Year Seven
The Expedition of Khaybar

ʿAbd Allah ibn Idrīs related on the authority of Ibn Isḥāq who said: ʿAbd Allah ibn Abī Bakr told me that the conquest of Khaybar occurred shortly after Muḥarram, and that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, reached it at the end of Ṣafar.

I (the author) say: Ibn Isḥāq transmitted this same report through narrators other than ʿAbd Allah ibn Abī Bakr.

Al-Wāqidī, citing his teachers, maintained that the Prophet set out for Khaybar at the beginning of the seventh year.

Al-Zuhrī diverged from this. As Mūsā ibn ʿUqbah narrates from him in his Maghāzī, he said that the Messenger of Allah fought at Khaybar in the sixth year. This can only be correct if one counts that sixth year from the very moment of his arrival in Medina. Allah knows best.

Khaybar is a small town situated eight barīd—that is, eight postal stages—from Medina.

Wuhayb narrated: Khuthaym ibn ʿArāk told us, from his father, from a group of men of Banū Ghifār, who said: Abū Hurayrah reached Medina after the Prophet had already departed for Khaybar, having appointed Sibāʿ ibn ʿArfaṭah al-Ghifārī as his deputy over the city.

Abū Hurayrah said: We found him leading the dawn prayer. In the first rakʿah he recited, “Kāf Hā Yā ʿAyn Ṣād” (Maryam 19:1), and in the second rakʿah he recited, “Woe to those who give short measure” (al-Muṭaffifīn 83:1). Abū