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After Badr
Such was the disregard for their faith that many Jews had taken to marrying pagan
Arabs, even though Judaism forbade it. Ka’b, Ashraf's son had been born of a Jewish
mother and an idol worshipping father from the tribe of Tayy but on account of his
mother being a Jewess, the Jews accepted him as one of their own into her tribe of An-
Nadir.
Ka’b was wealthy and known for his poetry, and over the years had become an
influential An-Nadir tribesman. When he heard the news of the Koraysh defeat, with the
demise of so many if its chieftains, he could not accept it and his tongue revealed his
innermost thoughts as he exclaimed, "By Allah, if Muhammad has killed these, can the
depths of the earth be better than its surface!" Ka’b could not accept the news to be true
so he questioned those whom he knew to be reliable, but to his dismay all confirmed the
same account.
Despondent yet angered, Ka’b rode off for Mecca with the intention of inciting the
Koraysh to revenge themselves by riding against the Prophet (salla Allahu alihi wa
sallam) again, but this time to fight him in Yathrib. To add fuel to the fire he composed an
Such was the disregard for their faith that many Jews had taken to marrying pagan
Arabs, even though Judaism forbade it. Ka’b, Ashraf's son had been born of a Jewish
mother and an idol worshipping father from the tribe of Tayy but on account of his
mother being a Jewess, the Jews accepted him as one of their own into her tribe of An-
Nadir.
Ka’b was wealthy and known for his poetry, and over the years had become an
influential An-Nadir tribesman. When he heard the news of the Koraysh defeat, with the
demise of so many if its chieftains, he could not accept it and his tongue revealed his
innermost thoughts as he exclaimed, "By Allah, if Muhammad has killed these, can the
depths of the earth be better than its surface!" Ka’b could not accept the news to be true
so he questioned those whom he knew to be reliable, but to his dismay all confirmed the
same account.
Despondent yet angered, Ka’b rode off for Mecca with the intention of inciting the
Koraysh to revenge themselves by riding against the Prophet (salla Allahu alihi wa
sallam) again, but this time to fight him in Yathrib. To add fuel to the fire he composed an