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What was Fadak and why did it matter?

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What Fadak was: fay' land and Surat al-Hashr 59:6-7

LessonRecorded 28 Feb 2020From the Mind of a MuftiSegment 2 of 11 in the recording2020-02-28-S02

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Fadak was fertile land near Khaybar that came to the Prophet as fay', without war, and he used its produce for travellers, his household and public needs.

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Showing a map, Mufti Abu Layth locates Fadak near Khaybar, north of Madinah, and explains that it came to the Prophet as fay', land obtained through a truce rather than war, as when people under siege offered land in exchange for peace. He reads Surat al-Hashr 59:6-7, which says that what God gave His Messenger without the Muslims spurring horses belongs to God, the Messenger, near kin, orphans, the needy and travellers. He says the land was very fertile and the Prophet used its produce for travellers, his household and reserves for crises and armies. He frames the dispute as whether it could be inherited by his offspring after his death.

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Mufti Abu Layth says Fadak came to the Prophet as fay', land obtained through a truce rather than through war.

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“it's that that land which the Prophet receives through without war fee so it's a kind of truce”

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love I definitely will I'm just trying to see what the question was right I've got - if you can just repost your question please and he doesn't need to be he could just be a standard post I I will get to it I'm just as soon as let me just go through fadak I can't see the question right so all right so I can't see Mesut I can't see his question can somebody post his question please right so I

4:32

wanted to discuss so we went through this whole thing a bit about Frederick so fadak is to do we're it's a piece of land I'm going to bring it up let me just see here so for people asking this as you can see I've got it highlighted there fadak and in the center in the kind of rectangle is is Medina so you can see that there right so that's faux

5:07

deck and to the top left of it is Hebert and it was in the outskirts of Heber for the cause and it was kind of given to the prophet sallallaahu listen as part of faith okay now faith is that land which the it's that land which the Prophet is given

5:44

mm-hmm it's that that land which the Prophet receives through without war fee so it's a kind of truce but as part of the truce people sometimes they would say things like especially in in old times they would say things like look if you they will they would say things like look okay we don't want war tell you what we'll do this sometimes they might say look what I tell you what we'll all leave this region will move to that region you can have these or they might say something like you know what just take this particular thing and let's have a truce let's do this that whatever

6:23

it was a kind of compromise that people would do so during the Battle of clay bar there were a lot of surrounding territories and and some of them were taken as a truce they weren't actually taken as as you know with actual war and there is the verse of the Quran we're looking at is in surah talha sure and so if we take a look at it begins with verse 5 market Adam so also we lament Shaitaan regimes or losses market Ottoman lenity no tractor Moo ha ha

7:03

Emmet and Allah will surely have a be evening level your seal fastening so Allah is speaking about them this as you go into warfare and so on huama afar allahu allah rasool he and that which Allah gives as fate and PHA is this land or whatever comes as a truce allah rasool e he mean whom farmer al jerf tamale him inhaling villarica or like in the la sala Toros allahu allah ma yah and you have not had to kind of Wade you who you know war with your horses or do things like this Allah has

7:41

given Allah has allowed the messenger to kind of preponderate and subdue and control the situation here and it mentions wa lahu al Akula shayin Qadir ma affair allahu allah rasool e so what Allah gives us fate mean a little paurav ala llahi aerosol then it is for Allah and his rasul walid el Korba so voila del cobre well yatama well Misaki whoa Vanessa Beale kala hakuna do Latin banal agnya minkum wama adraka ma rasool allahö do woman huh come on - Tahu what Allah in a

8:18

la Hache edita liebe now this is from that four seven in suratul huh sure now in this verse Allah mentions these five categories of of who the who benefits from the faith for losses lillahi wa rasuluh so people generally can't align his rasul as one you know it says well is ill horrible well your terma so the relatives of the messenger while your terma orphans and allah mentions robinus a womanís Sabeel and people who are travelers that kind of need this and

8:56

stuff so the issue is here we're dealing with this land and this particular land that we're looking at is is called fadak that i've shown in the map now what's happened is during the lifetime of the prophet salallahu alaihe salam i want to give you a synopsis in some in more detail that during the lifetime of the Prophet Elias room he had this this land and he was very fertile they say that food that was incredibly fertile so he had a lot of produce you know produced things like whether it was barley or dates and things like this now the Prophet would use it and in summary

9:35

Wyatt he would use it for travelers that were coming he would kind of have that allotted and he would have a portion from it summary Wyatt say you'd split it in two or sometimes in three and use a portion for this and a portion for that he would set a certain amount aside as they reserved for crises like sometimes there was you know low food availability there were things like this they may have been armies going out so this is how they were organized now the issue at hand was there's two key issues after the prophet's lifetime could this be inherited by his offspring

10:14

who in this case is for tomorrow Tilo on her now what we know as a fact is that for tomorrow the law on her approaches Abu Bakr to ask for inheritance but she doesn't receive it she asks for this now she asks for the cidade the Sadaqat as in the the land which is around Medina which was burning a deal and she asks for haber and she asks for father she asks for not just further quite she asks for there's a a large claim that is made or a claim for a large quantity is made

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Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment 2020-02-28-S02, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/51qevhjqnt4/s/2/ (accessed 1 November 2026)

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2020, February 28). What was Fadak and why did it matter? [Video, segment 2020-02-28-S02, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/51qevhjqnt4/s/2/
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  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
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