Respose to Zahid Hassan

Submitted by Karsten Brasch (United States), Dec 22, 2002 at 14:44

This is a response to Zahid Hussain who suggests that "it takes courage to hear the truth". Well you know, you are absolutely right. Did you know that the slaughter of the Jews of Banu Quraiza was based on the presence or absence of pubic hair? Here is the hadith that describes this (this is an authentic hadith that is not disputed by the scholars of Islam, see link below too):

http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/abudawud/038.sat.html

"Book 38, Number 4390:

Narrated Atiyyah al-Qurazi:

I was among the captives of Banu Qurayzah. They (the Companions) examined us, and those who had begun to grow hair (pubes) were killed, and those who had not were not killed. I was among those who had not grown hair."

It seems the holy Prophet had some really imaginative methods to distinguish good from bad!

Here is one more: (there are hundreds of similar hadiths)

"Book 38, Number 4442:

Narrated Al-Bara' ibn Azib:

I met my uncle who was carrying a standard. I asked him: Where are you going? He said: The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) has sent me to a man who has married his father's wife. He has ordered me to cut off his head and take his property."

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