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Meraj Mohiuddin's book 2015 Revelation: The Story of Muhammad provides only a single paragraph on the story of Safiyyah's capture and betrothal to Muhammad, summarizing it as such: | Meraj Mohiuddin's book 2015 Revelation: The Story of Muhammad provides only a single paragraph on the story of Safiyyah's capture and betrothal to Muhammad, summarizing it as such: | ||
{{Quote|2=While the people of Khaybar return to their homes, Kinanah's 17-year-old widow, Safiyyah bin Huyay, approaches the Prophet and relates a dream in which she saw a brilliant moon over the city of Medina. The moon moved to Khaybar and then fell into her lap. The Prophet interprets her dream by giving her the choice of returning to her people or embracing Islam and joining his household as his 10th wife. Safiyyah readily chooses the latter.| | {{Quote|2=While the people of Khaybar return to their homes, Kinanah's 17-year-old widow, Safiyyah bin Huyay, approaches the Prophet and relates a dream in which she saw a brilliant moon over the city of Medina. The moon moved to Khaybar and then fell into her lap. The Prophet interprets her dream by giving her the choice of returning to her people or embracing Islam and joining his household as his 10th wife. Safiyyah readily chooses the latter.|Meraj Mohiuddin. Revelation: The Story of Muhammad : Peace and Blessings be Upon Him. Whiteboard Press. pp. 291. ISBN 978-0-9896288-0-8. OCLC 1069569279, 2015.}}No passages are cited by ''Revelation'' to support this story but the following hadith is probably in mind here{{Quote|2=There was a green scar in an eye of Safiyya. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) asked her, ‘What is this scar in your eye?’ She said, “I mentioned before my husband my dream that a moon fell into my lap upon which he slapped me and said; ‘Do you long for the King of Yathrib [the Prophet].’” She said: ‘There was none more hateful to me than the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as he had my father and husband killed. The Prophet (ﷺ), however, kept on explaining, ‘Safiya! Your father instigated the Arabs against me and did such and such.’ He kept doing so till all my harsh feelings for him vanished.|al-Tabarani, Abu al-Qasim, al-Mu’jam al-Kabir, (Cairo: Maktaba Ibn Taimiya, 1994) Vol.24, 67 Hadith 177; rated as as sahih by Albani in Silsala al-Ahadith al-Sahiha, (Riyadh: Dar al-Ma‘rif, 1996) Vol.6, Hadith 2793}}''Revelation'' makes no mention of the numerious traditions mentioned above which indicate that Safiyyah was filled with sadness at the murder of her family relations by the Muslims (and their torture in her husband Kinana's case). Rather than dealing with the wide range of sources available on Safiyyah ''Revelation'' chooses to cherry pick a single tradition which casts her marriage to Muhammad as divinly pre-ordained and in line with her personal wishes. Again, these modern Muslims seem emberrased to admit the truth about the multiple different narrations that exist about Safiyyah. | ||
}}No passages are cited by ''Revelation'' to support this story but the following hadith is probably in mind here{{Quote|2=There was a green scar in an eye of Safiyya. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) asked her, ‘What is this scar in your eye?’ She said, “I mentioned before my husband my dream that a moon fell into my lap upon which he slapped me and said; ‘Do you long for the King of Yathrib [the Prophet].’” She said: ‘There was none more hateful to me than the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as he had my father and husband killed. The Prophet (ﷺ), however, kept on explaining, ‘Safiya! Your father instigated the Arabs against me and did such and such.’ He kept doing so till all my harsh feelings for him vanished.|al-Tabarani, Abu al-Qasim, al-Mu’jam al-Kabir, (Cairo: Maktaba Ibn Taimiya, 1994) Vol.24, 67 Hadith 177; rated as as sahih by Albani in Silsala al-Ahadith al-Sahiha, (Riyadh: Dar al-Ma‘rif, 1996) Vol.6, Hadith 2793}}''Revelation'' makes no mention of the numerious traditions mentioned above which indicate that Safiyyah was filled with sadness at the murder of her family relations by the Muslims (and their torture in her husband Kinana's case). Rather than dealing with the wide range of sources available on Safiyyah ''Revelation'' chooses to cherry pick a single tradition which casts her marriage to Muhammad as divinly pre-ordained and in line with her personal wishes. Again, these modern Muslims seem emberrased to admit the truth about the multiple different narrations that exist about Safiyyah. | |||
==See Also== | ==See Also== | ||