A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád'/Chapter 10/57

by Moulavi Gerágh Ali

[Sidenote: 57. Treatment of the prisoners of war.]

Some of the war prisoners had received the condign punishment of execution for their crimes in conformity with the laws of war. It has been alleged by some European biographers of Mohammad that their (the war prisoners') execution was cruel, and that they were accused of no crime except their scepticism and political antagonism.^[1]

The persons executed were as follows:—

1. Nadhr-bin-Harith.

2. Okba.

3. Abul Ozza.

4. Moavia-bin-Mughira.

Footnotes

1. Muir's Life of Mahomet, Vol. IV, p. 307.