Ali Sina - Understanding Muhammad

Understanding Muhammad
In the Qur’an, Muhammad’s god made it legal to have intercourse
with slave women, the so-called “right hand possessions,” even if they
were married before their capture. 59
Torture
Ibn Ishaq in his narration of the conquest of Jewish town Khaibar reports
that Muhammad, without warning, attacked this fortress town and killed its
unarmed people as they were fleeing. Among the captured was Kinana.
Kinana al-Rabi, who had the custody of the treasure of Banu Nadir, was brought to
the apostle who asked him about it. He denied that he knew where it was. A Jew
came (Tabari says ‘was brought’) to the apostle and said that he had seen Kinana
going to a certain ruin every morning early. When the apostle said to Kinana, ‘Do
you know that if we find you have it (the treasure) I shall kill you’ He said, ‘Yes.’
The apostle gave orders that the ruin was to be excavated and some of the treasure
was found. When he asked him about the rest (of the treasure) he refused to
produce it, so the apostle gave orders to al-Zubayr Al-Awwam, ‘Torture him until
you extract what he has.’ So he kindled a fire with flint and steel on his chest until
he was nearly dead. Then the apostle delivered him to Muhammad b. Maslama and
he struck off his head, in revenge for his brother Mahmud. 60
On the same day that Muhammad tortured to death the youthful Kinana,
he took his seventeen year old wife Safiya to a tent to have sex with. Two years
earlier, he had beheaded her father along with the adult males of the Jewish tribe
Bani Quraiza. Ibn Ishaq writes:
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Qur’an, 4:24: “Also (prohibited are) women already married, except those whom your right
hands possess: Thus hath Allâh ordained (Prohibitions) against you.”
Qur’an, 33:50): “O Prophet! We have made lawful to thee thy wives to whom thou hast paid
their dowers; and those whom thy right hand possesses out of the prisoners of war whom Allâh
has assigned to thee.”
Qur’an, 4:3: “If ye fear that ye shall not be able to deal justly with the orphans, marry women
of your choice, two or three or four; but if ye fear that ye shall not be able to deal justly (with
them), then only one, or (a captive) that your right hands possess, that will be more suitable, to
prevent you from doing injustice.”
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Sirat Rasul Allâh, p. 515.
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