Huyayy ibn Akhtab

Huyayy ibn Akhtab ( Arabic حيي بن أخطب, DMG Ḥuyaiy b. Aḫṭab ) was the leader of the Jewish Banu Nadir (Banū 'n-Naḍīr) in Yathrib , today's Medina , at the time of the founder of the religion Mohammed . Huyayy ibn Akhtab had a daughter with Barra bint Samawal : Safiyya bint Huyayy , who became one of Muhammad's wives after defeating the Banu Nadir . Barra bint Samawal came from a respected Jewish family, from the Banu Quraiza tribe also residing in Yathrib . The Banu Nadir were driven to Khaibar by Mohammed (Mohammed said he attacked them because he had received a message from Heaven that the Nadir wanted to kill him while negotiating a blood debt in which they should participate). After the expulsion, Huyayy was one of the initiators of the trench battle and was killed together with the men of the aforementioned Banu Quraiza after they had betrayed him. Ibn Hisham , Muhammad's biographer, called Huyayy an "enemy of God" because he was a great opponent of Muhammad.

literature

• Ibn Ishaq , Gernot Rotter (translator): The life of the prophet. As-Sira An-Nabawiya. Spohr, Kandern in the Black Forest 1999, ISBN 3-927606-22-7 .
• Encyclopaedia Judaica , article “Naḍīr”. Volume 12, pp. 754-755.
• Michael Lecker: Muhammad at Medina: a geographical approach. In: Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 6 (1985), pp. 29-62.
• Arent Jan Wensinck : Muhammad and the Jews of Medina. (Translated by W. Behn), Freiburg im Breisgau 1975.