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TAMIL - AUTHOR : MUFTI A.UMAR SHARIF KASHIMI
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ENGLISH- THE SEALED NECTAR – MEMORIES OF THE PROPHET (PBUH)-AUTHOR- ISSAM DIAB
Al-Hubab bin Al-Mundhir Al-Ansari led the attack on As-Sa‘b fortress and laid siege to it
for three days after which the Muslims stormed it with a lot of booty, provisions and food
to fall to their lot therein. This victory came in the wake of the Prophet’s [pbuh] invocation
to Allâh to help Banu Aslam in their relentless and daring attempts to capture that fort.
During the process of the war operations, extreme hunger struck the Muslims. They lit fires,
slaughtered domestic asses and began to cook them. When the Prophet [pbuh] inquired
about the fires and cooking, he ordered that they throw away the meat and wash the
cooking pots, forbidding the practice of eating such meat.
The Jews, meanwhile, evacuated An-Natat and barricaded themselves in Az-Zubair fort,
a formidable defensive position inaccessible to both cavalry and infantry. The Muslims
besieged it for three days, but in vain. A Jew spy told the Prophet about a subterranean
water source that provided them with water, and advised that it be cut off in order to
undermine their resistance. The Prophet [pbuh] did that so the Jews got out to engage
with the Muslims in fierce fighting during which some Muslims and ten Jews were killed,
but the fort was eventually conquered.
Shortly after this battle, the Jews moved to ’Abi Castle and barricaded themselves inside.
The same events recurred; the Muslims besieged the new site for three days and then the
great Muslim hero Abu Dujanah Sammak bin Kharshah Al-Ansari — of the red ribbon —
led the Muslim army and broke into the castle, conducted fierce military operations
within and forced the remaining Jews to flee for their lives into another fort, An-Nizar.
An-Nizar was the most powerful fort, and the Jews came to the established conviction
that it was too immune to be stormed, so they deemed it a safe place for their children
and women. The Muslims, however, were not dismayed but dragged on the siege, but
because standing at a commanding top, the fort was impregnable. The Jews inside
were too cowardly to meet the Muslims in open fight but rather hurled a shower of
arrows and stones on the attackers. Considering this situation, the Prophet [pbuh]
ordered that rams be used and these proved effective and caused cracks in the
ramparts providing an easy access into the heart of the fort, where the Jews were put to
rout and fled in all directions leaving behind their women and children.
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With these series of military victories, the first division of Khaibar was totally reduced,
and the Jews in the other minor fortresses evacuated them and fled to the second
division.
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