# Where did Safiyya live when she first came to Madinah?

*Back in Madinah: no nikah at Khaybar, lodging with Umm Sulaym, and her later embrace of Islam*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/dper6y4mgwa/s/8/
- Date: 2018-02-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Story of Safiyya: the Prophet's Jewish wife -Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (29:57–32:35)
- Status: general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpeR6Y4MGwA&t=1797s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/dper6y4mgwa/

**Topics:** The wives of the Prophet; The life of the Prophet

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** She did not live with the Prophet but was lodged with Umm Sulaym and others, and the Prophet rebuked Aisha and others who called her 'that Jew'. The feast on the road was a victory meal, not a wedding, and she embraced Islam in the months that followed.

**Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth holds that no nikah took place on the road from Khaybar, since Safiyya was in her waiting period and had not embraced Islam, that the feast Anas took for a wedding was a victory meal, and that in Madinah she lodged in another household and embraced Islam in the following months.

**Evidence, his words at 30:54:** “this is an assumption this did not happen there was no nikka that took place it would have been Haram she was in her in there anyway” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpeR6Y4MGwA&t=1854s)

## Longer summary

Mufti Abu Layth says that given the Prophet's conduct towards her, Safiyya would naturally have seen that he had not approached her, while Anas assumed a marriage because she rode with the Prophet and he showed her kindness. He says the stop at al-Rawha [?] or Sadd al-Sahba [?] was a victory feast after the hunger of the siege, which Anas or those transmitting from him took for a wedding feast; no nikah took place, it would have been haram since she was in her iddah, and she had not even embraced Islam. He adds that she was sympathetic to the Prophet already, because of her beloved uncle and because her husband had beaten her over him. On reaching Madinah the Prophet had her stay in another household, with Umm Sulaym [?] and others, not with him. When Aisha and others made derogatory remarks about 'that Jew', the Prophet told them off. In the months that followed she embraced Islam, having seen the Prophet's attitude to her in the midst of his victory.

## Sources and names cited

- Safiyya
- Anas ibn Malik
- Umm Sulaym [?]
- Aisha
- 'iddah (waiting period)
- nikah

## Transcript (machine tier, 29:57–32:35)

[29:38] does the Prophet do and remember this is her in this kind of devastated State the Prophet gets his cloak and puts it round her and covers her this is in the hadith it did not marry her now they come back to Medina look at the way the alakh that the Prophet had demonstrated towards her she would have been naturally somebody in her head that the prophet has not approached anis is assuming because she's riding with the of the Prophet and

[30:16] because the Prophet is showing his own maybe she's married to him because he says we discussed is she married to him if she is captive what's going on they don't know when they stop at such dose Roja they mentioned during haber by the way they laid siege to these fortresses they were starving Muslims were starving at some of the fortresses they mentioned that they were so because it was so difficult for them they didn't have that much preparation now even though they did get food and stuff when they had conquered when they stopped at center rohan subdue saba they

[30:54] have a feast for victories they have some food now unless assumes or the people transmitting assume oh is this because he got married this is an assumption this did not happen there was no nikka that took place it would have been Haram she was in her in there anyway in the profit not problem she hadn't even embraced Islam it doesn't make any sense but yes she was sympathetic to the Prophet from before because her uncle who was very dear to her loved the Prophet and remember she is she used to get beat up by her husband because he has to have

[31:34] seen that out she took a liking to the Prophet when she gets back to Medina the Prophet told her why don't you stay at such in such a person's house she didn't live with the Prophet she stayed with almost Elaine and with other people in the house this is what the books show now in that time even I share of the law and had other people made some derogatory comments towards her and the Prophet told him off they said about all that Jew and the Prophet said don't say that what's wrong with you people why are you

[32:08] being like that towards her now during after this time as time goes on she does embrace Islam she sees this kind of ink because think about in this in this might of victory the attitude of the Prophet towards her even when he saw her at Haber with a gree bruised eye and he doesn't amidst all this confusion he asks hey what happened to you I mean did one of the Muslims do this and she says

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment dpeR6Y4MGwA/s/8. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/dper6y4mgwa/s/8/

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