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==Problems with the Traditional Narrative== | ==Problems with the Traditional Narrative== | ||
As with the incident of the [[Banu Qurayzah]] a glaring hole in the Muhammad vs the Jews narrative is the Constitution of Medina. This document, preserved in the history of Al-Tabari despite its incongruence with the emerging sirah narrative, portrays the Jews and Muhammad's "believers" of Medina as being in one community, or ummah. More troubingly for the Islamic narrative, this document painstakingly lists a number of Jewish tribes subject to Muhammad's authority, but nowhere are the Jews of Khaybar, the Banu Nadir and Banu Qaynuqa', ever mentioned, nor do any available Jewish sources outside of Arabia ever mention them. The issue of the proceeds of agriculture from Khaybar crops up again in regards to the claims of Fatimah and Ali vs the Rashidun state, and a number of hadith and other Islamic sources mention that the Jews of Khaybar were later expelled by 'Umar despite their pact with Muhammad. No source, however, corroborates the fate of the Jews of Khaybar after 'Umar expells them, and these hadith and sirah accounts come hundreds of years after the alleged fact. The mufassirun claim that the battle of Khaybar was the ocassion of revelation for a number of Qur'an verses and injunctions of the prophet, but as with the rest of his career in the sirah-maghazi literature these explanatory stories have no corroboration within even 100 years of their supposed ocurrence. | |||
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