A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád'/Chapter 10/69
[Sidenote: 69. The whole of the Bani Koreiza was never executed.]
The whole tribe of the Bani Koreiza was not executed, nor all the male prisoners were put to the sword.[1] The number slain was comparatively very small. That they were not executed at the commands of Mohammad, nor all of them were killed, nor a divine sanction was alleged for it, is shown by the following verse of the Koran:
"And he caused those of the people of the Book (the Jews) who had aided the confederates to come down of their fortresses, and cast dismay into their hearts: some ye slew; others ye took prisoners."—Sura, xxxiii, 26.
The slaying and taking of prisoners is attributed to them to whom the verse is addressed as their own act.
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- ↑ Some of the Koreizites were released, among whom we hear of Zobeir Ibn Batá, and Rifáa. They were pardoned by Mohammad.