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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 independently dated document we have to mention the prophet is the Greek Διδασκαλία Ἰακώβου ''Didaskalia Iacobou'' (The Teaching of Jacob), which 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. The [[hadith]] and [[sira]] portray Muhammad as a typical Arab battle commander, very concerned with booty and driven by the need to acquire more of it. | 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 independently dated document we have to mention the prophet is the Greek Διδασκαλία Ἰακώβου ''Didaskalia Iacobou'' (The Teaching of Jacob), which 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. The [[hadith]] and [[sira]] portray Muhammad as a typical Arab battle commander, very concerned with booty and driven by the need to acquire more of it. | ||
==Booty has been made legal for Muhammad== | ==Booty has been made legal for Muhammad== | ||
{{Quote|{{Quran|8|1}}|They ask thee (O Muhammad) of the spoils of war. Say: '''The spoils of war belong to Allah and the messenger, so keep your duty to Allah,''' and adjust the matter of your difference, and obey Allah and His messenger, if ye are (true) believers. }}{{Quote|{{Quran|8| | {{Quote|{{Quran|8|1}}|They ask thee (O Muhammad) of the spoils of war. Say: '''The spoils of war belong to Allah and the messenger, so keep your duty to Allah,''' and adjust the matter of your difference, and obey Allah and His messenger, if ye are (true) believers. }}{{Quote|{{Quran|8|41}}|And know that whatever ye take as spoils of war, lo! a fifth thereof is for Allah, and for the messenger and for the kinsman (who hath need) and orphans and the needy and the wayfarer, if ye believe in Allah and that which We revealed unto Our slave on the Day of Discrimination, the day when the two armies met. And Allah is Able to do all things.}}{{Quote|{{Quran|59|6}}|What Allah has bestowed on His Messenger (and taken away) from them [the Jews] - for this ye made no expedition with either cavalry or camelry: but Allah gives power to His messengers over any He pleases: and Allah has power over all things.}}{{quote | {{cite quran|8|68|end=69|style=ref}} | | ||
Had it not been for a previous ordainment from Allah, a severe penalty would have reached you for the (ransom) that ye took.<BR> | Had it not been for a previous ordainment from Allah, a severe penalty would have reached you for the (ransom) that ye took.<BR> | ||