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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books A Shi'ite Encyclopedia (chpater 4) More Facts On Fadak : Comments From Futuhul Buldan By Baladhuri's Now we present with some comments, regarding Khums and Fa'y some quotations from Baladhuri's Futuhul Buldan, Urdu translation, Jami'a Uthmania, Hyderabad Deccan. At last they sought peace on these terms - ' We shall go away from your town, leaving our weapons and mail coats, shall take with us only those articles which can be loaded on camels.

All other articles including weapons, mail coats, oases, and lands will be the property of the Prophet of Allah. On this account the properties of Bani Nazir became under the Holy Prophet's ownership. He used to get the land with the palm-date trees cultivated, and from its income he defrayed the expenses of his dependents for the whole year.' (Vol. 1, page 25, Chapter The properties of Bani Nuzair).

>From narration 1, it is established that the properties of Bani Nuzair exclusively belonged to the Holy Prophet. He got these lands cultivated for the subsistence of his dependents. The narrator says that in this verse Allah has brought home to the Muslims that these properties were exclusively of the Holy Prophet and for no one else. (page 26).

>From narration 2, it is established that since Muslims had not exhausted their horses and camels against Bani Nuzair their properties were meant exclusively for the Holy Prophet and for no one else. Caliph Umar said ' The properties of Bani Nuzair were among those properties which Allah had given to His Prophet without fighting and on which the Muslims had not galloped their horses or camels. On that account they were the Holy Prophet's exclusive property.

From them he used to defray the expenses of his dependents for the whole year, and whatever was saved from it was spent in the way of Allah or for horses and weapons. (page 28). >From narration 3, it is established that Caliph Umar used to say that the properties of Bani Nuzair exclusively belonged to the Holy Prophet and from them he used to defray the expenses for his dependents for the whole year.

It is said on return from Khyber the Holy Prophet sent Mohayyasah bin Mas'ud Ansari to the people of Fadak to invite them to Islam. At that time their chief was a man from among themselves named Yusha' bin Noon, the Jew. He offered to make peace with the Prophet by giving half the land to him, and the Holy Prophet accepted it.