SZA's Blog: 07/06/16

(English isn't my first language so I might make grammatical mistakes)
Introduction:

Converted2Islam, is a new rising ex-muslim, who claimed to have been studying islam for well over 16 years, he has been gaining wide popularity, and his videos for some odd reason are being shared and mirrored in youtube, although his allegations and accusations are merely the same old repeated nonsense, it’s imperative to address his claims as of his popularity and wide support is critical to be addressed, without such popularity I wouldn’t be making this article as his claims are merely the same repeated rambling with nothing groundbreaking

with this simple introduction let us proceed

Issue#1:

@1:29 of his video he claimed that one of the reasons why Muhammad married her is because she was sexually attractive, Converted2Islam still cited no sources no references at all

@1:43 Converted2Islam cited Sahih Bukhari

We arrived at Khaibar, and when Allah helped His Apostle to open the fort, the beauty of Safiya bint Huyai bin Akhtaq whose husband had been killed while she was a bride, was mentioned to Allah's Apostle. The Prophet selected her for himself and set out with her, and when we reached a place called Sidd-as-Sahba,' Safiya became clean from her menses then Allah's Messenger married her. Hais (i.e. an 'Arabian dish) was prepared on a small leather mat. Then the Prophet said to me, "I invite the people around you." So that was the marriage banquet of the Prophet and Safiya. Then we proceeded towards Medina, and I saw the Prophet, making for her a kind of cushion with his cloak behind him (on his camel). He then sat beside his camel and put his knee for Safiya to put her foot on, in order to ride (on the camel).¹

He seems to be insinuating that is that Muhammad didn’t give Saffiyah any choice regarding her marriage and he married her for her sexual attraction, there is not a single Islamic source that confirms that her sexual attraction was the reason for his marriage to her, however I shall provide sources for now that clearly state Muhammad gave her the option of retaining her religion and setting her free and going back to her tribe

عن إبراهيم بن جعفر عن أبيه قال : لما دخلتْ صفيَّةُ على النَّبي صلى الله عليه وسلم قال لها ( لم يزل أبوك من أشد يهود لي عداوة حتى قتله الله ) فقالت : يا رسول الله إن الله يقول في كتابه ( ولا تزر وازرة وزر أخرى ) الأنعام/ 164 ، فقال لها رسول الله : اختاري ، فإن اخترتِ الإسلام أمسكتُكِ لنفسي ، وإن اخترت اليهودية فعسى أن أعتقك فتلحقي بقومك ، فقالت : يا رسول الله لقد هويت الإسلام وصدقت بك قبل أن تدعوني ، حيث صرت إلى رحلك وما لي في اليهودية أرب ، وما لي فيها والد ولا أخ ، وخيَّرتني الكفرَ والإسلامَ ، فالله ورسوله أحب إلي من العتق وأن أرجع إلى قومي ، قال: فأمسكها رسول الله لنفسه .

Translation:

From Ibrahim Bin Ja’far from his father said: when Saffiyah entered the prophet he said to her (your father still one of the most hostile Jews to me until god finished him) she said: Oh messenger of Allah, God says in his book {no one will take anyone else burden] , then he said to her: chose, if you chose islam I take you for myself, and if you chose Judaism I will set you free and send you back to your people, she replied: messenger of god I chose islam and testify for you even before you give me this invitation when I came to you, I have no guardian among the Jews, neither father nor brother and I choose islam over disbelief, allah and his messenger are dear to me than freedom and my people. So Allah messenger took her ²

keep this in mind whenever we hear Converted2Islam claim she was forced into marrying him

Issue#2

@3:00 Converted2islam cited here the alleged narration that Muhammad tortured the husband of Saffiyah Kinana, I already dived into this issue so I will leave a link to my article addressing it ³, however, Brother Kaleef already dived into this issue as well so make sure to read his work aswell ⁴

however, I want to point into one part of the narration cited by converted2islam in Ibn Ishaq, where one of the narrators at @3:23 is Burayda b. Sufyan al-Aslami, the issue here is that this narrator is regarded as weak ضعيف الحديث ⁵

so right off the bat, Converted2Islam cited a narration within the Biography and didn’t bother to check the sanad? And this man claimed to have studied Islam for 16 years?

The majority of the scholars rejected him

أبو حاتم الرازي :ضعيف الحديث

أحمد أبن حنبل: له بلية

أحمد بن شعيب النسائي: ليس بقوي

أبراهيم بن يعقوب الجوزاجي: رديء المذهب جدأ و غير مقنع, مغموص عليه في دينه

أبن حجر العسقلاني: ليس بالقوي , و فيه رفض و قال في الأصابة :تابعي مشهور مضعف عندهم

الدارقانطي: متروك

الذهبي: فيه نظر

محمد بن اسماعيل البخاري: فيه نظر يتكلمون فيه

Translation:

Abu Hatim al razi: weak in hadith

Ahmen Ibn Hanbal : he is a misfortune

Ahmen bin sha’ib Al-Nisai: he is not strong

Ibrahim bin Ya’qub Al-Juzi: very bad in practicing doctrine and not convincing, he is hated in his religion

Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani: he is not strong, and he is rejected, he also said in al-isaba: the followers declared him famous in weakness

Al-Darqandi: he is to be rejected

Al-Dahabi: there is doubt in him

Muhammad bin Isma’il Al-Bukhari: there is doubt in him and they talk about him ⁶

he also has been reported to be drinking alcohol

أخبرني من رأى—يعني ابن اسحاق—بريدة بن سفيان يشرب الخمر

translation:

I was told from who saw him—in reference to ibn ishaq—Burayda b. Sufyan Drinks alcohol ⁷

and if that doesn’t add insult to injury we actually have an unknown narrator, in page 514 of the Biography of the prophet regarding this incident

Highlighted in yellow is an unknown narrator from banu Salima, and as I explored in my blog, how an unknown narrator is not accepted ⁸

so far we have two flaws in the narration brought forth by Converted2Islam, this man claim to have been studying Islam for 16 years, how could he miss on such basic error?

Issue#3:

@5:32 Converted2Islam cites Sunan Abi Dawood that states the following:

(The Prophet fought with the people of Khaybar, and captured their palm-trees and land, and forced them to remain confined to their fortresses. So they concluded a treaty of peace providing that gold, silver, and weapons would go to the Messenger of Allah, and whatever they took away on their camels would belong to them, on condition that they would not hide and carry away anything. If they did (so), there would be no protection for them and no treaty (with Muslims).

They carried away a purse of Huyayy ibn Akhtab who was killed before (the battle of) Khaybar. He took away the ornaments of Banu an-Nadir when they were expelled.

The Prophet asked Sa'yah: Where is the purse of Huyayy ibn Akhtab?

He replied: The contents of this purse were spent on battles and other expenses. (Later on) they found the purse. So he killed Ibn AbulHuqayq, captured their women and children, and intended to deport them.

They said: Muhammad, leave us to work on this land; we shall have half (of the produce) as you wish, and you will have half. The Messenger of Allah used to make a contribution of eighty wasqs of dates and twenty wasqs of wheat to each of his wives.)⁹

@5:58 Converted2Islam state and I quote “and according to the webpage sunnah.com this same hadith is classified as authentic or Hasan according to hadith scholar al-Albani” this is unbelievable, the screen-shots shared Explicitly state Hasan in Chain, Not Hasan Hadith

I have already dived into the issue of Hasan in chain only or Sahih in the chain only so I’ll leave a link to my blog ¹⁰ under Issue#7 where I give detail analysis as to why Sahih in Chain or Hasan in Chain are not authentic

Issue#4:

Converted2Islam cites @6:23 History of Al-Tabari Vol.39 page.185

“Ibn ‘Umar [al-Waqidi] – Kathir b. Zayd – al-Walid b. Rabah – Abu Hurayrah: While the Prophet was lying with Safiyyah Abu Ayyub stayed the night at his door. When he saw the Prophet in the morning he said: "God is the Greatest." He had a sword with him; he said to the Prophet, "O Messenger of God, this young woman had just been married, and you killed her father, her brother and her husband, so I did not trust her (not to harm) you." The Prophet laughed and said "Good"

as you can see I have underlined a name, particularly al-Waqidi, this is one of the main reasons why I decided to make this article, as al-Waqidi is one of if not THE most famous hadith fabricator in Islamic history, in fact, there is a complete Wikipedia page in Arabic dedicated to him and how scholars rejected him ¹¹

I have already cited him in one of my blogs, but since I want to emphasize how much of a liar he is, I will quote what great classical scholars said regarding him

“Ahmed Ibn Hanbal said: He is a liar he makes random hadiths, he brings the Hadith of the Son of Ibn Al-Zuhri on Muammar and so on

And Ibn Mu’in said: he is not trustworthy

And Mura said: His hadith should not be written

And Bukḫari and Abu Hatim said: he should be left

And Abu Hatim also said along with Al-Nisai: he put random hadiths”¹²

so right of the bat, we are starting with a narration that starts with the biggest and the most rejected liar in Islamic history, who many scholars contempt him and regarded him as not trustworthy, how could a supposed convert who studied Islam for 16 years make such hideous blunder?

Issue#5:

@7:16 Converted2Islam cites Dalail Al Nibua Vol.4 Page.240 he quotes “I hated the messenger of Allah more than any of the people, he had killed my husband and my father, therefore, he kept apologizing to me”, my issue here is not withered or not this narration is authentic, my issue is the fact that Converted2Islam was so dishonest so disingenuous that he didn’t complete the quote where Muhammad explain why he killed her father and her husband as it states the following

“أن أباك ألب علي العرب, و فعل و فعل حتى ذهب ذلك من نفسي"

Translation:

“Your father charged the Arabs against me and did such and such to me until all HATRED WAS GONE FROM ME” her father instigated the Arabs against Muhammad

for more details regarding the incident and what her father was responsible for please read the following article ¹³

@9:05 Converted2Islam stated that Saffiyah had sex with Muhammad, I’m honestly also in shock as to how can he make up such lie, where does the tradition state that she had sexual intercourse with Muhammad? I challenge anyone to show me where does the hadith tradition or the biography with Authentic narration state that Muhammad had sexual intercourse with Safiya at the day he captured her

A challenge to Converted2Islam:

I challenge anyone to show me where does the hadith, let alone the Islamic tradition claim that Muhammad had sexual intercourse with Safiya at the day he captured her, this is not just an open challenge to converted2islam, this is an open challenge to anyone

The narration Must be authentic