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'''Safiyah bint Huyayy''' (صفية بنت حيي, c. 610 - c. 670) (also spelled Saffiya, Safiyya, Safiya bint Huyai) was the bride of [[Kinana]] and the chief mistress of the Jewish tribes of [[Banu Qurayza|Quraizah]] and An-Nadhir. According to the [[sira|sira,]] Muhammad captured and married her after killing her husband. She is considered an أم المؤمنين or "mother of the believers." She and her husband were both captured after the victorious conclusion of Muhammad's [[conquest of Khaybar]]. The narrations agree that Muhammad chose her due to her exceeding beauty, as had been his custom in other engagements where the believers took slave women as booty, such as the conquest of the [[Banu Qurayzah]]. There was apparently some concern for his safety the night of their wedding on the part of his followers, as he had just that day murdered her husband | '''Safiyah bint Huyayy''' (صفية بنت حيي, c. 610 - c. 670) (also spelled Saffiya, Safiyya, Safiya bint Huyai) was the bride of [[Kinana]] and the chief mistress of the Jewish tribes of [[Banu Qurayza|Quraizah]] and An-Nadhir. According to the [[sira|sira,]] Muhammad captured and married her after killing her husband. She is considered an أم المؤمنين or "mother of the believers." She and her husband were both captured after the victorious conclusion of Muhammad's [[conquest of Khaybar]]. The narrations agree that Muhammad chose her due to her exceeding beauty, as had been his custom in other engagements where the believers took slave women as booty, such as the conquest of the [[Banu Qurayzah]]. There was apparently some concern for his safety the night of their wedding on the part of his followers, as he had just that day murdered her husband after taking him as prisoners of war, going so far as to torture him in order to ascertain the location of his treasure, and had earlier killed her father after the siege of the [[Banu Qurayzah]]. Modern Muslims have found the story embarrassing from the modern, liberal point of view, which supports the rights of people to not be slaves and to choose their own sexual and marriage partners. The story of Safiyah flies in the face of these norms, instead reflecting a world where powerful men like Muhammad take women as prizes in war and use them sexually to their own advantage with little regard to the women's emotional well being. Rather than admit this quite plain reading of source texts, many Muslim [[Dawah|duaah]] and apologists rather seek to use isolated narratives to recast Safiyah as a women deeply in love with the man who had just killed brother, new husband (including torturing her husband in order to find his gold), and had earlier killed her father, and profoundly possessed by the conviction that he was a prophet of [[Allah (God)|Allah]]. | ||
==Story of Her Capture and Marriage to Muhammad== | ==Story of Her Capture and Marriage to Muhammad== | ||
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This statement made by this ignorant missionary is due not only to the gutter environment that he was brought up and subjected to, but also because of his inability to understand the circumstances surrounding this event. Insha’allah, our purpose here is to explain the circumstances and the nature of the marriage of Safiyah to the Prophet(P).}} | This statement made by this ignorant missionary is due not only to the gutter environment that he was brought up and subjected to, but also because of his inability to understand the circumstances surrounding this event. Insha’allah, our purpose here is to explain the circumstances and the nature of the marriage of Safiyah to the Prophet(P).}} | ||
The above author clearly views a plain retelling of the facts as related by the tradition to be themselves attack up on the character. He attacks the mere thought of their presentation in a neutral matter as "ignorant missionary" rhetoric, attacking the motive behind even questioning whether Muhammad was morally right to take a woman as war booty and then marry her after killing her father, husband, and brother. Rather than dealing with the meaning of "rape" in such a context of slavery and pre-modern society the author instead casts aspersions. | The above author clearly views a plain retelling of the facts as related by the tradition to be themselves attack up on the character. He attacks the mere thought of their presentation in a neutral matter as "ignorant missionary" rhetoric, attacking the motive behind even questioning whether Muhammad was morally right to take a woman as war booty and then marry her after having killing her father, husband, and brother. Rather than dealing with the meaning of "rape" in such a context of slavery and pre-modern society the author instead casts aspersions. | ||
The following quote deals with the issue through the lens of lineage, which is actually an important angle in Islamic legal thought about marriage: | The following quote deals with the issue through the lens of lineage, which is actually an important angle in Islamic legal thought about marriage: | ||
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==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
*[ | *[http://alisina.org/muhammad-raped-safiyah Did Muhammad rape Safiyah?] ''- Ali Sina'' | ||
*[https://www.answering-christianity.com/bassam_zawadi/rebuttaltoalisina10.htm "Safiyah, the Wife of Muhammad"-Rebuttal to Ali Sina] ''- Bassam Zawadi, Answering Christianity'' | *[https://www.answering-christianity.com/bassam_zawadi/rebuttaltoalisina10.htm "Safiyah, the Wife of Muhammad"-Rebuttal to Ali Sina] ''- Bassam Zawadi, Answering Christianity'' | ||
*[https://www.answering-islam.org/Muhammad/Inconsistent/idda_Safiyah.html Muhammad and the Law of 'Iddah] ''- Sam Shamoun, Answering Islam'' | *[https://www.answering-islam.org/Muhammad/Inconsistent/idda_Safiyah.html Muhammad and the Law of 'Iddah] ''- Sam Shamoun, Answering Islam'' | ||