to the Banū al-Naḍīr, telling them: “Stand firm and hold out. We will never abandon you; if you are fought we shall fight at your side, and if you are expelled we shall depart with you.”

The Jews waited for that promised support, but it never came. Allah cast terror into their hearts, so they asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ to exile them while sparing their lives, on the condition that they could take with them whatever their camels could carry—except weapons. He granted them that request.

Al-ʿAwfī reports from Ibn ʿAbbās that the Prophet ﷺ allotted every group of three men a single camel on which they could take turns and gave each group a water-skin. Al-Bayhaqī relates this report.

Another report, transmitted through Yaʿqūb ibn Muḥammad al-Zuhrī from Ibrāhīm ibn Jaʿfar ibn Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad ibn Maslamah, from his father, from his grandfather Muḥammad ibn Maslamah, states that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ sent Muḥammad ibn Maslamah to Banū al-Naḍīr and granted them a three-day respite before departure.

Al-Bayhaqī and others also narrate that the clan had outstanding debts, and that the Prophet ﷺ said to them, “Reduce the amount and collect it immediately.” The soundness of this narration is open to question; Allah knows best.

Ibn Isḥāq says: They loaded onto their camels whatever property the animals could bear. A man would even tear down his own house, removing the door-lintel, place it on his camel’s back, and set off. They made their way to Khaybar, though some traveled on to Syria. Among the leading figures who settled in Khaybar were Sallām ibn Abī’l-Ḥuqayq, Kinānah ibn al-Rabīʿ ibn Abī’l-Ḥuqayq, and Ḥuyayy ibn Akhṭab. When they arrived, the natives of Khaybar submitted to their authority.

ʿAbd-Allāh ibn Abī Bakr told me that they entered Khaybar in ostentatious fashion—accompanied by women, children, and wealth, with drums and flutes, and singing girls playing behind them—in a display of pride the like of which had never been seen from any people of their time.

They left their landed property—date-groves and farms—for the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. These became his exclusive possession, and he disposed of them as he wished. He allocated them to the earliest Emigrants, giving nothing to the Helpers except that Sahl ibn Ḥunayf and Abū Dujānah mentioned their poverty, so he granted them a share. Some add al-Ḥārith ibn al-Ṣimmah to those two, as al-Suhaylī records.

Ibn Isḥāq also relates that only two men of Banū al-Naḍīr embraced Islam: Yāmīn ibn ʿUmayr ibn Kaʿb, a cousin of ʿAmr ibn Jihāsh, and Abū Saʿd ibn Wahb. They retained their property.

Ibn Isḥāq further states: A member of the household of Yāmīn told me that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ once said to Yāmīn, “Have you not seen how we were treated by Ibn