Name: the Khaybar partition and the expulsion of Najran's Jews (20 AH)
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In this year 'Umar divided Khaybar among the Muslims, removed its Jews, divided Wadi'l-Qura, and removed the Jews of Najran to Kufa ¹.

Umar's Expulsion of the Jews of Khaybar and Fadak

In al-Baladhuri: the Jews of Khaybar stayed on their lands under the half-share arrangement through the Prophet's life and Abu Bakr's and into the early part of Umar's caliphate, until Abdullah ibn Umar came to them on an errand and they set upon him by night — whereupon Umar removed them, dividing Khaybar among the Muslims present and allotting a share to the Prophet's wives with the choice between the produce and the estate; Umar cited the Prophet's saying 'two religions shall not coexist in the Arabian peninsula' in expelling Khaybar's Jews; as for Fadak, when Umar exiled the Jews of the Hijaz he sent Abu al-Haytham Malik ibn al-Tayyihan, Sahl ibn Abi Haythama and Zayd ibn Thabit, who valued half its soil at a fair price paid out to the Jews, and exiled them to Syria.

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Umar's Expulsion of the Jews of Khaybar and Fadak