give them their inheritance from the share of the Prophet in Khaibar and Fadak. But ʿÂʾishah said to them, "Do ye not fear Allah? and have ye not heard the Prophet say—'What we leave as ṣadaḳah cannot be inherited?' This property therefore is the property of the people of Muḥammad to meet the expenses of the accidents and guests, and when I die it goes to the one in authority after me." On hearing this, the other wives desisted from their request.
- ↑ Diyârbakri, vol. ii, pp. 57 and 64.
