Was Mohammad Guilty of the Death and Torture of Kinana?
To set the context for the story, Kinana was a Jewish man in the town of Khaibar.
Muhammad attacked Khaibar after receiving a revelation that Allah had already delivered the town into his hand. Muhammad attacked the men of Khaibar as they were going out to work and defeated them.
After this, Muhammad took all the loot that he could find. Someone came to him and told him that there was a man named Kinana al-Rabi who knew the location of more treasure.
Now the usual Muslim response to this claim is that Ibn Ishaq is a “weak source.” Ishaq included many fables and stories about Muhammad that may not have been true, but this story probably happened. By themselves, these three points of evidence would probably not be enough to make a definitive statement, but when you put all three together they become far harder to refute.
First off, Ibn Ishaq was a Muslim scholar. Name any Muslim scholar that would have made up a terrible story like this about Muhammad. That’s right, there is not a single one, because you would probably be killed.
Second off, Ibn Ishaq was written far earlier than the Hadith. Yet the Hadith is classified as “authoritative.” A lot of the times when the stories of Islam are written, the stories that show Muhammad in a bad life are often discredited by Muslims.
Third, a great deal of Ibn Ishaq’s work is historically accurate.
It is highly improbable that a Muslim scholar would go through all of the work to accurately dictate the life of Muhammad to his students, only to include a ‘hit-piece’ about the prophet that he loved so much.
Good day and thank you for your help and your answer. I have a question, what’s the difference when god tells Mohammed that Kaibar is delivered into his hands and when god delivered Canaan into the hands of the Israelites?
The result is the same innocent people die at the hands of some misguided person who believes that his interpretation of god is right and the others are wrong. Nobody can win this battle of ideology actually we all loose.