Qur'an, Hadith and Scholars:Muhammad and Booty: Difference between revisions

According to the Muslim tradition, the early Muslim community was involved in near constant conflicts with neighboring Arab tribes, local Jews, and the pagans of Mecca. The very first document was have to mention the Greek Διδασκαλία Ἰακώβου Doctrina Iacobi (The Teaching of Jacob) mentions that the prophet and his Arabs had come to Palestine "armed with a sword." Such warfare in this historical period was always accompanied by looting and plunder on the part of the winning army, and the subject of taking booty comes up again and again in the early Islamic sources, as this was clearly an important, even driving factor for the early Muslim movement.