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end of the following year the Prophet had signed a ten year peace treaty at Hudaybiyah
with the Koraysh. The Jews had been stricken hard by their defeat at the Trench and
now all hopes of enticing the Koraysh or other tribes to rise up against the Prophet was
dashed and this left a very bitter taste in the mouths of Jews remaining in Medina and
elsewhere especially in Khaybar which had now become their stronghold. The likelihood
of defeating the Prophet (salla Allahu alihi wa sallam) had become very remote and
seething hatred and resentment ran deep within the Jewish communities.
Among the Jews remaining in Medina was an old man named Labid the son of Asim and
his daughters. Before the time of Moses, the Jews had become skilled magicians and
passed down their practice from one generation to the next, and so it was that Labid
inherited and became among those highly skilled in the art of sorcery and over the years
he taught those practices to his daughters.
The deep seated hatred of Jews of Khaybar for the Prophet (salla Allahu alihi wa sallam)
festered beyond control. It reached the point that one day, a Jew from Khaybar filled with
burning hatred approached Labid with the offer of an extremely handsome bribe if he
would formulate a spell of deadly proportions against the Prophet (salla Allahu alihi wa
sallam). Labid accepted the bribe and contrived a way to acquire several strands of the
with the Koraysh. The Jews had been stricken hard by their defeat at the Trench and
now all hopes of enticing the Koraysh or other tribes to rise up against the Prophet was
dashed and this left a very bitter taste in the mouths of Jews remaining in Medina and
elsewhere especially in Khaybar which had now become their stronghold. The likelihood
of defeating the Prophet (salla Allahu alihi wa sallam) had become very remote and
seething hatred and resentment ran deep within the Jewish communities.
Among the Jews remaining in Medina was an old man named Labid the son of Asim and
his daughters. Before the time of Moses, the Jews had become skilled magicians and
passed down their practice from one generation to the next, and so it was that Labid
inherited and became among those highly skilled in the art of sorcery and over the years
he taught those practices to his daughters.
The deep seated hatred of Jews of Khaybar for the Prophet (salla Allahu alihi wa sallam)
festered beyond control. It reached the point that one day, a Jew from Khaybar filled with
burning hatred approached Labid with the offer of an extremely handsome bribe if he
would formulate a spell of deadly proportions against the Prophet (salla Allahu alihi wa
sallam). Labid accepted the bribe and contrived a way to acquire several strands of the