(February 11, 2011 at 7:31 am)Zen Badger Wrote: Tabari 7:97 The morning after the murder of Ashraf, the Prophet declared, "Kill any Jew who falls under your power." Ashraf was a poet, killed by Muhammad's men because he insulted Islam. Here, Muhammad widens the scope of his orders to kill. An innocent Jewish businessman was then slain by his Muslim partner, merely for being non-Muslim.
From wikipedia:
Ka'b ibn al-Ashraf (Arabic: كعب بن الاشرف) (died 624) was a chief of the Jewish tribe of Banu Nadir and a poet, who plotted with Quraysh and a group of Jews to fight against Muslims and assassinate the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He was assassinated by Muslims on the order of Muhammad before he could carry out his plans.
So, that's why the Prophet ordered his army to kill Ashraf as well as the rest of the Jews, which was done for self-defense because they were planning to assassinate the Prophet.
