Saʿd ibn MuʿādhMedinese chieftain

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  • history of Muhammmad ( in Muhammad: The early battles )

    ...complicit with the enemy during the Battle of the Ditch, Muhammad turned against them. The Qurayẓah men were separated from the tribe’s women and children and ordered by the Muslim general Saʿd ibn Muʿādh to be put to death; the women and children were to be enslaved. This tragic episode cast a shadow upon the relations between the two communities for many centuries, even...

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