Umar's Expulsion of the Jews of Khaybar and Fadak
إجلاء يهود خيبر وفدك
c. 640 CE · c. 20 AH
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.
At a glance
- Era
- The Rashidun Caliphate
- Region
- Arabia · Levant & Iraq
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Connections
- Occurred at
- Khaybar· Fadak
- Had participant
- Umar ibn al-Khattab· Abdullah ibn Umar ibn al-Khattab· Zayd ibn Thabit
People and things also explored
The Battle of the Trench (al-Ahzab)· Hafsa bint Umar· Muhammad· Medina· Abdullah ibn Umar ibn al-Khattab· Umar ibn al-Khattab· The conversion of Abu Sufyan ibn Harb· Abu Sufyan's mission to Medina
Sources
- Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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islam.museum contributors. “Umar's Expulsion of the Jews of Khaybar and Fadak”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/umar-expels-jews-of-khaybar-and-fadak/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-13.